{"id":424769,"date":"2020-08-05T23:48:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T03:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/elon-musk-highly-likely-europe-will-get-a-smaller-tesla-cybertruck.php"},"modified":"2020-08-05T23:48:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T03:48:22","slug":"elon-musk-highly-likely-europe-will-get-a-smaller-tesla-cybertruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/elon-musk-highly-likely-europe-will-get-a-smaller-tesla-cybertruck.php","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: \u201cHighly Likely\u201d Europe Will Get a Smaller Tesla Cybertruck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2020\/08\/elon-musk-highly-likely-europe-smaller-tesla-cybertruck-300x158.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"According Elon Musk, Tesla is \" highly likely to produce a smaller version of it long-awaited cybertruck for the european market. style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>Small But Mighty<\/h2><p>According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the electric car company is &ldquo;highly likely&rdquo; to produce a smaller version of its long-awaited <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/tags\/cybertruck\">Cybertruck<\/a> for the European market, as <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2020\/08\/04\/tesla-smaller-cybertruck-europe-elon-musk\/\"><em>Electrek<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p><p>When asked if there will be a smaller version for the EU on Twitter Tuesday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1290546456030576641\">Musk responded<\/a> &ldquo;highly likely down the road.&rdquo;<\/p><h2>Scaled Down<\/h2><p>One Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flcnhvy\/status\/1290552467453890560\">suggested<\/a> that &ldquo;reducing width is more important than reducing length, at least when it comes to cities,&rdquo; on Twitter, which Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1290553355467739142\">replied<\/a> to with &ldquo;true.&rdquo;<\/p><p>The news comes after Tesla <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2020\/05\/23\/tesla-cybertruck-elon-musk-scraps-plans-smaller-electric-pickup\/\">decided not to shrink<\/a> the Cybertruck by three percent in May after Musk sat down with chief designer Franz von Holzhausen.<\/p><p>It&rsquo;s still unclear how big a European Cybertruck will end up being &mdash; let alone if or when such a vehicle will ever roll off the lot.<\/p><h2>Everything is Bigger in Texas<\/h2><p>What is clear, as <em>Electrek<\/em> points out, is that the American pickup market dwarfs truck sales in Europe. Without a major market, it&rsquo;s less likely Tesla will attempt to scale down the Cybertruck for the EU market.<\/p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re really, fundamentally making this truck as a North American ass-kicker, basically,&rdquo; Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-smaller-tesla-cybertruck-highly-likely-2020-8\">told <em>Automotive News<\/em><\/a> in an interview earlier this week. &ldquo;The goal is to kick the most amount of ass possible with this truck.&rdquo;<\/p><p>As of right now, over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/roadshow\/news\/elon-musk-tesla-cybertruck-reservations\/\">200,000 people<\/a> have signed up to reserve a Cybertruck, according to Musk &mdash; a number that may be subject to change, but still shows a healthy appetite for such a vehicle in the US.<\/p><p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2020\/08\/04\/tesla-smaller-cybertruck-europe-elon-musk\/\">Tesla is &lsquo;highly likely&rsquo; to make smaller Cybertruck for Europe, says Elon Musk<\/a> [<em>Electrek<\/em>]<\/p><p><strong>More on the Cybertruck:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/cybertruck-metal-etched-heated-rainbow\">Cybertruck Metal Can Be Etched, Heated Into a Rainbow<\/a><\/em><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-highly-likely-europe-smaller-tesla-cybertruck\">Elon Musk: &ldquo;Highly Likely&rdquo; Europe Will Get a Smaller Tesla Cybertruck<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>Follow this link:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-highly-likely-europe-smaller-tesla-cybertruck\" title=\"Elon Musk: &ldquo;Highly Likely&rdquo; Europe Will Get a Smaller Tesla Cybertruck\">Elon Musk: &ldquo;Highly Likely&rdquo; Europe Will Get a Smaller Tesla Cybertruck<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Small But Mighty According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the electric car company is \u201chighly likely\u201d to produce a smaller version of its long-awaited Cybertruck for the European market, as Electrek reports . When asked if there will be a smaller version for the EU on Twitter Tuesday morning, Musk responded \u201chighly likely down the road.\u201d Scaled Down One Twitter user suggested that \u201creducing width is more important than reducing length, at least when it comes to cities,\u201d on Twitter, which Musk replied to with \u201ctrue.\u201d The news comes after Tesla decided not to shrink the Cybertruck by three percent in May after Musk sat down with chief designer Franz von Holzhausen.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/elon-musk-highly-likely-europe-will-get-a-smaller-tesla-cybertruck.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}