Summary
Tesla is struggling to sell its Cybertruck, even after applying discounts of up to $6,000. Inventories are piling up in the U.S. and Canada, with demand falling short of expectations.
The 2025 model qualifies for a $7,500 tax credit, but the 2024 model—still in stock—does not. There are also concerns that the tax credit may soon be eliminated.
Tesla’s goal of producing 250,000 Cybertrucks annually seems unrealistic, and analysts suggest a cheaper single-motor version may be needed to stimulate demand.
The Cybertruck’s hype appears to be fading.
I mean Musk has done a wonderful job of BEING the brand and then tanking the brand. It’s a publicly traded company and his actions do not appear to be beneficial to the company. I wonder how much stock holder value gets eroded before share holders revolt.
Edit: They’re starting to complain it seems
Because they’re fucking junk. $TSLA puts the time has finally arrived
The Cybertruck’s hype appears to be fading.
What hype? The only things it was known for since day one was being horrendously ugly, bad design, bad build, stupidly unsafe… Need to go on?
The thing is more flammable than a Ford Pinto which is the only impressive fact about it.
What hype?
TBH, it’s gotten a lot of press, much more than most cars, ev’s or not. Much of it negative though, so not calling it hype is valid.
It wasn’t “much of it was negative”, it was “all of it was negative”. I am sure I missed a few news headers but from all the cyber fruck news I’ve seen, not a single one was positive with the single exception being a few idiot owners who actually bought the thing and posted videos about it and even those were mostly negative where they literally sat with a sad face in their car.
If literally 90+% is negative, then no, it’s not a hype.
I drove one at an ev drive event, and I actually thought it drove interestingly. It was different from other vehicles and I didn’t mind driving it.
On the other hand, the panels that make it up look like something I made in my garage with some stainless plate and a plasma cutter. It looked very “kit car” when you got up close to it. I can appreciate a hobbyist welding plate together to make things but one would assume Tesla should have at least a waterjet cutter to produce clean edges.
Also, it is irresponsible to fund Elon musk.
In the case it wasn’t even a Tesla car, they range from $80-100k USD, with discount and tax credit it goes for $67-87k USD.
When you have so many other around that price range from BMW IX, Rivian R1s, Cadillac Lyriq, etc. I genuinely think you’re an idiot going for something that looks like that.
I refuse to believe anyone who has bought a cyber truck is a normal person. I think they all must be people who would suck on Elons feet.
I would seriously consider buying one for $6,000
Not $6k OFF, just 6k total because that would make it the cheapest new vehicle available and it’s worth that shitbox status
I wouldn’t get one if they paid me $6000.
I would. I imagine the battery could be sold for a decent sum, and scrap prices for stainless steel usually aren’t bad.
If they paid me 6k to take it, I would. I’d park it and use it as a whole house backup battery. I have no interest in driving around a piece of shit swasticar.
Foreal dude! 6k is chump change, they really think anyone’s gonna waste cash on a death trap just cuz it’s dropped by 6k? Theyr twacked!!
Not if it was just a one off. My car is fine and people dont flip me off when I drive it.
lol there is that.
6k though, haha I’m getting it at that point and I’ll just paint “fuck Elon” all around so folks know I only got it because it was cheap.
I do think the truck will have a cult like following one day by collectors who were 17 when it came out but 75 at that point.
If Elon didn’t have his nose in every piece of business around the planet and go out of his way to be famous/infamous, someone could have used it as a movie prop like the DeLorean.
Idk i think it might, but the problem is the Honda 0 series looks like it’s about to do what the cyber truck clearly was going for aesthetically, but like, good looking.
If it winds up an early, ugly, and politically controversial interpretation on a style that winds up being picked up its not likely to hold the DeLorean position.
In about 20 years I expect the Cybertruck will be on par with the DeLorean with the complicated history to boot.
Hate to be mean, but good. What worries me about these guys is if they can’t get the money (semi) honestly, they seem to find ways of taking/stealing it.
They’ll do that anyway.
Can’t ship swasticars?
I am shocked. SHOCKED. Well not that shocked.
Good. Fuck Elon.
Does it come with saluting arms instead of indicators?
That’s what the single giant windshield wiper is for
They should be gathering bricks.
Just certifying the steel plate armor and bulletproof glass.
Good. It’s an ugly, expensive, unsafe vehicle that has no business existing. Oh and the CEO is a nazi cunt.
Septic tank market hasn’t slowed though.
It’s ugly, it’s heavy, it’s completely impractical, it’s associated with a petty tyrant.
Nobody wants it.
It also has terrible build quality, is almost double the price they said it would be, & does zero things better than any of its competitors. Crazy to think that anyone would prefer to purchase something (or you know, literally anything) other than a cybertruck
Yep. Tons of recalls and it doesn’t help people get locked in them and die thanks to fires or other causes.
I like your positive outlook on life. It is a solid silver lining that fewer people will die needlessly, specifically BECAUSE Elon is one of the worst people alive AND a moron causing less people to own one.
You are statistically more likely to die in a fire in a Cybertruck than a Ford Pinto
I hear Molotovs are great at cleaning dust. Help out your local dealership if you can.
Theoretically the contents of these lots would be insured, so if there was a sudden unexpected fire that happened to destroy all the cars Tesla gets a cash payout, unlike if they just sit there where Tesla has to take the cashflow hit of having paid to build cars that noone will buy
Water balloons filled with saltwater somehow pop into mind…
