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.
even if you set aside the fact that driving this thing is a literal fascist dogwhistle, it’s also objectively a terrible vehicle- electric or otherwise.
Is it a crisis when it’s been that way from before the beginning.
Who the heck would want a work truck that is locked behind proprietary everything and only repairable through overpriced and overbooked, understaffed tesla dealerships.
It’s the worst decision own could make for a business vehicle or work truck.
I’m sure all the hardworking engineers, assemblers, office workers, sales people, materials, programmers, hardware, research people are super ecstatic about having their CEO turn their brand new product from an awesome big ass piece of shit electric washed environment destruction truck into a product nobody wants.
Like probably you’ll see one of my fellow citizens running around town with a bunch of lawn mowers and leaf blowers in one of these pretty soon. How much did you pay for that shit man? Oh I got it cheap on Craigslist for $3K!
Oh, that took me a while. Love it!
Thots and Players
Ok hold up lets keep the thots, send the players tho
Cheese pears.
Tater fruit
Potato fruit
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.
Do you have access to a super soaker and vinegar? Maybe you could help wash some of that pollen off.
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/
Some pickle brine seems like it would be particularly effective in creating a lovely rust patina.
What a great thing to download from Mr Gutenberg
That’s a good way to get shot by a cop, or sent to El Salvador
Why vinegar?
Given what the frame is made of, I’ve been curious why gallium prices haven’t spiked…
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.
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
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.
He predicted that he would sell a quarter-million of those $80,000 shipping containers on wheels a year?
Unfair comparison. Shipping containers are actually useful.
And generally well designed and well made, to exacting standards.
And they float!
Nigel Thornberry is legitimately more terrifying than It.
And the front doesn’t fall off for starters!
That was a feature, not a bug.
Not sure what the feature does, but, details don’t matter to the wanks that but them.
And are looking quite nice in comparison.
You can turn a shipping container into a poorly insulated house, which my hope for cybertruck owners too
And have rust proofing applied.
Depends on how you define “predicted”.
If you meant “made the most logical guess using all available data” then no, he didn’t do that.
But if you meant “pulled an impossible sales number out of a ketamine-laced shit from his lumpy asshole that wildly overestimated how popular he and his ‘truck’ are” then I’d say you’re correct!
What a disaster.
In normal companies, the CEO would be fired.
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.
IncEl Camino
Haha I’ve been calling them Elon Camino. I like this better.
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.
valued at over $200 million
Bet they aren’t.
For insurance fraud purposes.
Expect more CTs to catch fire in their lots, as they blame other people for arson.
TBH, this would not surprise me at all.
Toastla
FUCK NAZIS
Anytime my group and I see one in Fortnite we have to drop what we’re doing and kill whoever’s in it.
Why the fuck is there a Cybertruck in Fortnite?
Money. Tbf other automakers are in there too, but nothing screams “I’m an asshole” like driving a Cybertruck in-game.
I am really looking forward to all the Teslas being stripped down for ev conversions and restomods.
So much of the design is proprietary nonsense, it makes me wonder how much of the trucks can be reused for something people actually want.
Sure, but there are lots of components that people can use. Tesla electric water pumps are used for IC engine cooling even though teslas don’t have combustion. power steering components for upgrades, motors for drivelines, mechanical linkages for steering and suspension. We can definitely use these items in a way the designers never intended.
Agreed. A lot of the EV conversion companies use Tesla parts.
And they put them together with acceptable tolerances it’s wild
Too be fair many EV conversions are bespoke works of art. Price is not a major concern for the owner.
They were overpriced garbage anyhow. BYD is outputting EV’s that are ten times better at a fraction of the cost. The only reason they aren’t being sold here is a bunch of protectionist bullshit that even democrats are responsible for.
It’s only misplaced faith by a bunch of techbro traders that’s even keeping the TSLA stock aloft. Tesla management literally dumps every certificate of stock they get as bonus the second they receive it.
