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Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
- mikestew 2y agohttps://archive.is/pBDXs https://archive.is/pBDXs
- roland35 2y agoShocking if true! I see way more model ys, mustang Mach es, rivians, ev6s, well pretty much everything than cybertrucks...
- jerlam 2y agoAll those vehicles have been selling for much longer (and the CT does not outsell the Y). The CT is the third-best selling vehicle for a single quarter, has only been on the market for a year, and production was pretty low for the first few months. The Mach-e has been on the market for over four years.
- panick21_ 2y agoDoes the concept of time exists?
- stonethrowaway 2y agoNot on the internet.
- mikestew 2y agoMy witty retort would have been, “yeah, well, people bought the Pontiac Aztek, too.”, except Tesla has sold almost as many Cybertrucks in the 3rd quarter as Pontiac sold Azteks in an entire peak sales year.
- bombcar 2y agoWas it the Aztek that had really rabid fans? It was one of those boxy ones. Never could figure out if they actually had really good reasons for it or were just trying to justify having bought an Aztek.
- bri3d 2y agoYou're probably thinking of the Element. There were a lot of reasons it ended up with a rabid fan-base: Honda reliability, available manual transmission, available all-wheel drive. It was overall a really practical vehicle for those who wanted something with a good amount of interior space who didn't care about frills or luxury. Amusingly the Element was targeted at then-millennial young buyers looking for "adventure," but ended up being more popular amongst older people looking for a practical daily driver. The Aztek had some similar positive properties, but was from one of the particularly bad eras of GM malaise and was highly unreliable. It's had a tiny bit of a cult resurgence recently, but it was never popular in the way the Element was.
- bombcar 2y agoI think you're right, it was the Element. People dismissed it as an Aztek but it had some features. They all pale next to the true King of Vehicles - the Minivan.
- travisb 2y agoIf you look at an Aztek today it doesn't stand out as unusual at all. It feels like the Aztek was ahead of its time and many mid-size SUVs have since caught up with its aesthetic.
- Spooky23 2y agoThe Aztek would have been a cult car if it wasn’t GM. It had the hoseable cabin, the center console was a removable cooler, etc. But it had all of the stupid GMisms. Every expense was spared. It turned out to be like the malnourished love child of a Nissan Xterra and a Ford Windstar.
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- Spivak 2y agoI think the take-away from this is that EV market in the US is a long-ways away from economy cars when the #3 selling car is $100k. You can't even find middling used EVs for sub $20k. They're all just Chevy Bolts people were desperate to unload.
- HWR_14 2y agoI thought the Bolt had a good reputation. What's wrong with them?
- efields 2y agoNo L2 charging for one.
- wffurr 2y agoWhat do you mean? All Bolts support level 2 charging via the standard J1772 adapter up to 7.2 kW or 11.8 kW depending on model year. Level 3 charging aka DC fast charging was an option on them, so not all have the extra pins needed for a CCS charger. I'm pretty happy with my 2017 Bolt which has the DC fast charging option. I wish it had distance-keeping cruise control; it's frustrating because it has the cameras and will even report following distance on the dash, but doesn't have the adaptive cruise feature for whatever reason. I also wish it charged a bit faster; 50 kW max is a little slow for road trips. Next car is probably a 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5, which has has both features and is also pretty reasonable. Prices on the used models are slowly coming down.
- jeffbee 2y agoArguably their lack of extremely fast DC charging. But many of them got brand new replacement batteries, and the last wave off-lease have low miles. Looking at a wholesale price index, it seems that Bolt EUVs are $22-23k, which is similar to the prices of Model 3 (24-28k, but they don't separate standard and long range; the Bolt had only 1 variant).
- throwaway48476 2y agoI found the bolt to be very cramped.
- xnx 2y agoAlternate headline: Tesla sales dip below 50% of all EV sales. Source: https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q3-2024-ev-sales/ https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q3-2024-ev-sales/
- samatman 2y agoThis appears to be an alternate article, rather than an alternate headline for this one.
- xnx 2y agoDidn't mean to confuse, this is an alternate interpretation of recent EV sales data.
- nullindividual 2y agoCox Automotive generated the data[0] sourced in the second "paragraph" from the original article. [0] https://www.coxautoinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kelley-Blue-Book-EV-Sales-Report-Q3-2024-revised-10-14-24.pdf https://www.coxautoinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kelley...
