Why Tesla Cybertruck sales are falling short of expectations

There are actually infinite reasons why nobody wants this shitbox.

Anyone who learned anything from this article isn't qualified to discuss cars. This was like an introduction to trucks for kindergarten children in caves who have never seen a road.

If anyone is really interested in what CNBC thinks are the reasons and didn’t know what those reasons where: Elon wanted to build a different pickup truck just for the sake of it being different, which didn’t really cater to the needs of truck buyers. Combined with lower prices for less range, it was DOA.

And was never going to be able to be sold in Europe

Musk made it. That's the only reason you need.

Once the dystopia is actually seen is when the shitboxtruck will be selling like hotcakes. At the moment we could only feel the dystopia

Well said, I'd just add that this product also came with so many problems it's hard to not ignore them. The $40k Musk presented would be more successful.

Shitty automobile, ugly, functionally worthless as a truck, Nazi owner, can’t readily be serviced, etc

You suspect its a piece of shit. Then you inspect it and verify its a piece of shit.

Hmmm. Please elaborate. They seem to require frequent maintenance (hardware/software) as well as a functional internet. Bicycles, horses, and oxen to me seem like the more likely means of transportation when I imagine certain dystopias. Vehicles converted to LPG pop up frequently as well. Selling like hot cakes suggests a sizable population has sufficient disposable capital on hand to make such a purchase. How much do they cost in your dystopic visions? What will be used as currency? Much more context regarding your specific imagined dystopia is required to support the selling like hot cakes premise. So again, please elaborate.

Logic wouldn't work in a dystopia but u definitely look cool with the cybertruck in it

Starting with the fact that it was poorly engineered and met no need in the marketplace beyond vanity

Or like a target.

Just like Johnny Bladerunner.

The latest offering of a electric truck from GM on paper should not only be a better deal $$, it will have better range, and practical usability, while not looking like a rolling pixelated garbage bin from a 90s video game.

It’s failed to deliver on size, range, price, durability and quality. Oh and Elon went full toxic retard

this article should've just been a single photo of a cybertruck

Any article about Tesla's struggles with sales that doesn't focus on the elephant in the room which is Musk as the primary problem, just isn't journalism.

Most middle class americans don't have the room to own a carrot slicer of that size

I disagree. It meets a need for a lot of people to laugh their asses off every time we see one of these shitboxes on the road. 🤣

Sales are falling short cause the CyberTruck fell short of all expectations on price, range, quality, durability and reputation.

And that’s not even considering how much the owner paid for it.

If it just looked more like a normal truck most people would be willing to overlook the other issues with it. But no, it had to look like “the future” and be made of the same material as one of his rocket ships. Pants on head thinking.

Is this seriously still circulating in the media? I thought we learned these things were the biggest flop in auto history several months ago.

I don't think that is even right though. People were really excited to buy it, it was a running battle accross reddit for a while. If they had actually been able to manufacture quickly enough at the beginning, before how highly flawed it was apparent, they had a huge waiting list. Secondly if they actually delivered on more of the promise and had decent build quality I think they would have been successful, despite the design fundamentally being impractical for most people's needs.

Falling short of expectations is one way to say it I guess?

Because it’s an eyesore on top of being a terrible and insanely impractical car?

This is one of the most scathing things I've ever heard

In no particular order

Because no one wants to drive a metal dumpster on wheels with 20 recalls 🤣

It’s a metal dumpster on wheels that does not even meet any of the expectations that Elon Musk set for its announcement. It has a much shorter range than it was claimed. Contrary to Elon Musk’s claim of infinite towing, the tow hitch along with the entire rear structure of the truck can and has broken off completely. It is quite possible that this could happen under normal towing conditions and kill people so it’s totally useless as a towing vehicle if you’re planning on doing that with any regularity.

If the steal were in the frame instead of the panels on the outside, the tow hitch along with the entire rear end wouldn’t fall off under load as it has.

>“It’s a really remarkable vehicle,” said Sean Tucker Is this guy high on fElon's special k?

Its ready for the apocalypse... ...as long as the apocalypse doesn't affect the electric grid...

I don’t know this truck kind of appealed to my inner thirteen year old who fixated on Laura Crofts pixilated boobs from the first tomb raider game.

Fun fact - that aluminum frame the Cybertruck has, has no fatigue limit unlike steel. So that means it will just continually degrade when you tow. Steel often has a defined endurance limit — below a certain stress level, it can endure infinite cycles. Aluminum does not have a true endurance limit. Even at low stress levels, fatigue eventually accumulates.

