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.

  • Noxy
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    02 months ago

    pulls out all the stops

    I’m surprised those weren’t optional, paid DLC

  • @jaemo@sh.itjust.works
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    02 months ago

    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.

  • @GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
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    02 months ago

    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.

    • @jonne@infosec.pub
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      02 months ago

      I guess if Hitler was allowed to design a car, Musk didn’t want to be left behind.

        • Hemingways_Shotgun
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          02 months ago

          I can’t help but think that there’s a Broadway musical first act closing song somewhere in there…

        • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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          02 months ago

          They made Mexico city what it is. The beetle is legendary. And the program “hoy no circular” or “today you can’t commute” was invented became too many people owned too many god dammed cars. So in the program they would allow you to use your car only in certain days. Additionally they modernized their metro system making it accessible for incredibly cheap. Not long ago for a few cents you could travel around the city a few stops. By comparison the trolley in sandiego is out dated as outdated can be and it only goes up and down the coast with only one rail heading east. Mexico city made a spider grid off they’re system. Like from any peripheral location you can travel to the center or travel in the periphery towards another center bound rail. Its great. You can go anywhere without a god dammed car.

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        Wow, it’s beautiful and so futuristic! It’s almost like living in the future today. I bet Tesla could sell twice as many as the Cybertrucks of those. Provided he makes it bulletproof of course. The great weakness and the reason for the disappointing sales of the Cybertruck is that the glass isn’t bulletproof, I simply can’t think of any other reason.

            • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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              02 months ago

              Imagining my new all electric commuting box with a high fidelity decal of Linus Trovalds giving the guy in the back a double fisted middle finger!

              With speed lines and fire ball theme. The reverse sound alarm is the same thing they use in kei trucks…cute Japanese voice model saying excuse me I’m backing up! For lights, we would want fog lights along with a fog horn, we would want 300w for normal driving, 5000w for blinding incoming traffic and flash bulbs in case anyone wants to follow me too closely. A green laser for traffic cameras, and an LED screen so I can tell the guy behind me things I did with his mother. " We went shopping together yesterday… At Victoria’s secret!"…and that’s the design and how I would end a conversation regarding Tesla trucks.

    • TheLowestStone
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      2 months ago

      Hmm… i can’t blame them. The cybertruck does look like a who’s drawing of a car.

  • @shikitohno@lemm.ee
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    02 months ago

    Have they tried pulling out the “Make a vehicle that’s not a massive and shitty death trap,” or “Boot the Nazi from the company” stops? Because, I suspect doing those two might help it out.

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      2 months ago

      The myth of Elon is still going strong. Now he’s taking over government agencies. Not that it’s the right move, but keeping him on might keep the stock at the insanely overvalued level it’s at. That’s all that matters.

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    02 months ago

    I remember posting about how a guy with a cybertruck would be an immediate no go for me and I was told by a guy I was being too judgy lol