Does Tesla have these types of delays?
It’s not like you selected 73 options and they keep changing them before delivery
It isn't that people want EVs they want truck form factor EVs. And yes, Tesla has failed on providing that.
Personally, I don't care if it can do what I need.
But it is fair to say that acceptance often has a very significant social component (and most engineers ignore this). It's often impossible to gain acceptance of a very new thing in one step (to different), but possible by producing multiple in between points. This is true even if the end thing is much better.
So for other vehicle makers, I would expect them to be smart enough to get to amazing end state in steps instead of trying it all at once
If you look at a map of the best selling vehicle by state and overlay who they voted for in the last few elections it's pretty clear who he needs to cozy up to and win over. I'm not thrilled about it, and it solidifies my choice not to buy a tesla, but it makes business sense to my uneducated eye.
Personally I like my nissan leaf and would like a nice simple plug in hybrid truck, not an electric brodozer.
Second, it already had massive preorder demand from before the Twitter drama. There was no need to ensure demand.
Finally, the market for the cyber truck is going to be all of the people who were conscious about fuel efficiency and wanted a truck before but downgraded to a car/crossover. The cyber truck will not make a dent in any rural truck sales where towing and hauling is common.
I’m even fairly ambivalent to the fact that it has a truck bed. Maybe I’ll carry lumber once a year. I’d rather have a 3rd row of seats.