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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] 6 points 17 minutes ago

I got some advice for them: Fire your CEO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 minutes ago

Look out, maybe you can soon dig up your own Cybertruck at a Texas quarry...

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 hours ago (16 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

The shittiest way to transition the government to ev.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Ugh. I can see this happening.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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.

[–] jaemo 38 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

Give him some time. Once his cronies get everything working right he won't have to sue, he can just deny federal benefits to people who don't order a cybertuck and send their hearts out to him when they receive it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I saw my first cybertruck in traffic yesterday, I initially thought that some redneck had every part you need to make a car except for the frame and body, and was like "I don't need none of that fancy shit, I got square tube and steel plate!" and welded together the laziest design they could think of. Then I realized it was just a cybertruck, and promptly laughed at it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I describe it as looking like it was made out of plywood

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

All DEI fault for this failure

/s (if it wasn’t obvious 🙂)

[–] mlegstrong 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Na this is caused by immigrant /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Na this is caused by the radical left /s

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

In the words of a wise yellow character HA HA

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Time for the US military to replace all their humvees?

[–] hypeerror 14 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.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 7 hours ago (24 children)

All they had to do was build a solid, reliable truck, and not be fascist. Instead they build a poorly glued together piece of shit and sieg heil. I fucking hate this timeline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I still refuse to see it as a truck. The defining feature of a truck is its bed, and the bed on this thing is presented as an afterthought. Covered, undersized, impossible to access from the sides. It’s just a tank. A penis prosthesis for the undersized.

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