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.
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.
Good. Let it burn.
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.
Do you have access to a super soaker and vinegar? Maybe you could help wash some of that pollen off.
That’s a good way to get shot by a cop, or sent to El Salvador
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/
What a great thing to download from Mr Gutenberg
Some pickle brine seems like it would be particularly effective in creating a lovely rust patina.
Why vinegar?
The Cybertruck’s stainless steel body is susceptible to corrosion from acidic substances, including vinegar. Tesla’s own guidance advises against using acidic liquids or materials, including vinegar, on the vehicle’s exterior.
Do we have a pH chart for various animal urines I have a hunting trip coming up and don’t want to burn the dog
Now I’m conflicted about that news article I saw about Trump letting those 70 coal plants operate with emissions unchecked, because now the acid rain they cause will degrade the trucks faster.
hope they throttle the production by adding the quality control step
I am really looking forward to all the Teslas being stripped down for ev conversions and restomods.
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.
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.
Agreed. A lot of the EV conversion companies use Tesla parts.
And they put them together with acceptable tolerances it’s wild
Too be fair many EV conversions are bespoke works of art. Price is not a major concern for the owner.
They were overpriced garbage anyhow. BYD is outputting EV’s that are ten times better at a fraction of the cost. The only reason they aren’t being sold here is a bunch of protectionist bullshit that even democrats are responsible for.
It’s only misplaced faith by a bunch of techbro traders that’s even keeping the TSLA stock aloft. Tesla management literally dumps every certificate of stock they get as bonus the second they receive it.
valued at over $200 million
Bet they aren’t.
For insurance fraud purposes.
He predicted that he would sell a quarter-million of those $80,000 shipping containers on wheels a year?
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!
Unfair comparison. Shipping containers are actually useful.
And are looking quite nice in comparison.
You can turn a shipping container into a poorly insulated house, which my hope for cybertruck owners too
And have rust proofing applied.
And generally well designed and well made, to exacting standards.
And the front doesn’t fall off for starters!
That was a feature, not a bug.
Not sure what the feature does, but, details don’t matter to the wanks that but them.
And they float!
Nigel Thornberry is legitimately more terrifying than It.
Oh no … anyway.
Oh, that took me a while. Love it!
Cheese pears.
Tater fruit
Thots and Players
Ok hold up lets keep the thots, send the players tho
Expect more CTs to catch fire in their lots, as they blame other people for arson.
TBH, this would not surprise me at all.
Toastla
They even take it as a trade-in either xD
I think you forgot a word.
They were wont to forget it.
I honestly assumed they weren’t making any more of those shit boxes already.
Anytime my group and I see one in Fortnite we have to drop what we’re doing and kill whoever’s in it.
Why the fuck is there a Cybertruck in Fortnite?
Shareholder lawsuits before the end of the year, I’m betting.
They’ll find out that it’s now a capital offense to sue Elmo.
Pay me $1000 and I’ll take one. I won’t drive it but I’ll take it.
I’d be willing to buy one to make it my sole mission to jailbreak it if it hasn’t already. I won’t rest until I have it running crysis.
Has anyone played Doom on it yet?
Make sure you store it somewhere you don’t mind being surveilled.
