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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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[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 73 points 10 months ago (2 children)

He predicted that he would sell a quarter-million of those $80,000 shipping containers on wheels a year?

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 90 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Unfair comparison. Shipping containers are actually useful.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And generally well designed and well made, to exacting standards.

[–] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Nigel Thornberry is legitimately more terrifying than It.

[–] Juvyn00b@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And the front doesn't fall off for starters!

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

That was a feature, not a bug.

Not sure what the feature does, but, details don’t matter to the wanks that but them.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 10 months ago

And are looking quite nice in comparison.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

You can turn a shipping container into a poorly insulated house, which my hope for cybertruck owners too

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 6 points 10 months ago

And have rust proofing applied.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

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!