After a brutal few months, Tesla sales are finally picking up thanks to expiring federal EV tax credits. But while customers are snatching up Model 3s and Ys, they are increasingly turning up their noses at the newest addition to Tesla’s lineup: the Cybertruck. Tesla only sold 5,385 Cybertrucks in the third quarter, down 63 percent compared to the same period in 2024, when the automaker delivered over 14,000. The company has sold a little more than 16,000 Cybertrucks so far in 2025 — a far cry from the 250,000 that Elon Musk once predicted would be sold annually. Tesla is now expected to deliver around 20,000 Cybertrucks this year, a steep drop from the estimated 50,000 sold in 2024. The third quarter was an otherwise banger for EV sales, with a total of 438,487 units sold. That’s up 40.7 percent from the previous quarter and higher by 29.6 percent year over year. Shoppers rushed to snatch up available EVs before the expiration of the $7,500 tax credit on September 30th. Sales are expected to drop dramatically in the fourth quarter — which could make the Cybertruck’s situation even worse. Read more: [https://www.theverge.com/news/798889/tesla-cybertruck-sales-decrease-q3-2025](https://www.theverge.com/news/798889/tesla-cybertruck-sales-decrease-q3-2025)
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TSLA stock skyrocketing.
Thanks Verge! A good Elon bash does the world good.
I swear they sold all 16,000 in my area. Every time I drive to work I see 3-4, and usually another 2-3 on my way home, and my drive is only 18 minutes, so it seems like there’s a lot around here, though in my church’s parking lot I’ve only ever seen one.
I'm surprised they sold more than three of these abominations
I run into at least 6 of them where I live in the Santa Cruz mountains. One of them is the famous one that spawned the creation of /cyberstuck it's like a brush with idiot fame every time I see it at the gym.
Buying your own cars is the ultimate self fellatio.
Wow. My finger would be sore.
Sell his TSLA stock to buy cybertrucks! TSLA to the moon!
Cybertruck is just so bad. I can’t imagine its base on first principle. It’s more like a pet project.
Anything that hurts fascists helps the world.
WWHD
Self fishing
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Its probably the same 3-4 you’re seeing.
Pre-rust, the new pre-shrink.
As a public company, doesn’t this fly in the face of Sarbanes-Oxley? Enron 2.0
> Tesla only sold 5,385 Cybertrucks in the third quarter, I can't even believe they sold this many... Like Christ, PT Barnum was right, there is a sucker born every minute...
He would be in jail if he didn't buy the last election. Said so himself.
And it's all due to Muskolini's politcal comments.
Los Angeles? I used to see a lot here but now I only see them every once in a while. The ones near me must have tried to drive over a puddle and fried everything.
Most billionaires would be in jail if there was something as true justice.
Just look for a big non popular mall parking lot. You’ll see all the ones they don’t want you to know about 😂
I had one of these break down on a job site. A very basic pothole and the tie rod snapped Whistling diesel the YouTube personality tanked the sales too with his review approaching 12 million YouTube views
Anytime you check who is driving a cyber truck, it always turns out to be a dufus looking individual
Well we all knew he was going to punt them somewhere.
Curious - what area do you live in?
It could be. There's one near me with a company logo wrap on it. I see that thing once or twice a week. Without the wrap, I'd probably assume I'm seeing multiple cybertrucks.
And the prison wouldn’t be owned by another billionaire.
There is a world where people got over the unique styling and embraced a really tough functional EV truck...but man the POS that Tesla actually shipped is astonishing. Put aside the looks, it's absolute junk on a scale only comparable to Delorean. I honestly would love to read an oral history of how this went down. How does Tesla make a vehicle this bad? I know one guy who adores his Tesla Model 3, and fair enough it's a functional vehicle. He's into photography and would post pics of his car from time to time. He also had a Tacoma that he loved. I am fairly sure he sold the Taco for a CT...but interestingly enough he made exactly 2 posts about the CT before going completely radio silent on it. Either he felt the backlash people were having to them (this was the height of DOGE) or hopefully for him it was a lease he could get out of. Someday there will be a movie comedy about the Cybertruck and how big of a disaster it is.
