1.2M Tesla Cybertruck Pre-Orders

Re:1.2M Tesla Cybertruck Pre-Orders by vzaliva on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:53PM (#28068427)

It would be interesting to compare demographics of people pre-ordering Cybertruck vs electric F150. I was always assuming the hard core truck guys would rather go for F150 while there will be many first-time truck owners ordering Cybertruck.

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Re:1.2M Tesla Cybertruck Pre-Orders by argonaut on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @09:38PM (#28068731)

Yup. I think part of the brilliance of the Model 3 was convincing people who would never have considered buying a luxury car, to buy a luxury car. Like well-off professionals who would have normally just bought a Honda or Toyota.

(And despite what many might say, $37k+ is definitely luxury sedan pricing. That is well optioned BMW 3 series and Mercedes C class pricing.)

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Re:1.2M Tesla Cybertruck Pre-Orders by apahwa on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:33AM (#28069909)

3 series starts at 41k...

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Re:1.2M Tesla Cybertruck Pre-Orders by argonaut on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:39AM (#28138420)

1) My Model 3 numbers were out of date too. Model 3 SR+ is now $41,190 before incentives.

2) Actual typical sale price of the BMW 3 series is $36.6k-$40k (in my region, numbers will vary depending on region). https://www.kbb.com/bmw/3-series/2021/330i/?category=sedan&i...

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Re:1.2M Tesla Cybertruck Pre-Orders by gopalv on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:58PM (#28068455)

> demographics of people pre-ordering Cybertruck vs electric F150

The location of the people would be a bigger signal than the demographic (on income or age).

An F150 would be bought by someone who does not care about a supercharger network & probably does not live near one (& also wants to run their house off it when the power does blink off for a couple of days).

I'd bet someone who buys an F150 would also be in the market for Starlink more than a cybertruck buyer.

On the Supercharger note, I'm starting to look at Tesla as sort of competition for Shell/Exxon rather than directly to GM or Ford.

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Re:1.2M Tesla Cybertruck Pre-Orders by MPSimmons on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @09:41PM (#28068749)

For the 21st century, everything old is new again. SpaceX may become the Dutch East India Company, and Tesla may be Standard Oil.

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Re:1.2M Tesla Cybertruck Pre-Orders by oh_sigh on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:25PM (#28077571)

If they are actually hard core truck guys(as in, people that actually use their truck for its truckiness), they will probably be turned off by the 65" bed length.

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