Musk says Tesla has so many Cybertruck preorders he stopped counting. He also hints at a smaller derivative that may be "kinda like a tight Wolverine package."
Since the window crack heard 'round the world on the evening the Tesla Cybertruck was revealed on Nov. 24, we haven't heard much about the company's forthcoming rule-breaking electric pickup truck.
At Tesla Battery Day on Tuesday, CEO Elon Musk didn't delve into the current state of the truck's development or its production timeline deeply, but he did reveal some interesting tidbits about the forthcoming model, including ballparking customer demand and discussing potential future model derivatives and technologies.
In particular, Musk touched on how many reservations for the angular, iconoclastic full-size truck are on the books at Tesla. When an audience member asked Musk about estimated annual production volume, he replied, "It's hard to say what the volume exactly would be for the Tesla Cybertruck.
The orders are gigantic, so, we have like, I don't know, well over half a million orders. I think maybe six-hundred thou it's a lot, basically. We stopped counting." The Cybertruck is slated to be built at the company's forthcoming Austin Gigafactory, a decision that was announced in June.
The figure that Musk started to utter 600,000 preorders - echoes that of an unofficial, third-party estimate floated back in March that was based on little more than a crowdsourced list. On Nov. 29, 2019, Musk hinted on Twitter that the Cybertruck already had 250,000 reservations.
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