Tesla will stop making the Cybertruck next year, according to CEO Elon Musk, who said on X that the company will use the factory space to build more two-seater Cybercab robotaxis.
The decision to wind down the futuristic, steel-clad EV comes after just a few short years of underwhelming sales. When Musk handed over the first few Cybertrucks in late 2023, he predicted Tesla would sell around 250,000 per year. It was supposed to be such a cornerstone of Tesla’s future that, before construction began, the company talked about its Texas factory as the “Cybertruck factory.” But Tesla has instead sold just tens of thousands — total — over the last three years.
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Nah, keep pumping it out, run the company into the fucken ground.
How can a company expect to sell over 750,000 cars in 3 years, sell less than 100,000, and not see horrendously tanking stock values? They must have lost so much money on the cybertrucks.
I’m pretty sure that Tesla stock is basically a money laundering scheme that allows oligarchs to pay him large amounts of money for being the one to openly fuck shit up (eg taking the loss to gain control of twitter, being the face of DOGE, openly buddying up with Trump, seeing what the response would be to giving a Nazi salute on live TV, etc).
I suspect he’s essentially their lightning rod.
Why on Earth would someone design a cab to only seat two people? The only time in the last two years that I’ve used a cab, it was to travel with a group.
The best guess I can figure is that an insufferable loser like Elon can’t fathom having two or more people that want to be in the same car as him.
I thought so as well, but then when you think about it… most taxis are kind of just the back seat? Still weird not to make it a three seater bench though. I guess they want you to book two if you want more than 2 people, cha-ching.
Tell me you don’t live in London without saying you don’t live in London.
Most people don’t live in London
80% of all taxi rides are 2 or less people.
They also have the model y which can do 5 people.
It feels like there’s a big gap between the cab and the y. Would a self driving 3 (which can fit 5 people and they already have factories to build 90%+ of) not make way more sense?
They built more capacity for the Y as it’s a better selling vehicle, and if you already have a small car for the 1 and 2 people trips, using something bigger with more storage for the 3-5 people trips does make sense. I’m sure 3s will eventually end up in it though even if it’s just a way to balance factory output. Like if the 3 is selling less in a quarter and the factory is idling more, maybe adding some 3s to the robotaxi fleet instead of y’s that quarter begins to make sense?
And the model y can also do two people.
So again, why focus so hard on a two seater?
The Model Y costs substantially more to build, is more complicated to repair and costs more to run per mile.
When only 1/5 rides need that, it’s cheaper to mass produce something else. The plan is to make millions of these.
Yeah, right when they start to use their robots on the SpaceX Mars base.
100% agree
When my son was six, he thought it was so cool. “If I drew a cybertruck, that’s how Id draw it.”
My son, 9, now says “A cybertruck looks like a 6 year old drew it.”
I will always love that my kid has more awareness than Elon Musk.
Womp
Racoons all over continental US are mourning.
Holy shit. They were still making new ones?!
Fortunately they are so terrible and Tesla is so terrible at providing parts that these will all be off the road within a few years.
So how does this compare to some of histories worse cars ever now that we know the scale of this one? I keep thinking of the back to the future car as an example but I might be mixing it up.
I’m not a car industry expert, but the cybertruck has to go down as one of the biggest failures. I think in large part due to the trajectory of sales expected vs realized, and what might have been if Tesla put all that focus into the cheap, modest model they kept promising.
The Edsel is probably the benchmark failure. It cost Ford about $2.5B in today’s money and they sold it for two whole years. It was promised to be a technological marvel, but was overpriced (sound familiar) and mechnically delicate (sound… familiar? lol).
The Pontiac Aztek should get a notable mention. It was probably mostly just ahead of its time, and owners liked them, but it was so widely panned that it died after four years.
The Delorean is, of course, so well known. Seeing it in Back to the Future, many kids (and probably adults) surely wanted one. But they were mechanically terrible and fewer than 9,000 were built. Didn’t help that John Delorean was terrible at running the company and then was investigated by the FBI.
In 1974, New Brunswick heavily subsidized development of the Bricklin SV-1, supposed to be a very safe sports car that couldn’t crash. It featured an integrated roll cage, massive 5-mph impact bumpers, gullwing doors, and acrylic-bonded body panels. Alas, the car was prone to overheating, and if crashed and flipped, the gull wing doors would clamp shut, which is not great for survivability.
There’s plenty more, but those are probably the most notable. The Cybertruck is probably the most notable failure that involves association with Nazis ever since Volkswagen, though.
Pretty much. By the time this is out of production, it’ll have sold only slightly less than the F150, and it’s sold more than the Rivian R1T.
But the F150 or R1T didn’t have the same hype, or disappointing results compared to the expectations.
I still think it would have sold better if they actually made the cheap version as they announced, and if they’d done the double stacked batteries to get 500m of range (while still keeping that original price) but they basically built a completely different vehicle than was announced and expected people to still want it. Total fuck up.
it’ll have sold only slightly less than the F150,
What? I must be completely misunderstanding you, because in just 2025, Ford sold 828,842 F-series trucks. The Cybertruck has sold in the tens of thousands. Period. Over its lifetime.
500m of range
Half a kilometer really isn’t that much ;-)
The f150 lightning, the electric truck ford made to compete with it, which is also cancelled.
Ah, okay, yes, that makes a HUGE difference to the context. XD. Quite agreed then. Thank you :)
I guess the demand for wheeled dumpsters wasn’t as high as they thought.
their “guaranteed buyers” just lost the midterms
For $120,000 I can but do much cooler vehicles.
For $120K you can buy a vehicle that’s an actual car, not a meme gag peddled by a wannabe fascist who wants to fuck children but was so cringe the rest of pedoes didn’t want him in rape island.
You can do much cooler vehicles for a fraction of that, pretty low bar.
You couldn’t pay me to take that hideous Nazi trash can.
I predict a similar headline regarding robotaxis in another 2 years time
Family rule is that every time we see a Cyber Truck, we all have to yell “loser” like Jim Carrey did in Ace Ventura.
