First reservation (after Elon) is for Jerome Guillen?

[Art O'Connor]

Supposedly the first reservation (after Elon) is for Jerome Guillen, a retired Tesla executive. He lives in Reno, Nevada. I live nearby and will let you guys know when I spot the beast. The agent at the local Tesla store is supposed to notify me when it arrives, too.

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[cvalue13]

The agent at the local Tesla store is supposed to notify me when it arrives, too.

would that not occur at the delivery event in Austin?

I suppose if Jerome likes to keep a low profile …

 

[Jhodgesatmb]

I am not really interested in celebrities, employees, YouTubers, or other do-called influencers getting their Cybertrucks. I am interested to know which trim will be first, a Sandy Munro tear down, and reviews, but in terms of deliveries what I am really interested in is the first delivery to a reservation holder not in the list above and of course the ramp rate.

 

[CyberGus]

I am not really interested in celebrities, employees, YouTubers, or other do-called influencers getting their Cybertrucks. I am interested to know which trim will be first, a Sandy Munro tear down, and reviews, but in terms of deliveries what I am really interested in is the first delivery to a reservation holder not in the list above and of course the ramp rate.

You do realize that Sandy Munro is a Celebrity YouTube Influencer, right? ?

 

[cvalue13]

I am not really interested in celebrities, employees, YouTubers, or other do-called influencers getting their Cybertrucks. I am interested to know which trim will be first, a Sandy Munro tear down, and reviews, but in terms of deliveries what I am really interested in is the first delivery to a reservation holder not in the list above and of course the ramp rate.

If timing history holds, that wont be until e.g., December/January (e.g., ~3 months between 'delivery event' of essentially RC units, and subsequent actual production units coming off the line and intended for retail customers)

 

[intimidator]

Supposedly the first reservation (after Elon) is for Jerome Guillen, a retired Tesla executive. He lives in Reno, Nevada. I live nearby and will let you guys know when I spot the beast. The agent at the local Tesla store is supposed to notify me when it arrives, too.

My interest is when normal folk start taking delivery.

When Mr/Ms 1,000 on the reservation list gets theirs, then I know this is real!

 

[Art O'Connor]

A lot of people with reservations opted for the base model. If Elon follows past methods, those folks will be last to get theirs, regardless of their reservation number. The loaded versions will be first off the line because Tesla makes more money on those versions. I ordered a loaded to the gills version and the Tesla salesman told me it will be here in Reno in July 2024.

 

[rudedawg78]

A lot of people with reservations opted for the base model. If Elon follows past methods, those folks will be last to get theirs, regardless of their reservation number. The loaded versions will be first off the line because Tesla makes more money on those versions. I ordered a loaded to the gills version and the Tesla salesman told me it will be here in Reno in July 2024.

You ordered a "loaded to the gills" version of the Cybertruck? You mean you reserved a tri-motor. There is a possibility that the quad motor will be first and nobody had the opportunity to reserve that one yet.

 

[kbolt]

A lot of people with reservations opted for the base model. If Elon follows past methods, those folks will be last to get theirs, regardless of their reservation number. The loaded versions will be first off the line because Tesla makes more money on those versions. I ordered a loaded to the gills version and the Tesla salesman told me it will be here in Reno in July 2024.

Nobody has a delivery date. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.

 

[Regenshire]

If Elon follows past methods, those folks will be last to get theirs, regardless of their reservation number. The loaded versions will be first off the line because Tesla makes more money on those versions.

I just wanted to point out that history of the various rollouts do not back up that Tesla always launches the most expensive version first.

The Model 3 started with LR RWD, which was sold for roughly 3/4ths of a year before they introduced LR AWD and Performance within a couple of months of each other. I missed getting LR AWD by like one or two months because of this, as only LR Rear Wheel drive was available when my Model 3 reservation came up.

The Model Y launched with both Performance and LR AWD being delivered within a pretty short time window of each other.

Tesla is a very agile company, and they will likely release which ever trim is ready, tested, and that they can produce most efficiently at the time. This may or may not be the highest level trim. I don't think we can reliably guess which will actually be released first based on Tesla's history and the fact that Tesla seems to make a lot of decisions based on real-time metrics across their entire supply line.

Edit: Also, Tesla has shown that they want to produce and sell as many vehicles as possible and they will not slow down run rate substantially to get increased price per vehicle if they have a supply constraint (ie, batteries, motors, ect could be a supply constraint). Their primary growth metric as a company has to do with number of vehicles produced/delivered.

 

[Crissa]

I just wanted to point out that history of the various rollouts do not back up that Tesla always launches the most expensive version first.

The Model 3 started with LR RWD, which was sold for roughly 3/4ths of a year before they introduced LR AWD and Performance within a couple of months of each other. I missed getting LR AWD by like one or two months because of this, as only LR Rear Wheel drive was available when my Model 3 reservation came up.

Paragraph 2 contradicts paragraph 1. The performance model cost more. Edit: post when more awake.

Yes, exactly.

Also, Tesla was starved for funds at this point - another point was the Plaid Plus got cancelled for the Plaid, despite being more expensive.

They ship the one which fits the optimum - be it available cells (range), available software (performance), or ramp (additional motor configurations).

But yes, the base model and/or the more seats model is usually the last to be introduced.

-Crissa

 

[CYBRTRK_NYC]

A lot of people with reservations opted for the base model. If Elon follows past methods, those folks will be last to get theirs, regardless of their reservation number. The loaded versions will be first off the line because Tesla makes more money on those versions. I ordered a loaded to the gills version and the Tesla salesman told me it will be here in Reno in July 2024.

The Sales people at Tesla know just about the same thing you know. I only know having been through the process of buying a Model Y and Model 3. The sales folks do have any more information than what the public already know.

 

[Cyberman]

You do realize that Sandy Munro is a Celebrity YouTube Influencer, right? ?

Cyber, I happen to know one day Elon will make a CyberBus, obviously you'll order one, and become known as CyberBus CyberGus.

 

[HaulingAss]

A lot of people with reservations opted for the base model. If Elon follows past methods, those folks will be last to get theirs, regardless of their reservation number. The loaded versions will be first off the line because Tesla makes more money on those versions. I ordered a loaded to the gills version and the Tesla salesman told me it will be here in Reno in July 2024.

You say, "a lot of people with reservation opted for the base model". That is not true if you are speaking as a percent of the total registrations because a very low percentage of Cybertruck reservations were for the base model (which is why Elon moved the base model, single motor from one of two introductory models (single motor and the dual motor) to purgatory (a place without a definitive release date). There just wasn't enough demand to make the single motor a first release candidate.

Somewhere I saw a compilation of the take rate of the various trims based upon polling of people who claimed to have reserved on or more Cybertrucks and the average cost of all configurations was over $60K. For reference, that number was based upon the following three trims:

single motor @ $39.9K
dual motor @ 49.9K
tri-motor @ $69.9K

The word was that both the dual and tri-motors were more popular than the single motor, RWD, with the tri-motor being the most popular. And that makes a lot of sense, because about 73 percent of ICE truck sales are 4WD.

 

[charliemagpie]

I think it was 20% for the single, the others approx. 40% each

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