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.
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.
Is that “all stops”, as in they will get rid of that guy who very definitely did a Nazi salute?
Well if they’d stop putting signage with “Arbeit Macht Frei” over the entrance to their factories maybe they’d do better.
There were stops left that could be removed from Cybertrucks, still?
i wonder when ol stinky starts pushing somekind of law that makes it mandatory to buy one
Bit like Elon, Never lived up to the hype
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.
Yeah because they were showing such restraint before.
Elon should offer to pay the tariff for new customers.
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.
VW cars are built by Uyghurs, which, last I checked, are a surpassed minority in China, that has to work under slave-like conditions.
But I guess most cars are produced like this.
I’m talking about the ones made in Mexico.
You mean this style of beetle?
I’m not defending cybertruck just wanted to point out the awkward history of WV
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.
But they also scammed people into spending money on a Volkswagen that they never delivered and took the money to support the war effort.
Importantly, the success of the Beetle also 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.
Cybertruck = Homer car
Except the Homer Car actually worked properly. It just looked stupid and had stupid “features” no one wanted but Homer.
The Cybertruck isn’t even that good.
I liked the homer car. Massive trunk space, 360 view, small A pillars. And having the kids separate so you aren’t distracted by them. Only negative is you can’t look back.
The lack of a roof is a big negative too. There have been experiments with bubble-roof cars before and it’s not fun to be in a plastic bubble when the sun is overhead.
VOLKSwagen!
I know exactly what I said.
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)
Even if you ignore the politics it’s just a terrible car that is way too expensive. I’m honestly surprised it sold any units at all but I guess people just like vanity toys.
Who would have thought the preorders all dried up when they advertised it at $39,900 but launched it at $60,990.
Have they actually sold any for that little?
Were people allowed to cancel orders due to that price hike?
Until your Cybertruck is delivered, you may cancel your reservation at any time and receive a full refund of your pre-order payment.
Exactly I thought this would be a purely functional truck at a good price, but for that much it is not worth it
Is this the one they let musk design? Feels like a Simpsons episode…
That one ruined Danny Devito. Maybe we’ll be lucky enough this ruins Musk?
Personally, I’m holding out for the Tesla minivan.
Wow, it’s beautiful and so futuristic! It’s almost like living in the future today. I bet Tesla could sell twice as many as the Cybertrucks of those. Provided he makes it bulletproof of course. The great weakness and the reason for the disappointing sales of the Cybertruck is that the glass isn’t bulletproof, I simply can’t think of any other reason.
I guess if Hitler was allowed to design a car, Musk didn’t want to be left behind.
To be fair to Hitler, his cars weren’t trash
Beetle was a copy of a Tatra anyway.
They made Mexico city what it is. The beetle is legendary. And the program “hoy no circular” or “today you can’t commute” was invented became too many people owned too many god dammed cars. So in the program they would allow you to use your car only in certain days. Additionally they modernized their metro system making it accessible for incredibly cheap. Not long ago for a few cents you could travel around the city a few stops. By comparison the trolley in sandiego is out dated as outdated can be and it only goes up and down the coast with only one rail heading east. Mexico city made a spider grid off they’re system. Like from any peripheral location you can travel to the center or travel in the periphery towards another center bound rail. Its great. You can go anywhere without a god dammed car.
And he’s the guy who killed Hitler, so there’s that.
That’s it! We need to retire that joke or at least give it a 8 year rest 🤣
I can’t help but think that there’s a Broadway musical first act closing song somewhere in there…
At least that one had big cup holders.
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.
