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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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[–] floofloof 137 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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

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

They’ve gone a long way on flash and sex appeal but I think a little straightforward practical value would help them a lot. The market is awash in good competition now so their novelty effect is gone. And the sex appeal has ended for everyone except for 40k cyberdouches.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

And get real professionals to design and build future models.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

Also have anyone who understands basic car design point out why shit like door opening buttons are a terrible idea in emergencies. Or why requiring the doors to lock during a software update is stupid. Or why putting electronics not designed for extreme heat is terrible. Or that trying to use cameras in bad weather isn't any better than human eyes....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Now, the origin of all those terrible ideas will be running the government.

[–] floofloof 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I'm sure people pointed out all of those things and were overruled by the Nazi manchild in charge.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It's all 5d chess technology that us plebs would never understand, what with our preference for simple, maintainable shit.

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

Just ordinary professionals will do nicely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Or even better, get Olivier Boulet (of Mitsubishi infamy) to do their future designs so we can put the company out of its misery.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

While true this still won’t make the Cyberdrumpf meet EU regulations. You can’t make it street legal here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Instead they did the opposite and gave him the biggest bonus in world history.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I definitely would've considered Tesla as my first EV but as of now they're dead to me. If he was completely gone then that actually becomes a selling point for me.

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

As the article title states, unlike Elon Musk, Tesla pulls out.