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

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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] -1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

VW cars are built by Uyghurs, which, last I checked, are a surpassed minority in China, that has to work under slave-like conditions.

But I guess most cars are produced like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago

Nobody builds cars under slave like conditions. It’s just not possible. Modern car factories are highly automated plants that require skilled operators. In the case of the VW Xinjiang, that was QC inspectors. There’s no way a hole in the wall car factory using outdated labor practices can come close to competing against modern production.

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

I'm talking about the ones made in Mexico.

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

Yea, it seems like beetle is one of the few models not produced in China (according one propter of chatGPT, so some salt is required 😆)

It seems to me, that the cars needed in the biggest quantities and Budget EVs are produced in China.