The Tesla Cybertruck, once a highly anticipated EV, is facing significant sales challenges, prompting Tesla to offer leases and free upgrades to move its inventory.

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.

  • Glytch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

  • ricketyrackets@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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?

  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I can’t buy one, they are not available in NZ yet. Despite what anyone else says, I like the look, it looks like the bastard child of a delorian and a countach, but in a good way.

    I wouldn’t buy one despite the fact that I like it. It is far too big for NZ roads, I may have overlooked that. But I can’t overlook the fact that Elon has, for me at least, destroyed any good will that was built up. Tesla and all the people who work there have been tarred with the Nazi brush that Elon is wielding.

    The only way that Tesla could claw back any respect from me (and hopefully the rest of the world) would be to oust Elon, and all his family from any decision making in the company. It will not happen so my respect for them is gone!

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months 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 thr 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…

        • andyburke@fedia.io
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          3 months ago

          It’s all 5d chess technology that us plebs would never understand, what with our preference for simple, maintainable shit.

        • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I’m sure people pointed out all of those things and were overruled by the Nazi manchild in charge.

      • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Or even better, get Olivier Boulet (of Mitsubishi infamy) to do their future designs so we can put the company out of its misery.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      While true this still won’t make the Cyberdrumpf meet EU regulations. You can’t make it street legal here.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I definitely would’ve considered Tesla as my first EV but as of now they’re dead to me. If he was completely gone then that actually becomes a selling point for me.

  • Konala Koala@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    pulls out all the stops

    I’m surprised those weren’t optional, paid DLC

  • arc@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I certainly find it funny that Tesla’s waiting list went from five years down to zero. Even Tesla’s biggest fans who actually stumped money on this thing produced video after video griping about its price & brokenness.

    But frankly it was kind of obvious from the get-go that it would be an expensive, uninsurable, lemony asshole death mobile. I wonder if the next time Tesla announces something and Musk spews lie after lie about it that people will start to cotton on that nothing he says can be taken at face value.