Cybertruck enters production

Few vehicles have ever looked like the Cybertruck. Unveiled in 2019 and delivered from November 2023, it abandons conventional automotive design for an angular, stainless-steel exoskeleton made from the same cold-rolled alloy SpaceX uses on Starship, paired with an 800-volt-class architecture and armored glass.

In 2024, its first full year, Tesla sold close to 39,000 Cybertrucks in the United States — making it the best-selling electric pickup in the country that year and proving that a genuinely radical design could reach real production volume. Demand later normalized and sales cooled, but the Cybertruck remains a real, manufactured vehicle delivering in five figures.

Whatever one thinks of its looks, the Cybertruck demonstrated Tesla's willingness to take manufacturing risks no legacy automaker would — pioneering hard-to-form stainless bodies, giant single-piece castings, and a new high-voltage platform.