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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] 591 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Have they tried suing people who don't want to buy one?

[–] [email protected] 250 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 227 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I was referencing how Elon is suing companies for not wanting to advertise on X. But this is amazing, too.

[–] BreadstickNinja 59 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Hmm, it's kind of like he has an established MO for when his businesses are failing due to his own poor decisions and lack of business sense.

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[–] Brkdncr 321 points 6 days ago (20 children)

This should surprise no one. The reception was poor, delivery was poor. It’s a niche market item in an existing niche market. On top of that, the de facto spokesperson of Tesla isn’t well liked by a lot of potential buyers.

[–] [email protected] 182 points 6 days ago (42 children)

"niche market," is a way of saying they made a bad product few want.

pickup trucks are hardly a niche product especially in the us

[–] [email protected] 115 points 6 days ago (17 children)

I don't think I'd call that thing a pickup. I'm not gonna run to the farm and pick up a 1000lb bale of hay in that thing. A Baja looks like it has more bed space.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Just wait till DOGE start requiring it for all government vehicles

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 6 days ago (26 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.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 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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[–] LordWiggle 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 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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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I got some advice for them: Fire your CEO.

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[–] JustZ 186 points 6 days ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 147 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Apparently Elon hates it when you call them swasticars, so definitely do not do that.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 days ago (13 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.

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[–] Aeri 46 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago

Uplifting news

[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 6 days ago (9 children)

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

[–] PagPag 87 points 6 days ago (9 children)

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

[–] TheLowestStone 66 points 6 days ago (13 children)

No social media is a green flag IMO.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 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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[–] JordanZ 91 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Who would have thought the preorders all dried up when they advertised it at $39,900 but launched it at $60,990.

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 6 days ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 77 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

And get real professionals to design and build future models.

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[–] KonalaKoala 35 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 days ago (18 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.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 6 days ago

The Swasticar!

[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 days ago (11 children)

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

[–] Test_Tickles 70 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Personally, I'm holding out for the Tesla minivan.

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[–] Kiwi_fella 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 35 points 5 days ago (4 children)

All DEI fault for this failure

/s (if it wasn’t obvious 🙂)

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[–] Glytch 66 points 6 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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[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 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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[–] booganiganie 36 points 6 days ago

Bit like Elon, Never lived up to the hype

[–] drmoose 40 points 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 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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