Tesla is rumored to have already constructed a few hundred Cybertruck electrical pickups since manufacturing began in mid-July at Gigafactory Texas.

Whereas the EV maker hasn’t launched a manufacturing tally, business watchers estimate that Tesla has rolled out some 100 Cybertrucks based mostly on the various sightings of shipments from Giga Texas in latest weeks.

Tesla pundit and shareholder Matthew Donegan-Ryan mentioned on X (previously Twitter) that “Tesla has now constructed 100 Cybertrucks at Giga Texas,” including a video and a photograph of a number of electrical vehicles being loaded onto automotive haulers on the Austin facility. When requested how does he know that, Matthew replied cryptically, “I’ve my methods.”

Clearly, counting the vehicles noticed on haulers isn’t a really scientific methodology to estimate what number of Cybertrucks have been made to this point. That is as a result of there might be shipments that have not been noticed and posted on social media, to not point out the truth that Tesla is probably going preserving some Cybertrucks in storage at Giga Texas away from prying eyes.

That being mentioned, this guesstimate most likely proves that Tesla already has greater than sufficient Cybertrucks to ship to the primary prospects in the course of the upcoming handover occasion anticipated to happen late subsequent month at Giga Texas.

As a reminder, Tesla delivered 30 Mannequin Y automobiles when it inaugurated the Giga Berlin plant final yr, and it’ll most likely ship roughly the identical variety of Cybertrucks from Giga Texas to the primary prospects, doubtless Tesla staff and insiders.

Given the elevated tempo of Cybertruck shipments from Giga Texas, it’s turning into evident that we’re getting nearer to the second reservation holders have been ready for since November 2019, i.e. the beginning of preliminary deliveries.

If the 100-unit estimate is correct, it means that the ramp of the Cybertruck’s preliminary manufacturing goes properly and that the electrical pickup might see a ramp that is extra much like the Mannequin Y crossover than the Mannequin 3 sedan, which skilled a interval of “manufacturing hell” earlier than it was ramped.

You should not get your hopes up too excessive, although, as Elon Musk beforehand mentioned that 2023 will see low Cybertruck manufacturing numbers and that the car could be produced in excessive quantity beginning in 2024. Again in Might, he mentioned that he anticipated Tesla to promote between 250,000 and 500,000 models per yr as soon as manufacturing is absolutely ramped.