Sorry, that just doesn't fly. If it were just a delivery event just invite the people being delivered to and don't make a big f-ing deal about it being the event of the year. The world has waited 4 years for this day and Elon himself built it up, so why not spend another hour and have people like Drew come up and talk about the batteries, Franz talk about the design, ... and really tell the story. Most of it has come out in the hours after the event anyway.
That also gives them time to improve the 4680 cell/pack so that the range extender isn't even necessary.
You are completely wrong. One or two people started making claims that the range, etc. would be lower and those statement only in the last couple of months. But for the remainder of the past 4 years no one in the inner/upper circle at Tesla has made any statements about range reduction, payload reduction, or towing capacity reduction. That, and with all of the up and down with Tesla prices no one could have reliably predicted what Tesla would come out with for Cybertruck pricing, and Tesla never said anything either. I might add that most people on this forum are watching everything Cybertruck very closely.
... for the time being ...
Sounds like you weren’t paying close enough attention. That’s on you. Most of the intelligent people were fully expecting specs & pricing very close to what was announced.
Looks like the top of the extender is finished like the bed floor, and there is quite a bit of space above it before you reach the bed cover. So you don’t truly lose 1/3 of the bed, you just lose 1/3 of a consistent flat bed floor.
most intelligent people took everything announced 4 years ago with handful of grains of salt
people were invited to a delivery event where they could tour the factory. trucks were delivered. as you noted, the specs etc were updated online after the delivery event.
And it WAS a delivery event! But no mention how many vehicles in what time span, if reservation numbers will be honored acccording to dual, or tri, and now beast. He also said NOTHING about a range extender. lamest event, ever
Well I guess I have to bow to your superior intellect. Thank you so much for the lesson in humility.
Interesting. In my line of work you say what you mean and what you intend and you deliver exactly that or more. In my experience there are lines of work where that is not the case, and they routinely refer to themselves as intelligent. I had no right to think that Elon Musk could deliver what he said he would deliver but I won’t make that mistake again.most intelligent people took everything announced 4 years ago with handful of grains of salt
My prediction above is if in 2025 the price of the bottom trim is $61,000 for a single motor RWD 250mi and with 2026 estimated average price for all units sold of all trims about $70,000.
