50% increase in price point, 3 years delay. Inflation is only a small part of this. The delay is more telling than the price increase.

The cybertruck was promissed as a cheaper way to make cars, its more expensive tha n the others that suffered the same inflationary forces. Save that its a new product, if they trusted that scale was going to cheap it down more than they current methods they would take a loss at the start to make a larger profit later.