- diebeforei485 2y agoI don't think "percent of EV sales" is a meaningful metric. We should want more EV brands! Tesla allows others to use their patents and chargers specifically because they want more EV brands to exist as well! Percent of total auto sales is a far better metric.
- tmtvl 2y agoIsn't the Cybertruck that Mad Max looking thing that looks like it will shear you clean in two if it hits you? I'm surprised that's street legal.
- standardUser 2y agoIt may literally be too sharp for EU standards... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/08/tesla-cybertruck-too-big-and-sharp-for-european-roads-say-campaigners https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/08/tesla-cyb...
- n0n0n4t0r 2y agoThat's not in civilized countries (hum, Europe)
- Nasrudith 2y agoEurope using Civilized to refer to themselves only sure has some /really/ ugly history.
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- caycep 2y agotbh I continue to say the i3 scale/weight was what mass market EV transportation should have been designed towards (and more efforts focused on public trans than single/small n occupant cars). Societal/environmental cost of 6000-7000 lb behemoths erase any emissions gains from going EV.
- unsnap_biceps 2y agoI really wish they would have continued to make the i3 and reduce the cost. It was perfect for a lot of people but the price was just too high.
- caycep 2y agothe irony is that apparently it was the one model where the sales were going up year over year, vs. the usual initial high demand and subsequent decline of ICE models
- inhumantsar 2y agoSo basically the sub-$30k Chevy Bolt EV and EUV. US sales broke 60,000 units in 2023.
- 39896880 2y agoThe Bolt EUV is the perfect EV, and it’s a travesty that they stopped selling it. Hopefully the talk of them bringing it back is true.
- formvoltron 2y agoCybertruck reminds me of the Moon Patrol buggy.
- mark242 2y ago16 thousand Cybertrucks sold in Q3. To compare, 3.9 million cars sold in Q3.
- yumraj 2y agoThat thing is a monstrosity. This to me implies that EVs have peaked and only the market for vanity vehicles remains at this time Edit: I also have a suspicion that this is primarily due to them filling all the preorders. It’d be good to see a breakdown as to how many new orders people are placing after seeing this POS in real life.
- unsnap_biceps 2y agoGiven you can cancel your preorder without losing any money, one would presume that the majority of pre orderers were happy with the results.
- yumraj 2y agoNot necessarily. People who had placed the preorder were looking for a vanity vehicle, which it sure is. And, those people are not going to cancel. I’m interested in the customer base once that market is exhausted.
- grecy 2y ago> This to me implies that EVs have peaked That might be true, if the #2 selling car, and the #1 selling car were not also EVs. The Model Y is currently the second best selling vehicle of all kinds, and it very likely is about to overtake the F-150 as the most-selling vehicle, the first time the F-150 has been dethroned in 46 straight years. The sales numbers are saying we have not reached peak EV.
- cristiancavalli 2y agoNot true: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g60385784/bestselling-cars-2024/ https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g60385784/bestselling-cars... Model Y is 4th actually and slipping apparently according to October data.
- Terr_ 2y agoThis kind of summary is tricky because the answer can depend on the bucketing that occurs from the spread of models or manufacturers. The linked Kelly Blue Book report tables are probably more-useful, and state that in Q3, 4.8% of the vehicles sold were Cybertrucks. I'm not familiar with pickup-truck-adjacent vehicles, but I notice the "Ford F-150 Lightning" was 2.1%, and the "GMC Hummer Truck / SUV" was 1.2%.
- shreezus 2y agoI see multiple Cybertrucks every day driving around LA. I'll admit the design has grown on me, and we need more mainstream vehicles challenging the boring design "norms". I would love to see a cross between the Model Y and Cybertruck in the future.
- mattkenefick 2y ago> we need more mainstream vehicles challenging the boring design "norms" I'd argue that we need to start treating cars like the utilitarian objects they are and stop associating our personalities with them.
- mfkp 2y agoWe need to start treating PCs like the utilitarian objects they are and bring back beige cases.
- anonzzzies 2y ago80s home computer design please!
- IntelMiner 2y agoFractal Design is always a nice option for that
- StackRanker3000 2y agoCar designs have converged because there are certain properties that are better than others for safety, performance, efficiency, and so on. Those concerns are arguably much more important than aesthetics or the ability to express one’s individuality. Not really the case for PCs.
- amadeuspagel 2y agoYou could still have cars in every color, and yet they're all black or gray.
