Earlier this year, Tesla Inc. banned Cybertruck owners from reselling their electric pickups within a year from delivery. Autoevolution is now reporting that the owners found a different way to extract profit from their much-hyped EVs: multiple examples are already available for renting, at exorbitant rates.
The publication points out that an ad from a week ago offered a rental Cybertruck for roughly $500/day. The owner has since bumped up the rate to nearly $1,000/day.
Even with all the long-term rent discounts applied, driving the weird-looking truck for a month will cost you at least $12,000, Autoevolution reports. If the renters get enough customers, they will be easily able to cover their loan/leasing expenses and make profit in several months. With roughly 500 Cybertruck units already in private hands, there is probably no stopping the trend.
Tesla Inc. imposed a ban on reselling (‘flipping’) the Cybertruck in its sale agreement in mid-November this year. It removed that provision from the document when the media made a fuss about it, but silently put it back in just several days. According to it, the automaker is entitled to claim $50,000 in damages or confiscate the entire resale profit in court.