Throughout the years, we've spoken to some incredible teams in the EV and Tesla space and few are as exemplary as Unplugged Performance / @UnpluggedTesla.
If anyone could execute on this offer and properly handle a Cybertruck line, it would be their team.
We fully support this.
An open offer to Tesla: We fully support putting Cybercab first, and we’d be glad to take the Cybertruck line off your hands.
We’d fund it with a consortium of investors and run it at no cost to Tesla’s floor space, headcount, or focus. All of that goes to Cybercab. Cybercab gets first call on battery cells too. We’ll wait our turn.
Tesla gains incremental profit: a license fee, plus FSD and Robotaxi network revenues on every vehicle built.
We’d build the Cybertruck, a three-row CyberSUV, and an unmanned CyberCargo hauler. More autonomous miles, across every surface of this planet and beyond.
Worth a conversation?
If you’re like me you’ve accidentally touched the open frunk button on the Tesla Home Screen and had to get out of the car to close the frunk lid. 90% of the time I press this button it’s by mistake and is the only button bay required you to get out of the car.
My proposed solution to this problem is a simple pop up (see image below) to say “are you sure you want to open the frunk?” This would be so easy to implement and would be a major quality of life change for Tesla owners.
There are ~19,500 cities in the United States. So far, they’ve capitalized on 5. Considering exponential growth, regulatory hurdles, Cybercab production, and FSD refinement, even Grok doesn’t estimate 100% saturation until as late as 2050. So, yes, multiple decades.
I’m 100% for a Robotaxi network but NOT at the cost of personal ownership of varying models. The reduction of products to 2 models, devoid of any capable of towing/hauling, is the alienation of an entire customer base.
Recreational use (towing boats, jet skis, etc) does not fit with an entire fleet of taxi-based products currently limited to 2 patrons.
To be clear, I’m not implying Tesla has publicly stated they are definitively sunsetting the concept of ownership, but the death of the Cybertruck certainly gives their current (and future) customers reason to believe it could happen.
Taxi services are not even an option for hundreds of thousands of members in the military as the vehicle is not capable of negotiating ID checks at entry control points. Hell, just yesterday I got an unrecoverable red-hands of death out running errands. FSD is not yet capable of 100% Unsupervised driving and anyone that speaks to the contrary is delusional.
The regulatory hurdles alone to cover the entire country puts the idea of a completely ride-hailing nation decades (yes, multiple decades) away.
Elon isn’t stupid, he knows this. Thus, they will continue to sell vehicles with steering wheel controls for years and years and years to come. But it is obvious where he wants to take the company.
The lack of varying products is where the lack of excitement comes from. And it’s valid.
The Master Plan became a Master Flop.
Tesla killed solar panels.
Tesla killed EVs in certain, major, segments.
Tesla currently advertises 7x safer self-driving, short of their 10x goal.
And exactly 0 customer-owned vehicles can join the Robotaxi network.
The dude lands rockets, made a flying car and made EVs mainstream but yet making another factory to produce cars is too hard. Reminder that the factory is already built so he would only need another factory to make the low cost cybercab which should be easy. Why is he acting dumb
“Hey guys, we will give you your money back because we don’t want to make the product you want. Go back to your old gas car so we can launch a 2 seater anti-family cab in the cities over the next 5-10 years.”