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.
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.
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.
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)
I wouldn’t say it was a failure.
It sold quite well considering its price.
The original specifications and price were never going to be met,
Who would have thought the preorders all dried up when they advertised it at $39,900 but launched it at $60,990.
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.
Is this the one they let musk design? Feels like a Simpsons episode…
Personally, I’m holding out for the Tesla minivan.
At least that one had big cup holders.
I guess if Hitler was allowed to design a car, Musk didn’t want to be left behind.
Strange I see them everywhere
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For what it was spec’d at originally, I think more people would have been willing to consider it than would like to admit, assuming the other trucks were still priced as is.
For what it was spec’d at originally, I think more people would have been willing to consider it than would like to admit,
I’ll admit it: a $30k EV with 600 miles of range? You’d be an idiot to not consider that, until it was proven to be bullshit and Elon was proven to be a full-on fascist.
Leon the Nazi can ask his dictator buddies, Abbott and the Orange Cockroach for a bailout.
Leon Skum is doing his best
I thought you were talking about me for a hot second…
The Swasticar!
I remember posting about how a guy with a cybertruck would be an immediate no go for me and I was told by a guy I was being too judgy lol
Being honest, if I heard about a woman that has cybertruck red flags (assuming you’re cis/het), that’s genuinely more attractive to me.
It’s a solid real world filter.
This is definitely more acceptable than “no social media” being a red flag. Got that one before lol
No social media is a green flag IMO.
You’re literally using social media right now.
Edit: Downvote me all you want, but the fact of the matter is that Lemmy is social media. There’s media on here, and we discuss it in a social setting. Literally the definition of “social media”.
Anonymous social media like this is not what people think of when someone says “social media”.
This is more akin to forums of old and less like your facebooks, snaps, etc
I like the term that was applied to reddit, antisocial media.
Both can be true. I’m reducing my usage of the REALLY BAD social media and trying to make THIS social media better.
I give the gift of a free bird to any I pass on the street.
Are you Lynyrd Skynyrd?
I did go to high school in Alabama, and know somebody from Muscle Shoals …
Is no social media a red flag?
I’ve heard it mentioned, but I assume the people who believe it are people who are on Instagram all day
To a lot of people yes, but I think they’re more worried there’s nothing that proves you’re a real person, if that makes sense.
I see it as a liability more than anything. Your data is forever.
Not really, but since we live in a world where most people are happily sharing their lives online it’s easy to imagine how not using social media might make people think you have something to hide and, therefore, can’t be trusted.
This is valid just on taste alone. The thing was ugly even before Elon started his descent into madness.
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.
The myth of Elon is still going strong. Now he’s taking over government agencies. Not that it’s the right move, but keeping him on might keep the stock at the insanely overvalued level it’s at. That’s all that matters.
Not even Hitler would buy one. He’s got too much self-respect than to associate with Elon.
