The first production Cybertrucks were handed over to customers at Tesla’s factory in Austin, Texas, on Thursday as the company revealed the electric pickup’s official pricing and specifications and reopened reservations.
The initial Cybertrucks available are an all-wheel-drive model priced at $79,990 and a more powerful $99,900 Cyberbeast, while a $60,990 rear-wheel-drive model is slated to be added to the lineup in 2025.
The Cyberbeast is listed with an 845 hp all-wheel-drive system and a tow rating of 11,000 pounds, although Tesla did not specify if it used the industry standard method to calculate the latter.
Tesla says the Cyberbeast can accelerate to 60 mph in 2.6 seconds and cover a quarter-mile in less than 11 seconds. Its performance was demonstrated during the event with a video of one beating a Porsche 911 in a drag race while towing a Porsche 911.
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Another clip showed it beating a Ford F-150 Lighting, Rivian R1T and diesel-powered Ford F-350 Super Duty in a 40,000-pound trailer pull competition.
Tesla’s website lists the Cyberbeast with a range of 320 miles of charge, but mentions an available range extender that was not talked about at the event that can boost that to 440 miles.
Musk later answered a question posed on X about it and said that it takes up about 1/3 of the bed and is meant for long trips and heavy towing.
The all-wheel-drive model has 340 miles of range, 600 hp, the same tow rating and a 0-60 mph time of 4.1 seconds.
The Cybertruck’s bed measures six feet long. by four feet wide and there is an underfloor trunk behind the power tailgate. Tesla lists the payload capacity at 2,500 pounds, but doesn’t specify if that is for both trims. A lockable roll top-style power cover is standard and there are attachment points for racks along the bed sides.
Tesla says the truck’s “shatter-proof” glass can withstand a baseball being thrown at it at 70 mph. During the event, the Cybertruck’s head designer, Franz von Holzhausen, lightly tossed one at a window, and it bounced off without causing any damage.
Video was played of the stainless steel body being shot by a .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun, a 9mm Glock pistol and a 9mm MP5-SD without any penetration.
The trucks are equipped with 35-inch tires and an adjustable and adaptive air suspension system, which can lift them to give them up to 17.44 inches of ground clearance in an “extract mode” if their flat bottoms manage to get stuck on something while off-roading.
There isn’t any integrated spare tire storage, but Tesla will offer a tire bag that can be secured in the bed.
The Cybertruck also features a steer-by-wire system that doesn’t use a mechanical connection between the steering wheel and the steering rack and can adjust its ratio based on speed and how far the rectangular wheel is turned. It also has rear-wheel-steering that allows it to turn in circles tighter than a Model S sedan.
The cabin has a glass roof, seating for five and touchscreen infotainment displays for the front and rear rows.
The second row seats fold up to open up cargo carrying space.
As with many electric vehicles, the Cybertruck has a front trunk “frunk” storage compartment, but its exact capacity hasn’t been announced.
Outlets in the bed can deliver up to 11.5 kilowatts of power to power tools and electrical equipment, other electric vehicles and homes during blackouts.
Only 10 vehicles were delivered at the event and the reservation website doesn’t offer any estimates on how long it will take to get one.
