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.”
Great companion piece. Doktor Zoom comes up with lots of alternative names for the Cybertruck…
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A rare alpha model. Must be worth a fortune now!
The worst thing? The cybertruck is going to forever be a symbol of this era. It’s ridiculous, but so is the age we live in. Fifty years from now, if someone wants to set a movie in the early 2020s, there will be a cybertruck somewhere in the background. It will forever remain an instant visual clue of the era. It’s like how in a sci fi film, if you want to quickly establish that you are not on Earth, you throw second Sun or gas giant into the sky. Just quick visual language saying where or when a setting is or isn’t.
It was always heading this way, I am surprised it lasted as long as it did.
I knew it was a flop well before it even came out for one key reason. Remember when the iMac/iPod/iPhone came out, it seemed like everyone else started trying to desperately copy Apple on those. Other businesses saw these and immediately thought “Oh crap we need to catch up now!”. Before iPhone even released Nokia was demoing a phone (that never came out) in which they rushed multi-touch onto Symbian OS just to not look behind.
Cybertruck came out and nobody else even remotely hinted at copying it. Every car company was like ‘Yep, you guys can just go for it, we won’t stop you.’.
Good riddance, neo-Nazi made POS vehicle. Send the remaining ones to fucking Russia.
good. this meane i can reset my reality to a higher resolution again
A “truck” that can’t carry 4x8 sheet goods is useless.
Elections have consequences, babe
How can people find straight edges attractive is beyond me
it’s different than all the other cars on the road, that is a big part of the appeal.
So are a lot of cars, for 100k or whatever that shit box costs you could buy or restore a lot of cars that look different that’s on the road
any specific examples of in production cars that are not just aerodynamically optimized boxes?
The dumbass jeep gladiators that are almost, but not quite as dumb as the the cybertruck.
I wanted one until it was $80,000
You will probably be able to pick one up for 30k in a year or so.
Most of them sold for less than that, it was basically a failed tesla marketing campaign to make people think they were more expensive than they actually were. They tried some Veblen-inspired reverse psychology and it didn’t work.
Existing Cybertruck owners will have fun sourcing parts as they break down.
Me:
Lol I never thought about this, but yeah… I never buy anything that doesn’t have both plentiful parts, and videos on how to replace them.
Neither exist for Cybertrucks. Because their owners are cybercucks. They want to pay others. They’re little bitches. They can’t wait to pay others to fix their shit while they watch.
Rich little bitch people. That’s who they are.
There are a lot of unsold Cybertrucks. The only reason so many even sold was because Musk used SpaceX to buy much of the inventory
If there’s demand for the parts, they’ll be able to get them for a good while
I thought it was also forcing the US government to purchase them as well.
There’s so many child crushers on the road but that one is definitely one of the crushiest. Having fewer of them on the road is a wine for road safety, especially for everyone not in a car.
RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly Absurd
Jeremy White
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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.”
Tesla has not responded to WIRED’s request for comment and clarification that the Cybertruck will no longer be made at all. The Cybertruck is exclusively made at Gigafactory Texas, as this is apparently the only Tesla facility equipped with the machinery required to manufacture the truck’s unique stainless steel body, which supposedly started to rust in some cases.
Despite whipping up a fevered number of reservations—allegedly more than a million according to Musk, who at the end of 2023 crowed that demand was “off the charts!”—the truck failed to sell, shifting less than 50,000 units in total by March last year.
EVWire cites Kelley Blue Book data suggesting that Tesla sold 11,586 Cybertrucks in the first three quarters of this year in the US, down 28 percent year-over-year, adding that Musk’s announcement post came about 80 minutes after Tesla raised US Cybertruck prices and paused new orders for the entry-level Dual-Motor AWD version.
The Cybertruck proved not only to be wildly unpopular, it was also beset by troubles before it even reached customers. In 2023, WIRED covered a leaked Tesla report dated January 25, 2022, that showed the Cybertruck had basic design flaws, and that the preproduction “alpha” version was struggling with problems with its suspension, body sealing, noise levels, handling, and braking.
In November 2019, when Musk stepped onto a stage in California to launch his new cyberpunk-styled electric pickup, he decided to demonstrate the strength of the “unbreakable” glass windows by hurling a steel ball at them. In what has now entered into public relations folklore, the demo truck’s windows smashed not once, but twice. Musk swore, then joked: “There’s room for improvement.”
