Tesla’s Cybertruck problem keeps getting worse
Tesla’s Cybertruck problem keeps getting worse
Remember those million pre-orders Tesla allegedly had for the Cybertruck, according to CEO Elon Musk? It's getting tougher and tougher for the company to explain where all of them went.
After putting around 50,000 Cybertrucks on the road, according to a recent recall filing, the company appears to be out of pre-orders and desperately looking to juice demand. Case in point: It's now offering up to $10,000 off certain Cybertrucks it has in inventory.
so....they intentionally lied to artificially increase demand and make their product look more compelling? can we get some fucking consumer protections regulations for fucks sake?? they're killing us out there
This would be a matter for the Securities and Exchange Commission to come crashing down on them. This kind of statement is designed to manipulate the market, and in a normal world, would be heavily punished.
Which is why they're killing it.
No. The article doesn't talk about preorders at all, and they are completely meaningless and obviously a "preorder" for a car with just a 100$ deposit doesn't mean anything. That's basically just signing up for a mailing list. The cyber truck as announced was ugly but with really good specs for only 40k$. It was shit and the price was minimum 70k so it didn't sell well.
Preorders aren't a legally defined or protected term or anything, who wants to regulate that? It's basically just a list of emails signups so it doesn't mean anything at all.
No it's been doge'd by the dude who would personally benefit from it's doge'ing.
Why do you think that was one of the first things Elon killed?
I suspect if they did, they’d be in trouble for defrauding investors.
But do laws even apply anymore?
Good, but for fucks sake, can we get just a standard two door, full sized, long bed electric truck that can actually do some work and not be a god damn pavement princess, suburban male, penis extender?
Given your opinions are on the reasonable side of truck owners
What advantage does a truck have over a panel van for work use?
Yes I'm European. Yes I actually want a truck for some unknown social reason. But every time I look at trucks I think the beds are either too small or I think my shit is going to get wet back there. An enclosed panel van has a bigger converted storage area.
I do heavy equipment/industrial/marine maintnace and fabrication work. The ability to overhead load things into the bed. Rather than being limited to what is on a pallet with a forklift. Being able have cargo that is longer than the bed of the truck and not have to drive with cab doors open. Being able to install a 5th wheel trailer to tow more than what the standard ball hitch allows. You shure aren't going to make a tow truck out of a van. Bulk cargo? Just show up to quarry or dirt pit load a bucket full or 2 and of you go. Lots of reasons. These are just the basic examples. There's lots more. From welding rigs to just being able to put a skid of drywall in with out hassle.
Well I for one really don't want to try and haul a load of manure in a panel van.
Don't get me wrong, vans are great, my general contractor in-laws used them daily, but there are advantages like being able to haul a stack of plywood or sheet rock without having to have a trailer, being able to haul larger items more easily, towing, and again, easily hauling things like manure or rocks, just get the front loader and dump it in.
For 99% of owners a panel van would be the better option, but their masculinity is tied to other people's perception of them, so they pay the small dick tax.
I rent a truck for the afternoon on the rare occasion I need one
I know this isn't exactly what you were asking for, but this looks promising for people that want what essentially is the anti-cybertruck:
Just get a hybrid Sienna, it comes with a free preinstalled cap on, AWD and sliding doors which shit on normal car/truck doors in terms of practical utility and capacity to do work.
A vehicle as a real tool? Blasphemy! We don't do that here in America.
Where the hell would we mount the dashboard nacho cheese dispenser and 42" plasma touch display in a standard truck?
The Honda Ridgeline can be repurposed as a LPG truck, and the Ford Ranger Lightning is electric. But both of them are on the larger side tho'
Many craft and trade people in Norway have embraced the Volkswagen Buzz.
Got to poke around in a Buzz at a local euro car meet. They are larger inside than I imagined in pictures. I could see them being great for contractors in a stripped down version.
I lost my tacoma a few years back and have a 00 tdi golf with a roof rack and a tow hitch. Other than a couple times where I needed to get a lot of 4x8 sheets of subflooring it has handled everything I did with my truck. Water heaters , 12' 6x6", loads of 2x4, 28' ladders , scaffolding etc all go on the roof rack. I'll probably never buy another truck. People joke around when I'm loading material, fuck em.
