Seven years ago Elon Musk introduced the Cybertruck at Tesla's design studio in Hawthorne, Calif., with a live demonstration of the car's "armor glass" in which Tesla's lead designer shattered two Cybertruck windows with a steel ball. Tesla advertised a starting price of $39,900 when it introduced the truck in 2019, but the Cybertruck starts at $92,490.
Production delays pushed the vehicle's launch date to 2023 from a previously promised 2021 launch.
Tesla sold 39k Cybertrucks in the U.S. in 2024 and then just 20k in 2025, and only about 8k for 2026.
The company launched a rear-wheel-drive Cybertruck in 2025 but pulled it from the lineup months later.
Since electric vehicles are not price compatible with internal combustion vehicles, and no one seems to be able to undercut the price of internal combustion vehicles, without the govt subsidy, electric cars, and roof mounted solar panels on residential homes too, consumers are not diving in.
The Cyber truck seemed to have a big initial rush of sales, probably from the many people who feel they need to buy the latest, greatest, most unusual things - to feel superior to their neighbors and co-commuters on the interstate in rush hour traffic...
then there was no continuity of sales it seems... and I see fewer and fewer Cybertrucks.
I heard rumors that owners were annoyed that they needed to be cleaned a special way, or hand prints were ugly and embarrassing. I heard a rumor that the tires didn't last long because the weight of the vehicle wore them out fast.
No DOUBT in my mind the original owners were not going to get the batteries replaced so the vehicles would continue to be used for 10-12 years instead of 5-6.
I heard rumors that the original claim that the side windows were impervious to baseball bats, made buyers over confident, and then they found the windows smashed pretty easy
