Wait, wut?
This is a really bad analogy. Anyone saying there is “no way 2M people still want an EV” in general is either a delusional ICE fanatic or paid shill.
Every survey (and there are many) of EV interest has only showed it moving up and to the right.
ICE fanatics, NADA, legacy auto, the fossil shills, and most of the media (since appealing to the biases of fanatics is lucrative), endlessly spin any negative into DOOM, but the data has never really wavered.
Cybertruck demand is just in no way analogous for incredibly obvious reasons.
You seem to maybe be basing this thesis for CT demand on the price and sales volume of ICE pickups? That’s even crazier. The CT is in no way a normal pickup, and isn’t going to appeal to the vast majority of buyers of the ICE monstrosities. Even the Ford and Chevy offerings face an uphill battle there, and they’re basically just EV versions of the gas one.
The CT initial reservations were all Tesla fanatics and sci-fi fantasists. And at the original promised specs (which were ridiculous), maybe that could have been almost real.
But when the reality of paying up kicks in, and on top of that it gets way less range than promised, is way more money than promised, lacks FSD right when FSD is getting interesting….. It’s just really not surprising that a huge percentage of reservations wouldn’t convert.