DISREGARD!!! Could Tesla adjust the "EST" prices favorably when the configurations open?

[Cybrtr808]

I would not expect a price drop until annual ramp up of production and sales reaches breakeven volume - Believe Musk indicated 250,000 per year. Current truck sales are being amortized over the total cost of production. Which means Tesla is losing money on every truck delivered.

If Tesla can’t reach breakeven does it make financial sense to continue to produce trucks? I am around 450,000 in the reservation line so I am hoping that sales will reach my number.

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[Jager]

No.

Clearing price is everything.

Tesla knows exactly what it is doing with its higher-than-expected pricing. They know that it will result in a much smaller conversion rate.

We talk about 2m preorders like it's a good thing. To paraphrase J. Paul Getty.... if there are thirty or forty or fifty thousand preorders for a vehicle, those are a problem for each of those would-be customers. If there are a million preorders for a vehicle, those are a problem for Tesla.

We'll very likely see lower prices on the Cybertruck. But we're almost certainly not going to see those until the current preorder list is coming towards its end, the ramp is fully mature, and future orders are seen to be fully accommodated by whatever production rate that ramp has laid down.

At least a couple years away under the most optimistic scenario. Probably much longer than that.