Tesla just needs a new slogan or a good marketing campaign.
Something like:
Tesla - power by joy
Or “Kraft durch Freude” in German.
All that would perfectly fit the brand image.
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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froh42@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
barsoap@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 23 hours ago
Or make a special edition. The Kristall Nacht with a red and black wrap or something.
Carighan@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Could even decorate it with a pattern based on an asian symbol commonly found on temples!
FireWire400@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Kraft durch Freude
Nice, how about “Cars enabling Freedom” or “Autos machen frei”?
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 12 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.
ricketyrackets@lemmy.ml 10 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?
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Good News: Now the nazi who owns the company can, via his role in the nazi government which he bought, can bail himself out.
🙃
(fuck this timeline)
Oderus@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Elon doesn’t own Tesla… Where did you get that from? He has 19% of their shares and is the CEO, nothing more.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
I’m still waiting for them to finish loading in.
westyvw@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
Tesla made 2.8 billion last year from selling regulatory credits. So they really didn’t have to care how many cars they sold. But those surely are going away, so they are going to have to do some other government handout, which Elon is probably hand picking right now.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
i wonder when ol stinky starts pushing somekind of law that makes it mandatory to buy one
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
More likely to make the government buy them all.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
basically same thing though, just even more infuriating
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
DOGE
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 10 hours ago
I can’t buy one, they are not available in NZ yet. Despite what anyone else says, I like the look, it looks like the bastard child of a delorian and a countach, but in a good way.
I wouldn’t buy one despite the fact that I like it. It is far too big for NZ roads, I may have overlooked that. But I can’t overlook the fact that Elon has, for me at least, destroyed any good will that was built up. Tesla and all the people who work there have been tarred with the Nazi brush that Elon is wielding.
The only way that Tesla could claw back any respect from me (and hopefully the rest of the world) would be to oust Elon, and all his family from any decision making in the company. It will not happen so my respect for them is gone!
makingrain@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Will they ever be available? Completely illegal in the UK as it’d never pass the safety tests. After all, that front hitting someone would be insta-death.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 9 hours ago
I’m not sure.
They don’t seem much more dangerous than the new breed of massive flat nosed ute’s that I see around.
If a pedestrian gets hit at any kind of speed by an ute, they are fucked.
ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
I saw my first cybertruck in traffic yesterday, I initially thought that some redneck had every part you need to make a car except for the frame and body, and was like “I don’t need none of that fancy shit, I got square tube and steel plate!” and welded together the laziest design they could think of. Then I realized it was just a cybertruck, and promptly laughed at it.
kreskin@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Its awfully close to a dumpster on wheels. Just needs some flames coming out of it and a bigger ‘tesla’ logo and it’ll be perfect.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I describe it as looking like it was made out of plywood
Wiz@midwest.social 13 hours ago
It looks like my Pinewood Derby car that I made in Cub Scouts!
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Seriously! They look terrible and the resale value is going to sink people. I wouldn’t buy that thing if it was a dollar fifty.
rickdg@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Have they tried making a decent truck?
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 day ago
The main reason I bought a truck was to tow heavy shit, and this piece of fuck trash Cyber truck can’t even do that without the battery failing after less than 100 miles. Meanwhile an F150 can tow six times it’s own weight thousands of miles.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 day ago
I’m surprised you mentioned the battery (which is a problem with any EV towing), and not the fact the hitch can just snap off if you hit a pothole hard enough.
pahlimur@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The one person I know who owns a cyber truck was upset when I didn’t call him when I had a truck needing emergency, my wife’s car had broken down on a freeway offramp. The people that own these stupid things are cos playing as truck people even moreso than the average truck owner. The weirder part of his upsetness is, I was already driving a 3/4 truck because my commuter vehicle was not running. All I had to do was go get a uhaul trailer and go get her car. My mind is still boggled that he threw a fit about not calling him.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Well that would make you in the 10% of people actually using their truck
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Tbf it’s kinda a fundamental limitation of electric vehicles vs gas that the energy density of gas is way higher.
scarabic@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Value is harder to deliver than hype.
xenomor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A couple weeks ago I drove past a Tesla dealership in Northern California. They must have had a dozen of these dumpsters lined up out front.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I just had a talk with a friend of mine in southern Ontario who lives in a farming rural area. He likes cars and often does searches for used vehicles in his area. In a 200km area around Branford, there are over 200 used Teslas on sale down there over the past month or two because people are dumping them because they don’t like the brand.
scarabic@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The well moneyed sort who buy Teslas also like to change cars more often than the rest of us. Some of them are going to even more expensive brands like Rivian, and there’s a huge array of less expensive, more practical options.
Here’s how I personally see the brand transformation. I don’t believe these people are so principled that they are dumping these cars in protest. It’s more that the appeal that used to be there: of being part of the future, of moving off gas and embracing clean tech to help save the world… that little halo just isn’t part of the brand anymore. Indeed Teslas all the time where I live with license plates like “BYE CO2” and “LOL GAS.” But no one is going to hop on board that Tesla hype train any longer. They are no longer novel, they no longer virtue-signal and yes have actually become a bit icky. But I think we’re just seeing the end of the mirage, not really any kind affirmative lashback.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Weird, I’ve heard Elon’s pull out game sucks balls.
tektite@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
And I’ve heard the majority of his kids are IVF/surrogate… does Leon even fuck?
Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
In the words of a wise yellow character HA HA
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Leon the Nazi can ask his dictator buddies, Abbott and the Orange Cockroach for a bailout.
nevemsenki@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Good.
FireWire400@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Look out, maybe you can soon dig up your own Cybertruck at a Texas quarry…
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
There were stops left that could be removed from Cybertrucks, still?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Is it possible to orgasm from schadenfreude?
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
ikidd@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It just needs a good putsch.
Red_October@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah because they were showing such restraint before.
hark@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I am shocked they sold as many of them as they did. I get that there are mindless fans, but this is quite an expensive and ugly commitment to make.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What a shock, the meme car only sold a few units before people were over it. LoL 😂
Rooty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
At least the Wolkswagen was egineered properly. I don’t see anyone continuing to use this design after the war.
oascany@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well that was designed by one of the GOATs - Ferdinand Porsche
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Tesla’s were already ugly as sin and these things looked even worse. It’s not surprising.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Eh, I think they’re fine. They’re unique while still being aerodynamic, which is pretty hard in such a crowded field.
I’m not a fan, but I can totally understand those who are.
boaratio@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Cybercuck.
Lauchs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Musk aside, it looks so goddamn stupid, I’d be embarrassed to drive around in it regardless. Like a cheap 80s movie version of what a futuristic car would look like.
And as Others have noted, why would you want a truck that looks like it can carry less stuff than a motorcycle can?
simplejack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If we had one more season of Silicon Valley, Russ would absolutely be rubbing finger prints out of his Founder Edition Cyber Truck.
Lauchs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The world would also just be a happier and better place with another season.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s the price. I want a truck, not a Cadillac with a bed. A truck is meant for work not ve a pavement princess. $50k was already high and the truck market is still stupid on price with most trucks going over $60k and Cybertruck starts at $75.5k. If the price was what Elon said when he announced the Cybertruck, it would be flying off the shelves $40k
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Not even Hitler would buy one. He’s got too much self-respect than to associate with Elon.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 15 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.