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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 4 minutes ago

All DEI fault for this failure

/s (if it wasn’t obvious πŸ™‚)

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

So... how long before the federal government buys up a couple million of these things...?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Time for the US military to replace all their humvees?

[–] tempest 1 points 14 minutes ago

They just started rolling new postal trucks off the line so now seems like a good time to cancel that contract and sign a new one to replace them with Cyber trucks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 51 minutes ago

Those things are rolling IEDs. I can't even begin to imagine how that would play out.

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

MMW Police and the Feds in US gonna be required to only have Cybertrucks in the (dystopian) future. Welcome to Night City 2077.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 34 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

All they had to do was build a solid, reliable truck, and not be fascist. Instead they build a poorly glued together piece of shit and sieg heil. I fucking hate this timeline.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Don't hate the timeline, hate the news. There are real people out there still trying to make the world work, getting stepped on, pushed over, marginalized, silenced. They need you. They need all of us. Do not let The Bastards win.

(I'm still workshopping the "don't hate the player hate the game" - suggestions are welcome. Words can still inspire people, even before coffee)

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

Thanks, friend. Much needed words. Maybe I’ll put my decades of counter strike to good use at some point.

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

I hear it pairs well with Super Mario Bros

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

And SpaceX had such good publicity, also notably one aesthetically the very opposite of sieg heil.

I mean, aesthetics of Tesla advertising and design and everything were pretty different from SpaceX from the very beginning. I wonder how could Musk be the founder of both. Maybe they'll find traces of a brain worm in him too. Can't be solely ketamine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago)

I wonder how could Musk be the founder of both

he's not a Tesla founder, he only bought it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

Does it though? I have had a real hard time giving a shit about space fir a while now goven Musk's musk is tainting it.

[–] tempest 1 points 13 minutes ago

I mean it pretty clearly stated to look more like an escape plan than exploration around when Bezos had his penis rocket

[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

He has never founded or invented anything. Every business he owns, he bought from others. In some cases he forced them to refrain from claiming to be founders at all. He's pathetic scum.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (4 children)

I fucking hate this timeline.

I keep seeing people say this. However, hate is what created this timeline. I don't believe it's what will get us into a new one.

I mean no offense towards you; I want you to know this. I guess I just finally realized what it is that bothers me about that statement. In fact, I share your sentiment. Because not only are they poorly made, common sense safety measures are removed and replaced with poorly engineered crap that traps people, while other badly designed components catch fire and burn them to death.

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

First time I’ve used this phrase, myself. But I had such hope for the future and I guess I am finally admitting my hope is gone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I do not blame you. I just happen to be the most stubborn idiot I know. shrug

Edit: I go back to my feed and see this:

Got a good chuckle at the bitter irony...

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

I think the answer is some kind of cynical optimism. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. You never know, they might all die tomorrow in a plane crash or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago)

I was cyncically optimistic 8 years ago.

My optimism has been completely drained. I don't care anymore.

I don't even really hate or fear, I just kind of nothing and fake it on the outside.

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

My cynical take on that stance is they probably overstaff the airpots they are flying through to ensure that doesn’t happen. But yea maybe they fall down an elevator shaft.

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

Somewhat ironically, they understaffed the airport they all fly through, and yet somehow it was innocent civilians that died.

I detest this timeline. I am disgusted, really. I've never quite understood hate, though; to me hate feels like making a solemn vow that subject of my hate will always have power over me. Because hate is irrational. It overpowers reason. But it is only through reason and logic I find myself.

The catch 22 is fear. Fear also deprives is of reason, but it also shames us, lessens us. Just as Yoda taught us, "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."

I don't wanna suffer anymore. But I don't want anyone else to suffer, either. Not even those responsible; I just want them gone from our timeline.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago

Well if they'd stop putting signage with "Arbeit Macht Frei" over the entrance to their factories maybe they'd do better.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Is that "all stops", as in they will get rid of that guy who very definitely did a Nazi salute?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago

Seriously, why the fuck is he still CEO of that company? He's actively undermining them in every way on a global scale. Tesla shareholders are idiots...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

This just in: Tesla's new moniker "Arbeit Macht Frei" tracks poorly with most human beings.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Best they can do is promote him.

[–] JoeBigelow 3 points 3 hours ago

What do you get for a guy whose dick gets sucked by the president?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

There were stops left that could be removed from Cybertrucks, still?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

i wonder when ol stinky starts pushing somekind of law that makes it mandatory to buy one

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

More likely to make the government buy them all.

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

Or forces it on the military.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

OK, that would be funny

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 hours ago

Bit like Elon, Never lived up to the hype

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

Tesla just needs a new slogan or a good marketing campaign.

Something like:

Tesla - power by joy

Or "Kraft durch Freude" in German.

All that would perfectly fit the brand image.

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