{"id":58164,"date":"2023-11-30T22:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T22:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/30\/teslas-cheapest-cybertruck-wont-drop-until-2025-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T22:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T22:24:18","slug":"teslas-cheapest-cybertruck-wont-drop-until-2025-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/30\/teslas-cheapest-cybertruck-wont-drop-until-2025-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla&#8217;s cheapest Cybertruck won&#8217;t drop until 2025 | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"article__featured-image-wrapper breakout\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">Bad news: If you had your heart set on a sub-$40,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/11\/30\/whats-up-with-teslas-cybertruck-everything-to-know-about-the-much-hyped-electric-pickup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cybertruck<\/a>, it ain\u2019t coming next year, if ever.<\/p>\n<p>Though Tesla plans to ramp up production of its electric pickup in 2024, the company clarified today <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/11\/30\/tesla-cybertruck-delivery-event-everything-elon-revealed-about-the-ev-pickup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after its splashy delivery event<\/a> that the cheapest Cybertruck variant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesla.com\/cybertruck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will be available<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla first announced a single-motor Cybertruck variant with rear-wheel drive <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/11\/21\/behold-the-tesla-cybertruck-is-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">back in 2019<\/a>, promising a towing capacity of 7,500 pounds and a 250-mile range. Originally, the automaker said it would cost $39,900. Then came the pandemic, and more delays, thanks at least in part to the Cybertruck\u2019s rigid steel body.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seasons changed, and so did Tesla\u2019s Cybertruck price estimates. The automaker now estimates it\u2019ll charge $60,990 \u2014 or <span style=\"font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.1px;\">$53,490 after $7,500 in federal tax credits. That\u2019s more than the starting price for a Ford Lightning <\/span>or Silverado EV (both around $50,000).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible that Tesla will eventually drive down the starting price of its pickup, just as it has done with its other EVs. But in 2025, a $39,900 Cybertruck sure sounds like a long shot.<\/p>\n<p><em>Correction: Tesla estimates the base-model Cybertruck will cost $60,990, not $57,390.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/11\/30\/teslas-cheapest-cybertruck-wont-drop-until-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news: If you had your heart set on a sub-$40,000 Cybertruck, it ain\u2019t coming next year, if ever. Though Tesla plans to ramp up production of its electric pickup in 2024, the company clarified today after its splashy delivery event that the cheapest Cybertruck variant will be available in 2025. Tesla first announced a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}