anionic1
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- First Name
- Michael
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The impression that I got from watching the shareholder event and the discussion around the cybertruck was not that they are going to try to make as many as they can to drive the cost down but rather this is an expensive vehicle to make and we'll build as many as people can afford. He didn't say, "We plan to ramp up to 1M trucks per year so we can really drive cost down". He said they are expensive to build and we will make as many as people can afford.I think it's pretty clear Tesla will not price any versions of the Cybertruck as high as $100,000. I'm not sure who keeps this nightmare, fear-monger tactic alive.
You still have doubts about Tesla's mission statement, even after they have dragged the entire industry kicking and screaming into electrification with large battery plants under construction across the USA.? No other company has done more to initiate this change.
Elon made the world wait for the Cybertuck due to unprecedented supply chain disruption and lack of batteries that basically would have caused an earlier release of the Cybertruck to slow down the mission by reducing sales of Models Y and 3.
Anyone that can't step back and see that the CT is going to be their most expensive product to build is nuts. It will have the largest battery packs, biggest castings, it will weigh the most, it will have the most robust suspension and tires. It has the most expensive skin material cost. It has a tonneau cover, along with all the other stuff to make it versatile like the air compressors, on board high power tie ins, hitch. And it sounds like it will have the most expensive assembly line. But its not painted!
What's to stop them from allocating the battery packs to their already high demand vehicles that are more efficient and more readily achieve Tesla's mission statement than allocate them for a larger less efficient truck?
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