Elon Musk says 'we dug our own grave' with the Cybertruck as he warns Tesla faces enormous production challenges

"We"

Wasn’t he the one who made a bunch of ridiculous demands? This car seems like it was designed by Homer Simpson.

That's weird, I could have sworn he said that they nearly had all the issues sorted out and that it was coming next month.. Trying to remember when he said that.. 2021?

"When you've got a product with a lot of new technology or any brand new vehicle program, especially one that is as different and advanced as the Cybertruck, you will have problems proportionate to how many new things you're trying to solve at scale," he added.

does it have new technology? i thought it was just like, shockingly ugly?

Gee... telling the engineers to getting precision to below 10 microns would cause production challenges.

You'd think the guy claiming to "know more about manufacturing than anyone else on Earth" would have anticipated such issues at the start of the design process.

Good. Jump in.

*invents stupid and logicitally impossible truck.

*Production challenges

Weird, Ford and Rivian both seem to be able to make an EV pickup truck.

Cybertruck window demo

. Cybertruck.

The real story is that a million people have reserved this thing.

When I was a kid, I asked my dad why the cars on the road didn't look like any of the prototype cars I saw in autoshows or car books.

Now Elon has given me the answer. Those cars are hard to make at scale. One is doable, but thousands is impossible.

Who could have known that traditional manufacturers who have been building cars for decades have reasons to do it the way they did?

Surely not the man who reinvented the subway (but shitty) reinvented content moderation (but shitty) and reinvented the car (but shitty).

How come "normal" Teslas with traditional coachwork are selling, well not great, but good and every time Musk thinks he's the genius who'll singlehandedly completely reinvent a very competitive product he just creates a worse version?

I actually thought this was an elaborate joke. The "Cybertruck" looks like a piece of shit, and apparently is a piece of shit.

Wait, that's a real thing? I thought it was just a marketing stunt!

There is exactly one reason I cancelled my tesla you stupid Muskrat.

I cannot believe it, this coming from the man who knows more about production and manufacturing than anyone alive! For sure the Genius of Musk will find a solution to overcome this.

Like when he demanded 10um tolerance for the assembly of the cybershmuck nobody understood and they said it's impossible. But he realised, he realised early on that the mail will leak and idiots will take it as an argument of quality and performance and be motivated to throw money at him. Conmen need money inflow to keep the scheme going.

/s or not ...

Need a shovel?

Haha that's so--

Actually, never mind. I don't care that much.

Elon has a habit of doing this

Coming from the manbaby who based the design of the space x rocket on the movie the dictator

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Elon Musk said that Tesla "dug its own grave" with the Cybertruck, as he warned that it would take years for the company to ramp up production of the electric pickup.

And special products that come along once in a long while are just incredibly difficult to bring to market to reach volume, to be prosperous," he added.

"When you've got a product with a lot of new technology or any brand new vehicle program, especially one that is as different and advanced as the Cybertruck, you will have problems proportionate to how many new things you're trying to solve at scale," he added.

First announced in 2019, the futuristic pickup truck was expected to ship in 2021, but has experienced several delays as Tesla grappled with the vehicle's unique design and the complexity of producing it at scale.

According to CNBC, Elon Musk sent an email to Tesla employees in August saying that the Cybertruck should be as precisely designed as a Lego brick, with measurements that could not vary by more than 10 microns.

Earlier versions of the pickup seen in the wild have been called out for scratching and finish issues by prospective buyers, as well as being fingerprint magnets because of their stainless steel body.

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Hey guys c'mon dont be so hard on Elon. He's doing his best ok? xD

Lmao, yeah i just watched the newest louis rossaman video and then you wouldnt be irretated why tesla fails more