Tesla begins telling some Cybertruck orders to ‘put together for supply’

A variety of Cybertruck order holders have began getting “put together for supply” emails immediately, suggesting that Tesla may be getting Cybertrucks out to the general public just a little prior to we anticipated.

Tesla held its first Cybertruck supply occasion late final month to ship the primary Cybertrucks, although there have been solely a small quantity delivered on the day. These deliveries appeared to largely go to VIPs, similar to Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian.

At the moment, it wasn’t clear how quickly we’d begin seeing wider public deliveries of the Cybertruck. It may have been weeks or it may have been months.

Within the case of the Mannequin 3, for instance, Tesla held one huge supply occasion in July the place it largely delivered autos to workers, and it took a number of months earlier than most people began to obtain vehicles. We received one of many first vehicles delivered to the general public a full 5 months later, in late December. And the identical occurred with the Tesla Semi, which we’ve actually seen no motion on over the course of the final 12 months.

However in the previous couple of days, some Cybertruck reservation holders have gotten emails inviting them to configure, with “put together for supply” emails going out to a number of immediately. A number of have posted about it on cybertruckownersclub after getting the e-mail.

Most of those appear to be orders for the fully-optioned, restricted version, $120k “Basis Collection”. Previously, Tesla has offered different limited-edition early variations of a number of of its vehicles (Roadster, S and X), naming them “Founders” or “Signature” sequence. The corporate stopped this follow for the Mannequin 3, however it’s again for the Cybertruck.

The “put together for supply” e mail doesn’t essentially imply that vehicles are coming straight away, as up to now Tesla has made individuals anticipate up to some months after that notification. However cybertruckownersclub has additionally assembled a spreadsheet monitoring submitted Cybertruck orders, with some purportedly displaying supply dates starting as early as December.

These with December dates are in Texas and in California, the place Tesla says Basis Collection deliveries have already begun. Nevertheless, we’ve seen no proof of those deliveries but, outdoors of the preliminary supply occasion. Deliveries to different states received’t begin till 2024.

So it seems like Tesla will attempt to do an end-of-quarter supply rush to get some highly-optioned Cybertrucks into house owners’ fingers earlier than the top of the fiscal quarter and 12 months. Tesla is not any stranger to those end-of-quarter supply rushes, and there may be usually fairly a little bit of chaos at Tesla supply facilities on the finish of the 12 months.

Electrek’s Take

Actually, these deliveries are coming a lot prior to we anticipated. Given Tesla’s historical past of getting a major hole between supply occasions and the very first wave of public deliveries, we thought it will take longer to get a major variety of Cybertrucks out to the general public.

This would possibly nonetheless be the case, and possibly there’ll solely be just a few deliveries by the top of the 12 months. However with the variety of individuals signed as much as the monitoring spreadsheet simply immediately, and given that the majority Cybertruck house owners received’t assume to go straight to a web-based discussion board to speak about their order, there may be sufficient to name this a “wave” of deliveries.

It is smart, as a result of we have now actually seen greater than ten Cybertrucks in existence. However loads of these are going to be engineering prototypes or different early fashions which can or might not be prepared for public consumption.

Then once more, Tesla did say it presently has manufacturing capability to construct 125,000 Cybertrucks per 12 months. We actually doubt we’ll see 5 digits price of vehicles delivered by the top of this month, however just a few hundred would nonetheless be above our expectations given the historical past of latency between Tesla supply occasions and actual mass deliveries.