Want to own a Tesla Cybercab? You can now preorder one if, somehow, you’re invited to do so, and Tesla claims in an X post that your estimated delivery date will be sometime next month. The sticker price would be $29,990.
Select customers are now being invited to purchase Cybercab for personal use pic.twitter.com/LDIkKuseAZ
Depending on your perspective, that could qualify as keeping a promise Tesla CEO Elon Musk made to release such a vehicle to customers by the end of 2026, and to do so at that price point.
It’s a state of affairs that could, in theory, force tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee to shave his head. Back in 2024, Brownlee rode in a Cybercab at the product’s unveiling event, but expressed extreme skepticism about Tesla’s ability to deliver on its promise to release that same vehicle to consumers for under $30,000 before 2027. “If they do—let’s say they do—I will shave my head on camera, because I’m that confident they won’t do it,” Brownlee said.
Despite Tesla’s announcement that the Cybercab will be released in some form, to some people, by the end of this year, Brownlee claims his “hair is safe.” The provisos and limitations under which the vehicle is being sold, he argues, don’t add up to a kept promise.
