Tesla is buffing Foundation Series badges off Cybertrucks to sell them as regular trucks
- by Electrek
- Dec 14, 2024
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Tesla also reduced lease pricing and directly discounted the Cybertruck by adding it to its referral program.
There have been many several Cybertrucks in inventory available for immediate delivery, including many Foundation Series Cybertrucks:
Foundation Series were the first Cybertrucks produced and meant for reservation holders. Tesla added $20,000 to the price and bundled a bunch of features and accessories together.
In October, Tesla switched production to regular Cybertrucks, which are cheaper, but we now learn that Tesla is still stuck with many Foundation Series trucks.
The automaker is now even planning on de-Foundation Series some Cybertrucks, according to a source familiar with the matter and documents obtained by Electrek.
On top of the $20,000 bundle of features and accessories that Tesla is adding to the Foundation Series Cybertruck, the vehicles also have special laser etched badging outside of the vehicle and Foundation badging inside on the dash.
Tesla is sending the Cybertrucks to service and collision centers around the US to have those removed in order to sell them as regular Cybertruck for $20,000 less.
Sources familiar with the matter also confirmed that Tesla plans to modify over 800 Cybertrucks to homologate them for the Canadian market and ship them to Canada, where Tesla believes they have a better chance to sell them.
All these efforts are putting more pressure on Tesla’s service and collision center workforce – resulting in longer wait times for owners.
Electrek’s Take
The Cybertruck quickly became the best-selling electric pickup truck in the US. That’s an impressive feat, but I think many Tesla fans were too quick to call the vehicle program a success based on that fact.
Cybertruck achieved that thanks to years of pent-up demand and over a million reservations. Then, it went through its entire reservation backlog in less than a year and with about only 40,000-50,000 deliveries.
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