The Tesla Cybertruck, the polygonal pickup that promised to reinvent the automobile and drive astronauts across Mars, was declared dead today. Its father, one Elon Musk, announced the news on X: “Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas [the only factory that makes it] around the middle of next year.”
The Cybertruck was born in Los Angeles on November 21, 2019, promising a $39,900 price tag and 2021 delivery. Despite shattering two of its allegedly unbreakable glass windows during its first public appearance, its looks convinced kids, fanboys, and every nouveau riche who loves faux marble kitchen tops, to put down a deposit. For its dedicated audience, this stainless-steel doorstop was good car design.
Cybertruck spent its early life dazed and confused on a factory floor while Tesla designers and workers tried to figure out how to actually make it into a production model. As industry designers said back in January 2023, its polygonal body could never be mass-produced in a reliable way. The design demanded sub-ten-micron, Lego-like precision, which is next to impossible to accomplish in any current car factory.
At one point, Tesla didn’t care about accuracy anymore and Cybertruck was finally declared good-enough-I-guess to go to school with the rest of the Tesla kids. It reached the hands of those who deserved to suffer its countless defects and bratty ways in late 2023, with a $60,990 price tag and visibly misaligned doors. As predicted, each unit was slightly different from the next.
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