Longer range so it can get stuck further from home? 🤭😀👍
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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It could be $15 and have the range of an ICBM, it can still sit on the lot and scare the kids walking by.
Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it's actually ready?
Like, we don't have the means right now to achieve what he advertises, so he lies about it and then 'alters the deal' after taking people's money.
Oh he’s been called out for that for over a decade now, it just got buried under the mass of starry eyed reporting.
that's been tech as an industry for the last decade. product releases, then all promised features come as a half baked update a year later... if at all. phones, games, cars, etc all use this strategy now unfortunately.
selling half-assed tech, basically A scam, which is whole business model.
Only a fool buys something on the promise of future upgrades and potential. Buy stuff on what it is now.
This is a bad look for Tesla for sure, but no one should be going “I wouldn’t have bought it if I knew this would get cancelled”.
That's exactly what he's been doing with all his businesses. And it works. Tesla is still hugely overvalued as a company.
Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it's actually ready?
Today's vocab word is Vaporware
So he learned from the video gaming industry?
Yep.
"Games as a service" are released as a "minimum viable product" to see if it can hook enough suckers to make it profitable enough for the company to finish making.
If there aren't enough saps that take the bait, development ceases and whoever put their faith in the product look like tools.
Pray I don't alter it further.
How about giving up on the Cybertruck
How about giving up
Why the switch to a black hat? Was it to easy for people to see?
"Thanks for all the $16k loans at 0% shmucks. We've kept the interest we made while rates have been up and now you can have it back while they're dropping. Of course, your money is now worth less than it was when you gave it to us during high inflation. Suck it losers. Love, T E S L A"
EDIT: deposit was $150. Still shitty but not the same impact
EDIT 2: Or $2000? ... tl;dr: shitty
The deposit for a cyberstuck was $150. The package was valued at $16k.
Being happy about lies being exposed is good, but spreading a false narrative about it is bad.
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The dual motor was originally announced to be US$39,900, not 50,000. It is lies all the way down at Tesla.
Tesla is not the only one guilty of this, unfortunately. It seems to be standard practice in the industry now.
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Ima be honest, I like the design of this thing. I’m big into brutalism and the Delorean is one of my favorite car designs of all time. I was really hoping this would be good, but it has turned out to be one of the worst products in recent history in any category. It’s up there with the humane pin.
It makes me a little bit sad because I will never be able to live out my cyberpunk fantasy of driving an electric truck made out of bare metal manufactured by a technofascist corporation.
I don't know man, the hyundai ioniq 5 has way more delorean vibes than the cyber truck. The cyber truck just actually looks like how i was drawing cars as a child.
I absolutely hated the design and feel bad for anyone who gets into an accident with this monstrosity.
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However, Tesla had devised a solution to bring the range closer to what it originally announced: a separate battery pack that sits in the truck’s bed. Tesla called it a “range extender.” It costs $16,000 and takes up a third of the Cybertruck’s bed.
You cannot make this shit up 😂
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How hard can it be to produce a simple battery pack, for a company that is in the business of designing and producing battery packs no less...
Think the end of the article pretty much nails it.
Tesla needed to install and remove it at a service center. Owners couldn’t remove them themselves. I think it was pretty much dead on arrival at $16,000.
But I think it could also be as simple as it’s not worth producing due to demand – both due to insufficient people reserving it and not enough Cybertruck buyers to create a market for the range extender.
Therefore, the range extender is dead for the same reason that the Cybertruck RWD now has the same battery pack as the AWD instead of a smaller pack for less money: the Cybertruck is a commercial flop, and it’s not a high-volume program enough to justify making several battery pack sizes, including a removable one.
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Preorder interest probably made it not worth it financially.
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