Base Cybertruck Cheaper Now Than In 2019

[mrbulk]

Is my train of thought wrong here? Just doing the rough math and adding in the $7500 tax credit (which did not exist in 2019) to the then-$40,000 price to make it an apples-to-apples comparison, the base Cybertruck would be $47,500:

Price Today $61,000
- Tax Cred $7500
Actual Price $53,500
- 2019 Actual $47,500
Difference $6000

So if inflation from 2019 through 2023 was 20% (see cumulative inflation calculator below) then $47,500 + 20% = $57,000 vs today's actual price of just $53,500, making it $3,500 cheaper than in 2019:

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[BMOT]

Is my train of thought wrong here? Just doing the rough math and adding in the $7500 tax credit (which did not exist in 2019) to the then-$40,000 price to make it an apples-to-apples comparison, the base Cybertruck would be $47,500:

Price Today $61,000
- Tax Cred $7500
Actual Price $53,500
- 2019 Actual $47,500
Difference $6000

So if inflation from 2019 through 2023 was 20% (see cumulative inflation calculator below) then $47,500 + 20% = $57,000 vs today's actual price of just $53,500, making it $3,500 cheaper than in 2019:

Still doesn't take the sting out of inflation

 

[cvalue13]

Headline price may be lower, but the monthly payments sure aren't


Regardless, in the 'fool me once' category:

Musk told us the price of the RWD in 2019, and said 'available in 2 years'

Four years later, he's telling us the price of the RWD in 2023, and saying 'available in 2 years'




Show me a completed order sheet for the RWD and I'll tune back in.



PS: note that Ford's T3 is set to come out 2025, and I take this surprise Tesla announcement of the RWD in 2025 as another shot over the bow of Ford. The first shot over the bow, in 2019, worked out well for me - next thing I knew I was driving a Lightning.

 

[Crissa]

Still doesn't take the sting out of inflation

Also, no trucks were being sold in 2019, so that wasn't a 2019 price.

It was supposed to be a 2021 price.

Also, Inflation isn't profit. If the price is rising and profits are rising more, that's definitionally not inflation.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html

-Crissa

 

[Jager]

It was supposed to be a 2021 price.



-Crissa

Exactly. The prices revealed in Nov 2019 were for a 2021 Cybertruck. Those wanting to adjust for inflation should start then.

 

[evazquezcu]

Exactly. The prices revealed in Nov 2019 were for a 2021 Cybertruck. Those wanting to adjust for inflation should start then.

This. Some people finally star realizing the absurdity of the CT price hike.

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