Remember those million pre-orders Tesla allegedly had for the Cybertruck, according to CEO Elon Musk? It’s getting tougher and tougher for the company to explain where all of them went.
After putting around 50,000 Cybertrucks on the road, according to a recent recall filing, the company appears to be out of pre-orders and desperately looking to juice demand. Case in point: It’s now offering up to $10,000 off certain Cybertrucks it has in inventory.
so…they intentionally lied to artificially increase demand and make their product look more compelling? can we get some fucking consumer protections regulations for fucks sake?? they’re killing us out there
This would be a matter for the Securities and Exchange Commission to come crashing down on them. This kind of statement is designed to manipulate the market, and in a normal world, would be heavily punished.
Which is why they’re killing it.
No it’s been doge’d by the dude who would personally benefit from it’s doge’ing.
I suspect if they did, they’d be in trouble for defrauding investors.
But do laws even apply anymore?
Good, but for fucks sake, can we get just a standard two door, full sized, long bed electric truck that can actually do some work and not be a god damn pavement princess, suburban male, penis extender?
The Honda Ridgeline can be repurposed as a LPG truck, and the Ford Ranger Lightning is electric. But both of them are on the larger side tho’
Many craft and trade people in Norway have embraced the Volkswagen Buzz.
Got to poke around in a Buzz at a local euro car meet. They are larger inside than I imagined in pictures. I could see them being great for contractors in a stripped down version.
I lost my tacoma a few years back and have a 00 tdi golf with a roof rack and a tow hitch. Other than a couple times where I needed to get a lot of 4x8 sheets of subflooring it has handled everything I did with my truck. Water heaters , 12’ 6x6", loads of 2x4, 28’ ladders , scaffolding etc all go on the roof rack. I’ll probably never buy another truck. People joke around when I’m loading material, fuck em.
I know this isn’t exactly what you were asking for, but this looks promising for people that want what essentially is the anti-cybertruck:
I mean, as far as I know Rivians aren’t that bad. Disclaimer I have done very little research I just know they look cool and aren’t owned by Musk.
My beef with Rivian is one I shared with Tesla- their chargers are closed to other brands. That’s a mask-off move in my opinion. It’s a business decision, not a technical one.
This might not be realistic, but if I had any electric vehicle, #1 item that would be in my trunk 24/7 is a portable charger and a long ass cable so I could eventually get going no matter what.
But also it says you can charge the car at “any public charger” including their “Adventure network” and tesla superchargers.
Any transportation technology that isn’t like, public seems like pick your poison to me, I was never happy about having to buy modern automobiles with spy chips that report your sexuality to the manufacturer for some reason.
The 2nd paragraph is my problem- they can use the public chargers, but the public can’t use theirs. They say they’re opening it up, but it hasn’t happened yet and they’re only doing it because their plan failed.
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musk inflates numbers to match his ego.
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many, many, people canceled their preorder when they discovered he’s a fucking asshole.
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several orders of magnitude more got tired of waiting and canceled because it too long to come out (also the base price went up by 20k,)
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It turns out to be one of the least reliable, worst made cars on the road at any price.
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Still uglier than an NFT.
And it’s the only Tesla designed by Elon Musk. The fraud bought his way to fame.
I love how you can tell exactly how it went down just by looking at the thing. Elon wanted a ton of specific and basically contradictory things, which led to a ton of compromises being made and corners being cut just to get it “done,” and the result is a literally flaming pile of shit.
Kinda feel bad for the engineer that had to bring a toddler’s drawing of a car to life but also fuck man, have some dignity. I’m sure his resume is good enough to go somewhere else if Elon fired him for telling him to pound sand.
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i remember it was 5 years before the cybertruck came out, when he showed the video and pics of the design, it hasnt changed since.
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Tesla earnings call in 3 days!
Maybe this time the bullshit will be seen through, but I don’t have my hopes up. There are other forces at play keeping the stock up other than reality. It’ll be rationalized as “but robotaxis, AI, robots, etc”.
buying anything from Tesla is supporting the destruction of a country
And supporting and encouraging the richest man in the world. Instead of making him richer, we need to bankrupt him, nationalize Space X and Starlink, and shut down anything else he was worming on.
Not in the good way either.
I’ll bet the build quality is higher on that thing.
Hey in Simpsons Hit and Run that’s a decent mid game choice.
Just sell to the UK or Europe. What’s that? It doesn’t meet road safety standard in the UK or Europe, well then guess someone fucked up
We gave them an exception in Canada even though they dont meet safety requirements. Absolutely fucked.
Wait, what?
In their defense (I hate saying that) it was over the steer by wire issue.
This pile of crap is completely impossible to bring to market in any country with reasonable consumer protections and road safety standards. Maybe they could export them to Russia?
One is already on the front lines in Ukraine. On the Russian side, naturally.
Even the Russians will probably prefer to attack riding donkeys.
It’s getting tougher and tougher for the company to explain where all of them went.
The price was the big one. It delivered at twice the initially advertised price. Took it from being very competitive with ICE trucks to costing much, much more.
The announced price was better than most EVs. I’m not interested in a truck but was tempted to preorder for the announced price and features. Now, years later, no effing way would I have followed through
Tesla couldn’t pay me to take possession of one of their vehicles, especially a Cybertruck.
Don’t worry, papa Elon will pull some strings to get the government to take these turkeys off his hands.
Efficiency!
I’m surprised your cops aren’t all being forced to drive them. I’d love to see that.
I see a few on the road or parked now and then. I cringe every time.
I sometimes think that for a future vehicle I might like to do an EV conversion on an older gas burning, small SUV. Now suddenly I struck by the idea of an EV to EV conversion, to get rid fo the Tesla computers full of spyware. It would still be recognizeable though, not good.
Tesla has started putting up to $10,000 on the hood of Cybertrucks.
Well that’s nice. Is this $10,000 up for grabs, or do you need to buy the truck first? Is it in one of those silver suitcases?
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