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.
Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt
Submitted 4 months ago by NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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xenomor@lemmy.world 4 months ago
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Is it possible to orgasm from schadenfreude?
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Leon the Nazi can ask his dictator buddies, Abbott and the Orange Cockroach for a bailout.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you do not revolt against the government, you will receive a free cybertruck as a replacement for your house, which will be too expensive to live in.
Each immigrant willing to leave voluntarily will receive a free cybertruck.
The US military, firefighters, EMT’s and police force will get new vehicles! They will all start to use cybertrucks.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
The US military, firefighters, EMT’s and police force will get new vehicles! They will all start to use cybertrucks.
You joke, but I can 100% see this happening.
bluewing@lemm.ee 4 months ago
That’s unlikely. You need to get grants from the federal government, chiefly the DHS, to get money to buy major equipment. There ain’t anymore federal grants remember. Small volunteer, (70% of all fire depts in the US), services are especially reliant on those grants to replace major assets.
Source: Been on committees to spec and buy ambulances and fire trucks and turnout gear. Even boots and gloves sometimes.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 4 months ago
Do they still let you charge for free on the Tesla network?
Charge it during the day, run your house off of it at night when you are home. Save electricity.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Thanks to Elon, inspecting governmental bodies, regulations and regulators will be dissolved, so probably the cybertruck will be an amazing camp fire, better known as a dumbster fire, due to spontaneous combustion like Chinese cars in China. Then to blame it on trans people or something.
GuitarSon2024@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well if they’d stop putting signage with “Arbeit Macht Frei” over the entrance to their factories maybe they’d do better.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
i wonder when ol stinky starts pushing somekind of law that makes it mandatory to buy one
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
More likely to make the government buy them all.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
basically same thing though, just even more infuriating
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
DOGE
arc@lemm.ee 4 months 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.
Zink@programming.dev 4 months ago
If somebody like Trump’s words still get reported like they mean anything, Musk has a long way to go.
If things stay normal, I would expect anything Tesla announces to get reproduced in the news in full with a little caveat somewhere that says musk is known for optimistic or aggressive timelines.
hark@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months 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 4 months 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.
FolknForage@lemm.ee 4 months 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?
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What a shock, the meme car only sold a few units before people were over it. LoL 😂
Lauchs@lemmy.world 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago
The world would also just be a happier and better place with another season.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 4 months 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
SouthFresh@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The only thing Elon’s ever pulled out of.
sampao@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Beat me to it
thejml@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Turns out the group of people who look at mid nineties Laura Croft and think “that low polygon count asthenic is exactly how I like my women and trucks, I’ve got lots of disposable income to buy a truck that can’t do many truck things we’ll, and I’m glad a far right ketamine filed tech bro is running the company!” Is a small number of people.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I’m still waiting for them to finish loading in.
ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months 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.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I describe it as looking like it was made out of plywood
Wiz@midwest.social 4 months ago
It looks like my Pinewood Derby car that I made in Cub Scouts!
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
If it was part of a trend of Redneck shit mobiles itd be respectable but stupid, the fact that they are built out of a factory and not Bubba’d out of scrap metal and random parts in a garage makes them thoroughly stupid and infinitely trashy.
kreskin@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
westyvw@lemm.ee 4 months 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.
Red_October@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah because they were showing such restraint before.
Rooty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
At least the Wolkswagen was egineered properly. I don’t see anyone continuing to use this design after the war.
oascany@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well that was designed by one of the GOATs - Ferdinand Porsche
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 4 months ago
There were stops left that could be removed from Cybertrucks, still?
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Not even Hitler would buy one. He’s got too much self-respect than to associate with Elon.
ian@feddit.uk 4 months ago
I knew they should have built a real smoke and engine noise generator into the cyber truck. So that all those who insist on polluting, don’t have to be left out.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They could put a big diesel in that large unused empty space in the back.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Has Elon Musk tried not being a fascist plutocrat?
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
MITM0@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Who the hell buys a cybertruck anyway ?
lud@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Obviously no one, hence the article.
Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 4 months ago
Youtuber it seems.
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Now if I could just get my 6YO to stop fawning over them.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hmm… i can’t him them. The cybertruck does look like a who’s drawing of a car.
froh42@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
barsoap@lemm.ee 4 months ago
For reference.
Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 4 months ago
Or make a special edition. The Kristall Nacht with a red and black wrap or something.
Carighan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Could even decorate it with a pattern based on an asian symbol commonly found on temples!
FireWire400@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nice, how about “Cars enabling Freedom” or “Autos machen frei”?
Noscopy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I’m pretty sure that the new employee orientation has a banner that says something about work setting me free.