The Tesla Cybertruck Had The Biggest Sales Crash Of Any EV In 2025

Good.

It has like two good ideas, one new one (lock to lock steering people like it I guess) in an awful package with a million downsides. Just no real point to exist, no killer application for it, no real world use case.

Tesla just needs some patience, a new generation of incels is coming of age

It’s basically a driving red flag: »Look at me, I am an insufferable loser with main character syndrome, but everyone should know that!«

There is a use case, apparently. Space launch services utility vehicles. Many were "sold" for this application so they must be pretty good for that.

Any EV EVER! (Cause it's a steaming pile of garbage)

No way they sold 20,000 of them in 2025 to legitimate buyers. There's a video of thousands of them parked at the SpaceX 'Starbase' facility in Texas.

Yeah a lot of cybertrucks were sold to SpaceX

It wouldn’t have been that many if many weren’t forcibly sold to US taxpayers.

Not only sales crash but lots of very real actual crashes too.

It’s really noticeable. My local Tesla dealer used to have many of the things on his lot. They’ve all gone and I’m sure they weren’t sold because it happened quickly.

And Xai apparently.

Yeah absolutely.... It's not like Elon would use tax payer money given to SpaceX to buy Cybertrucks just to boost the sales figures. So they must have been an investment you would be stupid to refuse.

Highly likely that 10% or more were sold in self dealing arrangements to his other companies.

Maybe 2026 can see sales fall by 50% once more...

They might have been sold to SpaceX

One older guy on this years deal or no deal island (yeah don’t ask, don’t know why I watched that), said he wanted to buy a Cybertruck with the camping shell. Yeah he didn’t win.

HaHaHa hahahahahahahaha Fuck off Eleanor Musk!!!!!

The best chance it ever had was the EU dropping safety standards in the recent trade agreement which Trump has all but killed over Greenland so Musk has lost the Chuds over the Atlantic for 2026 at least at this point.

That’s because it’s a bucket of shit. And ugly AF!

Well it's a pos.

I question those who buy nazi pedophile shit.

I’m sure that’s exactly what happened.

I’d believe it tbh. I live in the Bay Area and if I drive around the bay I’ll see them out and about without fail. Occasionally even in unintentional mini-packs (ie 2 or more unrelated drivers on the freeway or in a parking lot at the same time). Part of that is how much they stand out, but I’m surprised by how many I see. I’d argue I see at least 1-2 every day that I do a decent amount of freeway driving. I probably see a lucid once a month for comparison. Ive seen a total of 1 Vinfast.

I feel like someone in charge has the imagination of a video game

I find it difficult to believe they ever sold the 39000.

I read an article where some guy had some sort of crazy religious experience with his Cybertruck. Like full on psychosis.

BETTER HEADLINE: Social scientists baffled to explain why 20,000 people still convinced cybertruck is NOT the Edsel of the 21st century.

Tesla cars are pretty decent looking and had/have pioneering features. But I never understood the trucks. It's a very ugly design. No wonder it doesn't sell well.

The cybertruck is an abomination, and I agree that self-dealing like this is a bit off, but the "tax payer money" part doesn't hold up. SpaceX sells a specific product at a specific price, and the government knows what they're getting and how much it costs. It's not like SpaceX is spending government funds.

But they likely don't have the cash to buy one.

Some Americans sure have bad taste.

Hey, it has the best karaoke system of any truck, period! Cool as steer-by-wire may be, people who drive it kinda miss the point. The weight of the thing (OVER three tons! ridiculous) makes driving it a bit silly. No wonder it sinks in sand and mud. It's an entertainment center and a fashion statement.

It does not steam.

Model Y (especially the 2025 version) is ugly as well imo, but not Cybersuck level hideous. Teslas were innovative a decade ago but are now stale compared to competitors.

They were "sold".

The Model Y is just a stretched Model 3. The Model 3 is just a smaller version of the Model S, which was designed by people who knew about cars, that's why the S and the 3 are the only ones that look decent.

Fun fact - The S was originally designed by Henrik Fisker. The X, 3, and Y were done by Franz von Holzhausen using MS Paint and scaling the original image in various ways 🤣

Sounds like the President of the United States

I find it hard to believe it got past the drawing board.

Or the president of Tesla.

No, this will be the year they try to shove it down the memory hole while simultaneously trying to cut their losses by moving out the rest of the inventory.

Some? Very few don't. Just look at all those inked up bodies. Trash culture has taken over.

