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So how many Cybertrucks did Tesla actually sell?
A March recall—in which Cybertruck panels were literally falling off due to faulty glue—betrayed the number: 46,096 sold in the 14 months since deliveries began. That’s less than 3,300 per month.
I have no idea why Tesla thought that the Cybertruck would sell well enough to justify the production numbers.
They should have did the Roadster first instead and then the Cybertruck, both run in 5k lots to meet orders. Making such niche vehicles like it was going to be bought up like an F150 or a Civic is just dumb.
“… is just dumb”
Yes, that is the main throughline with Musky products. No, he had no hand in spacex, got fired from paypal, and had nothing to do with the beginnings of Tesla.
Leadership is abusing Ketamine. Junkies make bad decisions.
Now now, let’s not be too mean to junkies.
Being a filthy rich egomeniacle moron that doesn’t have to deal with real world problems makes one fucking braindead, too.
The rest of us just do drugs to deal with trying to implement management decisions.
It was originally said to be sold at $40k and a long range. Even back at the announcement time ICE pickups were expensive. Even people that were put off by the looks could swallow getting a full sized truck which wouldn’t need expensive fuel for $40k. It just never ended up being that.
Yeah when it was announced I remember thinking “damn, that would totally be worth it despite the fact that it looks a bit weird,” - because at that price it was actually cheaper than the available sedans. But of course, that was six years ago, before Musk made a complete Nazi of himself and of course, before it became a $100k boondoggle.
Right , it would have been cheaper than the model y and with tons more features.
I do not want a truck, nor anything that big, but even allowing for $5k-$10k price hyperbole, I was still considering it. It would have been revolutionary.
Of course it came out years late at double the price and without some of the features
I still can’t believe people still believe him after doing this same thing for every car model. Full autonomy is still not a thing that really exists after saying it’ll be out “next year” for a decade.
“Full size”. For anyone actually needing to haul shit in the bed it’s missing ~6 cubic feet of space from the smallest bed size of an F-150 and around 30 cubic feet of usable bed space from a long bed Silverado. It’s also missing about 2000lbs of towing capacity. The Lightning has slightly less towing capacity but more room in the bed for your stuff.
These were never going to be used for the same thing a working truck would be used for. It was going to be another big ass parking lot princess and it was always going to take up as much or more room than a full size truck for less usability.
Why do it and the Lightning have such lousy towing capacity? I would think electric motors would be torquey as hell.
They could easily have enough torque but fail in other ways
Not sure but I pulled a box truck out of a ditch yesterday with my lightning and it DEF had the torque to pull that thing. Not pictured, the trailer I had to unhook that was behind said box truck.
I tow with mine all the time, admittedly not at significant long haul distances, usually around 10-30 miles. It has never been super rough on battery when towing either.
Why are you expecting an F-150 to have high towing capacity? It’s the smallest “full size” pickup Ford sells. ICE or EV, the frame, brakes and suspension isn’t designed for high towing.
EV is torquey as hell, but I thought the main complaint about the Lighting was the towing range, which again, if you’re doing real towing on the regular, you should get something a little bigger, if for no other reason then the safety of other people on the road.
And honestly, I think Ford could have saved the Lighting lineup by offering a generator unit that could sit in the bed and keep the batteries charged for long hauls. A sort of adhoc Edison Motors style hybrid.
So did anyone in the world actually expect them to be at that price though? I mean has anything Musk promised in the last ten years not turn out to be a blatantlie? Anyone who had high expectations of the cyber truck just lied to themselves, they had absolutely zero reason to believe any of the promises were going to be met.
Roadster would have been low production numbers, but at least they’d expect that and not spend the money scaling up.
I believe they came out with Plaid edition, expecting that to get most of the people wanting roadsters. At least it’s fast even if it’s a totally different form factor. Either that or they couldn’t figure out how to make the roadster fast enough to keep it from cannibalizing model s
Jokes on them: I’d never be able to afford a high end roadster but I’d seriously consider a Miata-like electric roadster. Seems like they could build something on a model 3 chassis
Two words; one man: Elon Musk.
I highly doubt he surrounds himself with anybody that would challenge the things he dreams up. He’s also addicted to Special K, which probably makes him think he’s that much more of a genius and cannot fathom himself being wrong.
The thing about getting high all the time is that eventually you will come down. And usually it’s with a crash.
He’s already fucked his bromance with Trump, and it looks like SpaceX will be taking the hit. Tesla is in the shitter, and it’s looking like that toilet is clogged and about to run over.
It’s only a matter of time before Musk implodes on himself. His “glue” is going to come undone, and his “panels” will fall to the floor with a loud thud.
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The original sell on the look was something like exoskeleton. Basically, the SpaceX Starship is stainless steel. Musk needed another consumer of it to make Starship more financially sound I suppose, so here comes CyberTruck which will use cold rolled steel exoskeleton, except it’s nothing like what it was sold to be.