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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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[–] Toribor@corndog.social 67 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 22 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Time for the US military to replace all their humvees?

[–] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 17 points 7 hours ago

Those things are rolling IEDs. I can't even begin to imagine how that would play out.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 hours ago

They just started rolling new postal trucks off the line so now seems like a good time to cancel that contract and sign a new one to replace them with Cyber trucks.

[–] SushiRain@lemmy.world 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

MMW Police and the Feds in US gonna be required to only have Cybertrucks in the (dystopian) future. Welcome to Night City 2077.

[–] Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 9 points 6 hours ago

It's pretty funny because they kinda look like straight out of judge dredd. The shitty one.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 101 points 10 hours ago (22 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.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I still refuse to see it as a truck. The defining feature of a truck is its bed, and the bed on this thing is presented as an afterthought. Covered, undersized, impossible to access from the sides. It’s just a tank. A penis prosthesis for the undersized.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 24 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Don't hate the timeline, hate the news. There are real people out there still trying to make the world work, getting stepped on, pushed over, marginalized, silenced. They need you. They need all of us. Do not let The Bastards win.

(I'm still workshopping the "don't hate the player hate the game" - suggestions are welcome. Words can still inspire people, even before coffee)

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[–] Kiwi_fella@lemmy.world 45 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Is that "all stops", as in they will get rid of that guy who very definitely did a Nazi salute?

[–] mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

Seriously, why the fuck is he still CEO of that company? He's actively undermining them in every way on a global scale. Tesla shareholders are idiots...

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[–] GuitarSon2024@lemmy.world 25 points 9 hours ago

Well if they'd stop putting signage with "Arbeit Macht Frei" over the entrance to their factories maybe they'd do better.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago
[–] booganiganie@lemmy.world 36 points 12 hours ago

Bit like Elon, Never lived up to the hype

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 12 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 25 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

i wonder when ol stinky starts pushing somekind of law that makes it mandatory to buy one

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 16 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

More likely to make the government buy them all.

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[–] froh42@lemmy.world 30 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

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.

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