2025 Tesla VINs -- no provision for RWD Cybertruck

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The official model year 2025 VIN decoder for Tesla is now available at the NHTSA website. For comparison, the previous model year 2024 VIN decoder is still available too. The Cybertruck info is at the back of each document, after the S3XY info.

The main takeaway is that there are no big differences between 2024 and 2025 VINs, except for substituting "S" (= 2025) for "R" (= 2024) in Digit 10.

In particular, there is no indication that Tesla plans to offer a single-motor RWD Cybertruck for 2025. In Digit 8, for Motor/Drive Unit, there are still only two options for the Cybertruck: "D" (= Dual Motor) and "E" (= Triple Motor).

Seems like "C" would work nicely for a Single Motor CT, but it's not there. If you were hoping for a Quad Motor CT, which Elon has made noises about in the past, it's not there either.

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If it seems like you've heard this news before, the exact same observations were made when the 2024 Tesla VIN decoder became available. For example, torquenews posted the following in October 2023:

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has released the Cybertruck VIN decoder, providing essential information about this revolutionary electric pickup truck ... Here's what the Cybertruck's VIN decoder reveals: ... Cybertruck will have Dual and Tri motor configs only. Cybertruck will have no single motor RWD or Quad motor.