If the talk about Cybertrucks actually rusting in the rain is true, they will be worth less and less and less…
If he drops the price to about $8k and includes lifetime fast charging, I’d consider one. Of course, for $8k, there are plenty of much nicer used trucks available on the market, though.
Lifetime anyfeature is only of value as long as the company still honors it. Will Tesla still be in business in a decade? Seems doubtful.
And they actually have truck functions that trucks should have. And they aren’t completely useless if the iPad in the cab decides to not work
Idunno, they seem like they’d be perpetual rotten fruit magnets. Like you’d have to hose them down a lot
Hosing it down would just accelerate the rusting
They get you coming and going!
I think its crazy that they made $800 mil worth of these cars. Who the hell thought they would sell well?
They had a ridiculous number of people putting in a deposit to reserve one, about two million reservations according to this: https://insideevs.com/news/687142/tesla-cybertruck-2-million-reservations-crowdsourced-data/
I guess they came to their senses.
That’s 80,000 vehicles. The production capacity is 250k. Ford sold 460,000 F-150s last year.
Chrysler had an inventory of over 1 million last year, they’ve ran through that by March.
Chrysler had an inventory of over 1 million last year, they’ve ran through that by March.
That’s insane considering Chrysler hasn’t made a decent vehicle in 20+ years and the majority of them are just as big piles of shit as the cybertruck.
They don’t charge 100k
I always thought he was making them as a limited high-end run. It’s neither of those things.
Oh its gonna be limited thats for sure. But yeah I had very similar thoughts as well. Theres one cyberfuck in my town and every time I see it I can’t help but think what a fucking goober one must be to buy it
$800 million worth is giving a lot of value to something they can barely give away. Maybe $800K worth of material after the cost of dismantling.
The $800m figure is only useful for figuring out how much Tesla was expecting to make out of it. When you factor in the development and manufacturing costs, they’re hemorrhaging money.
$800 million according to labor theory of value. 0$ million according to subjective theory of value
Yeah, a better number would be how much it cost to build the fuckers. I’m assuming they also need ongoing maintenance while they sit around rusting.
There’s a reason just in time manufacturing took over the world. Storage is expensive.
They really should use the number of units. If Musk cranks the price from 80k to 120k, they suddenly have $1.2B sitting there? It’s the same 10,000 ugly-ass pieces of shit.
Time to play…”WHO DO YA BAIL OUT! HUBBA-HUBBA-HUBBA, MONEY-MONEY-MONEY…WHO DO YA BAIL OOOOOUUUUUUUUT?!”
I would take a few of the batteries. For free of course.
Who would you throw them at
What? Are you asking what I would do with them? I would build a battery bank and start collecting solar panels.
This is very doable without needing an EV battery. Solar panels and lithium batteries have never been so cheap - tho I’m not in America, maybe tariffs effect this in the US. I have a 500w panel, victron shunt, controller, etc, 200ah lithium battery - the whole build cost maybe £800 a couple of years ago and the cost has dropped a fair bit since. I live in a small space and my needs are few - laptop, lights, phone, heater, etc. This does the job fine for me but it wouldn’t be hard to scale up.
Yes we all know that. I just want them for free. Since its all unsaleable junk now.
Hell yeah if I could get a free cybertruck I’d have lots of fun salvaging the motors, batteries, sensors, etc.!
How abut: The truck is just plain ugly.
It looks like a refuse bin. Square back, low opening front.
When I worked in a lime quarry, we used a bin something like that shape to put all the crap and garbage in The a-frame had a bar across the top and the kiln truck picked it up worth its hoist and loaded it on the back, and hauled away the load to the dump.
Correction. They are worthless. lol.
I’d buy them for their scrap metal and batteries if they were cheap enough for me to not feel guilty about giving money to tesla
yeah, if nobody wants them, then they are worth 0 dollars net
I live in a pretty conservative area. I might pay $15k for a brand new one.
The batteries are still expensive and good to use for anything else. So it should be 20-25k in scrap.
Oh no… anyway
You hate to see it, whomp whomp
I actually don’t hate to see it
I can, explicitly and unequivocally, state that I derive intense joy from having the privilege of seeing this.
Elon underestimated how willing people were to buy a truck from a nazi.
Even people who would buy from Nazi’s still want a functional car.
These things randomly stop working, break if you drive it into a half a foot of water, have rear view mirror housings which bust off when you try to pull down the sun visor, have a single ethernet cable routing all the controls and devices so that if the connection breaks anywhere everything stops working suddenly, a shelf underneath the headlight which accrues dirt or snow as you drive until it is not serving its purpose, exterior panels which just fall the fuck off, and hardly get any mileage.
The only people who buy these are those incapable of the barest reasoning.
That’s a cool stance to take.
Good.
Can someone explain how the demographic of people who loved to park their gas guzzlers to purposefully block tesla charging stations are now Musk fanboys all of a sudden?
Have you seen what he posts on Twitter?
In fascism, there are no opinions. There is only loyalty to the one on top of the hierarchy. When they are told to hate EVs, they hate EVs. When they are told to love them the next day, they love them.
There is only one single core belief in fascism. There must be an “in” group that the state protects, and an “out” group that the state oppresses. There are zero other rules. This means that the definition of the in group is completely arbitrary and fluid based on what helps the strongman at the top. If you ever question the definition of the in group, you are automatically part of the out group.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
Strip out the bad stuff and drop them in the ocean and they can become reefs for fishies and their buddies?
So throw the windows in? The rest is rusty metal and plastics that become microplastics
I thought the body was made from stainless steel. Maybe that ruts in the ocean too?
No it’s a thin layer of steel hot glued to a plastic shell
But also salt eats everything
Strip out the bad stuff
What’s left after that?
The reef is made of negative space
They have nice dashboards/screens right?
A hole in the air.
“Zero Emissions” has never sounded so sinister.
Not even the body shell is not any good?
If not for the battery with a disturbing history of exploding, it would be the vehicle’s worst feature.
So the steel basically.
They’re not worthless, im sure you can use them for scrap metal