Right! That’s exactly why it’s dangerous to tow regularly with this cyber pos!

Gosh, what a mystery. Who could possibly have predicted this?

It’s just very risky to base a perceived demand on a refundable 100 USD preorder. A preorder hype is something very different from actually forking out 40k for something. I think many where excited for Tesla doing a truck. Some very vocal people probably where excited because it was supposed to be a stainless steel polygon monster that could tow things, but in the absence of EV-trucks people where just very excited about the possibility of Tesla doing an EV-truck. I am convinced that it would have sold loads if it was just a bigger model y with a bed. Would also have helped with price and range, probably, but yeah. The flawed idea was that for an EV-truck to work you‘d have to convert rednecks to EVs and that would only work by offering some sort of post-apocalyptic half-tank.

Even leaving the truck aspect out of it... It's not a very good motor vehicle is it. It's basically the equivalent of shipping broken games to meet an arbitrary deadline. Except you can't fix hardware in post. It's ill-conceived and badly produced because they made so many rods for their own back going with that stainless steel grade and thickness.

I mean realistically solar and batteries can sub in for the grid in an emergency. The fact those would last a lot longer than a lot of parts on this thing is a bigger issue. You will need a parts store full of CT parts on hand to get through the first month is a bigger issue.

100k+ electric “truck” that can’t do any truck shit well while also being insanely unreliable and ugly. It’s the dumbest car ever produced

I disagree. I no longer laugh at them, I cringe and think how stupid the driver is.

Is defeated by a car wash, frame is made of Temu grade aluminium, interior is trash, headlights blind everyone, edges slice you open like a mandolin, really theres a book's worth of issues that make this thing a failure and a danger to everyone.

Does anyone actually wonder why? I mean, besides it being a douchebro badge of honor and basically failing every test of utility and design. I’m not sure this needs any consideration beyond that.

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Yeah, I don’t think we need to read this article. We all know why.

> This was like an introduction to trucks for kindergarten children in caves who have never seen a road. So a large percentage of drivers in the US?

> Form over function It's (pretty) universally considered ugly as hell, it has neither form nor function.

> Once the dystopia is actually seen is when the shitboxtruck will be selling like hotcakes. You mean once the electric grid goes down and you can't charge them? Or when they start breaking down on smooth flat roads because they're under designed?

> People were really excited to buy it, it was a running battle accross reddit for a while. Don't be gaslit into believing that the people excited to buy it ever amounted to a big number. Even 10k people would seem like a massive number of people talking about the CT in popular subs, but those numbers are trivial for the sales Tesla needed for the CT. I doubt there was even 1k people talking about the CT on reddit. > If they had actually been able to manufacture quickly enough at the beginning, before how highly flawed it was apparent, they had a huge waiting list. The huge waiting list was never what most people expected. It happens with all kinds of products. No one who paid attention in the past thought they were going to convert even a fraction of the people off that list to actual sales. In the end, the huge list cost Tesla billions to set up to build 250k CTs a year when they won't deliver 250k of them over the life of the vehicle. >Secondly if they actually delivered on more of the promise and had decent build quality I think they would have been successful, despite the design fundamentally being impractical for most people's needs. I can't imagine why anyone would think any of this. Tesla has almost never delivered on their promises and their build quality has been subpar on every vehicle model from the start. The big win for Tesla has always been the amount of money people have been willing to shell out for 1970s or 80s build quality.

Making something completely at odds with what the market expects and will tolerate just for the sake of being different in what’s probably one of the most competitive product segments in the entire world, and ending in failure. Who would have expected that.

Expensive, low reliability, excessively heavy, difficult/costly to insure...

The dimensions are completely insane

You forgot to mention the price tag.

Seriously?

I finished it and thought to myself, "Ah! NOW I can FINALLY understand!" Maybe the headline could have saved the AI the trouble of writing an article if it included "Inferior Novelty."

Is it because it's a hunk of crap?

Uh because there are many options

Aside from the fact that I think it’s ugly? I’ve been driving pick-ups for about 50 years, and I can’t imagine using one of these for most of the reasons I have a pick-up. Take trash or yard clippings to the dump? Move furniture? Carry lumber from Home Depot? Get a half yard of soil or gravel? I honestly don’t understand why it’s called a truck. It reminds me a lot of the morons who bought Hummers 20 years ago, but if you want that to be your image and you’ve got money you don’t need, go for it.

There isn’t a patch for the low-poly truck??