the headlights have a very jellybean-esque influence tho.

Also the only EV that isn’t shaped like a jelly bean, oddly enough. 

AND, it’s still equivalent to like 60-70mpg counting national average electric and gas rates. That’s awesome vs the current high performance ICE offroaders, SUVs and trucks.

Wait, the heaviest and largest EV vehicle for sale today is the least efficient?

Definitely a consideration, but $30,400? No chance. That’s basically the same price as the absolute cheapest, regular cab, stripper Silverado. Further, they wouldn’t risk pricing it that low anyway. They’ll price it just below the Lightning for MSRP and then discount it, if anything... like the Bolt, which was…

If there’s a $39k Cybertruck in Winter 2022 I’ll drink my own urine on a Jalopnik livestream.

I was talking about Rivians. 

Haha - right on. A few more:

If you can drive it onto a stage and smack it with a sledgehammer, sure.

Your 100% correct, it would NEVER have sold at that price.  Hell I still don’t think you can get that $35k Tesla either.

Excuses for the $39,999 CT going away

the cybertruck absolutely will not start below 40k.   they announced that price back before they jacked the price of the model 3 by 8k.   you know that one isnt staying that low for production. 

I’d be interested to know where the $30,400 number came from for the Silverado. The Lighting is listed as $39,970, which is the pre-tax credit price, so do they really think a Silverado will be $30,400 BEFORE tax credit. If the $12,500 credit passes, it will be $18k? Cheaper MSRP than the Bolt? $9k cheaper than the…

That’s a good point, though I haven’t seemed to been able to find occupancy in places like this.

It does seem like a convenient work-around for him to take his salary in stocks instead of cash-money so that it’s already taxed less than a salary, and then just never pay the tax on it by never withdrawing it as cash-money.

Oddly enough, as a regular person with a regular job, I pay quite a bit of my income in taxes, percentage-wise. Somewhere to the tune of nearly 30%, between federal and state (not including sales, etc.).

I say this as someone who likes driving fast, who owns fast cars, and who is generally skeptical of adding more bureaucracy to our lives:

Just another vaporware illusion created to hype the real product - TSLA stock. Funny how Elon manages to always reach his stock option performance goals, isn’t it? Austin was never created for CT, it was always meant to move production away from Fremont. The welfare queen is always on the lookout for a new sugar daddy.

In the great Freaks and Geeks, there a bit where lead geek Sam gets snookered by some guy in one of the mall shops. He buys a “Parisian night suit” and wears it proudly to school.

Pre-emptive strike before the fanboys attack