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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] 44 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Is that "all stops", as in they will get rid of that guy who very definitely did a Nazi salute?

[–] mm_maybe 4 points 4 hours ago

Seriously, why the fuck is he still CEO of that company? He's actively undermining them in every way on a global scale. Tesla shareholders are idiots...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

This just in: Tesla's new moniker "Arbeit Macht Frei" tracks poorly with most human beings.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Best they can do is promote him.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 hours ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 hours ago

Bit like Elon, Never lived up to the hype

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

More likely to make the government buy them all.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

I wonder how Tesla sales in Israel are going?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Or make a special edition. The Kristall Nacht with a red and black wrap or something.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Could even decorate it with a pattern based on an asian symbol commonly found on temples!

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

No thank you. I don't want a swasticar.

I'd love to have one of those new production old style beetles. But we can't buy them here because our govt sucks donkey dick.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Swasticar is good! In my mind, I was calling it TeSSla.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

You mean this style of beetle? Nazi Germany unveiling of the new beetle 1930s

I'm not defending cybertruck just wanted to point out the awkward history of WV

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

The massive, massive difference is that the VW Beetle wasn't a shitbox for rich people. It's okay to say that once in a great while. the Nazis, despite being horrific in most ways, did have an idea that wasn't bad and this was that. The VW Beetle was an affordable car and if something went wrong with it, you could probably fix it yourself with only a small amount of automotive knowledge. You really don't even need to give Hitler credit for that considering he basically just told Ferdinand Porsche to do all the hard work.

Not so much the Cybertruck. It was Elon's baby from the beginning and he took a very close personal interest in it.

The Cybertruck is a bad idea. Even for rich people. It's been demonstrated over and over again.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Importantly, the success of the Beetle came after the Nazis. They built the factory using confiscated union funds as well as having people pay instalments for cars which they would never get, built two or three Beetles, then switched production over to war-time production, Kübelwagen. After the war the unions effectively took over the whole plant... and also bought a couple of farms to make sure workers and families had enough to eat. Most of that is gone now but they still have their own butchery, VW part number 199 398 500 A is a saussage.

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