They have the most punchable faces.
and let's not forget the geniuses who drove, dragged, and towed a CT through the Rubicon Trail -- with a fleet of support vehicles which \*could\* navigate the trail, going back and forth to dealers grabbing spare parts to replace all of the ones that failed on the CT
Whoever is buying any tesla after musk’s fascist salute is a looser in my book.
3rd quarter has 91 days. That's 131,040 minutes, so a sucker born every 24.3 minutes.
Right-wing publishers and authors would do that with their own books to drive sales rankings up, then give them away as swag.
And solar city.
If it's good enough for Chad Powers, it's good enough for me. When they came up with Chad Power's character, he's an anti-hero, or maybe even a full on dick. To drive the point home, the writers decided that Chad drives a Cybertruck.
Elon has only a 4.11% share of the sucker market.
No Tesla investor can ever say in the future that they were tricked, or they didn't know they were supporting a white nationalist or that they had no warnings that tesla was going to one day collapse because it was a complete house of cards. Even elon said it was a zero was a car company ("tesla is a zero without FSD") Since then he's moved on to other stock pumps but the truth is very clear.
There is one in a nearby office parking lot. They got an early one, then it disappeared for 3 months, then came back for 2 months, then disappeared for 4 months, then reappeared. A sane person would have lemon lawed that thing.
This behavior along with the Canada fiasco earlier this year where the seemed to perhaps be committing fraud makes me not trust ANY of teslas self reported data on deliveries and financials. Hell they’ve been doing weird things with claiming unrealized bitcoin gains and then, to my non-accountant understanding, NOT showing unrealized bitcoin losses.
Just wait until winter when the roads ice over and have to be salted. Like most species of amphibian, CyberTrucks cannot tolerate salt. And like with most species of amphibian, it completely destroys their skin
I could totally see Elon selling stuff to himself to make the numbers look better. 😂
I used to see a couple in San Diego. Now I’m in Hawaii and I’ve seen a sailor with one but that’s it.
Or at least that MUCH of a sucker. Maybe we need a new name for them. Super Suckers???
More than likely ones sold in 2024.
I wonder if the investors of Xai and SpaceX are just like Yes, I am thrilled that our money was used to buy Cybertrucks, that will really help our companies move forward
Find a new church
"ERM ASKSHULLY IT'S STAINLESS STEEL" - some chuckle fuck simp who doesn't know how Stainless Steel works
BTW, a collections of cybertrucks is called a 'fuck.' i.e. "I saw a fuck of cybertrucks."
When I had my Rivian I towed a cybertruck out of the mud. It was super stuck however a Honda civic could get through it which was the icing on the cake to witness that. The truck needed to be towed after, it wouldn’t drive after being pulled out. It’s a really shitty vehicle. I would recommend a ford exploder over a cybertruck
Not even with *your* dick.
cc: r/theydidthemath
C’mon… throw him a bone and round up to 4.20%.
You know what would help? More anti-EV initiatives from the US government. Perhaps Elon should get more involved in politics to "help more".
Does you good lol maybe you can stop taking anti depressants soon
The Ford Edsel is the poster child for automotive flops as it only sold ~116,000 units over three model years before being axed. Sounds like the Cybertruck may take the award.
Edsel was strictly speaking a marque, not a single model. The original 1958 lineup had six models based on three bodies shared with Ford or Mercury models. Granted there’s far fewer car models and marques than there were back then but let’s remember it was a just a hundred thousand cars across *twelve* annual models total.
And they're always driving alone too.
> Even elon said it was a zero was a car company ("tesla is a zero without FSD") This was such an unforced error too because at the time he said this we were on like year 8 of "FSD next year". If he had said this in 2014 or even 2017 it would have been a bold statement about an exciting future product, but he said it in 2022, after it was clear to anyone paying attention that Tesla would never ever achieve FSD.
Haha that's so true now that you say that
Are the tie rods made out of pot metal?
Are? They’ve always been
Good point. I wonder how much of that was badge engineering, as in distinctive models under the name. Could be interesting as the Cybertruck doesn't share a platform with anything AFAIK. Oh well.
I want you to read that oral history too!
I always thought it was an excuse to order stainless in bulk and make it affordable for SpaceX to get bundled deals on the raw material.
49% of Model 3s failed their mandatory 4 year first inspection in Finland, mostly due to suspension issues. The new cheaper models use even cheaper suspension.
