Says the Tesla truck will have dual-motor all-wheel drive and load-adjusting suspension as standard.
"The Tesla Truck will have dual motor all-wheel drive w crazy torque & a suspension that dynamically adjusts for load. Those will be standard."
Why did Tesla build the Cybertruck?
Q12825 answers2018-2023
Short answer
He described it as a once-every-five-to-10-years kind of special product.
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2018 · 2 answers
Says the pickup will have 240V outlets for heavy-duty power tools, with no generator needed.
"Pickup truck will have power outlets allowing use of heavy duty 240V, high power tools in field all day. No generator needed."
2019 · 2 answers
He said Tesla needed something manufacturable in volume with basically no corrosion and no need for paint.
"We needed something that you could actually manufacture, but that would have basically no corrosion, that didn't need paint, but you can still make it in volume."
He said it is very rare that a product comes along that experts said was impossible.
"It's very rare that a product comes along that is seemingly impossible, that people said was impossible, that experts said was impossible."
2020 · 3 answers
He says the Cybertruck goal was the most badass futuristic armored personnel carrier, one that beats any pickup truck.
"what's the most badass futuristic armored personnel carrier that kicks the ass of any pickup truck, Basically that's the goal"
He says Cybertruck demand is unlike anything Tesla has seen and it will make as many as it can sell for years.
"We've never seen anything like it. Basically I think we will make about as many as we can sell for many years."
He says the Cybertruck is better than people realize.
"I think actually the product is better than people realize."
2021 · 3 answers
Says Cybertruck will be almost exactly what was shown, adding rear-wheel steering.
"Cybertruck will be almost exactly what was shown. We’re adding rear wheel steering, so it can do tight turns & maneuver with high agility."
Says Cybertruck is intentionally an insane technology bandwagon.
"Cybertruck is intentionally an insane technology bandwagon"
Says Cybertruck will reach into a post-apocalyptic future and bring that tech to now.
"Cybertruck will reach far into a post-apocalyptic future & bring that technology to now"
2022 · 2 answers
He said Tesla wanted to complete Cybertruck development and be ready for production the next year.
"We want to complete development of the Cybertruck and be ready for production next year."
He said Tesla would start manufacturing Cybertruck at Giga Texas the next year.
"then we're going to start manufacturing cybertruck here next year."
2023 · 13 answers
He says the Cybertruck will be the car he drives every day.
"It will be the car that I drive every day actually."
In April 2023 he hoped the first Cybertruck handover would be around the end of Q3 2023.
"cybertruck handover, which will hopefully be around the end of Q3 this year."
He says Cybertruck production will follow an S-curve like all new products.
"As with all new products, it'll follow an S curve"
He calls Cybertruck a fantastic product, a hall of famer, but very radical to manufacture.
"Obviously it is my view, a fantastic product, a hall of famer."
He said the Cybertruck is the car he will drive day to day.
"Cybertruck is the, is the car I will be driving on a day to basis."
In October 2023 he tempered expectations, saying it would take a year to 18 months for the Cybertruck to be a significant positive cash-flow contributor.
"I just want to temper expectations for Cybertruck. It's a great product, but financially it will take, I don't know, a year to 18 months before it is a significant positive cash flow contributor."
He predicted Cybertruck production would end up at roughly a quarter million a year.
"I think we'll end up with roughly a quarter million cybertrucks a year."
He says a radical product like the Cybertruck is extremely hard because there is nothing to copy: you invent the car and how to make it.
"if you want to do something radical and innovative and something really special like the cybertruck, it is extremely difficult because there's nothing to copy. You have to invent not just the car, but the way to make the car."
He warned of enormous challenges in reaching volume production with the Cybertruck and making it cash-flow positive.
"there will be enormous challenges in reaching volume production with the Cybertruck and then in making the cybertruck cash flow positive."
He calls Cybertruck potentially Tesla's best product ever but says it will require immense work to reach volume.
"I think it is our best product ever. It is going to be require immense work"
He says over a million people have reserved the Cybertruck, so demand is not the issue.
"We have over a million people who have reserved the car, so it's not a demand issue."
He said with the Cybertruck the future will finally look like the future.
"And finally the future will look like the future."
He described it as a once-every-five-to-10-years kind of special product.
"That is once every five to 10 years, something really special, a really unusual product comes along"