Sold to a company that can pawn them off onto government contracts. Enron has figured out one thing, how to be the biggest welfare queen in history.

More like a smoking dumpster fire.

Apparently the concept was from Wile Elon Coyote himself. Enough said!

The Fisker was a cool looking car. I saw later that some other company is now making ICE vehicles from his body design.

Tesla sales down again so stock will be up today

I've thought about this - all those influencers 10 years ago showing off their kids in the back seat of a Tesla...welp, those kids are in college now, and 2nd Gen Elongelicals.

I wonder how many are left on the road - seems to be a constant stream of wrecked Cybertruck stories.

Oh *sales* crash.

"Most models sell somewhere between 2,000 and 20,000 examples per year."  Examples? Is this article AI generated? Weird writing.

Not a coincidence.

feel like all those sold were here in socal… i see way too many ct

Your tax dollars at work

Wtf even is the sec?

"Experts baffled as vehicle that looks like urinal mysteriously fails to sell"

I don’t think that. I just think, this person must be blind, how can he be driving???

A year ago I used to see a lot more of them around town, but over the course of the last few months they’ve mostly all disappeared.

Interesting. I'm in western New England and I see Lucid Airs all the time. WAY more frequently than CTs. I would estimate I see a Lucid 3-4x a month on average, and a CT maybe half that. For what it's worth, I have a Mach E so I do occasionally charge at fast chargers and am generally around EVs. I live in a rural area with a very high proportion of wealthy 2nd homeowners from Manhattan and NJ.

Elon claimed to expect to push half a million of these polished steel turds. Missing an estimate by an entire order of magnitude is a hell of a thing. I was starting to wonder how many of these things, if any, would have been sold if somebody other than Elon had been pushing them, but then I realized: if Elon weren't involved, they wouldn't exist at all. Because they're so manifestly terrible at everything besides attracting attention that for somebody to be dumb enough to think they're a good idea AND rich, deranged and insufficiently supervised enough to *actually bring them into the world* is a vanishingly small occurrence. The odds against a product THAT terrible actually coming to market are cosmically staggering, it's like winning 10 Powerballs in a row. ...And yet. AND YET. The Cybertruck is what happens when you give a midwit narcissist access to infinite money and attention. What a colossal waste of so much potential. It's a tragedy, really.

I love how they're burning through cash trying to save face. The factory must be unusually quiet and depressing with lots of expensive hardware collecting dust.

We have them all over Irvine, I see them daily and they still look stupid a year later.

They look like a Cub Scout model derby car that just lost another race.

Cyber truck came out at the wrong time and at the wrong price. If it came out earlier when they first displayed prototype then and at the price they advertised sales would be much better but most people just moved on and bought other EVs and people who waited were priced out. There are a lot of people who make bad financial decisions who can afford a $32k car but people who can afford $70k+ cars usually make better financial decisions.

I have a co-worker (engineer) who is extremely smart at work to where it impresses me, but then he turns around and talks about how his cybertruck was one of the best purchases ever and I cannot fathom how. He's already screwed up it's body just trying to wash it... He used to be one of those big diesel pickup truck guys, then his son got a cybertruck and told him to get one and so he got a cybertruck last year and even now that's all he ever talks about.

Apparently vagina repellents are not popular even if it is the most effective

Over 1,000,000 pre orders!!!

Apart from SpaceX did anyone else buy any?

I saw a Cybertruck on the highway the other day that had Toyota decal across the tailgate. I can understand a regular Tesla driver trying to disguise their car as they feel bad but I cannot fathom a Cybertruck driver smart enough to have buyers remorse AND dumb enough to think a Toyota decal would help anything.

There's so few of them yet it feels like they're everywhere. I swear every municipality in America has that one dipshit always driving one around.

Or the credit even.

Get a life, its just a car.

I’ve seen the odd cybertruck here and there. I can totally believe there are several thousand morons who bought the things.

Pretty common in Los Angeles — I see at least one or two every day. Area businesses like to use the large side panels to advertise themselves and make a statement.

People don’t like Nazis. Don’t like Nazi trucks drawn by a six year old either.

Yeah, but compare that to the number of Teslas driving around.

Of course - but you’re comparing 50k to >1M. I saw 4 unique ones during my travels today, one of which was towing (a first for me).

The Federal government must be buying them!

Pretty much the same in DFW. I have only seen a few Lucids in the wild. I see a different Cybertruck every day.

In the PNW my eyeballs are also assaulted by them daily. It's horrible.

That’s a pretty shitty thing to say about Edsel