Tesla will stop making the Cybertruck next year, according to CEO Elon Musk, who said on X that the company will use the factory space to build more two-seater Cybercab robotaxis.
The decision to wind down the futuristic, steel-clad EV comes after just a few short years of underwhelming sales. When Musk handed over the first few Cybertrucks in late 2023, he predicted Tesla would sell around 250,000 per year. It was supposed to be such a cornerstone of Tesla’s future that, before construction began, the company talked about its Texas factory as the “Cybertruck factory.” But Tesla has instead sold just tens of thousands — total — over the last three years.
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Shame Tesla went from making great luxury cars to mass produced cookie cutter… while CT isn’t for me, it was the last “premium” interior tesla did after axing S and X.
Couldn’t give a fuck about Musk. But their cars are still industry leading despite not doing shit for years. I will drive my 2020 model S till the wheels fall off and then some. NOTHING and I mean NOTHING compares to it. Like fuck, my only option is a range rover and I’d still be giving up tons of features.
Lemmy hates tesla, hates musk even more, is often against EVs so I’m sure I’m gonna get downvoted into oblivion. But happy to discuss and engage in EV talk! Plenty of great cars out there, just nothing above 40k mark that’s remotely doing it for me.
The only person that should own a cybertruck is that one youtuber whose whole career and life is about the car.
PS. I have been saying this a lot lately for the memes. Like i tried the new star wars galactic racers game and concluded that the only person that should pay 70 for it is the above.
I can’t wait for my kids to finally stop pointing them out and saying, “Dad, there’s that car you hate.”
I like loudly pointing them out to my wife with, “Hey babe, look. It’s one of those Nazi cars!”
It’s really fun when there are other people around, especially the owner.
Pretty soon you will Nazi them any more. They will be Reich there with the delorean in terms of rarity.
The Tesla bubble has popped. Every earnings call will be worse than the last, and will be followed by a stock slide. There is no saving it, no rehabbing it’s image. Trump may keep it alive with bailouts, but Tesla will be bankrupt the moment Trump is out of office.
Everything’s computer
Do they still keep them on the Whitehouse lawn?
Not sure that trump can do that now that team blue have their fingers on the congressional purse
There goes one of the surest indicators of people you should avoid. Much as I hate the ugly things, they were an awesome way for people with bad politics to tell on themselves.
It’s honestly such a shame. EV that looks straight out of the N64? Progressive, yet counter culture because of how ugly it is. If the build quality wasn’t garbage and the CEO wasn’t a nazi, I’d love to drive one.
it was also so expensive to make that one of the cost cutting measures was to stop sealing the holes in the frame/underside that had that wires ran through with butyl rubber, Which meant now driving through a tiny puddle risked causing electrical shorts and thus erasing any savings from the cost cutting with warranty repairs.
which just highlights musks excellence in engineering. /s
And if it was like half the size instead of a pedestrian-killer 6000.
Oh no! Anyway…
Fuk that Nazi
I wonder what happened.
And like the Delorean, it will soon become a curious historical item.
The difference is the DeLorean holds a place of affection, due to its starting role in Back to the Future, and being a cool looking car.
The SwatiKKKar was just butt ugly from the getgo. It will never have the star power of the DeLorean.
Also the DeLorean has actually interesting history and design aspects like as Jameskii noted when he was rebuilding his Yugo prototype for some fucken reason they used DeLorean parts. Also the DeLorean is one of those things where a lot elements from its design were adopted even if the whole was kinda questionable.
I don’t see Zemekis managing to salvage this one’s image with a hit blockbuster trilogy…
How can a company expect to sell over 750,000 cars in 3 years, sell less than 100,000, and not see horrendously tanking stock values? They must have lost so much money on the cybertrucks.
I’m pretty sure that Tesla stock is basically a money laundering scheme that allows oligarchs to pay him large amounts of money for being the one to openly fuck shit up (eg taking the loss to gain control of twitter, being the face of DOGE, openly buddying up with Trump, seeing what the response would be to giving a Nazi salute on live TV, etc).
I suspect he’s essentially their lightning rod.
Man, the powers that be can’t stop scapegoating Africans.
I haven’t heard this theory before, but damn, it does make a lot of sense.
Why on Earth would someone design a cab to only seat two people? The only time in the last two years that I’ve used a cab, it was to travel with a group.
The best guess I can figure is that an insufferable loser like Elon can’t fathom having two or more people that want to be in the same car as him.
No friends?
80% of all taxi rides are 2 or less people.
They also have the model y which can do 5 people.
It feels like there’s a big gap between the cab and the y. Would a self driving 3 (which can fit 5 people and they already have factories to build 90%+ of) not make way more sense?
They built more capacity for the Y as it’s a better selling vehicle, and if you already have a small car for the 1 and 2 people trips, using something bigger with more storage for the 3-5 people trips does make sense. I’m sure 3s will eventually end up in it though even if it’s just a way to balance factory output. Like if the 3 is selling less in a quarter and the factory is idling more, maybe adding some 3s to the robotaxi fleet instead of y’s that quarter begins to make sense?
And the model y can also do two people.
So again, why focus so hard on a two seater?
The Model Y costs substantially more to build, is more complicated to repair and costs more to run per mile.
When only 1/5 rides need that, it’s cheaper to mass produce something else. The plan is to make millions of these.
Yeah, right when they start to use their robots on the SpaceX Mars base.
I mean you don’t need to believe it’s going to happen, they only needed to believe while planning things and the impacts it would have on their decisions.
Guess he also can’t fathom the idea of actually going places with your family.
Just need room for the human shiel–erm, I mean child he’s spending quality time with that particular day.
I thought so as well, but then when you think about it… most taxis are kind of just the back seat? Still weird not to make it a three seater bench though. I guess they want you to book two if you want more than 2 people, cha-ching.
Tell me you don’t live in London without saying you don’t live in London.
Most people don’t live in London
Most taxis are not just the back seat.
And the boot in that thing is truly enormous… something a taxi does need.
so they can sell a 2nd cab to the other 2 people
100% agree
When my son was six, he thought it was so cool. “If I drew a cybertruck, that’s how Id draw it.”
My son, 9, now says “A cybertruck looks like a 6 year old drew it.”
I will always love that my kid has more awareness than Elon Musk.
To be honest, I kind of liked how silly it was. Like a goofy low-polygon PS1 car. If the creator of it was just a quirky weirdo and not a Nazi I could definitely abide it as something charmingly ugly and weird
