3d ago

Tesla Cybertruck is in crisis: new discounts and throttling down production

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.

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2d ago

Tesla Cybertruck is in crisis: new discounts and throttling down production

electrek.co /2025/04/17/tesla-tsla-cybertruck-discount-throttles-down-production-amid-crisis/

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Who the heck would want a work truck that is locked behind proprietary everything and only repairable through overpriced and overbooked, understaffed tesla dealerships.
It's the worst decision own could make for a business vehicle or work truck.

even if you set aside the fact that driving this thing is a literal fascist dogwhistle, it's also objectively a terrible vehicle- electric or otherwise.

Is it a crisis when it's been that way from before the beginning.

FUCK NAZIS

I'm sure all the hardworking engineers, assemblers, office workers, sales people, materials, programmers, hardware, research people are super ecstatic about having their CEO turn their brand new product from an awesome big ass piece of shit electric washed environment destruction truck into a product nobody wants.
Like probably you'll see one of my fellow citizens running around town with a bunch of lawn mowers and leaf blowers in one of these pretty soon. How much did you pay for that shit man? Oh I got it cheap on Craigslist for $3K!

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.
  
  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/
  
  That's a good way to get shot by a cop, or sent to El Salvador
  
  Why vinegar?

He predicted that he would sell a quarter-million of those $80,000 shipping containers on wheels a year?
- Unfair comparison. Shipping containers are actually useful.
  
  And generally well designed and well made, to exacting standards.
  
  You can turn a shipping container into a poorly insulated house, which my hope for cybertruck owners too
  
  And are looking quite nice in comparison.
  
  And have rust proofing applied.
- 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!

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.

- White House right now: "we don't need anyone else!" Meanwhile no one working there can survive without the drugs from developing countries and half of them can't even wipe their own ass. Yeah sure America might be fine but America is a continent and it doesn't bend to a couple pathetic barely functioning pedofilic rapists with a breeding kink.

IncEl Camino
- Haha I've been calling them Elon Camino. I like this better.

it was a piece of junk when it first showed up in the news as a concept, 5years before it was released and its a junk now.

Contemplating the fact that people are being snatched off the streets and being sent to prisons in El Salvador and there’s an article about the sales decline of the horrid car of the Nazi Elon Musk who is a main player in this fascist regime.

valued at over $200 million
Bet they aren't.
- For insurance fraud purposes.

Oh no. Maybe they can keep the Pontiac Aztek company in the automotive retirement home.
- This is Aztek slander, the Aztek was actually a good car.
  
  The Aztec concept car was excellent! I have no idea how they turned that into that mess of a production vehicle
  
  The Aztec styling was just ahead of its time.

Yeah, good luck with that.
I mean I didn't like the truck when it was first introduced, much less now that I know it's being built by a company lead by a Neo-Nazi.

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

I’m trying to think of how cheap it would have to be for me to drive one of these monstrosities and it would have to be something like $-50K/year.
Pay me a lower middle class salary and I will drive your piece of shit electric truck.
- You theoretically want to die on fire trapped in one for that much money?
  
  I struggle with suicidal ideation every day, so…maybe?
- It would have to more for me if they add rules and a contract, though. You'd want to make it look incredibly anti-musk to avoid someone fucking up the car.
  Granted, you'd still make money up to that point.

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?
  
  Money. Tbf other automakers are in there too, but nothing screams “I’m an asshole” like driving a Cybertruck in-game.

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.
- 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.

25k of EV pickups is A LOT by comparison to others.
It's a stupid truck but also the target demographic doesn't really exist.
- I seriously wonder who these 25k a month even are? How are they selling even a hundred a month?
  
  It's 25k per year, and its only an estimate (from Tesla) based on the sales so far. I'm betting those sales falling off a cliff will keep numbers well below that when the year actually comes to an end.
  
  Tesla has made up numbers before. ¯(ツ)_/¯
  
  These numbers coming from Tesla have never been actual sales but "deliveries", which can occur multiple times per sale and also can occur without a sale. They only publicize "deliveries" instead of actual sales data because bigger number.

hope they throttle the production by adding the quality control step

Oh no ... anyway.

I honestly assumed they weren't making any more of those shit boxes already.

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.

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.

I'll take one if they pay me and I don't get charged for the fire afters

Good. Let it burn.

Tee hee!
- Don't tease me like this every time something horrible happens to Musk I titter like a schoolgirl

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.
I wonder if Tesla could take the existing Cybertrucks and rebuild them into something else that would see more demand. I mean, plenty of auto companies have models that share a basic platform.
- I'd happily watch a destruction derby of them in a giant arena.

I call this the low polygon devil wagon

They even take it as a trade-in either xD
- I think you forgot a word.
  
  They were wont to forget it.

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