logra su primera homologación oficial, según CnEVPost

The history of Cybertruck In China it is being a roller coaster. From Tesla, in general. A few months ago we talked about reduction of hours at the Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghaithe largest in the world because Tesla no longer found it as easy as before to place its cars. New players like BYD either Huawei They were eating ground, and that had not arrived Xiaomi.

The Cybertruck could have been a good new gateway into Chinese territory, but the company’s ‘truck’ is only sold in the United States, Mexico and Canada. Now, it may soon also walk the streets of the Asian giant, since the Cybertruck has just received the energy consumption label from the Chinese authorities.

Rumors, gossip and gossip. The story has crumbs. A few days ago a rumor arose that Tesla was going to try to alleviate the sales problems of the Cybertruck by launching the vehicle in China. It is a very promising market, but it was Tesla’s own Chinese team that denied that possibility. Directly, they came to the fore to comment that they had no plans to sell the Cybertruck in China.

one step forward. The Cybertruck is listed on the company’s Chinese website, but it is the only car that does not offer the ordering option. This was still a curiosity, since the same thing happens in Spain, where we cannot buy a Cybertruck (in Europe, in fact), but we have already been able to see it live and on the web as well appears.

It may be because they are simply waiting to get the right permits, and that is precisely what has just happened in China. According to the Chinese media CnevpostFollowing Tesla’s request to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology -MIIT-, the Cybertruck has achieved the energy consumption label.

Caution. The media itself assures that, although achieving this approval is an interesting starting point for the sale of the Cybertruck in China, it is only one of the procedures that companies need to manage before launching a vehicle in that market.

Additionally, another outlet called Yiche claims that Tesla is now making structural improvements to the Cybertruck to meet market access requirements, such as protecting pedestrians from a collision. It is precisely one of the reasons that has kept him away from Europe.

Don’t call it “truck” The agency has classified it as an M1 passenger car with a range of 618 kilometers and has three electric motors with a maximum power of 206, 222 and 222 kW. In addition, it consumes 22.6 kWh per 100 kilometers and an estimate of the range is given in environments where there is air conditioning to cool or heat the interior of the vehicle.

There is no more information about it, but what is known is that Tesla has not promoted the Cybertruck in China as a pickupbut as a crossover or off-road. The reason, as pointed out from Cnevpostis that in the United States they see pickup-type cars well, but in China the opposite is true.

The trucks are obliged to drive in the right lane – slower -, they are not allowed to exceed 100 km/h and after 15 years they have to be scrapped. They also cannot enter some urban areas.

A chance: it’s not so western. That is why Tesla will aim to ensure that the Cybertruck does not enter the truck category in the Chinese market and, furthermore, it is possible that a car like this will do well in the Asian market. China is a complicated market for Western cars not so much because of functionality, but because of very simple designs in the interiors of Western cars, which break with the aesthetics of the new wave of cars that come out of the factories of the Asian giant’s producers.

That’s where Tesla, with an open-plan interior containing only screens, has an opportunity to succeed where other Western cars encounter an obstacle. But, obviously, the first thing is to be able to legally enter the country, although with the consumer approval, you are one step closer to achieving it.

And furthermore, if Tesla manages to sell the Cybertruck in China, such a massive market could give a boost to the company’s sales. pickup. If they welcome such a mammoth vehicle, of course.

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