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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] 36 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Weird, I've heard Elon's pull out game sucks balls.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago

Bit like Elon, Never lived up to the hype

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good News: Now the nazi who owns the company can, via his role in the nazi government which he bought, can bail himself out.

🙃

(fuck this timeline)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

All DEI fault for this failure

/s (if it wasn’t obvious 🙂)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago

I think the reason Cybertruck sales have ground to a halt has to do with their CEO Department's way of managing things and breaking into Governmental Agency's Private Information. It's also the reason you will find "FUCK ELON MUSK" being spray-painted onto Cybertrucks.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago

A couple weeks ago I drove past a Tesla dealership in Northern California. They must have had a dozen of these dumpsters lined up out front.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it possible to orgasm from schadenfreude?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (7 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.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

Leon the Nazi can ask his dictator buddies, Abbott and the Orange Cockroach for a bailout.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

If you do not revolt against the government, you will receive a free cybertruck as a replacement for your house, which will be too expensive to live in.

Each immigrant willing to leave voluntarily will receive a free cybertruck.

The US military, firefighters, EMT's and police force will get new vehicles! They will all start to use cybertrucks.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tesla's were already ugly as sin and these things looked even worse. It's not surprising.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

I am shocked they sold as many of them as they did. I get that there are mindless fans, but this is quite an expensive and ugly commitment to make.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Musk aside, it looks so goddamn stupid, I'd be embarrassed to drive around in it regardless. Like a cheap 80s movie version of what a futuristic car would look like.

And as Others have noted, why would you want a truck that looks like it can carry less stuff than a motorcycle can?

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