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Ordered a Foundation Series tri-motor Cybertruck on January 2nd and was told delivery would be mid- to late-2024. Today, when logging on to Tesla.com to `Manage` my order, there is no date shown at all. 😨 Checked the Tesla App too; nothing there either. Is it normal for Tesla to show no...

Sure, there are no doubt lots of ways ppl could work around things to reduce legal risk. The idea of my thought experiment was to think about two folks agreeing to technical joint ownership for a year in order to satisfy the Tesla rulz, while still letting a new person, w no reservation, get...

Following up the note of a couple weeks ago: I have been contacted since I posted this thread. Received a surprising call the other evening. And, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause" there is a Bob! ... and Bob is apparently discussing this with an Alan. "Bob" called again. Says he...

Re the OP's assertion that started this thread: There is still no good source saying there will be only 1000 Foundation-series Cybertrucks.

Thank you to @jjrandorin , @Big Dog , and @someguywithcar for the substantive responses. To this point, consensus seems to be that a co-ownership title relationship would be okay as far as Tesla is concerned. Risks you have put forward are liability via ownership of a shared resource, and...

Thought experiment: TL;DR: Guy with Foundation Series Cybertruck offer adds Person#2 to title as Joint Owner; finalize "sale" to Person#2 in 12 months. ————————————————————————————————————————————— I'm a former Econ prof, and we often engage in "thought experiments". So let's do one...

You know, the power "company" is not a regular company in a free market. It's what economists call a "franchise monopoly", a monopoly created by the government. In theory, that's why it will supposedly be regulated in the public interest. ... and why it is called a regulated monopoly. Real...

You need to provide a bit more information for informed people to speculate. What was the outside temperature during your 112 mile drive? What temp was the car stored in during the 10 to 16 hrs before your trip? I had a 2019 M3, and it used the inefficient electric means of heating things, a...

I like the idea you are expressing here; I just don't know the veracity of it. As far as I understand, Tesla has never contractually bound themselves to follow any particular order with the million+ reservation holders. So I don't believe we can say that passing on a Foundation Series invite...

This is a fascinating question the OP asked a year ago, and it deserves to be bumped. I just finished some deep research into my Denver, Colorado (Xcel Energy) options for buying cheaper electricity to charge my car, and was beyond underwhelmed. In the main, and in cahoots with the monopoly...

Yes, your hypothesis that "The Foundation series isn't "Sold-out" per se, in fact, Tesla intends to continue with the weekly release of limited order spots for the entire 2024." is entirely consistent with the overall thrust of what I see Tesla is doing here: use the market for price...

Then there is no source for the "1000" at all. It's just speculation until there is a source. Thanks to @Big Earl , @beewang for the thoughts, and to @logan for putting the question out there!

Yes, I'm agreeing with what others have said here this afternoon. I had the opportunity to configure a Foundation-series Cybertruck this morning. :) Saturday morning. See above for details. Now, as of Saturday evening, I logged back in to the Tesla.com website and selected my Cybertruck...

It is VERY PROFITABLE for Tesla! I just wrote a long-ish post explaining the economics of it, here: Cybertruck "Foundation series" is a fantastic exercise in economics! ... and PROFITable

The Cybertruck "Foundation series" is a fantastic exercise in economics! ... and very profitable for Tesla! (background; I've taught university economics for 6+ yrs) TL;DR: Tesla is figuring out the market for Cybertrucks. They are necessarily doing "price discovery" here...

I'm in Colorado, have a day 2 Cybertruck reservation RN112750... Just logged in to my Tesla accnt this morning, and saw this: ```Design Your Cybertruck Select your configuration options and confirm the final price in our Design Studio. As a pre-order holder, your delivery day will be...

Yup, I was one of the two TMCers who bought those, and figured out the Amazon ad is incorrect: they are not 20mm.

