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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] 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

At least the Wolkswagen was egineered properly. I don't see anyone continuing to use this design after the war.

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[–] floofloof 137 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The best thing they could do for their sales is get rid of all ties to Elon Musk.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

And get real professionals to design and build future models.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

Also have anyone who understands basic car design point out why shit like door opening buttons are a terrible idea in emergencies. Or why requiring the doors to lock during a software update is stupid. Or why putting electronics not designed for extreme heat is terrible. Or that trying to use cameras in bad weather isn't any better than human eyes....

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Elon should offer to pay the tariff for new customers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Who the hell buys a cybertruck anyway ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Youtuber it seems.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Weird, I've heard Elon's pull out game sucks balls.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Have they tried making a decent truck?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 22 hours ago

I am shocked they sold as many of them as they did. I get that there are mindless fans, but this is quite an expensive and ugly commitment to make.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Leon Skum is doing his best

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[–] ininewcrow 53 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I just had a talk with a friend of mine in southern Ontario who lives in a farming rural area. He likes cars and often does searches for used vehicles in his area. In a 200km area around Brantford, there are over 200 used Teslas on sale down there over the past month or two because people are dumping them because they don't like the brand.

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