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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] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I knew they should have built a real smoke and engine noise generator into the cyber truck. So that all those who insist on polluting, don't have to be left out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

They could put a big diesel in that large unused empty space in the back. It would probably be a popular option.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

If you do not revolt against the government, you will receive a free cybertruck as a replacement for your house, which will be too expensive to live in.

Each immigrant willing to leave voluntarily will receive a free cybertruck.

The US military, firefighters, EMT's and police force will get new vehicles! They will all start to use cybertrucks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The US military, firefighters, EMT’s and police force will get new vehicles! They will all start to use cybertrucks.

You joke, but I can 100% see this happening.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That's unlikely. You need to get grants from the federal government, chiefly the DHS, to get money to buy major equipment. There ain't anymore federal grants remember. Small volunteer, (70% of all fire depts in the US), services are especially reliant on those grants to replace major assets.

Source: Been on committees to spec and buy ambulances and fire trucks and turnout gear. Even boots and gloves sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

You are acting like they don't have an interest in arming/militarizing local police...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You act like you don't understand police departments need grants to buy those things also.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

You act like they won't be replaced or disbanded by Musk if they won't do what he wants. He has enough money to buy anyone and anything. And he shows he isn't scared in doing so.

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

Do they still let you charge for free on the Tesla network?

Charge it during the day, run your house off of it at night when you are home. Save electricity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Thanks to Elon, inspecting governmental bodies, regulations and regulators will be dissolved, so probably the cybertruck will be an amazing camp fire, better known as a dumbster fire, due to spontaneous combustion like Chinese cars in China. Then to blame it on trans people or something.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 19 hours ago

Uplifting news

[–] [email protected] 48 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Muskie boy, have you tried suing people to get them to buy the truck?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

According to Musk, it's a crime to not buy the cybertruck

[–] [email protected] 45 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I wouldn't take a cybertruck if it was free, ignoring musk entirely it's just a bad vehicle.

The only place I'll drive a Cybertruck is in Fortnite because there I want my car to be unsafe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I even purposely avoided the free Fortnite Cybertruck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

My boys specifically go after anyone in a Fortnite cyber truck.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

I wouldn't take a cybertruck if it was free

You're being ridiculous, why would you seriously think that? That kind of internet opinion doesn't hold up in real life. I would absolutely take a free Cybertruck, I've long dreamed of making my own car bomb.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

I was one of those that put down a deposit and happily waited for this truck to replace my 25 year old car. Then after he called the diver/rescuers pedophiles, I was instantly turned off. Now I actively push others to not buy a Tesla and refer to all Teslas as a Nazi mobile.

Get fucked Elon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Fucking why dude? Elon shit aside, you ostensibly knew what this thing looked like, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

The thing is, for a truck that’s used for truck shit, functionality, practicality, and reliability are probably the most important. Styling will always be relevant to customers, but should be a secondary concern for a tough utilitarian vehicle.

It’s too bad they flipped those priorities and made an overpriced junky status symbol. I think Elon wanting people to see the “amazing” design was one of the main drivers behind it getting released when it did. It was clearly not ready 5 years ago since it’s still not ready now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I honestly don't mind the design. Sure some people hate it, but I didn't care about others opinions on my car. That's why my current vehicle is 25 years old. At that time, I was looking for a larger EV and during that time large EVs were nonexistent.

What sold me was the functionality. The concept had bench front row seating so I could seat 6(which they removed in the final). It had a usable trunk unlike the EVs at the time. There was frunk which was only on Teslas at the time. Also Tesla at the time had the highest safety rating among all cars. A promising auto pilot (which is a lie).

It also claimed to have a bullet proof shell and glass. While Seattle is relatively safe, there have been many instances where people have been murdered for road rage or just existing at a red light

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

And it was the first electric truck for a little while, even though it ended up being delayed for so long and being an AWFUL truck and totally outclassed by both Ford and Rivian.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, the Cybertruck was announced that long ago?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

No, the cave thing happened in 2018, but the Cybertruck was announced late 2019.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It is not a good pickup truck regardless of Musk being a fascist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

It looks like musk gave a verbal description of a truck to someone who never seen one before and they just went with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Pretty amazing how much you can milk fragile masculinity. Like actually astounding how badly these people need the vague idea of manliness to survive. It kinda makes me feel bad for them, that's learned behavior.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

It certainly doesn't look very useful. It looks like you asked a 5-year-old to draw a "cool truck."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I'm generally all for that idea. Everything is the same gravel color now, and oversized and shitty. They could have made something that looked different but was still useful. They just failed.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I got some advice for them: Fire your CEO.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

I think the reason Cybertruck sales have ground to a halt has to do with their CEO Department's way of managing things and breaking into Governmental Agency's Private Information. It's also the reason you will find "FUCK ELON MUSK" being spray-painted onto Cybertrucks.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago (23 children)

I’m betting high odds he will force the federal government to buy them under the guise of a green EV transition. With trump’s full blessing, of course.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Tesla initially projected sales of 500,000 Cybertrucks annually and established production capacity at the Giga Texas for 250,000 units per year.

I’d have guessed coke, not ketamine, as drug of choice to make these estimates. Maybe he’s already counting federal agencies to be stiffed with the cyberwanker?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Why isn't the puny, petulant man-thing that runs the Nazicar Factory not suing us all for not buying them? That's how you deal with advertisers who don't wanna advertise with him so why not consumers who don't want to consume?

It's the next stupid, asinine step.

I hope anyone who ever admired this fuck face is deeply embarrassed. Or losing money.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

Has Elon Musk tried not being a fascist plutocrat?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I certainly find it funny that Tesla's waiting list went from five years down to zero. Even Tesla's biggest fans who actually stumped money on this thing produced video after video griping about its price & brokenness.

But frankly it was kind of obvious from the get-go that it would be an expensive, uninsurable, lemony asshole death mobile. I wonder if the next time Tesla announces something and Musk spews lie after lie about it that people will start to cotton on that nothing he says can be taken at face value.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 day ago (26 children)

All they had to do was build a solid, reliable truck, and not be fascist. Instead they build a poorly glued together piece of shit and sieg heil. I fucking hate this timeline.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago (5 children)

So... how long before the federal government buys up a couple million of these things...?

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