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Tesla Cybertruck appears to be facing significant sales challenges. After initial hype faded, and over a million reservations turned out to be as real as unicorns, Tesla is now enabling leasing options and free upgrades to move its inventory of the futuristic pickup truck. The company's recent silence on the Cybertruck, even omitting it from their earnings call, speaks volumes about the situation.

Tesla initially projected sales of 500,000 Cybertrucks annually and established production capacity at the Giga Texas for 250,000 units per year. After working through the initial reservation backlog with fewer than 40,000 deliveries, the automaker is now struggling to sell the remaining vehicles.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 days ago (26 children)

All they had to do was build a solid, reliable truck, and not be fascist. Instead they build a poorly glued together piece of shit and sieg heil. I fucking hate this timeline.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Is that "all stops", as in they will get rid of that guy who very definitely did a Nazi salute?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Best they can do is promote him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

What do you get for a guy whose dick gets sucked by the president?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Elon should offer to pay the tariff for new customers.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i wonder when ol stinky starts pushing somekind of law that makes it mandatory to buy one

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

More likely to make the government buy them all.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

basically same thing though, just even more infuriating

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago

Bit like Elon, Never lived up to the hype

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or make a special edition. The Kristall Nacht with a red and black wrap or something.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Could even decorate it with a pattern based on an asian symbol commonly found on temples!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

A german asian mix. That is so forward thinking.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

A nice white background on a red backdrop would communicate our bold passion

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Yeah because they were showing such restraint before.

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