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- GMoromisato 2y agoAnecdata, but in the Bay Area I see a Cybertruck almost every time I go out. At the beginning of the year it was once per month. Now there are two or three Cybertruck owners in my immediate neighborhood. I don't like the look, personally, but my kids love it.
- inferiorhuman 2y agoSure, I'm in the Bay Area too. I see Rivians daily. Had an F-150 lightning pull up next to me yesterday. Every once in a while I'll see a Luicd whatever. Can't remember the last time I've seen a Cybertruck (on the road or broken down). In the past week I've seen a couple Hummer EVs. Hell I've seen more running Vinfasts than running Cybertrucks.
- GMoromisato 2y agoI see Rivians daily too. Might have seen an F150 Lightning, but I can’t tell them apart from any other truck, honestly.
- inferiorhuman 2y agoWell they literally say "Lightning" on the side so it's pretty easy to tell when parks right next to you.
- NewJazz 2y agoI was at a park. Ct pulled up to a stop sign. Kid playing drops their toy, runs into the field toward the truck, and says in awe "Cybertruuuuuck!". People buy them as big toys.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoPNW here, I see a Rivian (or multiple) every time I go out -- only very rarely a Cybertruck. Don't know which part of the country is buying the cybertrucks but I don't think it's here. Rivian now has dedicated charging stations now out in wilderness-type places (i.e., at the entrance to national parks).
- wffurr 2y agohttps://archive.is/pBDXs https://archive.is/pBDXs Relevant snippet: "Tesla sold almost 17,000 Cybertrucks in the third quarter, according to Cox estimates, making it the third most popular EV in the US during the period. The only other EVs that sold better were the Tesla Model 3 and Y. So far in 2024, more than 28,000 Cybertrucks have been sold. That's more than Ford's F-150 Lightning, Rivian's R1T, and Chevy's Silverado EV, Cox data shows."
- SapporoChris 2y agoThank you for the relevant snippet. Here's how Tesla(not just cybertruck) compares globally. https://www.statista.com/statistics/541390/global-sales-of-plug-in-electric-vehicle-manufacturers/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/541390/global-sales-of-p... "BYD was ranked as the best-selling electric vehicle manufacturer worldwide after selling over three million units in 2023 after overtaking Tesla as the best-selling electric vehicle manufacturer in the previous year. BYD's sales volume translates into a market share of around 22 percent. Tesla and the Volkswagen Group were among the runners-up. "
- joenot443 2y agoAre we supposed to be able to access that graph? I'm getting a "Sign up for Statistia" prompt.
- Macacity 2y agoThis is the source the data is from: https://insideevs.com/news/707935/world-top-ev-oem-sales-2023q4/ https://insideevs.com/news/707935/world-top-ev-oem-sales-202... Plug-in car registrations in Q1-Q4 2023 (vs. previous year): BYD Group: 3,012,070 and 22% share (vs. 18.4%) Tesla: 1,808,652 and 13.2% share (vs. 13.0%) Volkswagen Group: 994,403 and 7.3% share (vs. 8.2%) Geely-Volvo: 925,111 and 6.8% share (vs. 6.0%) SAIC (incl. SAIC-GM-Wuling): 791,521 and 5.8% share (vs. 7.2%) Top 5 total: 7,531,757 and 55% share Others: 6,157,534 and 45% share Total: 13,689,291
- nimbius 2y agoThe reason theyre selling is likely due to a US small business tax loophole that allows you to write off things like range rovers and escalades as a business expense. coupled with US electric vehicle incentives state and federal, and its a pretty sweet deal on the most electric SUV per weight and length you can buy. Honestly I fully expect to see these things crisping in the sunlit parking lot of a predatory auto lender in about five years, or rolling through the rough part of town on an 84 month co-signed auto loan with liability insurance only, wagon wheels, a lord beerus wrap and aftermarket stereo. Like Range Rovers and Hummers they will be gobbled up by people who (with petite-bourgeoise socialism) can afford to buy the vehicle, but not maintain it. And if Youtube is any judge of build quality, this vehicle will start to fall apart the minute it exits the factory floor.
- vitaflo 2y agoLiterally every cybertruck I see has been fully wrapped with some business logo on it. I’m not sure I’ve yet seem one that wasn’t bought as a tax write off.
- meowster 2y agoLiterally every cybertruck I see has not had any business logo whatsoever on them.
