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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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[–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 107 points 6 days ago (23 children)

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.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Don't hate the timeline, hate the news. There are real people out there still trying to make the world work, getting stepped on, pushed over, marginalized, silenced. They need you. They need all of us. Do not let The Bastards win.

(I'm still workshopping the "don't hate the player hate the game" - suggestions are welcome. Words can still inspire people, even before coffee)

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[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 74 points 6 days ago (23 children)

I’m betting high odds he will force the federal government to buy them under the guise of a green EV transition. With trump’s full blessing, of course.

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 64 points 6 days ago (6 children)

I got some advice for them: Fire your CEO.

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 48 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Muskie boy, have you tried suing people to get them to buy the truck?

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (3 children)

If you do not revolt against the government, you will receive a free cybertruck as a replacement for your house, which will be too expensive to live in.

Each immigrant willing to leave voluntarily will receive a free cybertruck.

The US military, firefighters, EMT's and police force will get new vehicles! They will all start to use cybertrucks.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 days ago (11 children)

The US military, firefighters, EMT’s and police force will get new vehicles! They will all start to use cybertrucks.

You joke, but I can 100% see this happening.

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 49 points 6 days ago (11 children)

I was one of those that put down a deposit and happily waited for this truck to replace my 25 year old car. Then after he called the diver/rescuers pedophiles, I was instantly turned off. Now I actively push others to not buy a Tesla and refer to all Teslas as a Nazi mobile.

Get fucked Elon.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wow, the Cybertruck was announced that long ago?

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[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I wouldn't take a cybertruck if it was free, ignoring musk entirely it's just a bad vehicle.

The only place I'll drive a Cybertruck is in Fortnite because there I want my car to be unsafe.

[–] mke@programming.dev 21 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I wouldn't take a cybertruck if it was free

You're being ridiculous, why would you seriously think that? That kind of internet opinion doesn't hold up in real life. I would absolutely take a free Cybertruck, I've long dreamed of making my own car bomb.

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[–] Toribor@corndog.social 70 points 6 days ago (2 children)

So... how long before the federal government buys up a couple million of these things...?

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Time for the US military to replace all their humvees?

[–] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days ago

Those things are rolling IEDs. I can't even begin to imagine how that would play out.

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[–] SushiRain@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

MMW Police and the Feds in US gonna be required to only have Cybertrucks in the (dystopian) future. Welcome to Night City 2077.

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[–] wicked_observer@lemm.ee 37 points 6 days ago

Uplifting news

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 44 points 6 days ago (5 children)

It is not a good pickup truck regardless of Musk being a fascist

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[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 52 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Why isn't the puny, petulant man-thing that runs the Nazicar Factory not suing us all for not buying them? That's how you deal with advertisers who don't wanna advertise with him so why not consumers who don't want to consume?

It's the next stupid, asinine step.

I hope anyone who ever admired this fuck face is deeply embarrassed. Or losing money.

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[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago

I think the reason Cybertruck sales have ground to a halt has to do with their CEO Department's way of managing things and breaking into Governmental Agency's Private Information. It's also the reason you will find "FUCK ELON MUSK" being spray-painted onto Cybertrucks.

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 61 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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.

[–] Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

You mean this style of beetle? Nazi Germany unveiling of the new beetle 1930s

I'm not defending cybertruck just wanted to point out the awkward history of WV

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago (6 children)

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.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Importantly, the success of the Beetle 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.

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[–] Kiwi_fella@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Is that "all stops", as in they will get rid of that guy who very definitely did a Nazi salute?

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[–] diffusive@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago (4 children)

All DEI fault for this failure

/s (if it wasn’t obvious 🙂)

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[–] booganiganie@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago

Bit like Elon, Never lived up to the hype

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (16 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 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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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[–] ian@feddit.uk 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I knew they should have built a real smoke and engine noise generator into the cyber truck. So that all those who insist on polluting, don't have to be left out.

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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 6 days 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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[–] arc@lemm.ee 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I certainly find it funny that Tesla's waiting list went from five years down to zero. Even Tesla's biggest fans who actually stumped money on this thing produced video after video griping about its price & brokenness.

But frankly it was kind of obvious from the get-go that it would be an expensive, uninsurable, lemony asshole death mobile. I wonder if the next time Tesla announces something and Musk spews lie after lie about it that people will start to cotton on that nothing he says can be taken at face value.

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[–] froh42@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] FolknForage@lemm.ee 19 points 6 days ago

Tesla initially projected sales of 500,000 Cybertrucks annually and established production capacity at the Giga Texas for 250,000 units per year.

I’d have guessed coke, not ketamine, as drug of choice to make these estimates. Maybe he’s already counting federal agencies to be stiffed with the cyberwanker?

[–] GuitarSon2024@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago

Well if they'd stop putting signage with "Arbeit Macht Frei" over the entrance to their factories maybe they'd do better.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

i wonder when ol stinky starts pushing somekind of law that makes it mandatory to buy one

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 days ago (4 children)

More likely to make the government buy them all.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Who would've thought that a very expensive truck in an ev market that is lukewarm at best, add in a good amount of weird looks and unreliability, wouldn't be a big seller? I could pick a conventional truck for a fraction of the price or this. People who bought it were doing it for show and now that market is tapped out.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 days ago

I'm still waiting for them to finish loading in.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago

Tesla made 2.8 billion last year from selling regulatory credits. So they really didn't have to care how many cars they sold. But those surely are going away, so they are going to have to do some other government handout, which Elon is probably hand picking right now.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Has Elon Musk tried not being a fascist plutocrat?

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