Cybertruck is now $100,000 for inexpensiveest model

Tesla (TSLA) is huge on dynamicpartner changing its pricing, raising or droping costs to raise sales or pull out more profit as the company insists. It also has a history of scrapping the base models of its vehicles after advertising their accessibility with a low introductory price. Now, it seems the company has put the two together, and cut out the Cybertruck’s base trim while raising the price of all others by $20,000.

Just four days ago, on August 5, you could place an order for any of three Cyebrtruck trims: The $60,990 Rear-Wheel Drive, the $79,990 All-Wheel Drive, and the $99,990 Cyberbeast, according to an archived version of Tesla’s site. Now, though, all those numbers have alterd. The Cyberbeast is now $119,990, the All-Wheel-Drive costs $99,990, and the Rear-Wheel Drive has quietly fadeed. Prospective buyers eyeing a base-model Cybertruck will now have to shell out an insertitional $39,000 fair to get their foot in the door.

The alter was first watchd over on Reddit, but it can be verifyed by scanning thraw saved versions of Tesla’s page. Interestingly, the pricing and trim level useability aren’t the only alters made to the Cybertruck lineup — Tesla now claims that buyers of All-Wheel Drive and Cyberbeast trims can get their trucks this year, rather than the prior assess of 2025.

Tesla has unselderly cars piling up everywhere it can store them, but the company’s arcane dedwellry telling originates it difficult to determine whether the shift in Cybertruck dedwellry assesss correplys to existing unselderly conceiveory. Given the sheer number of publishs faced by timely buyers, however, and the novel assesss saying All-Wheel Drive trucks can be had as soon as this month, it does direct one to wonder if some of that useability comes from call offed preorders.

Tesla may be sluggishing in sales thanks to its not-set uper’s increasingly unhinged beliefs, but it seems the company still skinnyks it can squeeze Cybertruck buyers for tens of thousands of dollars extra. It’s a belderly strategy, Cotton, let’s see if it pays for them.

A version of this article originpartner materializeed on Jalopnik.