First 2024 Tesla Cybertruck Reportedly Auctioned for $400,000, with First Deliveries Still Elusive
- The first 2024 Tesla Cybertruck has reportedly been sold at auction at the Petersen Auto Museum, according to posts on X.
- The angular truck sold for $400,000, with attendees paying at least $1750 for access to the event.
- Tesla has yet to confirm production specifications for the Cybertruck, and it’s unclear how many motors this early-VIN example packs.
At long last, production of the Tesla Cybertruck finally appears to be underway. Over the weekend, social media posts claimed that a 2024 Cybertruck was auctioned at an event at the Petersen Auto Museum. The truck allegedly sold for a whopping $400,000, as reported by InsideEVs.com.
The auction occurred during the Petersen’s 29th gala event, hosted by Jay Leno. Tickets to the festivities cost $1750, with a table reservation coming in at $17,500 and a “premier” table ringing in at $30,000. Clearly, the attendees have cash to spare, and posts on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, state that the truck sold at auction for $400,000. We reached out to the museum for confirmation of this figure, but a representative told us that they couldn’t confirm winning bid amounts “due to internal fundraising policies.”
If the sale goes through, this would become the first Cybertruck to be officially sold. The unorthodox pickup, first revealed back in 2019, was originally slated for production in 2021 before consistent delays pushed it back. The museum had advertised that attendees of the gala could bid on a “low-VIN” 2024 Cybertruck, and the museum representative told us that the winning bidder will receive a low-VIN Cybertruck “when Tesla completes production,” effectively making this an auction for a build slot and not a car.
In recent months, there have been increased sightings of Cybertrucks testing and being hauled on flatbeds. Tesla had previously said that full-scale production wouldn’t begin until 2024, but that early units would start rolling off the line this year. On July 15, Tesla posted on X claiming that the first Cybertruck had been built at the automaker’s Giga Texas factory.
This isn’t the first time a high-interest EV truck has been auctioned off. The first 2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV sold for $500,000 at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction in January, while the first Hummer EV SUT truck was auctioned for $2.5 million at a Barrett Jackson auction in 2021.
Delivery When?
Tesla, however, still hasn’t announced an official delivery start date for the Cybertruck. The automaker also hasn’t confirmed specifications for the production-spec pickup, which was originally claimed to start around $40,000. Several variants were planned, from a single-motor rear-wheel-drive base model to a high-performance Tri-Motor version, but it’s unclear which of these will be produced for 2024, or at all.
The Cybertruck definitely exists now—Tesla recently posted video of the Cybertruck driving over dirt trails in Baja, Mexico—and it is only a matter of time until, we presume, it officially launches.
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