5 promises Elon Musk made about the Cybertruck that never happened

The Cybertruck has changed a batch since Elon Musk archetypal unveiled it successful 2019.

Tesla's archetypal pickup, which yet launched successful November 2023, has had a rocky rollout, with aggregate recalls and aboriginal challenges successful scaling up production.

The Cybertrucks for merchantability close present person little scope and a acold higher terms tag than Musk initially predicted, with the cheapest exemplary disposable costing astir $70,000, compared to the $39,900 that Musk promised.

Here are immoderate of the Cybertruck features that Musk has talked astir implicit the years that failed to materialize.

When Musk archetypal unveiled the Cybertruck successful 2019, helium said the cheapest mentation would cost $39,900, with much precocious variants costing $49,900 and $77,000.

But that didn't enactment out. In 2023, Tesla shipped a $120,000 Foundation Series mentation of the Cybertruck and said its cheapest exemplary would really outgo $60,990 and would get successful 2025. Tesla precocious released its Long Range mentation of the Cybertruck, which has a $69,990 terms tag. The Cyberbeast, its astir costly version, outgo astir $100,000.

The terms hike disappointed galore Tesla fans, and made the Cybertruck thing of a presumption car erstwhile it archetypal arrived. Now that the marketplace has go much saturated and the motortruck has been targeted by governmental backlash, immoderate see the EV overpriced.

Musk besides said successful 2019 that the astir precocious tri-motor mentation of the Cybertruck would person a 500-mile range.

That would person made it 1 of the longest-range EVs connected the market, but it was a committedness Tesla didn't present on.

The automaker advertises the $69,990 Long Range Cybertruck arsenic having an estimated 350 miles of range, with the astir $100,000 "Cyberbeast" clocking successful astatine 301 miles.

Tesla antecedently had plans to connection a $16,000 "range extender." The artillery battalion would beryllium successful the motortruck furniture of the conveyance and summation the vehicle's scope to implicit 470 miles. In October, Tesla reduced the scope to 445 miles and delayed it from aboriginal to mid-2025.

In aboriginal May, Tesla canceled the merchandise and refunded pre-orders.

Musk ended the 2019 Cybertruck lawsuit with a astonishment unveiling of the "Cyberquad," a Tesla quad bike.

The billionaire wrote astatine the clip connected X that the Cyberquad would beryllium a two-seater ATV that would beryllium released astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic the truck.