The decision to halt production of Tesla’s polarizing polygonal pickup marks the end of an error.
Elon Musk, in a post on X, has officially called time on the Cybertruck, stating that “Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production.”
Produced for less than four years, the polarizing pickup is seemingly dying as it lived, with the news being greeted in a flurry of replies in praise of the EV as well as deriding it. James Star, claiming to be a Tesla employee, posted that it was “the saddest news! Cybertruck (was) the best car Tesla sold,” right next to a user called Captain Ford who simply replied to Musk with “Fuck that shitbox.”
Remember when the shit nazi said the glass was bulletproof and while on stage proceeded to smash said glass with a golf club? This monstrosity should never have seen the light of day.
Rust in piss
And by RIP we mean “Rest In Pieces”.
Rust in pieces
That freakin’ car always looked like a car from Stunt Race FX on SNES.
The Cybertruck seemed like a bold idea, but it never won over many people. Maybe it’s time for Tesla to focus on products people actually want to buy.
Existing Cybertruck owners will have fun sourcing parts as they break down.
Me:
It’s gonna be hilarious when they can no longer get parts in 5 years. They’ll still swear to the quality of Tesla though.
They’ll just have to buy another new Tesla.
Are they still blocking people from selling used cyber trucks?
Are they still blocking people from selling used cyber trucks?
wat?
Cybertruck purchase agreements prevented re-selling the truck for a year. It was an anti-scalping measure
Turned out there wasn’t enough demand for the trucks for scalping to be a problem. It was only seen as necessary because of production delays and low production numbers, which probably contributed to apparent demand
It is a little funny to think about in hindsight. Tesla was worried demand would be so high scalpers would be buying up vehicles to flip, but demand ended up being so low the line had to be stopped within 4 years
wow. cybertruck bros are even dumber than I thought
The original delivery agreement for the Foundation Series (initial 1000 built) when they first launched required you to get Tesla’s permission to resell the vehicle for the first year.
Which is common for limited availability vehicles upon release from basically every manufacturer. The average person is never buying limited edition vehicles so it’s not relevant to 99.9% of the population, and something they’ve never heard of. Ford does it with every limited release Mustang variant for a common example.
The two primary reasons are essentially to prevent scalping, and so they can guarantee they receive back any vehicles with initial production run issues so engineers can study them. But facts don’t stop media reporting, especially when it comes to headlines about Musk.
Some manufacturers keep ownership limitations like that in place indefinitely. Ferrari famously sued Deadmau5 because of his Purrari modifications, so he had to remove them and sold the car, replacing it with a Meowclaren instead.
He specifically got in trouble for replacing the badge with a prancing cat and the Ferrari name with Purrari:
One of the easiest and most common changes people make to their cars is changing or removing badges like that. Can’t with a Ferrari though.
Not like I’ll ever want or be able to afford a Fertari, but fuck that.
I pay money for something I own it. I do what I please with my own possessions.
I would say I would never buy a Ferrari (which is true anyway) but I also wouldn’t consider that to even qualify as actual ownership, so even if I did pay for one, I still wouldn’t be willing to call it “buying”.
Tesla banned you from ever buying a new Tesla if you sold your cyber truck, and had a clause to sue you for $50k or the amount you got from the sale, whichever was greater.
I guess they stopped doing this at some point, but if you bought it when it was new you weren’t allowed to resell it for a year
It’s got a massive battery pack that can be used for backup power. I’d totally buy one that doesn’t move and put it on blocks in front of my double wide.
There’s plenty of use in a dumpster, after all.
How massive is it? My Silverado is 200KWh and can power the home in an emergency…
122.4 according to Car & Driver https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46010154/tesla-cybertruck-battery-capacity/
Not as much but with depreciation it might end up being cheaper per kWh
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isnt it superheavy as a vehicle too, like 7000lbs.
It looks as dimensionally challenged as his face, so it’s probably for the best
assuming the truck doesnt fall apart before then. its so cheaply made. it can slice a deer in half though.
There are a lot of unsold Cybertrucks. The only reason so many even sold was because Musk used SpaceX to buy much of the inventory
If there’s demand for the parts, they’ll be able to get them for a good while
I thought it was also forcing the US government to purchase them as well.
There will be plenty of dead ones in junkyards to take parts from.
Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly Absurd
Hey, just like Elon.
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Ha!
Reminds me of the NoFX album The War on Errorism
I love NoFX.
I’m putting that expression in my daily vocabulary
Good riddance, neo-Nazi made POS vehicle. Send the remaining ones to fucking Russia.
Pickup? More like a let down truck.
Good riddance
Rest In Pieces
If it had actually been a decent vehicle then at least it’d have that. But no, it’s full of problems, recalls, and traps people inside and burns them to death.
The Ford Pinto was killed for less. It’s not like we don’t know how to make safe cars, yet somehow Tesla is allowed to get away with so much.
The Ford Pinto was killed for less.
…and has killed for less. 💀
You can tell if it’s not a real one, because it’s not very rusty
I respect them for attempting something so different but holy shit that thing was literally a dumpster fire
If you offered me a El Camino crossed with a DeLorean that was also an EV, I’d be hyped. The Cybertruck is neither of those things. It’s a lowploy SUV.
edit: Actually. Give me the Gadgetmobile where the back is reconfigurable with different modules.
There was a Youtuber doing what you described before the Cybertruck was shown. She chopped off the back of a Model
S3 and made it into a truck bed to have a El Camino style EV.
I don’t. It was a trash idea created by a trash man who believes everyone’s a sucker.
You’re not wrong
It wasn’t always on fire. And when it was you could usually find at least someone willing to piss on it to try (and fail) to put it out. Hell, often when it wasn’t on fire, even.
That should have been there slogan for it.
Get a cyber truck, it isn’t always on fire
