An early Tesla Cybertruck is among the key objects up for grabs on the Petersen Automotive Museum Gala this Saturday, Oct. 7, in Los Angeles.
“Be one of many first to personal a Tesla Cybertruck!” reads an e mail concerning the gala public sale preview. “That is for low-VIN Cybertruck. The Cybertruck is constructed with an exterior shell made for final sturdiness and passenger safety.” A VIN is a car identification quantity, so this truck will likely be one of many first ones made.
Restricted tickets for the gala, which is held on the Petersen Automotive Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, are nonetheless accessible and begin at $1,750. The Cybertruck public sale will start on-line and shut in individual, in line with a spokesperson for the museum. The Petersen at present has an exhibit about Tesla that’s open by April of subsequent 12 months.
Chief Govt Officer Elon Musk and Tesla designer Franz von Holzhausen famously unveiled the Cybertruck in November 2019. The angular, Blade Runner-inspired car has been noticed in Austin and the San Francisco Bay Space, however Tesla has but to announce pricing, specs or when the official “handover” occasion to early clients will likely be.
Comic Jay Leno, a automobile aficionado who just lately devoted an episode of Jay Leno’s Storage to Tesla’s Semi Truck, is the host of this 12 months’s Petersen gala.
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Tesla at present makes the Mannequin S, X, 3 and Y, and anticipation for the Cybertruck is excessive. Quantity manufacturing remains to be a methods off. Tesla is donating the early Cybertruck to the Petersen; proceeds from the public sale profit the museum’s applications.
“I do need to emphasize that the Cybertruck has a variety of new expertise in it, like lots. It doesn’t appear to be every other car as a result of it isn’t like every other car,” stated Musk on Tesla’s earnings name in July, as he warned concerning the challenges of ramping up manufacturing of a brand new car. “At all times very tough to foretell the ramp initially, however I feel we’re making them in excessive quantity subsequent 12 months and we will likely be delivering the automobile this 12 months.”