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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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[-] faltryka@lemmy.world 133 points 2 years ago

One of the things I love about my Lightning is that it doesn’t look like a fucking cybertruck

[-] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 90 points 2 years ago

Other truck makers tend to let their vehicles fully render.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

I will hand it to Tesla, iterating on the Cybertruck design must have been really fast.

[-] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Iteration 1 in play

[-] radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 years ago

Gotta save some polygons.

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago

The Lightning really is a nice looking truck.

The trapezoid Minecraft ~~Cybertruck~~ Deplorian— not so much…

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 years ago

Deplorian

I'll be borrowing that one.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago

See also:

  • wank panzer
  • swasticar
  • incel camino
[-] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] ProgramingPotato@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Hey, that is a very hurtful thing to say about Minecraft. Please don't compare it to that rolling dumpster fire

[-] Hezzmana@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

Deplorian... Made me snarf. My previous go to, overheard a while back, Incel Camino.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

"Wankpanzer" is the one I've been going with.

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

😂 oh I like that! Good trade.

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago

I'm not a Ford guy, but they do look pretty good.

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