I'll enjoy the popcorn once crime is illegal again and Tesla Enron goes belly up. I predict Musk on the way out will release an OTA update that BRICKS every Tesla on the road!
What means with Musk is selling CT to himself?
I’ve returned my Model 3 lease last Friday to the delivery center in Hanau, Germany. There was a Cybertruck on display there. Man, those sharp edges on the front left and right would never fly here…
Funding secured.
The Bay Area is like this, I eventually got bored of giving them all a thumbs down as I ride by on my bike (trying to be a gentlemen 🤷🏻♂️). I do love the idea their camera footage is going into Tesla’s training data.
Are there aftermarket controllers for the motors? I can't wait to see this at the junkshop.
No I’d say it’s that the cyber truck is just bad design. Ford and Rivian came out sooner at lower costs with better specs, more usable features. The cheapest Cybertruck is $82k. Rivian has a $70k R1T, $77k for range and features similar to the Cybertruck, GM offers models with 410 miles of range for 71k. The Lightning starts at $63k with the one that stacks up against the CT starts at $66k. At the same price as the Cybertruck you get massaging seats. Lack of usable bed, lack of bed access lack of in cabin storage plus higher cost and worse specs result in people not choosing the Cybertruck. It’s just a bad truck at too high a price. Also if you want a diffrent color you got to pay a lot to wrap it.
It was bad by Ford standards. De Soto sold a mere 15,556 cars in 1958.
Elmo uses 304. The same stuff as urinals. Pretty much the shittiest grade of stainless you can buy.
Seems like you might have a n*zi problem in your area. Do you live in Idaho?
How does monopoly end?
You can't get a 50%+ markup without using the cheapest and shittiest materials possible
Don't forget to spend almost nothing on R&D or QC to bump up the profits.
Wha,t a project carried out by an actual pet. That would explain.
Offloading useless crap to his other companies. I bet neither Space-X nor the AI scam have any use for them.
They are being used as service loaners in my area.
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It's a "round-tripping" scheme, only instead of Tesla selling the vehicles to themselves, they're selling them to other companies in Musk's conglomerate. Musk's conglomerate selling products to itself is pretty par for the course... Tesla's been selling cars to another Musk company... the Boring company... which claims to use "SpaceX technology"... (oooOOOOoo) Now we're finding out Tesla is selling loads of unsold vehicles to SpaceX and xAI... companies that have loads of cash because their share prices are obscenely overinflated... just like Tesla. xAI generates revenues primarily through sales to Twitter and now to Tesla. Then xAI bought Twitter, a company that was suddenly and miraculously re-valued to the value Musk over paid for it... go figure... xAI bought loads of battery storage from Tesla, but certainly not enough to account for the lion's share of Tesla's quarterly battery storage sales. Does anyone know where all of Tesla's mass capacity of battery storage is being sold or installed? The vast amounts they're selling should be coming from huge projects that generate headlines on a quarterly basis. SpaceX meanwhile primarily launches rockets for themselves... for Starlink satellites... all while every day, more and more satellites fall out of orbit.
I saw a CT sitting at a charger in a big box parking lot with the license plate `TRUST GD`. I gotta wonder what the owner's concept of "God" is.
Seattle/Bellevue is the same. I see them everywhere.
>self fellatio. auto fellatio was right there. and you blew it.
yeah but auto and self aren't the same. The double entendre is there but don't make sense.
> yeah but auto and self aren't the same. the 'auto' in autofellatio literally means *self*.
I see the same 3-4 Cybertrucks in the Costco parking lot EVERY time I pass by.
Yeah but it's not like... sucking itself automatically, he's bending down and doing the ugh ugh. Imagery.
what do you think autobiography means?
There's no arguement on what it means, it just doesn't have the same imagery. When you say, Auto felatio and you say self Felatio do you picture the same image? I don't.
I was joking but Tesla actually used to throw all their over stock in random lots and fields until people started blowing up their spot online. It was so the production numbers could be high and investors to assume sales were up. Since in the beginning they used to make cars to order and never said anything when they stopped doing that.
That is pretty funny. If I understood correctly my local service center has 4 of them as loaners.
Fairly close to Harrisburg, PA, sort of in between Philly and Pittsburgh, but closer to Philly. I drive from a fairly affluent town, to a fairly poor neighborhood, but most I see are in the poorer neighborhood.
>comments hidden Boooo, coward!
