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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 50 minutes ago (1 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.

[–] FrostyTheDoo 3 points 34 minutes ago

Give him some time. Once his cronies get everything working right he won't have to sue, he can just deny federal benefits to people who don't order a cybertuck and send their hearts out to him when they receive it.

[–] diffusive 19 points 1 hour ago

All DEI fault for this failure

/s (if it wasn’t obvious 🙂)

[–] blady_blah 1 points 5 minutes ago

I wonder how Tesla sales in Israel are going?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] IphtashuFitz 15 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Time for the US military to replace all their humvees?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

They just started rolling new postal trucks off the line so now seems like a good time to cancel that contract and sign a new one to replace them with Cyber trucks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] SushiRain 11 points 3 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

It's pretty funny because they kinda look like straight out of judge dredd. The shitty one.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 hours ago (13 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 17 points 4 hours ago (1 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)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks, friend. Much needed words. Maybe I’ll put my decades of counter strike to good use at some point.

[–] mPony 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I hear it pairs well with Super Mario Bros

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[–] rottingleaf 1 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

And SpaceX had such good publicity, also notably one aesthetically the very opposite of sieg heil.

I mean, aesthetics of Tesla advertising and design and everything were pretty different from SpaceX from the very beginning. I wonder how could Musk be the founder of both. Maybe they'll find traces of a brain worm in him too. Can't be solely ketamine.

[–] demonsword 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I wonder how could Musk be the founder of both

he's not a Tesla founder, he only bought it

[–] rottingleaf 1 points 36 minutes ago

OK. Then I'd guess it's him sabotaging the idea of EV's.

[–] HasturInYellow 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

He has never founded or invented anything. Every business he owns, he bought from others. In some cases he forced them to refrain from claiming to be founders at all. He's pathetic scum.

[–] rottingleaf 1 points 37 minutes ago

Apparently he did really found SpaceX. I'm not saying he did everything necessary on C-level to make it a functional company, but that's not really required (though if we think of such companies as Sun, there one can really see Bill Joy's deep participation in a lot of different core projects).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Does it though? I have had a real hard time giving a shit about space fir a while now goven Musk's musk is tainting it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I mean it pretty clearly stated to look more like an escape plan than exploration around when Bezos had his penis rocket

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[–] GuitarSon2024 23 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] Kiwi_fella 38 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Seriously, why the fuck is he still CEO of that company? He's actively undermining them in every way on a global scale. Tesla shareholders are idiots...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Best they can do is promote him.

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[–] GuitarSon2024 4 points 4 hours ago

This just in: Tesla's new moniker "Arbeit Macht Frei" tracks poorly with most human beings.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] booganiganie 31 points 6 hours ago

Bit like Elon, Never lived up to the hype

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

More likely to make the government buy them all.

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