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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] 58 points 10 hours ago (15 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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (9 children)

You mean this style of beetle? Nazi Germany unveiling of the new beetle 1930s

I'm not defending cybertruck just wanted to point out the awkward history of WV

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

The massive, massive difference is that the VW Beetle wasn't a shitbox for rich people. It's okay to say that once in a great while. the Nazis, despite being horrific in most ways, did have an idea that wasn't bad and this was that. The VW Beetle was an affordable car and if something went wrong with it, you could probably fix it yourself with only a small amount of automotive knowledge. You really don't even need to give Hitler credit for that considering he basically just told Ferdinand Porsche to do all the hard work.

Not so much the Cybertruck. It was Elon's baby from the beginning and he took a very close personal interest in it.

The Cybertruck is a bad idea. Even for rich people. It's been demonstrated over and over again.

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

But they also scammed people into spending money on a Volkswagen that they never delivered and took the money to support the war effort.

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