On Saturday, Gary Black, former CEO of Aegon Asset Management, tweeted, “@elonmusk – any update on Cybertruck’s first delivery date, cool features or options? Please wait patiently. $ tsla.” Musk respondedand said Tesla would “likely” inform customers about the 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 his Cybertruck in November 2019. During the unveiling, 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 at the windows basically broke them.
Musk recently admitted that Tesla has quality issues. In 2018, engineering consultant Sandy Munro said the Model 3 initially had “flaws we would see on a Kia in the ’90s.” And in a February interview with Munro, Musk said, “I thought your criticism was correct.”
The current Cybertruck model hardly resembles a traditional truck, with futuristic sharp corners that look like something from “Total Recall”. Tesla said the basic version of the Cybertruck starts at $ 39,900.
– Peter Valdes-Dapena of CNN Business contributed to this report.