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Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt
Submitted 1 day ago by NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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wicked_observer@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
jaschen@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
I was one of those that put down a deposit and happily waited for this truck to replace my 25 year old car. Then after he called the diver/rescuers pedophiles, I was instantly turned off. Now I actively push others to not buy a Tesla and refer to all Teslas as a Nazi mobile.
Get fucked Elon.
atocci@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Wow, the Cybertruck was announced that long ago?
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 7 hours ago
No, the cave thing happened in 2018, but the Cybertruck was announced late 2019.
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Honest questions: What attracted you to it? Do you like the design?
scratchee@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
Not OP, but regardless of it being ugly, it is novel and kind of goofy look, which has some appeal. Like buying a car designed by a child it’s sort of “fun”.
Otoh, I don’t have the cash to throw away on “fun”, and regardless, funding a nazi definitely ruins the fun, so even if I won the lottery, I’d have to find my fun elsewhere I suppose.
jaschen@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
I honestly don’t mind the design. Sure some people hate it, but I didn’t care about others opinions on my car. That’s why my current vehicle is 25 years old. At that time, I was looking for a larger EV and during that time large EVs were nonexistent.
What sold me was the functionality. The concept had bench front row seating so I could seat 6(which they removed in the final). It had a usable trunk unlike the EVs at the time. There was frunk which was only on Teslas at the time. Also Tesla at the time had the highest safety rating among all cars. A promising auto pilot (which is a lie).
It also claimed to have a bullet proof shell and glass. While Seattle is relatively safe, there have been many instances where people have been murdered for road rage or just existing at a red light
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 hours ago
Muskie boy, have you tried suing people to get them to buy the truck?
Aeri@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I wouldn’t take a cybertruck if it was free, ignoring musk entirely it’s just a bad vehicle.
The only place I’ll drive a Cybertruck is in Fortnite because there I want my car to be unsafe.
mke@programming.dev 7 hours ago
I wouldn’t take a cybertruck if it was free
You’re being ridiculous, why would you seriously think that? That kind of internet opinion doesn’t hold up in real life. I would absolutely take a free Cybertruck, I’ve long dreamed of making my own car bomb.
Master@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
No his opinion is absolutely correct. Its unsafe on just about every consumer aspect. It was cutting off fingers. It was ruling. In a crash its a nightmare. I also Wouldn’t take one ifmitmwas free (unless im ok selling it without ever having to drive it)
Its a murderbox coffin on wheels.
Aeri@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I know we’re having fun here but I genuinely imagine it would be a complete fucking nightmare as soon as anything went wrong with it and I would absolutely not be willing to pay for repairs.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
I got some advice for them: Fire your CEO.
rumba@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Fire the CEO, for him to sell all his stock, recall all the trucks and go over them with a fine tooth comb for quality issues, force them all through safety tests and fix anything that’s unsafe, lower the price by 40%…, get rid of the tracking bullshit, You’ll still have a uglyAF “truck” but it might just be sellable.
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Fixing safety issues would have to include that sharp front end. Maybe just ditch the entire “stainless” exterior and restyling the whole thing would help with that.
Pretty much start with the battery pack and drivetrain, start over after that.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Look at the havoc that dude leaves in his wake. Prime choice for president.
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Fire your CEO.
Out of a canon, through some flaming rings, and into an empty bucket of water. If I have to watch a clown-show, at least make it entertaining.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Empty bucket of water? What about the shark invested-waters we booked over a year ago??
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Which would win? Clown or concrete wall? Let’s find out!
PanArab@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
It is not a good pickup truck regardless of Musk being a fascist
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It certainly doesn’t look very useful. It looks like you asked a 5-year-old to draw a “cool truck.”
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
It is, Elmo has the mind of a 5 year old.
Randelung@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Pretty amazing how much you can milk fragile masculinity. Like actually astounding how badly these people need the vague idea of manliness to survive. It kinda makes me feel bad for them, that’s learned behavior.
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 14 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.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Ugh. I can see this happening.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
The shittiest way to transition the government to ev.
londos@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Maybe he’ll force their sale to Ukraine, so Trump can pretend he supports them even while the cybertrucks break down in the field faster than Russia’s WWII era tanks.
HawtTism@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
Is this all you people do is bitch about people the internet tells you not to like? I am willing to bet money the only reason you hate Elon is because the internet gives you upvotes for saying anti-Elon rhetoric.
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
I don’t like him because he is racist, transphobic, and attempting a Coup in My country.
noride@lemm.ee 13 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.
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I don’t need the Internet to tell me not to like Nazis. As a decent human being it’s just natural.
