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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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[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 50 points 2 months ago

It makes more sense if you start from the other side - EVs are a niche market, and an electric truck is a small subset of that.

The Cybertruck sold 38,965 units last year, vs 33,510 for the Ford F150 Lightning.

[-] faltryka@lemmy.world 132 points 2 months ago

One of the things I love about my Lightning is that it doesn’t look like a fucking cybertruck

[-] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 87 points 2 months ago

Other truck makers tend to let their vehicles fully render.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

I will hand it to Tesla, iterating on the Cybertruck design must have been really fast.

[-] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Iteration 1 in play

[-] radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 months ago

Gotta save some polygons.

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 31 points 2 months ago

The Lightning really is a nice looking truck.

The trapezoid Minecraft ~~Cybertruck~~ Deplorian— not so much…

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 months ago

Deplorian

I'll be borrowing that one.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

See also:

  • wank panzer
  • swasticar
  • incel camino
[-] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] ProgramingPotato@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Hey, that is a very hurtful thing to say about Minecraft. Please don't compare it to that rolling dumpster fire

[-] Hezzmana@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Deplorian... Made me snarf. My previous go to, overheard a while back, Incel Camino.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

"Wankpanzer" is the one I've been going with.

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

😂 oh I like that! Good trade.

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago

I'm not a Ford guy, but they do look pretty good.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

They shipped 39k cybertrucks for backlogged preorders that were based on a completely different description of what the truck would be.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Well yeah, but to be fair, they were lying.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 11 points 2 months ago

Which is mind boggling, as the Lightning seems like a good, attractive vehicle, while the cybertruck seems like a pile of shit

[-] hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

The Lightning has also been out for a few years now, so it's not the "new" thing. Also, I feel like half of those cYbErTrUcK purchases were people trying to resell them.

[-] TehWorld@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Hopefully these people get double-fucked. Moreso because they bought a swasticar from President Musk, but also because fuckyou to people who buy stuff just to resell at a higher margin.

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

I have no need for a truck, and I still considered getting one. The Lightning is very impressive all around.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I'm assuming the electric f150 has greater than 1 wheel drive?

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Actually most vehicles are only 1-wheel drive unless they have a locker or similar installed (4x4 would be "2-wheel drive").

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Which vehicles have that? The base cybertruck has two motors for AWD.

[-] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

It's just to make OP feel smart. A single driven axle with an open differential with one wheel on more slippery ground than the other would result in only one wheel transferring torque.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Regular F150s have single wheel drive.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Can you explain? I'm not much into cars, but that doesn't sound right to me. A quick Google suggests maybe you're referring to the open differential, but I don't think that means that only one wheel is powered.

[-] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They’re referring to an open differential. If you look at an open differential vehicle doing a burnout you will see that only one wheel is spinning.

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