I make 🏠 better and then help you sell them. USAF Ret |🇺🇸 Tesla fanatic. Grok enthusiast. 📐
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I haven’t been this happy since I found out I was going to be a dad. My first Tesla —2020 Model Y Performance was delivered yesterday. Thank you @elonmusk. @thirdrowtesla, finally got it!
Retired USAF after 20 years. Today I'm thinking of the people I served with, and every veteran who did the same. Thank you. 🇺🇸 #VeteransDay #USAF
This was the greatest event I’ve ever been involved with. Literally. 🦾📐
Elon Musk | Maye Musk | Nicki Minaj | Franz von Holzhausen | Eric Earley
Tesla Global HQ – Gigafactory Texas
2,500 guests from around the world
10 field expert panelists
30+ exhibitors
1,000 drones w/ 150+ Tesla light show
55 Cybertruck & Customized Teslas
2026, another successful event in the books – @theXtakeover
Wrap-up video sponsor: @Newsforce
Howard “Howie” in Washington retweeted
An open offer to Tesla: We fully support putting Cybercab first, and we’d be glad to take the Cybertruck line off your hands.
We’d fund it with a consortium of investors and run it at no cost to Tesla’s floor space, headcount, or focus. All of that goes to Cybercab. Cybercab gets first call on battery cells too. We’ll wait our turn.
Tesla gains incremental profit: a license fee, plus FSD and Robotaxi network revenues on every vehicle built.
We’d build the Cybertruck, a three-row CyberSUV, and an unmanned CyberCargo hauler. More autonomous miles, across every surface of this planet and beyond.
Worth a conversation?
Howard “Howie” in Washington retweeted
Killing Cybertruck could cost Tesla more than keeping it.
Every driveway becomes a showroom.
Every parking lot becomes a conversation.
Every owner becomes a salesperson.
The number of strangers who approach me in my Cybertruck is crazy. In my Model Y? Nobody.
If it stays profitable at lower volumes, why kill the vehicle that makes people stop, stare, and ask about Tesla?
People want to experience the future.
Cybertruck pulls them in. The whole lineup benefits.
Howard “Howie” in Washington retweeted
Is this what Cybertruck lovers need to do… hold a candlelight vigil outside of GigaTexas? @elonmusk @wmorrill3 @wholemars @mrfundman 🕯️
Back in 2009 on David Letterman Elon spoke about the impact of GM shutting down the EV1 program on people who had those electric cars.
“Well, there was a great movie, Who Killed the Electric Car?, by Chris Paine, which I think explores that question. And it’s noteworthy in that movie that Chris shows how much people really wanted that EV1 car.
“In fact, they wanted it so much that when the cars were forcibly taken away from them and crushed… you know, they weren’t actually just stored, they were actually crushed. The people who had those cars held a candlelit vigil for the destruction of those cars.”
Howard “Howie” in Washington retweeted
"If somebody is holding a candlelight vigil because they love your product so much, maybe you should make more of it."
- Elon Musk on GM cancelling the EV1
I hope Elon changes his mind on the Cybertruck. Everyone should have a chance at owning this awesome vehicle.
Howard “Howie” in Washington retweeted
Another 59K cybertruck which got 2027 VIN assigned today 🔥 Lets gooooo! ❤️ @cybertruck @DennisCW_ @Jones1
6 years later… same perfect co-pilot.
Left: Kashmir in the Model Y Performance back in 2021
Right: Same boy, same spot, brand-new Cybertruck today
Some things get bigger and stainless.
The best passenger never changes. ❤️⚡️
@Cybertruck #Cybertruck #Sheltie #Kashmir #TeslaDog #ThenAndNow
New vehicles always have something. The real test is how the company handles it.
Noticed cracked plastic trim over the fold-up seat hinge on the Cybertruck. Well past the 24-hour “look it over and tell us” window from delivery.
