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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    7 days ago

    All they had to do was build a solid, reliable truck, and not be fascist. Instead they build a poorly glued together piece of shit and sieg heil. I fucking hate this timeline.

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    I’m betting high odds he will force the federal government to buy them under the guise of a green EV transition. With trump’s full blessing, of course.

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    If you do not revolt against the government, you will receive a free cybertruck as a replacement for your house, which will be too expensive to live in.

    Each immigrant willing to leave voluntarily will receive a free cybertruck.

    The US military, firefighters, EMT’s and police force will get new vehicles! They will all start to use cybertrucks.

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    I was one of those that put down a deposit and happily waited for this truck to replace my 25 year old car. Then after he called the diver/rescuers pedophiles, I was instantly turned off. Now I actively push others to not buy a Tesla and refer to all Teslas as a Nazi mobile.

    Get fucked Elon.

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    I wouldn’t take a cybertruck if it was free, ignoring musk entirely it’s just a bad vehicle.

    The only place I’ll drive a Cybertruck is in Fortnite because there I want my car to be unsafe.

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    I remember posting about how a guy with a cybertruck would be an immediate no go for me and I was told by a guy I was being too judgy lol

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      It’s a solid real world filter.

      This is definitely more acceptable than “no social media” being a red flag. Got that one before lol

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          You’re literally using social media right now.

          Edit: Downvote me all you want, but the fact of the matter is that Lemmy is social media. There’s media on here, and we discuss it in a social setting. Literally the definition of “social media”.

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          To a lot of people yes, but I think they’re more worried there’s nothing that proves you’re a real person, if that makes sense.

          I see it as a liability more than anything. Your data is forever.

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          Not really, but since we live in a world where most people are happily sharing their lives online it’s easy to imagine how not using social media might make people think you have something to hide and, therefore, can’t be trusted.

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            Few it fewer people are actually using Facebook and similar to share their lives because it just feels really intrusive.

            Mostly because how much advertising is now showed down your throats.

            If they want to know more about me I can share my camera feed but it’s like 98% cat photos.

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      Being honest, if I heard about a woman that has cybertruck red flags (assuming you’re cis/het), that’s genuinely more attractive to me.

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      This is valid just on taste alone. The thing was ugly even before Elon started his descent into madness.

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      Rich enough to own a cyber truck, but not bright enough not to own a cyber truck. Yeah it’s what they “call look at me” energy.

      Politics notwithstanding people like that are just tiring to be around.

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    So… how long before the federal government buys up a couple million of these things…?

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    Why isn’t the puny, petulant man-thing that runs the Nazicar Factory not suing us all for not buying them? That’s how you deal with advertisers who don’t wanna advertise with him so why not consumers who don’t want to consume?

    It’s the next stupid, asinine step.

    I hope anyone who ever admired this fuck face is deeply embarrassed. Or losing money.

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    Who would have thought the preorders all dried up when they advertised it at $39,900 but launched it at $60,990.

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    I think the reason Cybertruck sales have ground to a halt has to do with their CEO Department’s way of managing things and breaking into Governmental Agency’s Private Information. It’s also the reason you will find “FUCK ELON MUSK” being spray-painted onto Cybertrucks.

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    No thank you. I don’t want a swasticar.

    I’d love to have one of those new production old style beetles. But we can’t buy them here because our govt sucks donkey dick.