The Lithuanian customs have detained two Tesla Cybertrucks, which they suspect were going to be smuggled into Russia.
Lithuanian customs announced on their Facebook page that they seized the two Cybertruck electric pickup trucks at the Salčininku checkpoint going into Belarus:
EU restrictions on Russia include vehicles, and authorities in Europe have been ramping up their efforts to enforce the restrictions as they found that every other vehicle worth more than 50,000 euros going through Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Uzbekistan last year ended up in Russia.
That’s why the two Cybertrucks, which aren’t even available in Europe right now, raised a red flag when they attempted to go to Belarus.
We previously reported on several early Cybertruck buyers trying to flip their electric pickup trucks.
Tesla currently sells only two versions of the Cybertruck: the $100,000 dual motor Foundations Series Cybertruck and the $120,000 Cyberbeast Foundation Series.
At first, several Cybertruck flippers managed to get more than $200,000, but the price quickly went down as Tesla delivered more vehicles.
Top comment by EVNuT
CyberTruck fatigue? I’ve only seen one in person in the wild so far, and even that was from afar. And I live in the most EV friendly area of my state.
I don’t think there is any CyberTruck fatigue unless you are in coastal California (maybe). One of the most fundamental tenets of journalism is not to present your feelings as reality to the readers.
The reality is that there is a long line of those CyberTruck reservation holders who haven’t yet been approached with an offer to buy a Foundation Series CyberTruck. There is plenty of demand for the CyberTruck even at these elevated prices, and the CyberTruck is currently production constrained, which is a nice problem to have for any EV manufacturer.
Now, there are over 4,000 Cybertrucks on US roads
Electrek’s Take
I feel like there’s a very disappointed rich Russian oligarch somewhere in the world today.
Not only you need to be rich by most standards to get a Cybertruck in the first place, you need to have a lot of money to buy one being flipped, and you need to be stupid rich or not care at all to get a Cybertruck in Russia, where Tesla has no service whatsoever.
I think there’s already some Cybertruck fatigue in the US with now over 4,000 trucks on the road and every other celebrity having one, but I can see how this would be appealing to rich people halfway around the world.
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