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

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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.

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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

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

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Is it possible to orgasm from schadenfreude?

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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.

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

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

(Sadly / Probably)

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

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

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

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I'm assuming the electric f150 has greater than 1 wheel drive?

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oh shit...

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I just had a talk with a friend of mine in southern Ontario who lives in a farming rural area. He likes cars and often does searches for used vehicles in his area. In a 200km area around Branford, there are over 200 used Teslas on sale down there over the past month or two because people are dumping them because they don't like the brand.

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I guess making a search online is the one thing slightly more difficult than making an assumption.

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Aed get real professionals to design and build future models.

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The only thing Elon's ever pulled out of.

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Try and fail to look rugged.

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Other truck makers tend to let their vehicles fully render.

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My problem with Tesla is that so many things seem half-unthinking, half-finished or half-assed:

Unthinking: I know! I'll put a ledge in from of the headlights, so snow can pile up while I'm driving!

Unfinished: all the seam mismatches and eternally unfinished-but-really-close! full self-driving (it ain't gonna happen).

Half-assed: that recall they had to do because sometimes the latch doesn't catch properly and the hood flies open when you're driving and blocks your view. Tesla's solution isn't to fix or replace the hood latch so this doesn't happen; they push a software up that monitors the hood latch and pops up a warning, telling you to pull over and check the hood latch. Because apparently fixing the issue that their poor design (see #1) and bad implementation (see #2) doesn't warrant an actual fix, they're just going to fob the risk , the cost and the work off to the customer.

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Isn’t well liked…. Is a Nazi.

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