The Tesla Cybertruck was unveiled in California last November, grabbing attention for its wild sci-fi aesthetic and glass-shattering, meme-generating debut. The new electric pickup is set to take on a segment where General Motors dominates, and now, Tesla is looking to build the new Cybertruck at a new plant located in the U.S.
In a tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that he was “scouting locations” to build the Cybertruck in “central USA.” He also added that production of the new Tesla Model Y crossover would be aimed at the “east coast.”
Scouting locations for Cybertruck Gigafactory. Will be central USA.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 11, 2020
Model Y production for east coast too
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 11, 2020
A new Tesla production plant would be quite the prize for the state in which it’s located, and interested politicians are already vying to capture Musk’s attention. Likely candidates include Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee, Indiana, and Texas. According to a recent story from the Wall Street Journal, Musk is weighing a variety of factors, including state incentives, available workforce and talent, and logistics costs.
Going forward, Musk will likely see a number of states compete for the plant, similar to the competition held for the Gigafactory battery production facility, which was eventually built near Reno, Nevada.
Musk claims that Tesla has received over 250,000 pre-orders for its new Cybertruck following last year’s debut.
Concurrently, Tesla is also pursuing construction of a new assembly plant in Berlin, Germany, and recently finished construction of a new plant in China geared towards production of the Tesla Model 3 sedan.
Tesla currently has just one auto assembly plant in the U.S., which is located in Fremont, California, and is responsible for construction of Tesla’s entire U.S. lineup, including the Model 3, Model X, Model S, and Model Y.
Meanwhile, General Motors is cooking up its own answer to the Tesla Cybertruck with the upcoming GMC Hummer EV, which will revive the Hummer brand name as a new all-electric utility vehicle line under the GMC umbrella. In its top trim, the GMC Hummer EV will produce more than 1,000 horsepower and sprint to 60 mph in three seconds, all while offering “incredible on- and off-road capability.”
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That plant would not need stamping because of the it has unibody. Will not need paint shop because it doesn’t have paint. This will be very efficient plant.
With this “new” economy, Cybertruck won’t need a new factory because it won’t be built due to lack of buyers…
But I thought this Truck was ugly and nobody was interested HAHA
I tried telling everyone here that Tesla just unloaded a HUGE Bomb on the Big Three concerning their Pickup Trucks. It almost doesn’t matter what it looks like with the Specs and price it has.
I will say this once again, just my opinion but if this Truck takes off even further than it already has, the Big Three are in trouble. Fleets and Customers will realize just how much money they will be saving switching to EV pickup Trucks and there will be no way in my humble opinion that Ram, Ford, and GM will have an offering at the Starting price of the Cybertruck. Lets even say that they do offer an EV pickup at the starting price of $39,000 with all the features like the Cybertruck, the Big Three would rather sell their Money making ICE Trucks. That is how they bring in money.
Interesting times ahead. I am glad that GM at least is ahead of the EV game to lets say Ford and especially Ram.
I think there has to be a second, more ‘traditional’ model on the way from Tesla to justify a plant like that. I think there’s a market for the Cybertruck but I don’t think it’s big. Similar to the Avalanche, very unique truck, high initial demand, but then once that small market all had one sales kept dropping. And I don’t think the Cybertruck makes sense for fleet. Ford/Chevy will have much more competent offerings for that market.
And yes I agree GM is way ahead of Ford but don’t count them out for trucks. We know they are working on one and if there’s one thing Ford doesn’t screw up it’s their pickups.
@Ryan
I have a feeling it will be a Cybervan for Cargo. Tesla will utilize them for their Service Fleets. They’ll use them for their Cars and Energy Department. And a bunch of Fleet Companies will purchase them in droves.
Just a Hunch.
And where are these vehicles getting there energy?. You see the line-show Tesla drivers getting a recharge at rest stops during last travel season?. Eventually we’re getting from ICE over time but it isn’t overnight like Musk an Co. thinks.
Take Elon specs with a grain of salt. Remember when he claimed it would have a tow rating of 300k lbs. The truck will never hit the promised price. Tesla cars don’t get close to their EPA range in the real world. That joke has no hope of attesting actual truck buyers.
Musk could drop a turd and people would pay $100 for it.
This truck will be late and sold no where near the $39k price if you get any of the needed options.
The Styling in time will be like the a bad tattoo or Pacer where you sober up and think what was I thinking.
The Stainless will have all the issues we saw on the Delorean. It will scratch, dent and people will tire of one color. You think you hate your stainless kitchen just wait til, you get this.
The location of the projected Tesla factory in Germany is actually not IN Berln, only near by, in Grünheide and/or Freienbrink east of Berlin. See here in Open Street Map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/52.3960/13.8073
Not only the shaded area marked “Tesla Gigafactory”, but the whole area east of the A10 Autobahn up to the east-west railway line in the north, an eastward tothe curved private branch line from the main railway to the logistics center in the south (“Güterverkehrszentrum”) . But in the first phase only a part of the area is to be used.
Elon Musk gets the forest cleared before the official authorization for the construction if the factory has been given. I also read that while the purchase for the land has been signed, the actual price has not yet been fixed. Seller is the federal state Brandenburg which surrounds Berlin. How is the TSLA stock faring during this stock market crash?
The prime minister of Brandenburg has asked for that Tesla should pay union wages “in the long run”, instead if just requiring that Tesla joins the metal industry collective bargaining association and sign their collective contract with the metal workers union “IG Metall”. Lousy…
I heard somewhere around the John Deere factory community. Iowa/Illinois.
This is just Musk tishi g for more government handouts like he got for the SolarCity plant in New York and the battery plant in Nevada, neither of which have lived up to the prokused job numbers for the billions he got from state governments. Tesla isn’t even building panels at the old SolarCity plant. They are installing panels from China.
Do you mean just like the GM handout from the Government in Lordstown, Ohio?
What are you even talking about. Every single Auto Maker gets HUGE Tax Subsidies from Governments to build in their Cities. So you want Tesla to be different?
How about our Government step in and allow an American Company to be sold in ALL 50 States. How about that.
California currently has more people on social assistance than it does working people paying taxes and therefor the state has raised the taxes to business to an intolerant level and it’s much, much more profitable to do business in another more tax friendly state. Businesses are leaving California at an alarming rate and the politicians running the state haven’t a clue or don’t care. “Just raise the taxes higher”.