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Tesla Cybertruck Already Has More Than 200K Pre-Orders

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Tesla fans are nothing is not loyal.

Four days after its unveiling, the Cybertruck has racked up more than 200,000 pre-orders.

Applications are coming in hot: The automaker on Saturday reported a whopping 146,000 requests for its electric pickup—a majority opting for the middle- and top-tier models.

That number quickly rose to 187,000—”with no advertising [and] paid endorsement,” CEO Elon Musk pointed out—before hitting the 200K mark this morning.

Each pre-order requires a $100 (refundable) deposit, which means Tesla just banked a cool $20 million in less than a week.

Musk on Thursday revealed Tesla’s first—and, fingers crossed, only—pickup truck.

The Cybertruck looks like a 1970s concept of the future, with its wedge-shaped design, stainless-steel skin, “unbreakable” glass, and companion ATV.

Standing 231.7 inches long, 79.8 inches wide, and 75 inches tall (at its pointiest), the vehicle falls in line with basically every other pickup on the market.

But unlike every other pickup on the market, Tesla’s truck has polarized the Internet:

Nearly half of all reported bookings (so far) are for either the $49,900 dual-motor option (300-mile range, 7,500-pound towing capacity) or $69,900 tri-motor version (500-mile range, 14,000-pound towing capacity).

Fewer than 20 percent chose the single-motor Cybertruck, which starts at $39,900.

Production on the single- and dual-motor models won’t begin until “late 2021,” with the $70,000 pickup expected to roll out a year later.

Thursday’s bungled unveiling with be Tesla’s last “for a while,” Musk tweeted, teasing “some (mostly) unexpected technology announcements” in 2020.

After all, the manufacturer still has some kinks to work out.

Last week’s event went from slightly uncomfortable to positively cringeworthy when lead designer Franz von Holzhausen attempted to demonstrate the strength of Tesla’s “Armor Glass” by throwing a baseball-sized metal ball at the driver-side window.

“Oh my f***ing God,” Musk can be heard muttering. “Well, maybe that was a little too hard.”

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again—on the rear passenger window.

“It didn’t go through,” the entrepreneur, always looking on the bright side, said of the second failed attempt. “Room for improvement.”

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