With more cybertrucks? The parking lot is huge to only have 1.
There financing sucks, 730 credit score here had a trade in was upside down by 30k was totally fine with that - they wanted 75k down. Turned around and went and got a super charged v8 Land Rover defender instead. Currently already have a model 3 and x plaid.
KSC has received 1500 cyber trucks If he sold them or gave them to SpaceX is another story. However this can explain the shortage of them. Also. Now that there just a government work truck the novelty is gone. Those pompous people that drove/ drive them around with there nose stuck up in the air are now just a person driving just another work truck.
This stock should be like 5-10 bucks. Totally bizarre.
He should buy every SpaceX employee one. The cost would be covered from the stock price increase as a result of the added revenue. 13,000 SpaceX employees x $60,000 per truck = $780M. Tesla would only need to go up $2 (for Elons share to cover the cost) and the purchase would have paid for itself for Elon.
It must hurt to see Tesla stock staying abouve $400 and getting ready to move on to $500. GO Tesla GO
Self-dealing is a sure sign of a solid economy.
Gotta hit that NYT bestseller list somehow!
316 or bust in my field
Love getting a random WD video on FB/IG where he gets people’s cars back for them
Still 3x more than R1T which the author frames as successful.
There's a desperate wishful thinking that libs are depressed. Suicide rates in red states are higher. Hey, fun fact: Elon suffers major depression due to "chemical states in the brain" (his words) and takes ketamine to manage it. This is very easy to find out.
Ahh so you are why autopilot kills motorcyclists…
I saw one in a parking lot and it squealed so loudly as it went around a corner
why not give a cybertrukk a NOT SEE salute?
R1T has the lowest sales of any pickup truck on the market. They’ve sold a total of 5700 this year. “Successful” it is not, and it’s a mid-sized truck so it’s competition is Ranger/Colorado/Tacoma, not CT or F-150 or Silverado. Yeah a $90k midsized lifestyle truck with no commercial ambitions seems like a niche market. And it is. Ford has sold 23k F-150 Lightnings so far this year, and that’s the EV pickup class leader. CT is at 16k, about even with the Sierra/Silverado. Of course ford has sold like 600k gasoline and diesel F series trucks this year. EV trucks are still a tiny niche market.
Except it objectively sucks as a work truck.
The cybertruck is a marketplace flop all things considered. I just get irritated when the also-weak R1T is juxtaposed as a success.
I’m just saying they aren’t class competitors anyway.
Ugliest excuse for a truck EVER!!
It’s a valid point though i think they’re probably cross shopped heavily.
Very true!! lol. So not sure why 1500 of them have already been rolling in KSC. Already saw a handful today. Probably doing mail runs or getting coffee. lol.
Indeed, nothing wrong will a bashing of Elon
Its the price. We can't afford it.
Yet, the fascist boy-wonder wants a trillion dollar pay package. Even these minuscule sales numbers are fraudulent, as he is selling the cars to other Musk owned entities. When the Trump- trade-tariff fiasco eventually ends, the better built and cheaper Chinese EVs are going to flood the market, as they have done in Europe. This boy is toast, but the losers will be the shareholders, not him, as he will walk away with hundreds of billions of dollars.
The Edsel was sold in the late 50s, when the U.S. population was half of what it is today. Tesla will never sell close to as many Cybertrucks as Ford sold Edsels. Cybertruck is the biggest automotive failure by a very wide margin.
I'm very surprised that they sold any Cybertrucks at all. What kind of fool would buy one now that the novelty factor is gone? Or are all these "sales" just Elon buying the rejected POS from himself?
With this volume is it likely that they will discontinue this truck?
Agree, if Musk hadn't so bullheaded about design and just brought out a more conventional design truck built on the Y platform it would have likely blown off the shelves.
I was just working at the Electrify expo, almost every die hard EV fan said they hated the Cyber Truck and said it rattled when you drove it. I only met one person out 50 who liked it.
As an owner it's a great as a truck and it's great as a Tesla too.
You all loved him when he was “saving the world” from climate change. Now, because he tried to make the government more efficient and cut waste, you hate him. Guess we know how much the climate really mattered to you people. Ridiculous.
Deliberately obtuse, you are.
y.
with the people questioning everything?
I would say Full Self Fellatio. With optimus holding the shaft.
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