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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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[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 13 points 59 minutes ago

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

[–] FolknForage@lemm.ee 11 points 1 hour 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?

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 4 points 11 minutes ago

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.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Probably would have helped if it didn't look cobbled together out of sheet metal for a low-budget post-apocalypse movie. I picture Humungus standing up in it chasing Mel Gibson.

[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 22 points 2 hours 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.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 44 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I got some advice for them: Fire your CEO.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 hours ago

Fire the CEO, for him to sell all his stock, recall all the trucks and go over them with a fine tooth comb for quality issues, force them all through safety tests and fix anything that's unsafe, lower the price by 40%..., get rid of the tracking bullshit, You'll still have a uglyAF "truck" but it might just be sellable.

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Fire your CEO.

Out of a canon, through some flaming rings, and into an empty bucket of water. If I have to watch a clown-show, at least make it entertaining.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Empty bucket of water? But we booked the shark - infested waters over a year ago!

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Which would win? Clown or concrete wall? Let's find out!

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 hours ago

Look at the havoc that dude leaves in his wake. Prime choice for president.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 16 points 3 hours 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.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 0 points 1 hour ago

If somebody like Trump’s words still get reported like they mean anything, Musk has a long way to go.

If things stay normal, I would expect anything Tesla announces to get reproduced in the news in full with a little caveat somewhere that says musk is known for optimistic or aggressive timelines.

[–] nevemsenki@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago
[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 58 points 5 hours ago (20 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.

The shittiest way to transition the government to ev.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago

Ugh. I can see this happening.

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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Look out, maybe you can soon dig up your own Cybertruck at a Texas quarry...

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours 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.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 48 points 6 hours 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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[–] ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 hours ago (3 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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[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 13 points 5 hours 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.

[–] diffusive@lemmy.world 33 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

All DEI fault for this failure

/s (if it wasn’t obvious 🙂)

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 8 minutes ago

It's closer to the Haitians eating ducks, I think. I sniff glue.

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[–] Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

In the words of a wise yellow character HA HA

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