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While von Holzhausen did not reveal what happened to the covert team’s alternate version of the Cybertruck, it’s obvious that it didn’t convince Elon Musk as the factory production model Tesla has been testing and teasing in recent months looks remarkably close to the show truck unveiled in November 2019.<\/p>\n
According to Isaacson, Musk did not even want to hear concerns about the Cybertruck. “I don’t do focus groups,” he\u00a0is quoted as saying in the book, a sentence that speaks volumes about the Tesla CEO’s approach to product development.<\/p>\n
He told von Holzhausen that he wanted a driveable version of the vehicle that he could present at a Tesla event in November, which “forced the team\u00a0to come together, work twenty-four-seven,” Isaacson wrote.<\/p>\n
Time will tell whether he’s right or wrong with regard to the Cybertruck, but judging from the reported 1.9 million pre-orders for the electric truck \u2013 according to a crowd-sourced data tracker \u2013 Tesla’s debut pickup should be off to a fantastic start in the market.<\/p>\n
After all, leaving aside its opinion-splitting design, the Cybertruck has huge potential as it is going after the highly profitable light-duty truck market currently dominated by Ford, GM, and Stellantis.<\/p>\n
For more than four decades, America’s best-selling vehicle has been a pickup truck \u2013 the Ford F-Series \u2013 and even if the Cybertruck grabs just 5 percent of the market, it will be a smash hit for Tesla.<\/p>\n
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