Summary
The Tesla Cybertruck is in crisis. The automaker is still sitting on a ton of old inventory, which it is now heavily discounting, and it is throttling down production.
Tesla is expected to currently be selling the Cybertruck at a rate of about 25,000 units a year – a tenth of what Musk predicted.
Tesla began the second quarter with 2,400 Cybertrucks in inventory, valued at over $200 million. Tesla is now offering deeper discounts on the new inventory of Cybertrucks.
The automaker has reduced its Cybertruck production teams and now operates at a fraction of its original capacity.
Tater fruit
Potato fruit
They’re also hiding them (my opinion) off of their main lot so people don’t see how many are sitting around. The dealership near me has a couple on the lot but down the road, across the street on a hidden side road I saw over a dozen of them sitting in a fenced in lot gathering pollen last week.
Do you have access to a super soaker and vinegar? Maybe you could help wash some of that pollen off.
The CIA of yesteryear approves this idea.
Where destruction is involved, the weapons of the citizen-saboteur are salt, nails, candles, pebbles, thread, or any other materials he might normally be expected to possess as a householder or as a worker in his particular occupation. His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies. The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to which he has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.
https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
What a great thing to download from Mr Gutenberg
Why vinegar?
The Cybertruck’s stainless steel body is susceptible to corrosion from acidic substances, including vinegar. Tesla’s own guidance advises against using acidic liquids or materials, including vinegar, on the vehicle’s exterior.
Now I’m conflicted about that news article I saw about Trump letting those 70 coal plants operate with emissions unchecked, because now the acid rain they cause will degrade the trucks faster.
Do we have a pH chart for various animal urines I have a hunting trip coming up and don’t want to burn the dog
He predicted that he would sell a quarter-million of those $80,000 shipping containers on wheels a year?
Unfair comparison. Shipping containers are actually useful.
And generally well designed and well made, to exacting standards.
And they float!
You can turn a shipping container into a poorly insulated house, which my hope for cybertruck owners too
Depends on how you define “predicted”.
If you meant “made the most logical guess using all available data” then no, he didn’t do that.
But if you meant “pulled an impossible sales number out of a ketamine-laced shit from his lumpy asshole that wildly overestimated how popular he and his ‘truck’ are” then I’d say you’re correct!
What a disaster.
In normal companies, the CEO would be fired.
Unfortunately, the ‘firing’ is usually a golden handshake and jumping straight into heading another company to run that into the ground too. After multiple rounds of layoffs of course.
valued at over $200 million
Bet they aren’t.
Expect more CTs to catch fire in their lots, as they blame other people for arson.
TBH, this would not surprise me at all.
Toastla
FUCK NAZIS
25k of EV pickups is A LOT by comparison to others.
It’s a stupid truck but also the target demographic doesn’t really exist.
I seriously wonder who these 25k a month even are? How are they selling even a hundred a month?
It’s 25k per year, and its only an estimate (from Tesla) based on the sales so far. I’m betting those sales falling off a cliff will keep numbers well below that when the year actually comes to an end.
Also, Tesla has a tendency to claim environmental subsidies for sales that only exist on paper.
These numbers coming from Tesla have never been actual sales but “deliveries”, which can occur multiple times per sale and also can occur without a sale. They only publicize “deliveries” instead of actual sales data because bigger number.
However, we do know numbers based on CT recalls.
Tesla has made up numbers before. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh no … anyway.
hope they throttle the production by adding the quality control step
I am really looking forward to all the Teslas being stripped down for ev conversions and restomods.
So much of the design is proprietary nonsense, it makes me wonder how much of the trucks can be reused for something people actually want.
Sure, but there are lots of components that people can use. Tesla electric water pumps are used for IC engine cooling even though teslas don’t have combustion. power steering components for upgrades, motors for drivelines, mechanical linkages for steering and suspension. We can definitely use these items in a way the designers never intended.
They were overpriced garbage anyhow. BYD is outputting EV’s that are ten times better at a fraction of the cost. The only reason they aren’t being sold here is a bunch of protectionist bullshit that even democrats are responsible for.
It’s only misplaced faith by a bunch of techbro traders that’s even keeping the TSLA stock aloft. Tesla management literally dumps every certificate of stock they get as bonus the second they receive it.
Yeah, good luck with that.
I mean I didn’t like the truck when it was first introduced, much less now that I know it’s being built by a company lead by a Neo-Nazi.
Is it a crisis when it’s been that way from before the beginning.
Contemplating the fact that people are being snatched off the streets and being sent to prisons in El Salvador and there’s an article about the sales decline of the horrid car of the Nazi Elon Musk who is a main player in this fascist regime.
Shareholder lawsuits before the end of the year, I’m betting.
They’ll find out that it’s now a capital offense to sue Elmo.
