Cybertruck could be certified for international markets in 2025 says Musk

[Administrator]

Here's what Elon Musk had to say about the Cybertruck for international markets (outside of North America) during yesterday's Tesla annual shareholders meeting.

“We might be able to certify it for other markets sometime next year. For sure, this year, it’s just North America. We did design the car to North American requirements because if you start going with the superset of all international requirements, it forces a lot of constraints on Cybertruck that would make the product, frankly, worse. So I think we’ll need to make a special version that is, for example, a China-compliant or Europe-compliant. But it really doesn’t make sense to add that complexity until we’ve achieved a higher volume production on the Cybertruck."​

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“I think from a demand standpoint, we would have plenty of demand in other parts of the world for Cybertruck, no question. Like, wherever it goes anywhere in the world, it gets a massive crowd. So it’s not a demand thing. It’s really, we’ve got to reach volume production, go through the cost grind — it would be difficult for me to overstate the difficulty in the cost grind, it’s really intense — and then we’ve got to recertify the car which includes making some design changes to be compliant in other markets,” Musk said.​

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[Deleted member 4261]

Here's what Elon Musk had to say about the Cybertruck for international markets (outside of North America) during yesterday's Tesla annual shareholders meeting.

“We might be able to certify it for other markets sometime next year. For sure, this year, it’s just North America. We did design the car to North American requirements because if you start going with the superset of all international requirements, it forces a lot of constraints on Cybertruck that would make the product, frankly, worse. So I think we’ll need to make a special version that is, for example, a China-compliant or Europe-compliant. But it really doesn’t make sense to add that complexity until we’ve achieved a higher volume production on the Cybertruck."​

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“I think from a demand standpoint, we would have plenty of demand in other parts of the world for Cybertruck, no question. Like, wherever it goes anywhere in the world, it gets a massive crowd. So it’s not a demand thing. It’s really, we’ve got to reach volume production, go through the cost grind — it would be difficult for me to overstate the difficulty in the cost grind, it’s really intense — and then we’ve got to recertify the car which includes making some design changes to be compliant in other markets,” Musk said.​

So what was the point in allowing the rest of the world to place a reservation, well apart from the interest free loan.

 

[lowtek]

So what was the point in allowing the rest of the world to place a reservation, well apart from the interest free loan.

That's a pretty good reason!

 

[PointHope]

I want one of mine to fly RHD.
Lot's of orders in Australia too.
The Electric Viking is chopping at the bit.

 

[Giskard]

So what was the point in allowing the rest of the world to place a reservation, well apart from the interest free loan.

A) At $100 a pop that isn't much of a loan at Tesla's scale.
B) I don't think they can legally touch reservation money. I heard at one point (years ago) that it needs to be kept separate and available for refunds if people demand them.

My guess is they simply used the reservation list to gage interest. If they got a ton of people willing to plunk down $100 to maybe get one in other parts of the world than they know it's likely a good move to make a version for them. And they know where interest is highest so they can prioritize which countries to start with.

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