The Tesla Cybertruck, once a highly anticipated EV, is facing significant sales challenges, prompting Tesla to offer leases and free upgrades to move its inventory.

Tesla Cybertruck appears to be facing significant sales challenges. After initial hype faded, and over a million reservations turned out to be as real as unicorns, Tesla is now enabling leasing options and free upgrades to move its inventory of the futuristic pickup truck. The company’s recent silence on the Cybertruck, even omitting it from their earnings call, speaks volumes about the situation.

Tesla initially projected sales of 500,000 Cybertrucks annually and established production capacity at the Giga Texas for 250,000 units per year. After working through the initial reservation backlog with fewer than 40,000 deliveries, the automaker is now struggling to sell the remaining vehicles.

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.mlEnglish
    611·
    6 hours ago

    I’m betting high odds he will force the federal government to buy them under the guise of a green EV transition. With trump’s full blessing, of course.

      • GaMEChld@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 hours ago

        Hi Elon. No, we hate you because you know you have Asperger’s, think yourself smart, but are blind to the fact that you need people in your life to filter your thoughts and actions to cover your weak areas and flawed perceptions.

        Only a fool thinks himself beyond improvement. Elon Musk is a great example of squandered potential and self delusion.

        • Zink@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          squandered potential and self delusion

          It depends on who you ask. In our fucked up culture where money > people, productivity > humanity, and dominating others > helping others, Musk is the ideal grand vision for what a person with “potential” will become. He has the highest score, therefore the best results.

          It’s a fucking tragedy how many people admire both him and Trump for the most horrible reasons.

          (In before somebody explains how this is capitalism’s fault. But I’m not going to disagree, lol)

      • noride@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        5 hours ago

        Nah, I hate him because when you look past his wealth, his “accomplishments”, and his fandom, you are left with nothing but a piece of shit human being.

      • uxia@midwest.socialEnglish
        9·
        4 hours ago

        I’ve hated him since the “that pedo guy” incident years ago… I think that is when people started really waking up to the fact he’s an incredibly insecure manchild. A bunch of poor kids trapped in a cave… “how can I make this about ME?”

        • Preflight_Tomato@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Yeah up until then I though he was a cool guy; real life iron man and whatnot. That baseless accusation was just so incredibly out of character it made me question his character, and then his later actions made me realize it was always just a character.

          • CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 hours ago

            Nope. Not how that works. He did the salute. He went and showed his support for neo-nazis. If it quacks like a duck …

            I’m actually a Cascadian hippie if you’d like to assign labels. Hell, I will even let you call me antifa. But not supporting Nazis doesn’t make me a Nazi.

            I don’t hate on people with different views. I live in a very conservative area. Most of the people I talk to on a day to day basis are still wearing their MAGA hats. I’m actually not a fan of the democratic party. But at the same time I’m not dumb enough to fall in line with the new fascist agenda. There’s a huge difference between taking steps forward and burning down the system for personal profit.

            Trump is an idiot with a personal agenda. Elon is a Nazi. And the people who don’t see this are mostly poorly informed. I don’t hate them for that.

            But looking at your comments, it appears YOU are the one hating on everything different. Or you’re just trolling, which would make you an idiot or a child, neither of which are worth having a discussion with.

      • braxy29@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        nah, i also enjoy pointing and laughing when i see a cybertruck on the highway

        edit (and at the people driving them)