The decision to halt production of Tesla’s polarizing polygonal pickup marks the end of an error.

The decision to halt production of Tesla’s polarizing polygonal pickup marks the end of an error.

Elon Musk, in a post on X, has officially called time on the Cybertruck, stating that “Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production.”

Produced for less than four years, the polarizing pickup is seemingly dying as it lived, with the news being greeted in a flurry of replies in praise of the EV as well as deriding it. James Star, claiming to be a Tesla employee, posted that it was “the saddest news! Cybertruck (was) the best car Tesla sold,” right next to a user called Captain Ford who simply replied to Musk with “Fuck that shitbox.”

  • mad_lentil@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    I also dislike that Tesla used and has now tainted [the idea of a fun looking electronic car], so I actually dislike Tesla for more moral reasons than people who think it’s ugly

    Totally. Yeah, you get it. I feel similarly about fascists co-opting nerd culture terms like Grok, Palantír — They ruin everything they touch. It will take decades for the stink to wash off, if ever.

    But I feel the same way in that the names are fundamentally cool as fuck. They’re just used for things I wish I could shove out of the universe’s airlock.