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.
So… how long before the federal government buys up a couple million of these things…?
Cybercuck.
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.
Well if they’d stop putting signage with “Arbeit Macht Frei” over the entrance to their factories maybe they’d do better.
Is that “all stops”, as in they will get rid of that guy who very definitely did a Nazi salute?
There were stops left that could be removed from Cybertrucks, still?
i wonder when ol stinky starts pushing somekind of law that makes it mandatory to buy one
Bit like Elon, Never lived up to the hype
Tesla just needs a new slogan or a good marketing campaign.
Something like:
Tesla - power by joy
Or “Kraft durch Freude” in German.
All that would perfectly fit the brand image.
Or make a special edition. The Kristall Nacht with a red and black wrap or something.
Could even decorate it with a pattern based on an asian symbol commonly found on temples!
No thank you. I don’t want a swasticar.
I’d love to have one of those new production old style beetles. But we can’t buy them here because our govt sucks donkey dick.
Swasticar is good! In my mind, I was calling it TeSSla.
You mean this style of beetle?
I’m not defending cybertruck just wanted to point out the awkward history of WV
The massive, massive difference is that the VW Beetle wasn’t a shitbox for rich people. It’s okay to say that once in a great while. the Nazis, despite being horrific in most ways, did have an idea that wasn’t bad and this was that. The VW Beetle was an affordable car and if something went wrong with it, you could probably fix it yourself with only a small amount of automotive knowledge. You really don’t even need to give Hitler credit for that considering he basically just told Ferdinand Porsche to do all the hard work.
Not so much the Cybertruck. It was Elon’s baby from the beginning and he took a very close personal interest in it.
The Cybertruck is a bad idea. Even for rich people. It’s been demonstrated over and over again.
Importantly, the success of the Beetle came after the Nazis. They built the factory using confiscated union funds as well as having people pay instalments for cars which they would never get, built two or three Beetles, then switched production over to war-time production, Kübelwagen. After the war the unions effectively took over the whole plant… and also bought a couple of farms to make sure workers and families had enough to eat. Most of that is gone now but they still have their own butchery, VW part number 199 398 500 A is a saussage.
But they also scammed people into spending money on a Volkswagen that they never delivered and took the money to support the war effort.
Cybertruck = Homer car
Except the Homer Car actually worked properly. It just looked stupid and had stupid “features” no one wanted but Homer.
The Cybertruck isn’t even that good.
I liked the homer car. Massive trunk space, 360 view, small A pillars. And having the kids separate so you aren’t distracted by them. Only negative is you can’t look back.
The lack of a roof is a big negative too. There have been experiments with bubble-roof cars before and it’s not fun to be in a plastic bubble when the sun is overhead.
VOLKSwagen!
I know exactly what I said.
VW cars are built by Uyghurs, which, last I checked, are a surpassed minority in China, that has to work under slave-like conditions.
But I guess most cars are produced like this.
Nobody builds cars under slave like conditions. It’s just not possible. Modern car factories are highly automated plants that require skilled operators. In the case of the VW Xinjiang, that was QC inspectors. There’s no way a hole in the wall car factory using outdated labor practices can come close to competing against modern production.
I’m talking about the ones made in Mexico.
Yea, it seems like beetle is one of the few models not produced in China (according one propter of chatGPT, so some salt is required 😆)
It seems to me, that the cars needed in the biggest quantities and Budget EVs are produced in China.
Yeah because they were showing such restraint before.
Good News: Now the nazi who owns the company can, via his role in the nazi government which he bought, can bail himself out.
🙃
(fuck this timeline)
Elon doesn’t own Tesla… Where did you get that from? He has 19% of their shares and is the CEO, nothing more.
Even if you ignore the politics it’s just a terrible car that is way too expensive. I’m honestly surprised it sold any units at all but I guess people just like vanity toys.
It’s hard to find insurance for it, it’s objectively terrible at its job, that’s very few mechanics that can service it, It isn’t available in Europe, it has terrible quality control issues, It is made by a company with terrible customer service, and it is made by Nazi
So many reasons not to buy it.
Made by under-paid awesome people that got themselves stuck working for an idiotic wannabe pseudo-Nazi.
Tesla fan here, this is kind of accurate. I wouldn’t call it terrible, but the aluminum chassis means it has towing limitations, the small battery doesn’t have nearly as much range as most other Tesla’s and it gets worse if you’re towing, plus not everybody wants to drive the Halo truck. Double the range or cut the price by 30% and you have an interesting car, as it is now I look at it as a first generation attempt.
The car is objectively terrible. It’s ha heavy duty car that can’t do heavy duty things. The cybertruck has two things that it does well. It goes fast when you hit the accelerator and the sound system is really good. Everything else is extremely shitty, and a complete lie
It has a bold futuristic exterior design and looks.
You’ve got some balls coming in here & proclaiming You’re a fan of Nazi billshit.
More balls than braincells
Hey, the Nazis have a slightly better UI than the competition, I really have no choice but to buy their stuff.
This is a genuine argument people are making to justify why they’re still buying Nazi shit. Right now.
Elon should offer to pay the tariff for new customers.
Who would have thought the preorders all dried up when they advertised it at $39,900 but launched it at $60,990.
Have they actually sold any for that little?
Were people allowed to cancel orders due to that price hike?
Until your Cybertruck is delivered, you may cancel your reservation at any time and receive a full refund of your pre-order payment.
Exactly I thought this would be a purely functional truck at a good price, but for that much it is not worth it
