cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/22132981
Elon underestimated how willing people were to buy a truck from a nazi.
Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants
Submitted 10 months ago by AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today to technology@lemmy.world
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Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Woht24@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s a cool stance to take.
golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Even people who would by from Nazi’s still want a functional car.
These things randomly stop working, break if you drive it into a half a foot of water, have rear view mirror housings which bust off when you try to pull down the sun visor, have a single ethernet cable routing all the controls and devices so that if the connection breaks the connection anywhere everything stops working suddenly, a shelf underneath the headlight which accrues dirt or snow as you drive until it is not serving its purpose, exterior panels which just fall the fuck off, and hardly get any mileage.
The only people who buy these are those incapable of the barest reasoning.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh no… anyway
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I think its crazy that they made $800 mil worth of these cars. Who the hell thought they would sell well?
hark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They had a ridiculous number of people putting in a deposit to reserve one, about two million reservations according to this: insideevs.com/…/tesla-cybertruck-2-million-reserv…
I guess they came to their senses.
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s 80,000 vehicles. The production capacity is 250k. Ford sold 460,000 F-150s last year.
Chrysler had an inventory of over 1 million last year, they’ve ran through that by March.
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Chrysler had an inventory of over 1 million last year, they’ve ran through that by March.
That’s insane considering Chrysler hasn’t made a decent vehicle in 20+ years and the majority of them are just as big piles of shit as the cybertruck.
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I always thought he was making them as a limited high-end run. It’s neither of those things.
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Oh its gonna be limited thats for sure. But yeah I had very similar thoughts as well. Theres one cyberfuck in my town and every time I see it I can’t help but think what a fucking goober one must be to buy it
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Daryl@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
How abut: The truck is just plain ugly.
It looks like a refuse bin. Square back, low opening front.
When I worked in a lime quarry, we used a bin something like that shape to put all the crap and garbage in The a-frame had a bar across the top and the kiln truck picked it up worth its hoist and loaded it on the back, and hauled away the load to the dump.
Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Correction. They are worthless. lol.
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’d buy them for their scrap metal and batteries if they were cheap enough for me to not feel guilty about giving money to tesla
Sonor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
yeah, if nobody wants them, then they are worth 0 dollars net
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
The batteries are still expensive and good to use for anything else. So it should be 20-25k in scrap.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 10 months ago
I live in a pretty conservative area. I might pay $15k for a brand new one.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You hate to see it, whomp whomp
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I actually don’t hate to see it
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I can, explicitly and unequivocally, state that I derive intense joy from having the privilege of seeing this.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Good.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would a few of the batteries.
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Hell yeah if I could get a free cybertruck I’d have lots of fun salvaging the motors, batteries, sensors, etc.!
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Who would you throw them at
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What? Are you asking what I would do with them? I would build a battery bank and start collecting solar panels.
Netux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
$800 million worth is giving a lot of value to something they can barely give away. Maybe $800K worth of material after the cost of dismantling.
merdaverse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
$800 million according to labor theory of value. 0$ million according to subjective theory of value
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The $800m figure is only useful for figuring out how much Tesla was expecting to make out of it. When you factor in the development and manufacturing costs, they’re hemorrhaging money.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, a better number would be how much it cost to build the fuckers. I’m assuming they also need ongoing maintenance while they sit around rusting.
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There’s a reason just in time manufacturing took over the world. Storage is expensive.
LMurch@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
They really should use the number of units. If Musk cranks the price from 80k to 120k, they suddenly have $1.2B sitting there? It’s the same 10,000 ugly-ass pieces of shit.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hah hah hah. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
altphoto@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I would love for Tesla to have its management evaluated and filtered for Nazis. Then, when an independent company has removed and listed those nazis out, then I could consider buying from them.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Strip out the bad stuff and drop them in the ocean and they can become reefs for fishies and their buddies?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Strip out the bad stuff
What’s left after that?
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The reef is made of negative space
LMurch@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
They have nice dashboards/screens right?
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Not even the body shell is not any good?
altphoto@lemmy.today 10 months ago
So the steel basically.
BambiDiego@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So throw the windows in? The rest is rusty metal and plastics that become microplastics
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I thought the body was made from stainless steel. Maybe that ruts in the ocean too?
acchariya@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think a few hours with a torch and they would make fantastic dumpsters. Imagine if you could crab walk a self moving dumpster? Genius
Tantheiel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wonder if people don’t want the truck because of its design or the association with Elon more.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Does it really matter? It’s a shit looking vehicle that can’t drive in the rain if you don’t switch to carwash? Mode? I think?
The vehicle has so many design oddities, so many manufacturing problems, and it’s associated to one of the least liked billionaires in recent memory, so much so that people in the general public go out of their way too vandalize the vehicle whenever the opportunity presents itself.
What’s to like about it? Even if you don’t hate Elon, and don’t hate the look/design, the"truck" is a meme at best and a gigantic waste of resources.
limelight79@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It’s a novelty vehicle.
It’s too big for many people. It’s not as functional (in terms of towing and hauling) as a regular pickup. People who buy pickups for business uses are, for the most part, are going to be very nervous about buying an electric vehicle from a relatively new manufacturer.