There most certainly was. In April 2024, a recall was issued for the Cybertruck because its accelerator pedal pad could come loose and get trapped by interior trim, which had the frightening potential of pushing the car to full speed.
In March last year, Tesla had to recall nearly all the Cybertrucks it had then produced because a stainless steel trim panel could become detached from the vehicle while driving, blaming the problem on the wrong type of glue, a new adhesive “not prone to environmental embrittlement.”
Back in May this year, Cybertrucks were struck down by the wrong type of grease, which meant that their wheels could potentially fall off. In what was then the EV’s 11th recall, it was declared that the Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) Cybertruck Long Range model might have faulty brake rotors. In a notice posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Tesla stated that “brake rotor stud holes may crack and allow the stud to separate from the wheel hub.” Such a situation might have seen some RWD Cybertruck owners merrily driving along only to then be disconcertingly overtaken by their own wheels.
Musk even tried to get President Donald Trump to buy one of his Cybertrucks, creating an impromptu Tesla showroom on the White House South Lawn, no less. But, sadly, even President Trump must have smelt something was off about the truck as instead he shunned the pickup and opted for a 200-mph Model S Plaid in ultra red, clearly impressed with the interior, remarking that “Everything’s computer!”
At the end of 2024, Karl Brauer, executive analyst at car ranking service iSeeCars, told WIRED that he’d calculated that the Cybertruck’s six recalls to date at the time made the EV “worse than 91 percent” of all other 2024 vehicles.
Yet, despite supposedly being so unreliable, the Cybertruck did find a small but loyal audience. WIRED profiled a number of owners last year, all fervently in love with their vehicles, but who were periodically forced to endure insults and taunts that they were Nazis, perhaps referring to an on-stage gesture Musk made at the start of 2025.
However, despite evidence seemingly to the contrary, Musk claims he is killing the Cybertruck, not because of its unreliability and staggering unpopularity, but because he wishes to focus instead on Cybercab, an autonomous EV that is central to Tesla’s robotaxi ambitions but itself has had a rocky start.
Currently operating in Austin only, with a fleet supposedly numbered only in the hundreds, Musk apparently wants to ramp up production dramatically since he confirmed on an earnings call the first cab came off the line in February.
Musk sees Cybercab as very much the vision of Tesla’s future. The CEO has even said that Tesla should no longer be regarded as an automaker but as a robotics and autonomous vehicle company. “Cybertruck was an incredible technology development platform and lives on through Cybercab,” Cybertruck lead engineer Wes Morrill said on X.
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what is this, a recipe?
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Ahh just Firefox reader. Assuming there is a login / pay wall in front of the article as my Firefox on mobile refuses to load more than the first paragraph.
Thank you for bringing the article to where I could read it.
I thought they looked cool. I just hated everything about them and around them or in any way associated with them.
I agree. The idea, that it’s what a child thinks a car or truck is, is actually very sweet. I’m shocked Tesla came up with it.
They’re shit cars and worse trucks. They don’t work, by which I mean they constantly break and they’re shittily made and the software is bad. They’re not price competitive. They haven’t aged well and that’s going to get worse. And they’re made by a company owned by a horrible person and bought almost exclusively by people who are socially malevolent. All that’s ample reason not to like them.
I also dislike that Tesla used and has now tainted this idea, so I actually dislike Tesla for more moral reasons than people who think it’s ugly; they just think Tesla’s incompetent, which is a weakness and not actually evil. That means I pass the anti-Tesla purity test with bonus points.
At least I still have the VW bus.
I love vehicles that challenge the status quo. I dislike Nazis more.
If the cybertruck came from the volvo stable I’d be all over it, because it would also be safe.
It looked cool in the ironic or retro kind of thing. Like it could have been from an 80 movie.
As a serious, professional and expensive car, it’s a joke. Like the car Homer designed.
Yeah, I think it looks good to people who would rather play video games than drive anything.
I’m not a car person so all cars look like shit to me. Not that I’d ever but one of my own, but that one at least looked appealing.
But again, car people will undoubtedly disagree.
They looked like shit bro
I mean all taste is subjective. I’ve said my opinion and now you’ve said yours.
I guarantee if you like the look of any mainstream car I’ll think it looks clunky and gross.
Yes coprophiles exist im aware
I’ll admit I was really surprised to see your account is 3 years old!
Anyway thank you for being a vibrant part of this community. Your comments are more interesting than most.