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 13 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.
uxia@midwest.social 13 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?”
braxy29@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
nah, i also enjoy pointing and laughing when i see a cybertruck on the highway
Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
…you get dropped a lot as a baby or what?
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
All they had to do was build a solid, reliable truck, and not be fascist. Instead they build a poorly glued together piece of shit and sieg heil. I fucking hate this timeline.
mPony@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Don’t hate the timeline, hate the news. There are real people out there still trying to make the world work, getting stepped on, pushed over, marginalized, silenced. They need you. They need all of us. Do not let The Bastards win.
(I’m still workshopping the “don’t hate the player hate the game” - suggestions are welcome. Words can still inspire people, even before coffee)
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Thanks, friend. Much needed words. Maybe I’ll put my decades of counter strike to good use at some point.
forrgott@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
I fucking hate this timeline.
I keep seeing people say this. However, hate us what created this timeline. I don’t believe it’s what will get us into a new one.
I mean no offense towards you; I want you to know this. I guess I just finally realized what it is that bothers me about that statement. In fact, I share your sentiment. Because not only are they poorly made, common sense safety measures are removed and replaced with poorly engineered crap that traps people, while other badly designed components catch fire and burn them to death.
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
First time I’ve used this phrase, myself. But I had such hope for the future and I guess I am finally admitting my hope is gone.
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
That hate came from somewhere.
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
That hate came from somewhere.
scarabic@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I still refuse to see it as a truck. The defining feature of a truck is its bed, and the bed on this thing is presented as an afterthought. Covered, undersized, impossible to access from the sides. It’s just a tank. A penis prosthesis for the undersized.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
And SpaceX had such good publicity, also notably one aesthetically the very opposite of sieg heil.
I mean, aesthetics of Tesla advertising and design and everything were pretty different from SpaceX from the very beginning. I wonder how could Musk be the founder of both. Maybe they’ll find traces of a brain worm in him too. Can’t be solely ketamine.
demonsword@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I wonder how could Musk
he’s not a Tesla founder, he only bought it
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
He has never founded or invented anything. Every business he owns, he bought from others. In some cases he forced them to refrain from claiming to be founders at all. He’s pathetic scum.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 16 hours ago
Does it though? I have had a real hard time giving a shit about space fir a while now goven Musk’s musk is tainting it.
HawtTism@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
Guarantee you do nothing about it except bitch and cry “fascism” on the internet, while simultaneously never really knowing what fascism is. You people show your low IQ every day, and I fucking love it so much. “Elon musk is a Nazi fascist” - Yep. Hates Jews, hates niggers, wants to hang little Mexican children. The fact you people think that’s actually reality is fucking insane. No wonder you’re all confused which gender you are.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This should surprise no one. The reception was poor, delivery was poor. It’s a niche market item in an existing niche market. On top of that, the de facto spokesperson of Tesla isn’t well liked by a lot of potential buyers.
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
“niche market,” is a way of saying they made a bad product few want.
pickup trucks are hardly a niche product especially in the us
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I don’t think I’d call that thing a pickup. I’m not gonna run to the farm and pick up a 1000lb bale of hay in that thing. A Baja looks like it has more bed space.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
It makes more sense if you start from the other side - EVs are a niche market, and an electric truck is a small subset of that.
The Cybertruck sold 38,965 units last year, vs 33,510 for the Ford F150 Lightning.
ramble81@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Just wait till DOGE start requiring it for all government vehicles
corroded@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Isn’t well liked” is quite the understatement. “Despised” is more like it. I actually like the way the cybertruck looks, I think the technology is interesting, and if I really wanted to, I could probably afford one.
I wouldn’t drive one if it was given to me for free. I’d rather take a taxi every day than drive a public display of support for the treasonous fascist manchild that owns the company.
Tesla’s second biggest problem is their shit standards and quality control. Their first biggest problem is their shit corporate leadership.
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 day ago
I mean off the bat that’s one of the worse combinations of people/product I’ve ever seen. I mean off the bat electric car’s target market is people that want to think they are doing something better for the environment.
So… then the guy making them goes loudly in the “fuck the environment” group.
To top it off though, Cybertruck itself always confuses me. I don’t know who the target audience is. The original tesla’s I could look at and think, that’s a cool car, if they ever came down in price I’d be interested.
Cybertruck you look at and think… What a car would look like if you scaled up games from the 32/64 bit console era and made them HD without increasing the polygon count.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Plus the initial sales were to people who had already committed to preorders at a lower price for a truck that was hyped up to be far better than the end result.
Cybertrucks are basically No Man’s Sky but without the possibility of being good in a half decade.
