It could be $15 and have the range of an ICBM, it can still sit on the lot and scare the kids walking by.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it's actually ready?
Like, we don't have the means right now to achieve what he advertises, so he lies about it and then 'alters the deal' after taking people's money.
selling half-assed tech, basically A scam, which is whole business model.
Only a fool buys something on the promise of future upgrades and potential. Buy stuff on what it is now.
This is a bad look for Tesla for sure, but no one should be going “I wouldn’t have bought it if I knew this would get cancelled”.
So he learned from the video gaming industry?
Pray I don't alter it further.
that's been tech as an industry for the last decade. product releases, then all promised features come as a half baked update a year later... if at all. phones, games, cars, etc all use this strategy now unfortunately.
Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it's actually ready?
Today's vocab word is Vaporware
That's exactly what he's been doing with all his businesses. And it works. Tesla is still hugely overvalued as a company.
How about giving up on the Cybertruck
How about giving up
Why the switch to a black hat? Was it to easy for people to see?
Why implement a new feature for a product nobody is buying?
How hard can it be to produce a simple battery pack, for a company that is in the business of designing and producing battery packs no less...
Preorder interest probably made it not worth it financially.
Think the end of the article pretty much nails it.
Tesla needed to install and remove it at a service center. Owners couldn’t remove them themselves. I think it was pretty much dead on arrival at $16,000.
But I think it could also be as simple as it’s not worth producing due to demand – both due to insufficient people reserving it and not enough Cybertruck buyers to create a market for the range extender.
Therefore, the range extender is dead for the same reason that the Cybertruck RWD now has the same battery pack as the AWD instead of a smaller pack for less money: the Cybertruck is a commercial flop, and it’s not a high-volume program enough to justify making several battery pack sizes, including a removable one.
I see he took the "Game as a Service" approach but with electric trucks.
Nice.
Ima be honest, I like the design of this thing. I’m big into brutalism and the Delorean is one of my favorite car designs of all time. I was really hoping this would be good, but it has turned out to be one of the worst products in recent history in any category. It’s up there with the humane pin.
It makes me a little bit sad because I will never be able to live out my cyberpunk fantasy of driving an electric truck made out of bare metal manufactured by a technofascist corporation.
What are you basing that extreme statement on? It seems to far from a bad product, let alone “one of the worst products in recent history”.
A 100k "rugged offroad" vehicle where the bumper falls off when you tow something, that isn't waterproof, sometimes the rims just break, it can slice you apart and the car is held together by elmers glue and hopes and dreams. What other product in that price range is that shit?
I absolutely hated the design and feel bad for anyone who gets into an accident with this monstrosity.
up there with the humane pin.
Funny, or sad, how quickly we collective manage to forget bad grifts.
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Why the third motor? One for each of the front wheels and one for the rear?
the 3rd one is a reality disortion field motor for MUSKRATS musk supporters.
One runs front wheels, one runs rear wheels and third one powers the mental gymnastics it takes to be a tesla owner in 2025.
LOL
Two in the back, one in the front. There's also a two and four motor version.
Two in the back, one in the front.
The Shocker
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The dual motor was originally announced to be US$39,900, not 50,000. It is lies all the way down at Tesla.
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"Thanks for all the $16k loans at 0% shmucks. We've kept the interest we made while rates have been up and now you can have it back while they're dropping. Of course, your money is now worth less than it was when you gave it to us during high inflation. Suck it losers. Love, T E S L A"
EDIT: deposit was $150. Still shitty but not the same impact
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