Time to bury them in the desert right beside the ET Atari cartridges.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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I’ll pay one thousand dollars cold hard cash for a new cybertruck
Just be sure you have enough savings for the inevitable repairs, tows, etc.
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I want to drive one into a brick wall. Not with me in it or anything. I figure I could do it just by setting it to auto-drive into a painting of a tunnel Looney Tunes style.
I could do the auto-drive I wouldn't mind
If nobody wants them, then they are worth $0.
You could definitely sell those for more then $0. The batteries alone aren't cheap.
So somewhere inbetween as the article says "more than 10,000 units" and "$800m" so they appear to be valuing them at ~$80k/unit which is ridiculously optimistic.
My guess is closer to 1/3rd of that value but nobody likes to lose half a billion in the blink of an eye
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I wouldn’t take one even if if was free
I would, you get $1.25per kilo of stainless steel and $3.15 for aluminium at the local scrap metal merchant
Take the battery out and use it for home storage.
Sure. Same. I could just throw a tarp over it on my way to the scrap yard, to protect my reputation.
Brave to assume it would make that distance drive, better hope there's no slight incline as that would invalidate the warranty
The fact that they'd throw a tarp on it implies they are towing it so no need to keep track of functionality.
You'd drive it? Safer to rent a flatbed.
$800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks
Cybertrucks aren't worth the glass of the molotovs that ignite them.
Worth and cost are not synonyms.
It’s funny. They target people who burned the trucks, but insurance claims are probably their best chance to get paid for the trucks.
Until insurers decide they're too expensive to cover.
Light em up!
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Actually saw a Tesla with a Trump/Vance sticker on it today. I was already at 92% hate for Tesla. Thanks for making that 100% today stranger.
I actually saw the opposite last week. It was a Tesla but on the back was a sticker that looked like this:
Oh no, anyway...
Sounds like any fires we see now should start as insurance fraud investigations
Can confirm. Do not want.
I’ll take them ALLLLL off your hands for $3.50.
I will get in on the bids. $3.25!
How is that $800 million WORTH? Is it a figure of speech?
Yes it's a common phrase. If an apple costs $2, and you have 10 apples, then you have $20 worth of apples.
Hopefully they all ~~catch fire~~ sell.
Fucking autocorrect am I right?
Tesla stock is up 21% in the last week. What is going on?!
Speculators/inside traders betting on (more) favourable rule changes or a fat govt supply contract perhaps
Just send them to Africa with the next batch of hats and t-shirts of whoever doesn't win the NBA finals
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All those retailer investors are going to get fucked so hard. They don’t even know they’re getting fed lies and end up bailing out the original investors who actually have money.