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Summary

The Tesla Cybertruck is in crisis. The automaker is still sitting on a ton of old inventory, which it is now heavily discounting, and it is throttling down production.

Tesla is expected to currently be selling the Cybertruck at a rate of about 25,000 units a year – a tenth of what Musk predicted.

Tesla began the second quarter with 2,400 Cybertrucks in inventory, valued at over $200 million. Tesla is now offering deeper discounts on the new inventory of Cybertrucks.

The automaker has reduced its Cybertruck production teams and now operates at a fraction of its original capacity.

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[–] comador@lemmy.world 126 points 4 days ago (5 children)
[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Ok hold up lets keep the thots, send the players tho

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 17 points 4 days ago

Oh, that took me a while. Love it!

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[–] Concave1142@lemmy.world 77 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're also hiding them (my opinion) off of their main lot so people don't see how many are sitting around. The dealership near me has a couple on the lot but down the road, across the street on a hidden side road I saw over a dozen of them sitting in a fenced in lot gathering pollen last week.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 54 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Do you have access to a super soaker and vinegar? Maybe you could help wash some of that pollen off.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 42 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The CIA of yesteryear approves this idea.

Where destruction is involved, the weapons of the citizen-saboteur are salt, nails, candles, pebbles, thread, or any other materials he might normally be expected to possess as a householder or as a worker in his particular occupation. His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies. The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to which he has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.

https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

[–] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago

Some pickle brine seems like it would be particularly effective in creating a lovely rust patina.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

What a great thing to download from Mr Gutenberg

[–] superkret@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago

That's a good way to get shot by a cop, or sent to El Salvador

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[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 73 points 4 days ago (2 children)

He predicted that he would sell a quarter-million of those $80,000 shipping containers on wheels a year?

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 90 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Unfair comparison. Shipping containers are actually useful.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (3 children)

And generally well designed and well made, to exacting standards.

[–] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (4 children)
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[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 4 days ago

And are looking quite nice in comparison.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

You can turn a shipping container into a poorly insulated house, which my hope for cybertruck owners too

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[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Depends on how you define "predicted".

If you meant "made the most logical guess using all available data" then no, he didn't do that.

But if you meant "pulled an impossible sales number out of a ketamine-laced shit from his lumpy asshole that wildly overestimated how popular he and his 'truck' are" then I'd say you're correct!

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 65 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What a disaster.

In normal companies, the CEO would be fired.

Unfortunately, the 'firing' is usually a golden handshake and jumping straight into heading another company to run that into the ground too. After multiple rounds of layoffs of course.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 3 days ago
[–] 3rdwrldbathhaus@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago

even if you set aside the fact that driving this thing is a literal fascist dogwhistle, it's also objectively a terrible vehicle- electric or otherwise.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 46 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Novice_Idiot@lemmy.wtf 7 points 3 days ago

White House right now: "we don't need anyone else!" Meanwhile no one working there can survive without the drugs from developing countries and half of them can't even wipe their own ass. Yeah sure America might be fine but America is a continent and it doesn't bend to a couple pathetic barely functioning pedofilic rapists with a breeding kink.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

Who the heck would want a work truck that is locked behind proprietary everything and only repairable through overpriced and overbooked, understaffed tesla dealerships.

It's the worst decision own could make for a business vehicle or work truck.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Is it a crisis when it's been that way from before the beginning.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

valued at over $200 million

Bet they aren't.

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 9 points 4 days ago

For insurance fraud purposes.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Expect more CTs to catch fire in their lots, as they blame other people for arson.

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago

it was a piece of junk when it first showed up in the news as a concept, 5years before it was released and its a junk now.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Yeah, good luck with that.

I mean I didn't like the truck when it was first introduced, much less now that I know it's being built by a company lead by a Neo-Nazi.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I’m trying to think of how cheap it would have to be for me to drive one of these monstrosities and it would have to be something like $-50K/year.

Pay me a lower middle class salary and I will drive your piece of shit electric truck.

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[–] doug@lemmy.today 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Anytime my group and I see one in Fortnite we have to drop what we’re doing and kill whoever’s in it.

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[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Oh no. Maybe they can keep the Pontiac Aztek company in the automotive retirement home.

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[–] clickercounter@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I am really looking forward to all the Teslas being stripped down for ev conversions and restomods.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So much of the design is proprietary nonsense, it makes me wonder how much of the trucks can be reused for something people actually want.

[–] clickercounter@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Sure, but there are lots of components that people can use. Tesla electric water pumps are used for IC engine cooling even though teslas don’t have combustion. power steering components for upgrades, motors for drivelines, mechanical linkages for steering and suspension. We can definitely use these items in a way the designers never intended.

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[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago

Contemplating the fact that people are being snatched off the streets and being sent to prisons in El Salvador and there’s an article about the sales decline of the horrid car of the Nazi Elon Musk who is a main player in this fascist regime.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

I'm sure all the hardworking engineers, assemblers, office workers, sales people, materials, programmers, hardware, research people are super ecstatic about having their CEO turn their brand new product from an awesome big ass piece of shit electric washed environment destruction truck into a product nobody wants.

Like probably you'll see one of my fellow citizens running around town with a bunch of lawn mowers and leaf blowers in one of these pretty soon. How much did you pay for that shit man? Oh I got it cheap on Craigslist for $3K!

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

hope they throttle the production by adding the quality control step

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (6 children)

25k of EV pickups is A LOT by comparison to others.

It's a stupid truck but also the target demographic doesn't really exist.

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[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

Oh no ... anyway.

[–] Sciaphobia@lemm.ee 13 points 4 days ago

I honestly assumed they weren't making any more of those shit boxes already.

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