I mean, as far as I know Rivians aren't that bad. Disclaimer I have done very little research I just know they look cool and aren't owned by Musk.
Seems unlikely considering the whole tariff situation
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musk inflates numbers to match his ego.
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many, many, people canceled their preorder when they discovered he’s a fucking asshole.
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several orders of magnitude more got tired of waiting and canceled because it too long to come out (also the base price went up by 20k,)
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It turns out to be one of the least reliable, worst made cars on the road at any price.
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Still uglier than an NFT.
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i remember it was 5 years before the cybertruck came out, when he showed the video and pics of the design, it hasnt changed since.
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At this point, I literally wouldn't drive one for free. My fury at Musk for the pointless destruction he's done to this country overtook my curiosity for what it's like to drive one of those huge, dumb, ugly vehicles with the glued-on panels.
I won’t drive the cybertruck or any of the other newer generation X’s and S’s since they all have yolks instead of steering wheels. A few years back I was rear-ended by a drunk driver on a highway. With about 1/2 second warning I suddenly found myself spinning 360 degrees across 3 lanes, and I was trying my best to steer out of it. I seriously doubt I would have been able to do that with a yoke. My hands likely would have missed as I tried to reposition them.
The yokes, like so many other “features” seem like nothing more than glitz that Musk demanded to differentiate Teslas from other cars. If an independent authority tests yokes vs. wheels in situations like that crash and finds the yokes are as good or better then I’d consider driving a car with one. But given Musk is now trying to kneecap things like NHTSA I’m most definitely not going to hold my breath.
Wow, that's about the best argument for the traditional, time-tested wheel! How do the yolks even work, can you turn them more than 90°? Because if not, they'd have to function like a videogame controller, or have you risk losing your grip as the yolk moves out from under your grasp when you go hand-over-hand...
Same. Wouldnt take one if they paid me.
If I got one for free I'd spend an afternoon dismantling it with a crowbar separating the steel from the aluminum to sell it for scrap, and I'd be the first person to make a profit from a cyber truck.
I'd take it. Wouldn't drive it, but if they want to pay me to store their dumpster...
I don't even think I'd take a Freebie unless it was to immediately sell for cash.
They're dangerous, expensive to own (iphone repair cost model applied to a fuckin car) and you look like you support this sort of thing, which is bad look.
buying anything from Tesla is supporting the destruction of a country
And supporting and encouraging the richest man in the world. Instead of making him richer, we need to bankrupt him, nationalize Space X and Starlink, and shut down anything else he was worming on.
Not my country.
Still not buying anything from that cunt though.
He's working on it.
Not in the good way either.
Tesla earnings call in 3 days!
Maybe this time the bullshit will be seen through, but I don't have my hopes up. There are other forces at play keeping the stock up other than reality. It'll be rationalized as "but robotaxis, AI, robots, etc".
I’ll bet the build quality is higher on that thing.
Hey in Simpsons Hit and Run that's a decent mid game choice.
Just sell to the UK or Europe. What's that? It doesn't meet road safety standard in the UK or Europe, well then guess someone fucked up
Pedantic I know but UK is in Europe, I know you mean EU but don't give us any ideas! :)
Tesla couldn't pay me to take possession of one of their vehicles, especially a Cybertruck.
I got tools. Lots of parts I can reuse
I don't know, I think I've seen more than 2-3k of these trucks in Houston alone. Also someone keeps etching "Swastikar" into them. Rumor is they're using an acid etchant like ferric chloride.
Don’t worry, papa Elon will pull some strings to get the government to take these turkeys off his hands.
Efficiency!
I'm surprised your cops aren't all being forced to drive them. I'd love to see that.
Excellent.
I see a few on the road or parked now and then. I cringe every time.
I sometimes think that for a future vehicle I might like to do an EV conversion on an older gas burning, small SUV. Now suddenly I struck by the idea of an EV to EV conversion, to get rid fo the Tesla computers full of spyware. It would still be recognizeable though, not good.
Tesla has started putting up to $10,000 on the hood of Cybertrucks.
Well that's nice. Is this $10,000 up for grabs, or do you need to buy the truck first? Is it in one of those silver suitcases?
