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Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt (www.arenaev.com)

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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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[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Is this the one they let musk design? Feels like a Simpsons episode...

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (15 children)

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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's hard to find insurance for it, it's objectively terrible at its job, that's very few mechanics that can service it, It isn't available in Europe, it has terrible quality control issues, It is made by a company with terrible customer service, and it is made by Nazi

So many reasons not to buy it.

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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Look out, maybe you can soon dig up your own Cybertruck at a Texas quarry...

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It just needs a good putsch.

[–] Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

In the words of a wise yellow character HA HA

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 day 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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[–] SDK@midwest.social 77 points 2 days ago

The Swasticar!

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

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

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 142 points 2 days ago (12 children)

The best thing they could do for their sales is get rid of all ties to Elon Musk.

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[–] shikitohno@lemm.ee 62 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Have they tried pulling out the "Make a vehicle that's not a massive and shitty death trap," or "Boot the Nazi from the company" stops? Because, I suspect doing those two might help it out.

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[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 66 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I wish journalist would stop calling this PS 1 Pontiac Aztek "futuristic"; it just highlights how shitty our future is going to be.

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day 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.

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