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Tesla Cybertruck appears to be facing significant sales challenges. After initial hype faded, and over a million reservations turned out to be as real as unicorns, Tesla is now enabling leasing options and free upgrades to move its inventory of the futuristic pickup truck. The company's recent silence on the Cybertruck, even omitting it from their earnings call, speaks volumes about the situation.

Tesla initially projected sales of 500,000 Cybertrucks annually and established production capacity at the Giga Texas for 250,000 units per year. After working through the initial reservation backlog with fewer than 40,000 deliveries, the automaker is now struggling to sell the remaining vehicles.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only thing Elon's ever pulled out of.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

It's the price. I want a truck, not a Cadillac with a bed. A truck is meant for work not be a pavement princess. $50k was already high and the truck market is still stupid on price with most trucks going over $60k and Cybertruck starts at $75.5k. If the price was what Elon said when he announced the Cybertruck, it would be flying off the shelves $40k

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Turns out the group of people who look at mid nineties Laura Croft and think “that low polygon count asthenic is exactly how I like my women and trucks, I’ve got lots of disposable income to buy a truck that can’t do many truck things well, and I’m glad a far right ketamine fueled tech bro is running the company!” Is a small number of people.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Who would've thought that a very expensive truck in an ev market that is lukewarm at best, add in a good amount of weird looks and unreliability, wouldn't be a big seller? I could pick a conventional truck for a fraction of the price or this. People who bought it were doing it for show and now that market is tapped out.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Tesla made 2.8 billion last year from selling regulatory credits. So they really didn't have to care how many cars they sold. But those surely are going away, so they are going to have to do some other government handout, which Elon is probably hand picking right now.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I'm still waiting for them to finish loading in.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah because they were showing such restraint before.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

There were stops left that could be removed from Cybertrucks, still?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At least the Wolkswagen was egineered properly. I don't see anyone continuing to use this design after the war.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I saw my first cybertruck in traffic yesterday, I initially thought that some redneck had every part you need to make a car except for the frame and body, and was like "I don't need none of that fancy shit, I got square tube and steel plate!" and welded together the laziest design they could think of. Then I realized it was just a cybertruck, and promptly laughed at it.

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