Even if you put aside the issues with Elon: The issue with the Cybertruck is that Elon never understood it was a novelty vehicle. The traditional auto manufacturers make these novelty vehicles from time to time, but the difference is that they understand what they’re building and know they’re only going to sell 10,000 or something per year, and probably for a short run.
Elon’s so far up his own ass that he doesn’t understand why everyone isn’t buying one.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Those are 2 excellent reasons to hate it.
Tantheiel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I actually really like the look of it. It’s so ugly.
Also paint. I hate seeing paint chips on my car. I know I can wrap but that’s an extra expense to eat.
I just can’t see myself buying a new Tesla due to the damage Elon has caused. It’s a shame because my current Tesla is a wonderful car, in my opinion.
Jaybird@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If nobody wants them… they are not worth that amount. simple economics.
supply and demand…
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
This is exactly right. They’re worthless if nobody is willing to pay what’s being asked.
So what they’re “worth” is nothing.
irish_link@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I know i would get made fun of for this but a good price is a good price. I would pay $15,000 for one. I think most people would.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
yeah, for $15k USD I could buy an old Ranger or B3000 and have 5-10 years worth of fuel
cyber truck is a hard sell
veniasilente@lemm.ee 10 months ago
$15000 is rookie numbers.
I can offer $150 for one!
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would pay $15,000 for one.
I would pay $15k for a better vehicle. I’m not getting in The Truck That Kills You Instantly.
Bahnd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would totally take one for 15k (only if its used, never from tesla itself) take the batteries out, sell those and put the frame on a truck and drive it out to an event or protest and let people smash whats left. Let people rent a sledge hammer for a bit and vent, would be a fun and very public statement. Once thats done sell it as scrap. The batteries should alone should cover the next one.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You could rip the batteries out of them and use them for a solar setup. The rest could be sold for scrap.
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
So like what, 20?
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Boom, tardigraded!
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
They’re not worthless, im sure you can use them for scrap metal
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“$800m”… If nobody wants them, they’re not worth anything.
Neuromorph@lemm.ee 10 months ago
it cost them something to make…they arent completely valueless
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There is such a thing as the whole being less than the sum of its parts.
Inucune@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Scrap metal. I’ll give them $100 if they run, $50 if I have to tow it.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
But think of all the time that was spent to create them! /s
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Certainly they mean MSRP.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
If those 5 trucks had feelings they would be hurt
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
“nobody wants” or 60% of Americans can’t afford basic living expenses?
octobob@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Even if I could afford one, or want one, which I don’t for many reasons, the vehicle is so ginormous that it would be the biggest pain in the ass in the world to drive around my city. Parallel parking? Forget it. Narrow side streets that are the width of a car, but somehow you need to let someone come down directly towards you and it’s not a one way? Bumpy roads full of potholes or worn down to the original brick roads, with the vehicle that’s tires wear out faster than any other due to the sheer weight?
I think you get the idea
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 months ago
so ginormous
Tell me about it. The Cybertruck is an inch and some change longer and 8" wider than my ratty full size 1990’s pickup, yet somehow manages to have only slightly over half the usable cargo volume – 42.80 cubic feet vs. 70.7. And I’m being extremely charitable by treating the Cybertruck’s bed area as if it were cubic starting from its tallest point by the back glass, when in fact it’s wedge shaped.
It also weighs 3269 pounds more (in its lightest configuration) and as we all know by now the Cybertruck’s towing and trailer tongue weight ratings are outright lies whereas millions of people have successfully lugged billions of tons worth of boats, bikes, lawn mowers, and RV’s with GM and Ford pickups over the decades.
Even for the use case for someone who “needs” a truck, the Wankpanzer is a moronic choice.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Both.
Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Why not both nobody wants them and 60% of Americans can’t afford basic living expenses?
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
For all we know lots of people want them but can’t afford them.
Paints two completely different scenarios from the same objective base observation that there are X amount of unsold Cybertrucks.
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can someone explain how the demographic of people who loved to park their gas guzzlers to purposefully block tesla charging stations are now Musk fanboys all of a sudden?
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Have you seen what he posts on Twitter?
johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And retail investors continue to bail out the investors with money who are actually making money. Watch out for that rug!
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Cybertrucks are just sitting around, waiting for someone to officially label them the DeLorean of the 21st century.
Hey! You take that back! DeLoreans were always cool cars. Their demise wasn’t due to lack of popularity, the company just had problems getting established, and ultimately didn’t survive its initial growth phase.
Nobody despised the DeLorean, or it’s owner. They just ran out of money, and he tried a desperate Hail Mary play, that didn’t work.
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fuck Tesla. No bailouts for Nazis.
angelmountain@feddit.nl 10 months ago
I would pay 10 bucks to use them in my survival kit as a fire starter.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I am expecting them to end up as ICE technicals, used to hunt down dissidents like…checks notes…American citizens, children, and the elderly.
hopesdead@startrek.website 10 months ago
But they sold $43 million in 72 hours! /s
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If the talk about Cybertrucks actually rusting in the rain is true, they will be worth less and less and less…