how many Cybertrucks exist?

[Tim.Luchenko]

Why does noone ask @elonmusk this question? Who has twitter, tweet it please.

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[TyPope]

There was a CT on stage but wasn't there a CT giving rides soon after? I wonder how many CTs exist for Elon's use, testing etc. I guess they were made in Fremont? It seems likely that there is a prototype production line in Fremont to make the exoskeleton and the tooling of this line will make CTs for crash testing, and test the innovations that are evolving in engineering (maybe suggestions from this site?) like the pass through for the vault.

Perhaps there is a handful of CTs, dozens?

Well, we know for a fact that the test rides immediately after the event were delayed while they replaced the window glass. I've seen video of someone carrying the glass at the event. So, I'm guessing at the time, there was only one CT.

 

[KendrickMB]

The dash in the Jay Leno's Garage episode is different from the unveiling. I say at least two functional.

Good point. But if I remember right, the dask from the truck in the museum matches the dash from the Leno episode. And people said they could see slight dents in the door from the sledgehammer at the museum. This leads me to believe they're all the same truck, but that would also mean they swapped the dash, which seems odd unless they made several other modifications to that prototype.

 

[ajdelange]

It is 8 months since the thing was revealed. You all seriously believe no more prototypes have been built in this time frame?

 

[ricinro]

It is 8 months since the thing was revealed. You all seriously believe no more prototypes have been built in this time frame?

They would need to build more to refine the design and tweak the manufacturing methods. Plus there will need to be vehicles for crash testing and environmental testing. The tooling that ultimately is installed in Austin will be based on what they currently use albeit much more of it.
I think it is safe to assume that there may be a handful of assembled CTs but much more subassemblies and parts that are formed to validate they got springback dialed in etc.