Tesla Cybertruck: Huge price increase, first deliveries complete!

You might be glad, or you might’ve hoped it wouldn’t happen – but Elon’s teenage wet dream, the Cybertruck, is actually real and finally in customer hands.

It’s two years late, nearly AU$46,000 more expensive than initially claimed, packs a shorter driving range, and isn’t expected to come to Australia.

As reported in May last year, Tesla had quietly removed the Cybertruck from its Australian website, and today’s news hasn’t brought any changes on the local front. A “Get Updates” button remains, however.

The company has yet to confirm plans for a right-hand-drive version of the Cybertruck, and it’s unclear if Australian Design Rules would allow the big truck on our roads.

The basics

AWD and RWD, three motor configurations

In 2024, the Cybertruck will be offered in dual-motor AWD and tri-motor AWD Cyberbeast forms, while a more affordable single-motor RWD version is promised for 2025.

Tesla Cybertruck pricing

Shocker: Prices are way up on the original plan that saw over a million people put a deposit down

With today’s event came news that the Cybertruck is now priced from AU$92,000 to AU$151,000 – up from originally promises prices ranging from AU$60,500 to AU$106,00.

Tesla says the Cybertruck will pull 11,000lbs (4990kg), with a payload capacity of 1134kg.

The ‘lucky’ few to have taken delivery today will be treated to a Cyberbeast flagship that can drag a Porsche 911 “while towing a 911”. (See the end of our Instagram reel, posted below.)

The Cybertruck is also not without a number of changes from the original concept revealed on stage all those years ago, including production-friendly (and maybe a little more pedestrian-friendly) tweaks to the bumpers, as well as the lighting at both ends.

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Cybertruck dimensions: How big is it?

The Cybertruck’s final measurements are 5683mm in length on a 3810mm wheelbase, 2200mm in width and 1791mm tall.

By comparison, a Ford F-150 measures 5890mm long on a 3690mm wheelbase, 2030mm wide and and 1960mm tall.

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Cybertruck driving range and tow rating

Likewise, promised driving range for the Cybertruck was in the realm of 800 kilometres with a 6350kg towing capacity (14,000lb), but these have dropped to 547km and 4990kg. Not exactly small numbers, though.

To make up for it, Tesla says it will also sell a “toolbox-sized” range-extending battery pack that can sit in the tray.

A “super-tough composite” tray dispenses with the need for a bedliner, says Tesla, and is big enough to handle 1.22m x 2.44m construction loads.

0-100km/h: How quick is the Tesla Cybertruck?

One figure the Cybertruck has met is its promised super-quick acceleration, powering from zero to 100km/h in 2.7 seconds in top-shelf tri-motor Cyberbeast form.

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“We have a car here that experts said would be impossible, that experts said would never be made,” Elon Musk said on stage today.

“I think it’s our best product, I think it’s the most unique thing on the road, and finally the future will look like the future.”

Musk maintains that the Cybertruck is bulletproof, playing videos today to prove its durability. Likewise, the armoured glass that failed on stage with the concept was this time able to resist a fresh assault.

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Tesla Cybertruck specifications

For now, the figures below come direct from Tesla’s Cybertruck website. Some figures have not yet been made available.

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