On Saturday, Gary Black, former CEO of Aegon Asset Management, tweeted, “@elonmusk – any updates on Cybertruck’s first delivery date, interesting features or options? Waiting patiently. $ tsla.” Musk answered, saying Tesla would “probably” update customers about Cybertruck in the second quarter. He also said the truck will be built at the company’s Gigafactory in Texas.
Tesla (TSLA) unveiled the first version of its Cybertruck in November 2019. During the opening, a man with a sledgehammer hit the sides of the truck without damaging it. But a demonstration of the truck’s supposedly unbreakable glass windows backfired when a metal ball thrown into the windows actually broke them.
Musk recently admitted that Tesla has quality problems. In 2018, engineering consultant Sandy Munro said the Model 3 initially had “flaws that we would see in a Kia in the 90s”. And in a February interview with Munro, Musk said, “I thought your criticisms were true.”
The current Cybertruck model hardly resembles a traditional truck, with sharp futuristic angles that look like something out of “Total Recall”. Tesla said the basic version of Cybertruck starts at $ 39,900.
– Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business, contributed to this report.