There is no reason to stop taking orders. I ordered my Model Y 9 months before delivery. Considering how many Model Ys Tesla makes/sells they could take CT orders all day every day. It is really more about how many FS trucks Tesla intends to sell. Once they start selling the non-FS CTs they might as well just go through the list in order and get the $1,000 commitments on the books. Personally I’d feel a lot better with a real order and a place in a real line.
I understand your thoughts but unfortunately, I have to disagree on this point. CT reservationists are an ornery bunch. Already there's grousing about price, range, production rate, FSD rollout, FS invites, dozens of features, etc, and this is just off a refundable $100 deposit.
Nah, I’d plunk down my $1000 to get an approximate date.
I did not mean to say that they should just open up the flood gates and let everyone order at once. In order to follow the reservation queue they need to do roughly what they are doing now; send out invitations to configure/order, wait a week for responses, and do it again, inching up the ladder all the while. All I am saying is that I see no reason for them to stop this process. We know that they can make Cybertrucks at about 50/day if they want to (and if they have the parts), and that the ramp will basically go up from there (with glitches here and there as the find/fix problems on the line). We also know that a lot of people are going to pass on the current prices/specs. The number of people willing to order FS will surely drop and then Tesla will make the switch over to non-FS orders. Then people will start ordering in larger numbers (we know that price definitely plays a large part). Tesla also doesn't have to stipulate a 3-month delivery window. As I mentioned, they gave me like a 6-month window on my Model Y and then extended it. They can do that with Cybertrucks. As long as they are in the ballpark no one can complain.
I figure they will continue to offer the FS trim while there is still demand. There is no practical reason why they would stop. It is the same truck with some add ons after all.
You do know that as a publicly traded company, there are limits and restrictions pertaining to production and profitability information distribution?
Good point. But they still aren’t the greatest at rolling out info. Case in point was the delivery event. We learned more from one of the three people who did videos after the event (Haggarty, Carwow).
