https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5305269/tesla-state-dep...
It's saving costs, you see!
Every time their claims were checked, there were found massive mistakes and lies.
Repeating loendoes not make it true, despite people like you trying to use that tactic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/us/politics/doge-musk-con...
Then you also have to factor in how much money they’re going to spend in lawsuits for all of the broken laws, not to mention the cost of paying people not to work for months while trying to bypass Congress and shut down legally mandated programs.
(And then shipped a pile of recalled garbage)
They should’ve done what ford did. Make it just a regular damn pick up truck, no need for bulletproof nonsense. And it would’ve sold like hot cakes.
I still don’t think it would have. It’s useless for anyone who’s pretending they might haul stuff. It’s worse than useless off road. And it’s too small to appeal to the dudes who buy dualies to take their kids to elementary school.
Your first sentence is 100% dead on, except that it also completely failed to solve any of the problems people actually have (or, at least, problems they think they have).
>GM said its inventory of vehicles, which is the number of vehicles currently on dealer lots or en route, fell 8% to 549,312 in the first quarter.
So at ~50K ASP, GM has over $25B sitting in inventory.
>Used Cybertruck prices are down 55% year over year
It's wild to me folks lined up to buy this thing ... like I can understand enthusiasm for new things and all that but that's a big hit there. And even I think the prices are still high for the used ones in my area.
Once this pool was exhausted however, there is literally 0 demand. Tesla don't publish the number of Cybertruck sold, they mix them with model S / X, for a reason (the most transparent company on earth !).
Given the cratering demand, one has to ask how much money Tesla will bleed this year - despite all the hype around Optimus and other pipe dreams, at the end of the day, it's a car manufacturer employing 100k people, with installed production capacity that's now 2x the number of cars they were selling recently and the ratio is very quickly increasing. If history is any guide here, they are on a fast track to bankruptcy.
EDIT: Do not attempt to trade this ! It's become a meme stock at this point, and as we learned with GME, AMC, Hertz - even in case of real or virtual bankruptcy a stock can stay quite high.
It turns out no one is an NPC.
Some EV trucks haven't sold this many in entire year.
I am much more interested in how the Tesla Semi Trailer is doing. And, the alternatives.
We could be saying how poorly the the Tesla solar roofing tiles are doing, but we'd have to acknowledge Tesla power storage is now critical worldwide. So, like any company it has hits and misses.
I think in the end all we're saying is that this was a hugely avoidable miss, but in PR terms at the time, it probably worked out. Long tail cost however.
Bit of "tail wagging the dog" in almost any brand-led discussion.
I don't personally know Musk, I certainly dislike his personal image. Doesn't seem my kind of guy. Interesting.
Who cares if you won some imaginary respect if you’re not selling?
UPS van sold lots… so that seems good.
The brand power of Cyber Truck was (in my mind) designed to boost sales across the board. While it wasn't available people bought other Tesla product, expecting a future upsell.
Thats all. UPS truck is a fine, economically justified, fit-for-purpose design. It gets all the (brand) respect it needs.
