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Sad but not entirely surprising: in recent years S and X sales have been a rounding error compared to 3 and Y, and they've got the Cybertruck and the rumored mass market 2 in the pipeline as well.

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The Cybertruck is unlikely to be sold in any market outside of North America, let alone in a RHD market. In the unlikely even that Tesla ever brings this marque to another continent it will almost certainly be a physically smaller revision.

The Cybertruck is unlikely to be sold in any market.

I'll gladly take a 1000 USD bet on that

Eh, I doubt that they wouldn't release it at some point, but I do expect some poor sales, except from Telsa fan. There is already good EV truck in the market and aside from a weird design, it doesn't seem that the cybertruck bring anything more to the table.

Tesla has an extensive Cybertruck production line nearing full readiness in their massive factory in Austin, Texas. It is obviously a real product because the alternative hypothesis is beyond implausible.

Yeah, they definitely won't miss this launch date like the last 3. It will definitely launch in the year of desktop linux.

According to TSLAQ consensus, Tesla will never release the Model 3.

I'd be surprised if the angular design complied with regulations related to pedestrian safety in countries such as the UK, where AFAIK you can't have rigid hood ornaments or bull bars.

As for size, larger vehicles/SUVs are fairly popular in the UK, probably in part due to the deteriorating state of the roads (potholes, speed bumps)...

Much like the roads, APCs will catch on as the country itself deteriorates. Cybertruck will do great in South Africa for example.

I don't see the land of rolling blackouts taking up electric vehicles as the country deteriorates more.

You're probably right, but if you've got enough solar panels on your house, you could potentially be even more self-reliant than if you were beholden to a liquid fuel supply chain.

They could install giant pink safety rubber nubs for the uk market.

Sure, but it's one more radically different platform consuming Tesla's engineering and production resources as a whole.

This isn't unusual. There are plenty of vehicles which don't rely on sales outside of North America in order to justify their engineering costs. Indeed, the same story is true across the world, with the Japanese domestic market littered with "radically different" products which are exclusively designed for the domestic market.

Cybertruck was pulled from sale in Australia. [1]

And the head of the car safety organisation strongly implied it wouldn't be street legal. [2]

[1] https://www.drive.com.au/news/tesla-cybertruck-pulled-from-s...

[2] https://thedriven.io/2019/11/27/tesla-cybertruck-may-be-unsa...

A person looks at photos of a pre-production vehicle which has not been homologated to the Australian domestic market and expresses their opinion about it. I mean it's a great bit of content for the publisher but the proof will be in the testing, not in a person's intuition. The head of an objective testing body should know better than this.

And while I agree that the Cybertruck doesn't seem like a safe vehicle at first glance, Tesla's track record on passive/active safety should be enough to stave off any premature jumping to conclusions prior to the release of real test data.

Also this quote was quite odd: “We’ve got a concern that Tesla is very interested in the occupants of the vehicle, but it can’t ignore the other road users as well.” This is a hideously disingenuous comment for the head of ANCAP to be making about a manufacturer that makes one of the safest cars on Australian roads. They seriously have "a concern" about the maker of vehicles which score extremely highly overall, and which matched or exceeded an equivalent Volvo EV in every category[0][1]?

[0] https://www.ancap.com.au/safety-ratings/tesla/model-y/726c22

[1] https://www.ancap.com.au/safety-ratings/volvo/c40-recharge/f...

Cybertruck is mostly a truck for the US market, it won't sell much in the UK. The "model 2" however will definitely sell very well, probably outsell the 3 and Y combined in the UK (as the average car bought in the UK is much lower price than in the US).

As an anecdotal observation - the model S is pretty rare in the UK, but I see plenty of model Xs around. I'd love to see the actual sales numbers.

I see a lot more S than X in the UK. Maybe it's regional.

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