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoHow is buying a company vehicle a "tax loophole"?
- mrguyorama 2y agoBecause you buy it as a "company vehicle" but 98% of it's miles are driven for your personal use. Whether the tax code considers that a loophole doesn't matter. It's a loophole to give a personal item the tax treatment of a business asset. You wanted to buy the vehicle anyway, you were going to buy it anyway, but for some absurd reason you get to count a personal vehicle against your company's tax liability.
- sashank_1509 2y agoThe weird thing I’ve seen is in almost all the online forums I visit, like Reddit, YouTube comment sections, parts of twitter, hacker news, the cybertruck is universally panned. Yet when I drove a cybertruck, the number of onlookers who approached me inquiring about the car with excitement is unmatched with even a Lamborghini that I once rented. Shows how much of a bubble the internet alone is. MKBHD got the ratio’s right in his review, 75% of all approaching population are excited about the car and when asked to guess its price, they all wildly overestimate it, guessing close to a million than a 100k. This car is probably a hit, it would be a bigger hit if it were a gas car, it’s low range and really low range when towing make it impractical for any actual truck work.
- maeil 2y agoNothing weird about it. It's panned as a vehicle to drive. Not panned as a way to attract attention, haven't seen anyone claiming it's bad at that.
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoI feel this is also selection bias. People approaching owners in public are unlikely to be aware of what an engineering disaster the thing is, what with all the issues with quality control, slow delivery, and very slow repairs/maintenance from Tesla, or the funnier stories where owners have had their trucks brick entirely due to getting the thing washed, whereas in the comment sections you're referencing, those topics are usually the topic of conversation. And, I mean, even if the people approaching owners do know about that stuff... I dunno, I find it hard to picture myself walking up to a complete stranger and shit-talking their new toy to their face. And not just because I'm a nice person, but because too many people in this country are emotionally unstable and armed, and as funny as I think Cybertrucks and their owners are, I'm not prepared to get killed for a joke. And to put this even further: most people even in America are not "car people" and therefore don't know shit about cars, where they come from, what goes into them, etc. My parents are great examples of this. They've owned something like 4 of the 10 worst cars of the new millennium list put out by Forbes, but like, an awful car in 2024 is still generally fine for an undemanding casual user. Sure, people buy tons of trucks here, but the vast majority of them aren't used for anything more strenuous than hauling a dozen bags of fertilizer, and my Corvette can handle that. A Cybertruck is a terrible truck, but most people don't do truck shit with the trucks they buy, and it's a perfectly middle-of-the-road SUEV. I think it's a bad option if that's what you're after, chiefly because you're gonna spend a LOT of money on tires you don't really need to, and the panels aren't aligned right, and if anything goes wrong with it you're liable to spend months playing vehicular ping-pong with your Tesla dealership, and it's (IMO) ugly as sin... but you do you. Assuming it doesn't have some kind of catastrophic failure that an unfortunate number do, you'll probably have a fine experience. The videos of it struggling to move in snow and "bravely" fording a creek of 5 inch deep water are funny as hell to see, because it's shocking what Cybertruck owners think "hard going" in a truck is. They'd probably lose their minds seeing some of what I've seen modified trucks crawl up, through, and across in the course of off-road competition if they think driving through a fast stream makes the Cybertruck a feat of engineering, but again, most people who buy these things aren't driving through a blizzard at 90mph to get medicine to the good children of the village so they live to see Santa come Christmas morning. They're going across town to the Good Denny's, or to the local mall for shopping, or to their kids soccer game. And on that journey, a Cybertruck and virtually any vehicle you can buy new right now, will suffice. Just don't get it wet.
- apercu 2y agoCan you get insurance for them?
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoYou can get insurance for anything if you pay enough.
- qwerpy 2y agoState Farm charges me marginally more for my CT than they do for my Model Y.
- anonfordays 2y agoEvery single Cybertruck on the road has insurance. You cannot take delivery without insurance.
