Summary

The Tesla Cybertruck is in crisis. The automaker is still sitting on a ton of old inventory, which it is now heavily discounting, and it is throttling down production.

Tesla is expected to currently be selling the Cybertruck at a rate of about 25,000 units a year – a tenth of what Musk predicted.

Tesla began the second quarter with 2,400 Cybertrucks in inventory, valued at over $200 million. Tesla is now offering deeper discounts on the new inventory of Cybertrucks.

The automaker has reduced its Cybertruck production teams and now operates at a fraction of its original capacity.

  • @[email protected]
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    7615 days ago

    They’re also hiding them (my opinion) off of their main lot so people don’t see how many are sitting around. The dealership near me has a couple on the lot but down the road, across the street on a hidden side road I saw over a dozen of them sitting in a fenced in lot gathering pollen last week.

    • @[email protected]
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      5215 days ago

      Do you have access to a super soaker and vinegar? Maybe you could help wash some of that pollen off.

      • Null User Object
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        4015 days ago

        The CIA of yesteryear approves this idea.

        Where destruction is involved, the weapons of the citizen-saboteur are salt, nails, candles, pebbles, thread, or any other materials he might normally be expected to possess as a householder or as a worker in his particular occupation. His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies. The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to which he has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.

        https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

        • @[email protected]
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          1915 days ago

          The Cybertruck’s stainless steel body is susceptible to corrosion from acidic substances, including vinegar. Tesla’s own guidance advises against using acidic liquids or materials, including vinegar, on the vehicle’s exterior.

          • Gordon Calhoun
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            715 days ago

            Now I’m conflicted about that news article I saw about Trump letting those 70 coal plants operate with emissions unchecked, because now the acid rain they cause will degrade the trucks faster.

          • @[email protected]
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            1015 days ago

            Do we have a pH chart for various animal urines I have a hunting trip coming up and don’t want to burn the dog

        • 4grams
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          114 days ago

          Given what the frame is made of, I’ve been curious why gallium prices haven’t spiked…

  • @[email protected]
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    7115 days ago

    He predicted that he would sell a quarter-million of those $80,000 shipping containers on wheels a year?

    • @[email protected]
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      415 days ago

      Unfortunately, the ‘firing’ is usually a golden handshake and jumping straight into heading another company to run that into the ground too. After multiple rounds of layoffs of course.

  • @[email protected]
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    1715 days ago

    Yeah, good luck with that.

    I mean I didn’t like the truck when it was first introduced, much less now that I know it’s being built by a company lead by a Neo-Nazi.

  • @[email protected]
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    1015 days ago

    it was a piece of junk when it first showed up in the news as a concept, 5years before it was released and its a junk now.

    • @[email protected]
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      515 days ago

      White House right now: “we don’t need anyone else!” Meanwhile no one working there can survive without the drugs from developing countries and half of them can’t even wipe their own ass. Yeah sure America might be fine but America is a continent and it doesn’t bend to a couple pathetic barely functioning pedofilic rapists with a breeding kink.

  • doug
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    2215 days ago

    Anytime my group and I see one in Fortnite we have to drop what we’re doing and kill whoever’s in it.

      • doug
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        14 days ago

        Money. Tbf other automakers are in there too, but nothing screams “I’m an asshole” like driving a Cybertruck in-game.

  • @[email protected]
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    1415 days ago

    25k of EV pickups is A LOT by comparison to others.

    It’s a stupid truck but also the target demographic doesn’t really exist.

      • @[email protected]
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        1415 days ago

        It’s 25k per year, and its only an estimate (from Tesla) based on the sales so far. I’m betting those sales falling off a cliff will keep numbers well below that when the year actually comes to an end.

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        These numbers coming from Tesla have never been actual sales but “deliveries”, which can occur multiple times per sale and also can occur without a sale. They only publicize “deliveries” instead of actual sales data because bigger number.

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    915 days ago

    Contemplating the fact that people are being snatched off the streets and being sent to prisons in El Salvador and there’s an article about the sales decline of the horrid car of the Nazi Elon Musk who is a main player in this fascist regime.