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Look at the context of the Cybertruck announcement. Here's the full transcript from the earnings call:Going back to the title "Cybertruck May Transition to Fully Autonomous Cargo Truck"
- I can see FSD providing Autonomous driving,
but how much of the Cybertuck platform can be really used or is needed? ...
From the last Tesla financial report, I was hoping that Tesla would have announced
producing an SUV version of the Cybertruck, but instead announcing a Cargo Truck,
whose size and shape can be anything, still puzzle me.
Notice that the original question was about a "more conventional-looking pickup". But the answer was about a "fully autonomous line".Travis Axelrod: Great. Moving on to the next question. After the unveil of the Cybertruck, Elon stated that if it didn't sell well, Tesla, Inc. would build a more conventional-looking pickup. How practical would it be to create this new design on the Cybertruck architecture, and could it be conveniently built on the existing production lines?
Lars Moravy: Actually, in its segment, CyberTruck can be a leader and is selling more than any other electric truck out there. Our competition continues to pull back. But to the question itself, from a line standpoint, we always design our lines to be super flexible. We've built 3 and Y on the same line. We built S and X on the same line still. Showing that we can do that. The Cybertruck line was designed in the same way and is one of our most fully ready for autonomy platforms.
Elon Musk: But yeah. We will transition the Cybertruck line to just a fully autonomous line. There's obviously a market there for cargo delivery, like you say, localized cargo delivery within a city, within a few hundred miles, something like that. There's a lot of cargo that needs to move locally within a city, and an autonomous Cybertruck could be very useful for that.
My interpretation is that Tesla has zero interest in producing a conventional-looking pickup, or any other vehicle, on the CT platform. But they wanted to provide a positive response, rather than a negative response. So they decided to change the subject to autonomy, even though the CT is not particularly well suited to act as a delivery vehicle. And now the headlines (like on the title of this forum thread) read:
"Cybertruck May Transition to Fully Autonomous Cargo Truck in Future"
which seems a lot more positive and exciting than a headline like::
"Tesla has No Plans to Make a Normal Pickup or an SUV on the Cybertruck Platform"
It's classic misdirection and spin. Notice also that there was no other mention of the CT during the entire earnings call. The CT was only discussed in response to the direct question in the quoted passage above.
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