This is a Tesla forum, and we are in the Tesla Cybertruck subforum. Tesla has not offered a quad-motor Cybertruck. Following the recent delivery event, the coming of a quad-motor version is not even projected by Tesla or the most-reliable car/truck sources. Despite the OP who started this...

You can see the battery temperature by entering the (hidden) Service Mode on your Tesla. How to get into that menu is well-covered in this thread: Can the end user place a Tesla Model Y into "Service mode"?

I recently went on a multi-state road trip in my Model Y. Decided to test what FSD is all about. I had never done this before in 4+ yrs of Tesla driving. So I purchased a one-month FSD subscription for $200. On net, it worked rather decently on highway driving, only occasionally trying to...

Yeah, in economic terms, Tesla is doing something called "price discovery" in the market. They understand the supply side: they know their costs to mfg a Cybertruck now, and they know better than us how rapidly they might ascend the manufacturing S-curve. But they do not (yet) know what the...

My sense is that Tesla is particularly interested in the people who will order that Tri-motor Cyberbeast, at US$100k. They would want to plan 2024 production to maximize the higher margins they'll get on sales of a tri-motor Cyberbeast, and then fill in 2024 production with the slobs who...

They've corrected and reprinted the signs! The sign on the display in Denver metro area, at the Littleton Tesla center, has it spelled correctly. "exoskeleton" Photo taken this morning.

Agreed. Thanks for your note, I went out to Littleton and saw it today. They got their display Cybertruck on Friday. I talked with the Tesla guy who handles logistics, shipments in, etc. He expects this one is NOT a delivery vehicle, but will just be a showroom, or possibly, later, a...

No. Structural integrity will be intact. The Potauto part is made from a block of aluminum, and the upper protrusion is ONLY used to center it in the holes in the chassis that ensure your weight is supported on the proper location and strength part of the chassis.

Word is that the Cybertruck customer deliveries made at the Delivery Event on 30 Nov will be at a number of locations, with some livecasting of bits of multiple smaller local events. If that is the case, and with the Littleton, Colorado Tesla store near your sighting, and with Colorado a...

With a software-configurable traction control system, and ordinary/expected hardware design changes following early prototypes as mfg-line-assembled Release Candidate vehicles become available, it is totally normal for any manufacturer to be fully characterizing a number of...

I have two interests. 1) a current-in-time interest to better learn how the energy of the battery is used to keep the car & its systems at whatever temperatures under various conditions, particularly the winter time conditions that are coming for the northern hemisphere. I'm an engineer, with...

I've searched through existing threads, and am not finding a clear answer to this: Is "Service mode" something the end user can put the car into? For example, I see videos on YouTube showing service mode information from the center panel on Teslas about the cooling system, with...

My premium w Tesla insurance decreased at the 6-mo. renewal. I'm in Colorado. Safety Score running from a low of 94 early in the 6 mo. period to consistently 96–98 over the last 3 or 4 mos. of the 6-mo. period. I price shopped to compare (again, in mid-2023) w USAA, the insurance I've...

This thread is specific to the OP topic of who's gonna buy a Cybertruck; why's and wherefore's about buying one are on topic. Debate over what the details of final features will be at launch, how diff from the concept announcement in 2019, etc. is very much off topic. Wish the moderators would...

Back to the OP question in the thread title: "How many of you will/may transition to CyberTruck?" I have a day 2 reservation and plan to execute/confirm an order just as soon as Tesla opens up the Configurator to allow me to do so. I built an EV from an old ICE vehicle frame/body in 1980, and...

I took the puck that came from Potauto and hand-filed the aluminum down to ~19.5 mm in order to fit my Model Y with a structural battery pack. It came 21.8 mm outside diameter. When I got to a clean 20 mm as measured by the micrometer, it still wouldn't fit. So I took it down to 19.5 mm.