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Isn’t well liked…. Is a Nazi.
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Let’s not forget the quality. Also poor.
kmartburrito@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Plus it looks stupid, like what my drawings of a car looked like at 5 years old
scarabic@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It is jaw dropping that only 40,000 of their one million+ reservations actually turned into sales. Thats 4% conversion!
Also, trucks are not a niche market. And there is pretty minimal overlap between the kind of douche who wants one of these and people who object to Musk’s behavior. It’s designed for his cult, especially.
jaemo@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Why isn’t the puny, petulant man-thing that runs the Nazicar Factory not suing us all for not buying them? That’s how you deal with advertisers who don’t wanna advertise with him so why not consumers who don’t want to consume?
It’s the next stupid, asinine step.
I hope anyone who ever admired this fuck face is deeply embarrassed. Or losing money.
Toribor@corndog.social 18 hours ago
So… how long before the federal government buys up a couple million of these things…?
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I think the reason Cybertruck sales have ground to a halt has to do with their CEO Department’s way of managing things and breaking into Governmental Agency’s Private Information. It’s also the reason you will find “FUCK ELON MUSK” being spray-painted onto Cybertrucks.
JustZ@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nazi truck.
neineon77@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I remember posting about how a guy with a cybertruck would be an immediate no go for me and I was told by a guy I was being too judgy lol
FolknForage@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Tesla initially projected sales of 500,000 Cybertrucks annually and established production capacity at the Giga Texas for 250,000 units per year.
I’d have guessed coke, not ketamine, as drug of choice to make these estimates. Maybe he’s already counting federal agencies to be stiffed with the cyberwanker?
diffusive@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
All DEI fault for this failure
/s (if it wasn’t obvious 🙂)
JordanZ@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Who would have thought the preorders all dried up when they advertised it at $39,900 but launched it at $60,990.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The best thing they could do for their sales is get rid of all ties to Elon Musk.
Kiwi_fella@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Is that “all stops”, as in they will get rid of that guy who very definitely did a Nazi salute?
arc@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
I certainly find it funny that Tesla’s waiting list went from five years down to zero. Even Tesla’s biggest fans who actually stumped money on this thing produced video after video griping about its price & brokenness.
But frankly it was kind of obvious from the get-go that it would be an expensive, uninsurable, lemony asshole death mobile. I wonder if the next time Tesla announces something and Musk spews lie after lie about it that people will start to cotton on that nothing he says can be taken at face value.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Has Elon Musk tried not being a fascist plutocrat?
RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
No thank you. I don’t want a swasticar.
I’d love to have one of those new production old style beetles. But we can’t buy them here because our govt sucks donkey dick.
Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Is this the one they let musk design? Feels like a Simpsons episode…
SDK@midwest.social 1 day ago
The Swasticar!
ricketyrackets@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Maybe they should include free Nazi salute lessons with each purchase and a bottle of Kentucky bourbon to get all the backwater inbred hicks on board to help spur sales of the swastitruck?
booganiganie@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Bit like Elon, Never lived up to the hype
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Probably would have helped if it didn’t look cobbled together out of sheet metal for a low-budget post-apocalypse movie. I picture Humungus standing up through the sunroof chasing Mel Gibson.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Who would’ve thought that a very expensive truck in an ev market that is lukewarm at best, add in a good amount of weird looks and unreliability, wouldn’t be a big seller? I could pick from a conventional truck for a fraction of the price or this. People who bought it were doing it for show and now that market is tapped out.
Glytch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wish journalist would stop calling this PS 1 Pontiac Aztek “futuristic”; it just highlights how shitty our future is going to be.
superkret@feddit.org 1 day ago
Have they tried suing people who don’t want to buy one?
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
In case you weren’t referencing this, be amazed:
businessinsider.com/tesla-sue-cybertruck-buyers-t…
superkret@feddit.org 1 day ago
I was referencing how Elon is suing companies for not wanting to advertise on X. But this is amazing, too.
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh no 😥
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Probably an effort to prevent scalping. Oh, how optimistic they were…
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You joke, but I wouldn’t be shocked if someone in particular gets that brainwave before too long
Scolding7300@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They should force the government use cybertrucks for employe transportation just like Elon did with X and NTSB
bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That might be the biggest harbinger of whether musk or Trump is running things. Trump has banned fed government from buying EV.
worldleader462@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
You mean These people
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Whoa, there was a lot of fElon fellatio in the replies on that site.
casmael@lemm.ee 1 day ago
So much of the promo for the Tim and Eric mandatory attendance world tour 2020 has come true it’s fucking insane, man