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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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[–] ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I saw my first cybertruck in traffic yesterday, I initially thought that some redneck had every part you need to make a car except for the frame and body, and was like "I don't need none of that fancy shit, I got square tube and steel plate!" and welded together the laziest design they could think of. Then I realized it was just a cybertruck, and promptly laughed at it.

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[–] ricketyrackets@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe they should include free Nazi salute lessons with each purchase and a bottle of Kentucky bourbon to get all the backwater inbred hicks on board to help spur sales of the swastitruck?

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[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Have they tried making a decent truck?

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 30 points 3 days ago (10 children)

The main reason I bought a truck was to tow heavy shit, and this piece of fuck trash Cyber truck can't even do that without the battery failing after less than 100 miles. Meanwhile an F150 can tow six times it's own weight thousands of miles.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm surprised you mentioned the battery (which is a problem with any EV towing), and not the fact the hitch can just snap off if you hit a pothole hard enough.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 53 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago

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

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Weird, I've heard Elon's pull out game sucks balls.

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago

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

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