The Tesla Cybertruck landed in Tokyo at this time, making its most up-to-date cease within the tour throughout Asia.
The Cybertruck arrived in Japan for the primary time, and it drew loads of crowds on the show occasion the place Tesla followers from all throughout the nation gathered to get a peek on the pickup that might fairly presumably by no means be on the market within the area.
Tesla shared images of followers inspecting and cherishing the view they’d of the Cybertruck, which began deliveries in the USA in November.
Cybertruck ignites Tokyo with its first look in Japan🇯🇵turning heads, whereas Mannequin Y leads world gross sales, surpassing all inside combustion autos 🎉
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— Tesla Asia (@Tesla_Asia) February 16, 2024
The Cybertruck was set to make its method to China for a tour, Tesla introduced in mid-January, and it’s anticipated to go on till March 31.
After arriving in China in the course of the ultimate week of January, the Cybertruck made its method to numerous cities across the nation. The pickup was on show in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Xi’an, and Chongqing, earlier than dropping the pickup off in Japan for its preliminary look in Tokyo.
Tesla Cybertruck tour is formally heading to Japan
Tesla and CEO Elon Musk may very well be utilizing the Cybertruck to fire up gross sales in Japan, as he famous in the course of the This autumn Earnings Name that gross sales out there are “remarkably low.”
“We must always at the very least have a market share proportionate to, say, different non-Japanese carmakers like Mercedes or BMW, which we don’t at present have,” Musk mentioned.
Hybrid autos are extra in style than EVs as a result of they’re dependable, and charging infrastructure for EVs in Japan shouldn’t be fairly to a degree the place shoppers really feel snug.
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