Bridger Pennington breaks down the CyberCab opportunity in Austin: $30,000 per vehicle, $1,500-$1,800 monthly revenue if running 24/7, payback within a year. The catch: three-year delivery lag means risking market saturation, though early movers could lock in a competitive edge.
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So the CyberCab officially dropped in Austin, and now they're asking if you want to build the network, you can buy a fleet. People like Chamath are saying, hey, I'm buying a fleet. I want to expand this across the country. Now it's rumored each one of these cars are about $30,000, and what people are estimating is you can make about $1,500 a month, maybe $1,800 a month running one of these, and it would run 24/7 besides charging and cleaning. I think there's insurance, there's probably damage, there's probably some maintenance that's got to go on, but Teslas are pretty low maintenance cars. I've owned a couple of them. And so theoretically, you could recoup your entire cost within a year, and by the way, you can write this off as a tax. This is a business expense if they're fully running all day, every day. Now the bigger question is, when are these going to be delivered? You know, if you order like 30 of these right now and you want to bring them to your city, they might show up in 3 years, and in 3 years' time, it might already be very saturated in your city with a bunch of other cyber cabs that got there before yours, and now It's becoming more of a commodity and slowly margins get compressed. But at the same time, if you're first to market, there might be a huge edge here. You're essentially buying a robot that makes you money all day as a car. I mean, it's actually pretty darn cool. I don't know, comment down below. Is this the next biz op opportunity for the next couple years or is this gonna be a bust?
