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.
Holy shit. They were still making new ones?!
Not really. There’s a massive stockpile of them that they’re trying to flog to the US govt. That might have become much more difficult since last week.
That might have become much more difficult since last week.
Only slightly.
For the most part, choosing which vehicles a federal agency will buy is entirely an Executive Branch thing.
yes
I guess the demand for wheeled dumpsters wasn’t as high as they thought.
their “guaranteed buyers” just lost the midterms
For $120,000 I can but do much cooler vehicles.
For $120K you can buy a vehicle that’s an actual car, not a meme gag peddled by a wannabe fascist who wants to fuck children but was so cringe the rest of pedoes didn’t want him in rape island.
You can do much cooler vehicles for a fraction of that, pretty low bar.
You can find much cooler vehicles on the Power Wheels shelf of a big box store.
Pow-pow-power Wheels!
My dream is a '59 mercury pickup and a big fuck-off electric industrial power plant.
I only need about 50km of travel in my everyday life andI think the hilarity of an ancient pickup with an EV drivetrain is worth any of the hassles I will run into.
I’m almost ready to pull the trigger on the truck (maybe at tax time) and then settle in for a 5 year project electrifying it.
You couldn’t pay me to take that hideous Nazi trash can.
Hey now, hand me £250m and I’ll take one…to a firing range. That could be really fun actually! And then I’d have enough money to not worry about living my life the way I want.
you might get locked in it when it catches on fire.
I’d take one and angle grind the whole body off to replace it with a classic truck or big old caddy or something.
An EV el Camino would be pretty rad.
The rear steering would be a pain to work around though, and with the shitty dash and steering wheel.
dont forget that hilarious giant windshield wiper.
It’s going to need an open source power distribution system to work. And I’d just bring along all the electrics and mechanisms besides HVAC from the body donor.
Used ones are already going for under $40k.
If it goes under $5k, I might actually be tempted to buy one to use as a gas-free hay hauler.
people buy it used?
Not very readily. Which is why used prices are so low.
Like a Rivian. Highly recommend.
That sounds wheeeeely bad! I’ll show myself out…
I’m tired of Dad jokes like this.
Get used to it. They will be around for some time.
It’s like a soapbox car drunkenly cobbled together the night before the derby.
heh that gave a giggle. thanks.
Elon demonstrates sales projections.
Are you suggesting he did not see that sales drop coming?
Is the chart supposed to go up and to my Reich or yours?
Is it cut off, or should it go fuhrer?
It doesn’t matter, and frankly you should know that.
Weird the article didn’t mention that piece
He thought sales would be up here…
Fortunately they are so terrible and Tesla is so terrible at providing parts that these will all be off the road within a few years.
Womp
Remember to point and laugh at every Cybertruck you see (while you can)! They knew who Musk was, and supported him anyway…
I actually saw one of those ‘I bought this before we knew he was crazy’ stickers on one in the wild. Like, no buddy, you were fully aware of the monster he was at that point.
Right, that would only work for the oldest Teslas
God i hate theae stickers. Who’s “we”?
Tge other day i was behind a tesla who had a Nikola Tesla sticker on the back that said: &%#@ Edison. I absolutely loved the irony hatin on an imposter while driving the car of an absolute imposter shitstain.
Theres one that I pass sometimes that has a sticker that says “relax its a car. not a political statement”. Like, no dude. You knew what you were doing. We all know what you were doing.
Ignorance of the
lawNazi is no defense.
I legit thought i was the only person who did this! A guy near my office owns one and started to recognize me in my lesser ev and now it’s a race to see if i can point and laugh before he flips me off. Now i change it up on him and shake my head at him while wearing the biggest, shit eating grin.
Maybe it’s petty of me. Or maybe we need to bring public shaming back to counteract the Elmo brainworm all these sycophants have🤷🏻♂️
Open season on cybertruck owners. The car isn’t as ugly as who they bought it from.
My friends and I recoil in disgust whenever we see one. I hope Cybertruck drivers see nothing but grossed out faces. It’s the visual equivalent of stepping in dog shit
Point at them with your middle finger.
I’ve just been flipping them the bird from the get go. Going to continue that strategy
Please be careful out there. There’s crazy people everywhere! Sure, they may go to prison if they shoot you, etc, but you only get one life…
I’m kind of surprised at how many of them I see. I’m not sure it’s just that they stand out so much or if I live in an area (Southern California) where they’re more popular, but they’re so awful in person that it’s hard to get my head around.
I live in Denver and I feel like I see them a lot as well.
I guess if I think about it, it’s a tiny fraction of the number of accords or stuff that I see. But their awfulness stands out so much that they always register.
Norcal here. I see them kinda frequently. But we live in the most populous state in the nation and there’s a lot of people here with funny money. I’m sure they’re much rarer in other parts of the country. Definitely gonna be rarer now, lolz.
I fortunately have never seen one IRL, even living in a European city where people have more cents than sense.
From what I understand, Cybertrucks aren’t even allowed in Europe because they don’t meet European car safety standards.
and when you look at the drivers, you know its the same type that would drive a f150, or one of those hideous giant lifted trucks. or its an asian women for the most part asian women seems to be obssesed with driving one.
I just call em Andriod Buttplugs
I think that’s a sex doll.
And so every cyberfuck owner now has a brick in their parking spot.
Never had anything else
They can part them out and make back a few bucks--batteries, motors, stainless steel, maybe the wheels--nothing like the ~$100K they’re in debt for, though. Maybe if they strip the body off, some of them can build something useful on the chassis? Or, are they complete garbage?
EDIT: Ope, nope, they aren’t built like that at all. I suppose most cars aren’t anymore, everything is “unibody”:
It’s all weird aluminum castings but why 3d scanning and an inordinate amount of work anything is possible to rebody with enough time and money.
Cast aluminum frame 🤣
not even stainless steel, cheap aluminum frame.
When your batteries weigh a literal ton (or more) you have to make everything else as light as possible.
That’s another reason why having an 1/8” stainless body was so fucking stupid.
Gluing aluminum to stainless is an even dumber idea anywhere that salts its roads. That’s like counting a coating dissimilar metals in electrolytes.
scraping it maybe only the useful thing at this point.
Hard not to hope the same for any moron who gave this pedophile money past his nazi outing
a 100k poorly constructed coffin.
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.
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.
Yes they are.
I think you have taxi and cop car confused.
And the boot in that thing is truly enormous… something a taxi does need.
This is true. I would budget a large suitcase per person. However with only 2 people the need for a large trunk is much less.
so they can sell a 2nd cab to the other 2 people
100% agree
No friends?
The only time I have ever taken a cab was when it was just 2 people. If there are going to be more people, then I will just use one of my cars. You are limited in the number of people you can take in a cab to 4 awkwardly, whereas in my car it is 5 and not awkward.
Every time I have needed a cab, its always more than two people with me. And we can’t take anyone’s car, because it’s illegal to drive and drink.
I actually point and laugh at every one I see. Driving one of those tells me you’re an idiotic Nazi with horrible taste. Some of the paint jobs I’ve seen on them have been especially hilarious.
Fuk that Nazi
The only thing it was ever good for was to make it easier to spot assholes.
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.
I’m a school bus driver. The only cars that elementary school kids get excited about are the ones that piss me off: cybertrucks, teslas in general, corvettes, lamborghinis. No other cars exist for kids.
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
I agree wholeheartedly! If “it’s ugly” was the only problem with it, i would have loved seeing them.
I think my least favorite part of them is how they surveil their surroundings for Daddy Musk
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.
