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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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.
Oh no! Anyway…
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.
Fuk that Nazi
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.
I don’t see Zemekis managing to salvage this one’s image with a hit blockbuster trilogy…
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.
I wonder what happened.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
They still get made?
Nah, keep pumping it out, run the company into the fucken ground.
Womp
Look at what the democrats took from us.