Submitted a service request in the app anyway. Tesla Mobile Ranger is coming to the house in three days to fix it — at no cost.
Couldn’t ask for a better experience. ⚡️
Howard “Howie” in Washington retweeted
CYBERTRUCK!!
I’ve been saving for years for a Cybertruck and I know I’m not the only one. Putting down a large down payment so the financing makes sense and the payment stays small. This is the truck that will carry future generations, that’s why it’s worth the wait.
My grandson gets just as excited as I do every time he sees one. We all need something to look forward to in life.
It’s the truck with impressive technology. FSD, steer-by-wire, and all-wheel steering are real engineering. It’s the first of its kind. The $59K price tag proved many more could be sold big time. I sure hope @elonmusk @Tesla will keep such an amazing truck a reality for all generations.
Howard “Howie” in Washington retweeted
Yesterday was tough.
I had two extended phone conversations with good friends who own Cybertrucks and both felt like we were trying to deal with the unexpected death of a close friend.
All the stages of grief were there. Heavy on anger and depression, light on acceptance at this point.
As both an early and heavy investor in Tesla and an early Foundation Series Cybertruck owner I can see both sides.
I know that it makes financial and resource allocation sense to do this. To clear the path for the future.
But I understand the sense of betrayal fellow owners are feeling.
The Cybertruck is, by far, the best vehicle I've ever owned or driven and it's become a large part of our life. I could never see myself owning a non-Tesla vehicle in the future. But that being said, I'm not ready to NOT own a vehicle of my own and if something were to happen to our Cybertruck, I have no idea what that vehicle would be now. That's not something I expected or enjoy having to contemplate.
I'm fundamentally optimistic and this funk will pass and the future will be bright again. But for today, there is a cloud of sadness hanging over Cybertruck owners.
We love you @cybertruck, your time came too soon. 🥹♥️ – at Oakland, FL
Howard “Howie” in Washington retweeted
We need to take every opportunity we can to ask, pester, and convince Elon to move Cybertruck production to another factory. Even if it takes a year to do it.
As owners and investors. Don't let this incredible product and platform go to waste!
Howard “Howie” in Washington retweeted
Hi @elonmusk,
Can you provide your point of view here?
If you had a perfect autonomous vehicles, it would take many years for it to be legally allowed in most of the world.
As much as I love the Robotaxi, the volume will never overtake transportation for all needs or wants. Especially in a country obsessed with the freedom that transportation through all types of environments brings.
Don’t you think you need far less autonomous vehicles to solve the safety and longevity of life problems that can actually be replaced by autonomous especially tiny vehicles?
You have advanced and accelerated electrification. Don’t you think you will loose out on many years of EV sales growth by not keeping the product line diverse?
If at least many other EV makers could match what Tesla can do, then the world would still benefit from the acceleration you created, but the options aren’t all great, so we need Tesla to have at least one model for each segment. Don’t you think we’re going backwards in that?
Don’t you agree keeping the Cybertruck going, making a dedicated autonomous version, which is basically software updates only at this point, using the platform to enter the SUV segment, a requirement while the fully autonomous no-hand-control versions are brought to market a broader long term approach?
Long life to the @cybertruck platform.
Took delivery of my 59k Cybertruck today.
Couldn’t be more excited to be one of the last owners of what might just be the greatest truck ever made.
Delivery was flawless.
Truck was flawless.
The 100-mile FSD drive home was flawless.
Looking forward to many years of useful service out of this machine.
I never thought I’d replace my OG 2020 Model Y Performance, but this thing is a clear step up. Bittersweet moment, honestly. Still hoping some miracle keeps this rig in production.
Just went outside at 10pm to take one more look at the new Cybertruck.
Took delivery four hours ago. Already own two Teslas. Still felt the need to stand in the driveway and stare at it before bed.
There’s something different about this one.
59k truck. Bittersweet knowing it might be one of the last. But tonight it just feels like mine.
