Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt

[nospotofground@lemmy.world]

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[brkdncr@lemmy.world]

This should surprise no one. The reception was poor, delivery was poor. It’s a niche market item in an existing niche market. On top of that, the de facto spokesperson of Tesla isn’t well liked by a lot of potential buyers.

[hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

"niche market," is a way of saying they made a bad product few want.

pickup trucks are hardly a niche product especially in the us

[thefogan@programming.dev]

I mean off the bat that's one of the worse combinations of people/product I've ever seen. I mean off the bat electric car's target market is people that want to think they are doing something better for the environment.

So... then the guy making them goes loudly in the "fuck the environment" group.

To top it off though, Cybertruck itself always confuses me. I don't know who the target audience is. The original tesla's I could look at and think, that's a cool car, if they ever came down in price I'd be interested.

Cybertruck you look at and think... What a car would look like if you scaled up games from the 32/64 bit console era and made them HD without increasing the polygon count.

[floofloof@lemmy.ca]

The best thing they could do for their sales is get rid of all ties to Elon Musk.

[ramble81@lemm.ee]

Just wait till DOGE start requiring it for all government vehicles

[thejml@lemm.ee]

Turns out the group of people who look at mid nineties Laura Croft and think “that low polygon count asthenic is exactly how I like my women and trucks, I’ve got lots of disposable income to buy a truck that can’t do many truck things we’ll, and I’m glad a far right ketamine filed tech bro is running the company!” Is a small number of people.

[expatriado@lemmy.world]

got treasure money now, no need to sell overpriced junk

[obviouslynotbanana@lemmy.world]

To be fair, it's valid to cater to niche markets.

However, that wasn't what Tesla was aiming to do.

[nollij@sopuli.xyz]

It makes more sense if you start from the other side - EVs are a niche market, and an electric truck is a small subset of that.

The Cybertruck sold 38,965 units last year, vs 33,510 for the Ford F150 Lightning.

[hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works]

I don't think I'd call that thing a pickup. I'm not gonna run to the farm and pick up a 1000lb bale of hay in that thing. A Baja looks like it has more bed space.

[sorghum@sh.itjust.works]

It's the price. I want a truck, not a Cadillac with a bed. A truck is meant for work not ve a pavement princess. $50k was already high and the truck market is still stupid on price with most trucks going over $60k and Cybertruck starts at $75.5k. If the price was what Elon said when he announced the Cybertruck, it would be flying off the shelves $40k

[faltryka@lemmy.world]

One of the things I love about my Lightning is that it doesn’t look like a fucking cybertruck

[jomiran@lemmy.ml]

Is it possible to orgasm from schadenfreude?

[moleverine@lemmy.world]

We're not all buying EVs for the environment. I bought an EV because I think the car is cool and it's really enjoyable to drive. It's nice that the "gas" is also significantly cheaper, but that wasn't high on my list of reasons to get the thing, either.

The EV owners I've talked to didn't buy them for the environment, either, but I haven't talked to any Leaf owners or anything. Maybe they're more environmentally conscious. It being better for the environment long term is definitely nice, and I hope progress continues on batteries made with less toxic components.

Thankfully, I did not buy a Tesla and they were never on my list of options because of Elon. So he definitely alienated a customer due to him being an awful human being. I also won't use any of their charging stations, since I don't want them to profit off of me.

[rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca]

I'm not a Ford guy, but they do look pretty good.

[ptz@dubvee.org]

"What?! You all wanted electric mail trucks, so here they are!"

(Sadly / Probably)

[kreskin@lemmy.world]

cybertruck is barely even a truck at all. its a truck shaped car for rich assholes to look rugged.

[superkret@feddit.org]

Have they tried suing people who don't want to buy one?

[kmartburrito@lemmy.world]

Plus it looks stupid, like what my drawings of a car looked like at 5 years old