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Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt (www.arenaev.com)

submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 34 points 8 hours ago (2 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] 30 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

Made by under-paid awesome people that got themselves stuck working for an idiotic wannabe pseudo-Nazi.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Tesla fan here, this is kind of accurate. I wouldn't call it terrible, but the aluminum chassis means it has towing limitations, the small battery doesn't have nearly as much range as most other Tesla's and it gets worse if you're towing, plus not everybody wants to drive the Halo truck. Double the range or cut the price by 30% and you have an interesting car, as it is now I look at it as a first generation attempt.

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

The car is objectively terrible. It's ha heavy duty car that can't do heavy duty things. The cybertruck has two things that it does well. It goes fast when you hit the accelerator and the sound system is really good. Everything else is extremely shitty, and a complete lie

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

It has a bold futuristic exterior design and looks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

You've got some balls coming in here & proclaiming You're a fan of Nazi billshit.

[–] Sturgist 2 points 4 hours ago

More balls than braincells

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Hey, the Nazis have a slightly better UI than the competition, I really have no choice but to buy their stuff.

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

This is a genuine argument people are making to justify why they're still buying Nazi shit. Right now.