- The new base AWD version of the Cybertruck is $20,000 cheaper but offers the same performance and range as the Premium.
- The range-topping tri-motor Cyberbeast reverses a $15,000 price hike from 2025 and now costs $99,990.
- This new variant still has enough features to be attractive to buyers while being considerably cheaper.
Tesla Cybertruck sales plummeted last year, and the automaker seems to be scrambling to get these trucks out the door. What might improve its chances of success this year is a new $59,990 Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive base model that loses some features but keeps the dual-motor setup with the same performance as the more expensive $79,990 Premium All-Wheel Drive variant.
The new base model does without air suspension, but it still has adaptive dampers, so you can still stiffen or slacken the suspension, but not change the ride height. It also comes with a smaller 18-inch “Core” wheel, which doesn’t improve the range over the Premium’s 20-inch wheels, so the EPA rating is still 325 miles for both variants.
The motorized tonneau cover is also standard, as are the three power outlets in the bed. The base model loses the two additional cabin outlets, the 9.4-inch rear screen, and, just like in the Standard version of the Model Y (which recently dropped the Standard naming and gained all-wheel drive), the seat upholstery is fabric instead of leatherette.
Gone is also front-seat ventilation and it gets a different center console, but it still has the same array of ambient lights as the Premium and Cyberbeast models. The speaker count goes down from 15 to seven and it also loses the active noise cancellation feature from the more expensive variants.
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Even though the powertrain is identical, towing capacity goes down from 11,000 pounds in the Premium to 7,500 pounds in the base Cybertruck and it has a marginally lower payload capacity. You can specify the larger 20-inch wheels for $2,500 and the underbody shield for an additional $3,000.
It still retains enough of the key features and capabilities of the more expensive variants to make sense for the same kind of buyers and the $20,000 savings is significant. Tesla has also cut $15,000 off the price of the top-of-the-range tri-motor Cyberbeast, which now starts at $99,990, the same as what it used to cost before the August 2025 price hike.
The new base model still isn’t the $40,000 model that Tesla promised, but it is cheaper than the early rear-wheel-drive trucks that didn’t find much favor with buyers. With all-wheel drive and the same performance as the more expensive Premium, it marks a clear strategy shift for Tesla and this new variant has a much bigger chance of attracting buyers with all the equipment that has been cut.