Just for context: I wrote the two posts immediately prior to these in a new thread earlier today, specifically titled so as to help reduce confusion of TMCers who come into these puck threads and have no idea, and then don't fully grok, how unique the "Model Y AWD" 2 279 mile range, sold to...

First off: some older Tesla Model S (and maybe X) vehicles had lift point holes that were smaller than 25 mm. I don't have personal experience with S/X, but saw several TMC threads that mentioned this when I did my lift puck research last month. Some info was from back in 2013... So if you...

TL;DR Most Model Y's built since 2019, and all those being built currently (as of Oct 2023) can use the widely available lift pucks sold by many companies today. Those vehicles have holes in the chassis at the lift points that are approx. 25 mm in diameter, and those will fit most all the pucks...

Yes. I am confirming what @fholbert said earlier, upthread. For those of you who have the 279 mile range, Model Y AWD, manufactured at Austin (with an "A" in the 7th-character-from-the-last in the VIN) during 2023 ... The Potauto lift pucks, which claim to be 20 mm in diameter across the...

Darn. I have one of these on order. Will let everyone know when I try it on my Aug '23 Model Y. But if the diameter is 22 mm, as you said in you later post, they won't fit. My four holes where the jack pads go are each only 20 mm. ... so will likely have to send it back via Amazon. NOTE...

Thanks for that great info! Yes, the BoomBox feature works when Camp Mode is enabled! (but I can often not find what I'm looking for in the owner's manual. I can bring it up on the screen, but it seems to have no search feature. Perhaps I should ask about that in a new thread: How do people...

I don't understand why the "Boom box" feature shuts off completely when I get out of the car and shut either one of the front doors. Want to listen while working in my garage and nearby patio. Has anyone on TMC written a bottom-up "user's manual" for how Boom box works, and how to best get the...

By the way, those vehicles of this configuration that were already built and are not yet sold, won't be available long. Just checked the available INVENTORY in several cities on this next-to-the-last weekend in the 3rd quarter. "Model Y AWD" w 279 mile range: Denver still had several...

Well, believe it. The structural battery pack Model Y (4680 cells) is manufactured on a different line section than the legacy way to build Model Y's. This line has many many different process flows, and is much more efficient for Tesla: reduced part count, reduced labor, many fewer mfg...

Why only start to believe it. That is, indeed, exactly the case. Only the Texas Model Y's with the structural battery pack using the 4860 cells have the 20mm holes. And today, this is only the configuration Tesla calls the "Model Y AWD", which while not on the configurator website any longer...

Yes, one poster in this other thread on pucks found some for sale on Amazon that have the 20mm diameter protrusion. It's in this thread: What the puck? Also, that thread explains how those smaller holes at the jack points are only one SOME of the Model Y's built in Austin: the ones with...

I'm happy to see someone else be public with the dimensions of the smaller holes on (some) Austin builds. Which particular version Model Y is yours? These are the three configurations available in Inventory in the Denver area as of today, so they can be had before 30 September w good discounts...

Well, then your call is incorrect. I have an Austin-build Model Y, and I measured the hole in the frame this morning with a caliper. I got 0.790 inches (which would convert to 20.07 mm). So I can assure you that my two-week old Model Y AWD (279 mile range), with an Austin confirmation letter...

This thread has a good bit of info on the matter of the smaller holes in the Model Y chassis for the Austin-built cars with the structural battery pack. One guy in that thread found a lift pad being sold that claims to be smaller, and so should fit those vehicles...

Yes, this happened to me. I bought a set of lift pucks off of Amazon last week that were not correctly labeled, as they DO NOT FIT into the smaller hole that is on the Austin-build Model Y's with the structural battery pack and the newer 4680 battery cells. Had to return 'em today. Until...

Got that process done. Car was transferred successfully, though painfully, via the two-persons-working-with-their-Tesla-App approach.

Thanks for that link. We're gonna try to follow that process, and just let Tesla xfer the vehicle between the old and the new titles/ownership structure. Will let you all know how it goes.