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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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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 136 points 2 days ago

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

[-] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 73 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And get real professionals to design and build future models.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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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[-] shikitohno@lemm.ee 59 points 2 days ago

Have they tried pulling out the "Make a vehicle that's not a massive and shitty death trap," or "Boot the Nazi from the company" stops? Because, I suspect doing those two might help it out.

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[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It just needs a good putsch.

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago

I wish journalist would stop calling this PS 1 Pontiac Aztek "futuristic"; it just highlights how shitty our future is going to be.

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[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

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

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Look out, maybe you can soon dig up your own Cybertruck at a Texas quarry...

[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

A couple weeks ago I drove past a Tesla dealership in Northern California. They must have had a dozen of these dumpsters lined up out front.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

Leon the Nazi can ask his dictator buddies, Abbott and the Orange Cockroach for a bailout.

[-] rickdg@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago

Have they tried making a decent truck?

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[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Yeah because they were showing such restraint before.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 53 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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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