The decision to halt production of Tesla’s polarizing polygonal pickup marks the end of an error.
Elon Musk, in a post on X, has officially called time on the Cybertruck, stating that “Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production.”
Produced for less than four years, the polarizing pickup is seemingly dying as it lived, with the news being greeted in a flurry of replies in praise of the EV as well as deriding it. James Star, claiming to be a Tesla employee, posted that it was “the saddest news! Cybertruck (was) the best car Tesla sold,” right next to a user called Captain Ford who simply replied to Musk with “Fuck that shitbox.”
Remember when the shit nazi said the glass was bulletproof and while on stage proceeded to smash said glass with a golf club? This monstrosity should never have seen the light of day.
Rust in piss
That freakin’ car always looked like a car from Stunt Race FX on SNES.
And by RIP we mean “Rest In Pieces”.
Rust in pieces
You can tell if it’s not a real one, because it’s not very rusty
A rare alpha model. Must be worth a fortune now!
I really don’t get it. If Tesla had made a pickup that looked and performed even the slightest bit like normal they would have sold millions of them.
Well of course the answer is musk has an ego and a complete lack of any talent. I suspect the board or starting to get sick of him.
Nearly impossible to get rid of him.
Tesla’s bylaws require 66.7% of all outstanding shares to get rid of him. Not just 66.7% of those who vote. Musk alone holds like 13% of common stock, too.
Index funds and such don’t typically vote to disturb things, but they’d have to here. It would have to be nearly unanimous among everyone other than Musk himself.
Literally could’ve built an electric equivalent to the Ford F-series with four motors and an ungodly amount of torque that nobody needs and sold them for 200k a piece. I’m not in the market for a pickup truck and probably never will be, but if I was and I was looking for electric, I’d buy that over the cyberdump.
Then if that sells, build a smaller one (a la Ford Ranger) with less power, less size, for less money. Like they did with S and 3, X and Y.
Pickup? More like a let down truck.
Good riddance, neo-Nazi made POS vehicle. Send the remaining ones to fucking Russia.
The worst thing? The cybertruck is going to forever be a symbol of this era. It’s ridiculous, but so is the age we live in. Fifty years from now, if someone wants to set a movie in the early 2020s, there will be a cybertruck somewhere in the background. It will forever remain an instant visual clue of the era. It’s like how in a sci fi film, if you want to quickly establish that you are not on Earth, you throw second Sun or gas giant into the sky. Just quick visual language saying where or when a setting is or isn’t.
They’ll have to build a cybertruck for the movie then, because the current ones aren’t going to exist 50 years from now. At least if they go through a car wash or something
Eh. There are still some old model Ts tootin’ around. The rarer they become the more valuable they are as antiques and collectibles. The Delorean was never really a very popular or particularly well-selling car, but there’s still plenty of those around. When they become rare, people put more effort into preserving them.
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It was always heading this way, I am surprised it lasted as long as it did.
I knew it was a flop well before it even came out for one key reason. Remember when the iMac/iPod/iPhone came out, it seemed like everyone else started trying to desperately copy Apple on those. Other businesses saw these and immediately thought “Oh crap we need to catch up now!”. Before iPhone even released Nokia was demoing a phone (that never came out) in which they rushed multi-touch onto Symbian OS just to not look behind.
Cybertruck came out and nobody else even remotely hinted at copying it. Every car company was like ‘Yep, you guys can just go for it, we won’t stop you.’.
Existing Cybertruck owners will have fun sourcing parts as they break down.
Me:
It’s gonna be hilarious when they can no longer get parts in 5 years. They’ll still swear to the quality of Tesla though.
They’ll just have to buy another new Tesla.
Are they still blocking people from selling used cyber trucks?
Are they still blocking people from selling used cyber trucks?
wat?
Cybertruck purchase agreements prevented re-selling the truck for a year. It was an anti-scalping measure
Turned out there wasn’t enough demand for the trucks for scalping to be a problem. It was only seen as necessary because of production delays and low production numbers, which probably contributed to apparent demand
It is a little funny to think about in hindsight. Tesla was worried demand would be so high scalpers would be buying up vehicles to flip, but demand ended up being so low the line had to be stopped within 4 years
wow. cybertruck bros are even dumber than I thought
The original delivery agreement for the Foundation Series (initial 1000 built) when they first launched required you to get Tesla’s permission to resell the vehicle for the first year.
Which is common for limited availability vehicles upon release from basically every manufacturer. The average person is never buying limited edition vehicles so it’s not relevant to 99.9% of the population, and something they’ve never heard of. Ford does it with every limited release Mustang variant for a common example.
The two primary reasons are essentially to prevent scalping, and so they can guarantee they receive back any vehicles with initial production run issues so engineers can study them. But facts don’t stop media reporting, especially when it comes to headlines about Musk.
Some manufacturers keep ownership limitations like that in place indefinitely. Ferrari famously sued Deadmau5 because of his Purrari modifications, so he had to remove them and sold the car, replacing it with a Meowclaren instead.
He specifically got in trouble for replacing the badge with a prancing cat and the Ferrari name with Purrari:
One of the easiest and most common changes people make to their cars is changing or removing badges like that. Can’t with a Ferrari though.
Not like I’ll ever want or be able to afford a Fertari, but fuck that.
I pay money for something I own it. I do what I please with my own possessions.
I would say I would never buy a Ferrari (which is true anyway) but I also wouldn’t consider that to even qualify as actual ownership, so even if I did pay for one, I still wouldn’t be willing to call it “buying”.
Tesla banned you from ever buying a new Tesla if you sold your cyber truck, and had a clause to sue you for $50k or the amount you got from the sale, whichever was greater.
I guess they stopped doing this at some point, but if you bought it when it was new you weren’t allowed to resell it for a year
It looks as dimensionally challenged as his face, so it’s probably for the best
It’s got a massive battery pack that can be used for backup power. I’d totally buy one that doesn’t move and put it on blocks in front of my double wide.
There’s plenty of use in a dumpster, after all.
How massive is it? My Silverado is 200KWh and can power the home in an emergency…
122.4 according to Car & Driver https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46010154/tesla-cybertruck-battery-capacity/
Not as much but with depreciation it might end up being cheaper per kWh
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isnt it superheavy as a vehicle too, like 7000lbs.
assuming the truck doesnt fall apart before then. its so cheaply made. it can slice a deer in half though.
There are a lot of unsold Cybertrucks. The only reason so many even sold was because Musk used SpaceX to buy much of the inventory
If there’s demand for the parts, they’ll be able to get them for a good while
I thought it was also forcing the US government to purchase them as well.
Lol I never thought about this, but yeah… I never buy anything that doesn’t have both plentiful parts, and videos on how to replace them.
Neither exist for Cybertrucks. Because their owners are cybercucks. They want to pay others. They’re little removed. They can’t wait to pay others to fix their shit while they watch.
Rich little removed people. That’s who they are.
There will be plenty of dead ones in junkyards to take parts from.
The Cybertruck seemed like a bold idea, but it never won over many people. Maybe it’s time for Tesla to focus on products people actually want to buy.
And the rest of his cars. The intersection of people who believe in climate change and people who are far right nut jobs has to be vanishingly thin…
This makes me sad for two reasons, one of which might actually be posted in this thread, and that’s that it’s gonna make it harder to see idiots from a quarter mile away. The second of which is my own personal gripe, and that’s because I can’t sing the Cybertruck song anymore.
To the tune of the Spider-Man song: Cybertruck, Cybertruck, only driven by a massive fuck Cybertruck, Cybertruck, only driven by a stupid fuck
good. this meane i can reset my reality to a higher resolution again