- MostlyStable 2y agoIt is honestly baffling to me how many people have such strong opinions on the Cyber Truck. I don't personally like the aesthetic, but the majority of the reason I wouldn't get one is that I really don't like Teslas interior design/control scheme (which, much like apple, has lead a lot of manufacturers to copy them). I hate the 100% touch screen thing that they have decided on. But like...also, I just won't buy one. The fact that the car isn't my ideal one does not require me to despise it, or really care about it at all. There are a lot of cars that I don't like for one reason or another. I mean, I guess I do get it: politics have poisoned people's brains and the fact that they don't like Musk's politics means that they have to have extremely strong opinions on everything connected to him, but it just doesn't seem worth the emotional effort. And while I personally wouldn't ever buy one, it also is not surprising to me at all that a lot of people are buying them. I have no illusion that my personal tastes reflect the broader tastes of the car-buying public (if they did, then I would find it much easier to find a car that conforms to my preferences).
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- archagon 2y agoSpeak for yourself. I also hate the car.
- Spooky23 2y agoAll of these things are by design. Musk’s strategy is to be in the news and for the product to be him. He must have fired his PR team and gave up on the visionary genius schtick. Many people will hate that he’s revealed his true self to the world and it isn’t pretty. But the car sucks too.
- pfannkuchen 2y agoHave you actually driven one? The only thing I use the touch screen for on a near daily basis is the defroster in the winter and that is before I start driving. Everything else I need regularly does have physical controls, e.g. wipers and blower speed. I do have a model that still has the stalks though, haven’t driven the stalkless type enough to comment.
- jordanpg 2y agoI would love to see the party registration breakdown of these recent buys. It would be wonderful irony if suddenly buying EVs has become trendy among the right-leaning crowd.
- spaceman_2020 2y agoIts the design. The memefication of reality is happening right under our eyes, and the Cybertruck is the perfect vehicle for it. Expect more such memetic design across everything. From people to products, the meme is the atomic unit of attention. Beauty is a secondary goal; to sprout memes is how you win in twenty twenty four - and beyond.
- stonethrowaway 2y agoTo move past this barricade you must show your identification card. And a dank meme.
- netsharc 2y agoHah, a unwieldly, unreliable, pedestrian-killing-homing-missile is comparable to those Chinese "hoverboards".. I like it.
- maeil 2y agoVery well said.
- kylehotchkiss 2y agoEverybody will wear Ed Hardy again?
- Apofis 2y agoEV's have been horrifically ugly and/or boring for decades, its fine for the Cybertruck to buck that trend.
- RollAHardSix 2y agoMy girlfriend owns one so to share our experience, the cybertruck is an unreliable POS. She's had it three, four months now & we have had it in the shop for suspension repair, an ECU computer which fried itself at a charging station (2k), a coolant leak part replacement from the cyberbeast rear engine (1400), the passenger window falling inside the door after the wire used in the gear window retraction snapped or tangled in the gears (450). We have gone through something like 8-10 tires and rims because they can't handle a pothole, or slice themselves after some tech put the wheel cover on wrong (tried leaving it off but a tire caught debris and was punctured that way too). She had about two or three tires slashed or had the air nozzle cut off and sentry mode didn't catch anything except the back of the persons head. The self-driving jerked itself into a barricade on the interstate when someone cut her off, she wasn't able to stop it from doing so fast enough, it was all just faster then her reaction time (thankfully the other driver admitted fault but if they had contested I wouldn't put my faith in self-driving laws to side on a drivers side in a dispute). We have put roughly 10k into this truck for service. We bought the truck because she lives in the mountains, she drives 200 miles a day for work if not more 5 days a week (regularly up at 4am on the road at 6am and home around 7pm - 9pm depending), and its probably the biggest purchase regret of our lives. She needed a vehicle and I just spent 15k on a used RAV, we made the decision for her to get the truck because self-driving sounded very exciting (its all 'corporate puffery' now though), and her being in the mountains left us looking at roughly 80k vehicles anyway so we figured let's take a chance on the truck and self-driving. I mean most cars you get a good five years out them anyway right? Turns out that paint it black tesla ad was even faked, and my personal opinion is Tesla used the reservations to get this news piece. I truly don't see the cybertruck as being desirable for the average American, I believe it's a novelty which will die once Teslas early adopter advantage for self-driving dies up. I believe it should. We are currently looking to buy her a 8k commuter beater for local 60 - 120 mile work days and using the cybertruck just for the work out of state. We'd sell the truck but its depreciated so much and she still travels out of state once or twice a month minimum and all over the place once there so we still want something electric for those trips. We would sell it if I had about another 50k in the bank to be comfortable with taking the quick loss from doing so, we still might once the relatives house sells. Don't buy Tesla, that's my advice. We never will again.
