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Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt (www.arenaev.com)
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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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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Time for the US military to replace all their humvees?

[–] hypeerror 13 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

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