What Are The Real Reasons Cybertrucks Continue To Be Roped Off In Tesla Showrooms?

[Bonnie]

Why is Tesla continuing to prevent prospective customers from touching the vehicle or viewing the interior of Cybertrucks on display in Tesla Showrooms? As a reservation holder in the Cybertruck queue, I would like to do both as well as take a test drive.

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[Gigahorse]

Simple answer is Fingerprints. These things are a fingerprint MAGNET and they would look REALLY bad in pictures people are posting.

Tinfoil hat answer the trucks are full of lizard people and Tesla does not want us to see them until the invasion is ready.

But I agree, if I am dropping $100k on something would be nice to at least sit in it, in a SHOW room

 

[Unemployed]

I just went to the Portland store today to see it. First off it looked HUGE in the showroom and in person. Don’t think the wife was too impressed. Also No one was there to see the Cybertruck

Rep was very helpful, looked up my reservation number to verify it was setup correctly.

She also said that although this is a released truck (it was a foundation series) the interior was still missing a few details (she said “parts”), just like all of the other showroom ones. hence why Tesla wasn’t letting anyone inside until the can get them ALL “finished”.

she also said maybe “soon” they will get the okay to open the windows.

yeah it’s weird.

 

[Bartman]

I just went to the Portland store today to see it. First off it looked HUGE in the showroom and in person. Don’t think the wife was too impressed. Also No one was there to see the Cybertruck

Rep was very helpful, looked up my reservation number to verify it was setup correctly.

She also said that although this is a released truck (it was a foundation series) the interior was still missing a few details (she said “parts”), just like all of the other showroom ones. hence why Tesla wasn’t letting anyone inside until the can get them ALL “finished”.

she also said maybe “soon” they will get the okay to open the windows.

yeah it’s weird.

Simple answer is Fingerprints. These things are a fingerprint MAGNET and they would look REALLY bad in pictures people are posting.

Tinfoil hat answer the trucks are full of lizard people and Tesla does not want us to see them until the invasion is ready.

But I agree, if I am dropping $100k on something would be nice to at least sit in it, in a SHOW room

They should just put wrapped ones in showrooms if the fingerprints are the main issue. Plus it might sell the factory wrap upgrade.... silly to rope them off.

 

[Gigahorse]

They should just put wrapped ones in showrooms if the fingerprints are the main issue. Plus it might sell the factory wrap upgrade.... silly to rope them off.

I agree, if they are fingerprint magnets let people see that before they buy one, no arguments there.

 

[VR Driving]

they simply don't have enough made.

nobody wants to risk damaging the only display model available. it would hurt Tesla more to put their star product out of display than to let random people who probably might not even buy one sit in.

 

[ShadowAz]

They are most likely customer trucks. Being trucks that are assigned to early reservation holders they don’t want the cars damaged in any way so they keep them blocked off to insure they are in perfect delivery condition

 

[cvalue13]

They are most likely customer trucks.

The first 20 of them are not customer trucks, and we’re purpose-built demos that are on-offs

since then, we’ve seen some foundation builds go into showrooms


reasons for not opening them, I’ll add two considerations overlapping others already mentioned:

(1) Tesla doesn’t want to start delivering outside of employees and ‘marketing’ sales until after Q4 (for regulatory/financial reporting reasons) - so these foundation showroom units are for customer deliveries, but sitting there until after the ~1st

They wouldn’t open these customer units for others to sit in, and at the same time you can’t be opening some (the showroom units) but not others (the customer foundarion units) without causing some grief

(2) hype

that modicum of frustration you have? Making you REALLY want to see inside one?

companies love you having that feeling. It’s nearly priceless.


Tesla killing several birds with one stone here

 

[Bartman]

As I'm not planning to wrap mine when I get it, thinking I may need to invest in getting one of these "red velvet rope-off/pole set" accessory options. Hopefully Tesla will offer it as a premium upgrade. Will store it in the frunk and park strategically in spots where there's plenty of room to install the premium velvet rope-off set. Tesla is doing the ground work, so that it will look perfectly normal when it's all roped off in any parking lot.

 

[Bartman]

They are most likely customer trucks. Being trucks that are assigned to early reservation holders they don’t want the cars damaged in any way so they keep them blocked off to insure they are in perfect delivery condition

That reason makes the most sense.

 

[Woodrick]

Why is Tesla continuing to prevent prospective customers from touching the vehicle or viewing the interior of Cybertrucks on display in Tesla Showrooms? As a reservation holder in the Cybertruck queue, I would like to do both as well as take a test drive.

