Someone Paid $400k For One Of The First Tesla Cybertrucks Ever Made

One of the first-everTesla Cybertruckpickups was recently sold at the 29th Petersen Museum Auction Gala for $400,000.

Tesla fan Greggertruck shared a clip of the auction, which shows some rather spirited bidding going on. In the short video, the auctioneer can be heard taking bids, which was at $280,000 at the time. Clearly, some attendees were overly excited at the prospect of owning a Cybertruck, with one bidder's paddle being ripped out of his hand mid-auction.

While $400,000 is way more than the Cybertruckwill cost when it arrives, we're surprised the electric truck didn't attract a higher sale price. It's easily one of the most anticipated vehicles in recent years, withreservations totaling nearly two million in July.

Then again, the Cybertruck sold at the Petersen Museum Auction isn't the first-ever production model with VIN 001.

The invitation to the event described the Cybertruck as a low-VIN example and said the winning bidder would be "one of the first" to own the angular pickup truck. We're convinced that if this model had the desirable VIN 001, it would have sold for considerably more - perhaps even $1 million.

Take the GMC Hummer EV Pickup, for example. The first-ever example sold for a whopping $2.5 million in 2021, more than20 times the regular list price. While that sounds ridiculous, all the proceeds went to charity, so everyone wins. Curiously, the Hummer EV SUV sold for justhalf a million dollarslast year.

VIN 001 of the Corvette E-Rayalso managed to achieve an astonishing sale price of $1.1 million when it was auctioned off at the Barrett Jackson Palm Beach auction earlier this year.