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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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[-] diffusive@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

All DEI fault for this failure

/s (if it wasn’t obvious 🙂)

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[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 33 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 33 points 2 weeks 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.

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[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

A couple weeks ago I drove past a Tesla dealership in Northern California. They must have had a dozen of these dumpsters lined up out front.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 weeks ago

Is it possible to orgasm from schadenfreude?

[-] froh42@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago

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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[-] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

Leon the Nazi can ask his dictator buddies, Abbott and the Orange Cockroach for a bailout.

[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] GuitarSon2024@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 21 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 weeks ago

Tesla's were already ugly as sin and these things looked even worse. It's not surprising.

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[-] hark@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

I am shocked they sold as many of them as they did. I get that there are mindless fans, but this is quite an expensive and ugly commitment to make.

[-] Lauchs@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

Musk aside, it looks so goddamn stupid, I'd be embarrassed to drive around in it regardless. Like a cheap 80s movie version of what a futuristic car would look like.

And as Others have noted, why would you want a truck that looks like it can carry less stuff than a motorcycle can?

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[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

What a shock, the meme car only sold a few units before people were over it. LoL 😂

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