When the Model 3 was released, they didn't even have them in the showrooms for nearly a year. I've got an early Model 3 and early Model Y, just getting to see one before I ordered it is a HUGE improvement.

If you talk to the store employees, most of them haven't gotten any time as well.

Like an auto show, when you have thousands of people looking, you just can't afford to let people sit and touch the car. How would you like it if some random person had something in their pocket that ripped your seats? You know how ballistic Social Media would go "Cybertruck can't even handle people sitting in it"

There is so much interest in it, that many of the showrooms have to implement special flow control procedures. If they allowed you to sit and take pictures, and play with it, OMG the lines would be miles long.

And from the store's perspective, they hate cleaning the crap off the vehicles. Whether fingerprints show or not is another discussion, but they do oil and dirt behind that need to be cleaned.

But, as Tesla is good at doing not letting you touch or open the door adds "mystique"

 

[cal]

Simple answer is Fingerprints. These things are a fingerprint MAGNET and they would look REALLY bad in pictures people are posting.

Tinfoil hat answer the trucks are full of lizard people and Tesla does not want us to see them until the invasion is ready.

But I agree, if I am dropping $100k on something would be nice to at least sit in it, in a SHOW room

So instead of keying CT owners will be subject to fingerprinting vandalism!

 

[YDR37]

If you check other threads on this forum, you will notice that some people have concerns about the real-world range and real-world charging time for the Cybertruck. The best way to evaluate those concerns, of course, would be to take a Cybertruck on a trip. But most people can’t do that at this time. So the most obvious alternative would be to enter some hypothetical routes into an official Tesla trip planner.

But you can’t do that either. Tesla won’t allow you to sit inside a showroom Cybertruck (much less take it for a test drive), so you can't try out the in-vehicle trip planner. And you can't play around with the Tesla “Go Anywhere” online trip planner either, because it hasn’t been updated to include the Cybertruck (even though the Cybertruck was officially released a month ago).

We can probably all agree that trip planning in advance is important with EVs. Yet for some reason, Tesla doesn’t seem to be giving prospective Cybertruck buyers the opportunity to do that.

 

[Woodrick]

If you check other threads on this forum, you will notice that some people have concerns about the real-world range and real-world charging time for the Cybertruck. The best way to evaluate those concerns, of course, would be to take a Cybertruck on a trip. But most people can’t do that at this time. So the most obvious alternative would be to enter some hypothetical routes into an official Tesla trip planner.

But you can’t do that either. Tesla won’t allow you to sit inside a showroom Cybertruck (much less take it for a test drive), so you can't try out the in-vehicle trip planner. And you can't play around with the Tesla “Go Anywhere” online trip planner either, because it hasn’t been updated to include the Cybertruck (even though the Cybertruck was officially released a month ago).

We can probably all agree that trip planning in advance is important with EVs. Yet for some reason, Tesla doesn’t seem to be giving prospective Cybertruck buyers the opportunity to do that.

The naysayers wouldn't trust the onboard router, so that wouldn't help.

While I agree, I don't think that the online router has been updated, that doesn't mean that you can't use it. For a pessimistic look, use the Model 3 Long Range model at 272 miles. And for the reason why the range isn't a big deal, compare that against the Model S at 405 miles.


What you will find is that there may be a change in the location of the stops, the number of stops won't really change until you get to about 1,000-mile journeys.
I just got finished with a 2400 mile journey and really didn't worry "if" we could make it or not. But with 8 years of EV experience and over 5 in a Tesla, I know that there are optimizations that I feel comfortable with, when compared to the Tesla's conservative approach. So I always started with what it suggested and then tweaked a little bit.

"If" you are going to be able to do the trip really isn't an issue anymore. The only exceptions are where you are not on an Interstate and there are very few people.
In so many areas, Superchargers are 50 miles apart and in busier areas, they are now sometimes a few miles apart.

From Supercharger | Tesla you can see a lot, but zooming in gives you a better picture.

And that's the northeast corridor, New York to Boston.

 

[YDR37]

While I agree, I don't think that the online router has been updated, that doesn't mean that you can't use it. For a pessimistic look, use the Model 3 Long Range model at 272 miles. ... What you will find is that there may be a change in the location of the stops, the number of stops won't really change until you get to about 1,000-mile journeys.

Good idea for estimating the number of stops. But what about the charging times at those stops? The Model 3 LR only needs to charge a 75 kWh battery; the Cybertruck has a 123 kWh battery.

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