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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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[-] arc@lemm.ee 18 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

The only thing Elon's ever pulled out of.

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[-] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's the price. I want a truck, not a Cadillac with a bed. A truck is meant for work not be a pavement princess. $50k was already high and the truck market is still stupid on price with most trucks going over $60k and Cybertruck starts at $75.5k. If the price was what Elon said when he announced the Cybertruck, it would be flying off the shelves $40k

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[-] thejml@lemm.ee 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Turns out the group of people who look at mid nineties Laura Croft and think “that low polygon count asthenic is exactly how I like my women and trucks, I’ve got lots of disposable income to buy a truck that can’t do many truck things well, and I’m glad a far right ketamine fueled tech bro is running the company!” Is a small number of people.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[-] FolknForage@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks 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?

[-] westyvw@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] wicked_observer@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago

Uplifting news

[-] Rooty@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

At least the Wolkswagen was egineered properly. I don't see anyone continuing to use this design after the war.

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[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah because they were showing such restraint before.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] MITM0@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Who the hell buys a cybertruck anyway ?

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