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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] 56 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] corsicanguppy 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does that mean Canada and Mexico will be sued if the tariffs don't make them beg to be annexed?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Trump lifted the tariffs. At this point I think it was just a smoke screen so there would be less coverage of Elon taking over the Treasury.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

There are no smoke screens with this government. They don't "do X to cover for Y." None of it is "a distraction." They're impulsive children. They do X because they want to do X. But what they have learned is that if you move fast and do a lot of bad things all at once, you usually get away with at least some of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Nononono.

It's that woke mind virus! Those infectious liberals have prevented true patriots from buying his shitty cars to proposely smash their fingers in the trunk.