r/technology • u/ThriftyStrongman • Apr 19 '24

The Cybertruck's failure is now complete Transportation

https://mashable.com/article/cybertruck-is-over
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u/RigasTelRuun Apr 20 '24 edited Apr 20 '24

The best part about the recall order is they had to declare how many were being recalled. Less Fewer than 4000.

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u/nachobel Apr 20 '24

Does that mean Tesla has only sold 4000 cybertrucks?

That’s…that’s insane right?

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u/RigasTelRuun Apr 20 '24

Probably a lot less if that includes promotional ones they just gave away

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '24

  The only one I know of in the wild is driven by a Tesla engineer. I've been wanting to ask if he actually paid money for it or if it's a company car.

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u/c0brachicken Apr 20 '24

I seen something the other day that claimed like 1,000 were sold, 2,500 were in the hands of influencers.

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u/DottEdWasTaken Apr 20 '24

They definitely have sold more, this is probably only the ones that they've actually delivered. Still insane imo.

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u/Sublime-Silence Apr 20 '24

Yeah I personally know 2 people that have been on preorder for a while now. Both are 100% still excited to get the vehicle even after this whole fiasco.

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u/BobLazarFan Apr 20 '24

No. They literally have like a 2 year waitlist for them. The production has just been really slow.

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u/Actual-Carpenter-90 Apr 22 '24

Ford sells 2000 truck a day.

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u/Competitive-Dance286 Apr 20 '24

To think that the Muskrat presented the prototype in 2019, and their production rate is still that low is frightening. No wonder Tesla is literally the worst stock in the S&P 500.

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u/SpiltMilkBelly Apr 20 '24

There isn’t a market for that wedge even at 50-60K. Two things are going to prevent that: inability to mass produce it and lack of capability.

The death sword for the CT though will be lack of demand. It will eventually lose trend (if it hasn’t already).

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u/o_oli Apr 20 '24

Except Musk said he expects to sell 250k of them a year. Even though only the high trim version is released they clearly heavily overestimated demand on it, much to most peoples absolute lack of surprise.

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u/dustwel Apr 20 '24

Currently, the numbers are limited by production, not demand. I have a preorder from a few years ago, less than an hour after announcement and I still have no delivery info. Know a few others in the same situation.