Tesla's Most Affordable Cybertruck Yet Is Hitting Driveways This Week

The most affordable Cybertruck Tesla has ever offered is about to hit driveways. Deliveries of the base Dual Motor AWD trim are beginning this week, with at least one buyer in Southern California confirmed for June 21.

That buyer shared the moment on X, posting their delivery confirmation. Wes Morrill, Tesla's lead engineer for the Cybertruck program, even jumped into the replies with a simple message:

"You're going to love it."

This moment has been a while in the making. Tesla introduced the Dual Motor AWD trim back in February at $59,990, the lowest starting price the Cybertruck has ever had. The buyer receiving their truck this week locked in that original price within an hour of the announcement, before Tesla raised it to $69,990 just a couple of weeks later on March 1. If you are ordering today, that is the price you will see.

So how did Tesla get the price down in the first place? A few smart trade-offs. The base trim swaps adaptive air suspension for coil springs with adaptive damping, trims towing capacity from 11,000 pounds down to 7,500, and uses standard heated seats instead of ventilated ones. The premium audio system is simplified, the second-row touchscreen is removed, and the interior uses textile materials rather than the synthetic leather found on higher trims. None of these changes are dramatic, but together they bring meaningful savings without turning the truck into a stripped-down shell of itself.

One detail worth knowing if Full Self-Driving matters to you: none of the three current Cybertruck trims include FSD as standard. Tesla shifted to a subscription-only model for the software back in February, so if you want it, that is now a separate cost on top of the truck itself regardless of which trim you choose.

The rest of the lineup tells an interesting story too. The Premium AWD, which keeps all the features the base trim leaves out, now has a delivery window stretching to October and November for new orders. That is a notable shift from earlier this year and follows a lease price increase of roughly 10 to 12 percent. Even the high performance Cyberbeast, which had wait times as short as three weeks back in April, has now pushed out to August and September. Across the board, demand for the loaded trims appears to be requiring more patience than it did just a few months ago.

There is also a twist for anyone comparing options right now. Tesla recently began listing used Cybertrucks on its own website, with prices starting around $66,200. Many of these are early Foundation Series trucks that came loaded with nearly every available feature when new. That means a buyer could end up choosing between a brand new base trim Cybertruck with fewer features and a longer wait, or a fully equipped used one for a similar price with immediate availability. The only catch is that FSD does not transfer to a second owner, so that specific feature would need to be added separately either way.

Stepping back, this base trim is a meaningful milestone for Tesla. Since the Cybertruck was first revealed all the way back in 2019, the company has been chasing the idea of a genuinely affordable version. We are still nowhere near that original $39,900 promise, but landing at $59,990 for early movers and $69,990 for everyone else is the closest the Cybertruck has gotten to feeling within reach. Now that deliveries are actually underway, the real question becomes whether this lower price point is enough to bring a new wave of buyers into the Cybertruck story.

Source: ElectricVehicles