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- standardUser 2y agoHere's the thing about the Cybertruck, if you give it a decent paint job it actually looks kind of amazing... https://pristineautospa.com/the-benefits-and-advantages-of-colored-paint-protection-film-for-tesla-cybertrucks/ https://pristineautospa.com/the-benefits-and-advantages-of-c... It's the unfinished metal look that absolutely baffles me.
- GenerWork 2y agoTesla somehow made a vehicle that only looks its best when you put an aftermarket wrap/paintjob on it. It's almost impressive when you think about it.
- moooo99 2y agoIt has been like this for a while. Teslas paint jobs were never amazing. I knew a guy that worked for a vehicle fleet management company. Most of the Teslas they were dealing with had such a bad paint job that they resorted to vinyl wrapping them. Granted, this was a few years ago. I would hope they got their quality control processes dialed in by now
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- foogazi 2y agoPersonally when I see them in person I think they look dumb and ridiculous. But I have never driven it. I do like all other current Teslas but wouldn’t buy one because Elon But I was driving with a non-tech, non-online friend and she blurted out “Wow what an ugly car”, I looked over and it was a cybertruck - so I felt validate in my views
- PoignardAzur 2y agoThere was a Cybertruck at the Paris Games Week (there was a Tesla corner in the con for some reason). That was my first time seeing one in person. The most striking thing was how tall it was. Half the kids attending the PGW were smaller than its front bumper. I hope these things never, ever get allowed in France.
- aeternum 2y agoIn that case, I can't imagine how you feel about delivery trucks.
- snypher 2y agoCab-over trucks usually have pretty good visibility out the front. Plus, they are useful for delivery of goods that help society.
- tekkk 2y agoThat thing is all steel and sharp corners. Not at all the same as a delivery truck, adhering to basic pedestrian safety standards and also driven mostly by workers with special driving licenses. Also they are way slower than these steel battering rams.
- ceejayoz 2y agoThe new Amazon electric ones appear to have pretty great visiblity. Same for the new USPS vehicle (which, to be fair, looks a bit bizarre).
- Teever 2y agoDelivery trucks are typically operated by professional drivers who require clean driving abstracts and maybe even drug testing. There are also far fewer of them per capita than passenger vehicles. At the end of the day they're a necessary evil while the ever growing number of vanity pavement princess pickup trucks are not.
- csomar 2y agoMany cities do not allow large trucks inside the city especially in pedestrian areas. Will the same restrictions apply to the cybertruck?
- mensetmanusman 2y agoSome small business owners are saving $10k annually with electricity costs at the rate they are using them.
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- gmerc 2y agoThis clearly has nothing to do with running down the preorder list which has now been exhausted and had a less than 10% claim rate. Those numbers are going to crater hard in the coming months
- iknowstuff 2y agosame thing was said about model 3 and model y. won’t happen.
- fxtentacle 2y agoThe headline is pretty misleading. From the article: "Tesla sold almost 17,000 Cybertrucks in the third quarter" and I believe the total sales volume for last quarter was 400k EVs in the US and about 3.5mio worldwide. That means Cybertruck sales were like 2-3% of total sales in the US and <0.5% worldwide.
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- spacechild1 2y agoThis serioualy reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer gets to design a car. I don't understand how anyone can drive this thing unironically.
- rightbyte 2y agoI believe the guys that secretely want a F150 and remove the catalysator are the target demographic. Musks resent policial turns fits the Cybertruck image too.
- lifestyleguru 2y agoStop these awful huge heavy monstrosities, there is no place for them in the cities. Why are you doing this to us? Sell them all to warlords in Caucasus.
- robomartin 2y agoHere in Los Angeles we have seen dozens of them. Our reaction is consistent: It's ugly and ridiculous. To my wife the design reminds her of a roll-top garbage can of some sort. My kids probably had the best comment: If Tesla had designed a real truck they would have sold millions. Keep in mind this is the comment of teenagers who don't have a sense of the size and scale of markets. The point, however, should not be missed: There was an opportunity to enter a truck into the truck market, not an Ikea trash can on wheels. Sometimes it is a good idea to listen to kids. I remember when one of Apple's original guiding principles of OS design was to make the computers usable by anyone, even young kids. A kid, in this case, does not see the utility of a truck that does not seem to fit the "form and function" of a truck, like an F150 or variants by other manufacturers.
- nothercastle 2y agoIt’s popular for the same reason the pt cruiser was cool right up until it wasn’t