“Going from prototype to mass production is 100 times harder than creating the prototype, and then lowering production costs by 20% is even harder than that,” said Elon, complaining that he now spends a lot of time with the unglamorous work of bringing down production costs that he called Game of Nickels.
Tesla will then apply the lessons learned to global versions of the Cybertruck, each redesigned for the requirements of a particular market, and he thinks that certifying those for sale may happen “some time next year.”
