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

[nednobbins@lemm.ee]

Nobody builds cars under slave like conditions. It’s just not possible. Modern car factories are highly automated plants that require skilled operators. In the case of the VW Xinjiang, that was QC inspectors. There’s no way a hole in the wall car factory using outdated labor practices can come close to competing against modern production.

[forbo@lemmy.ml]

Pseudonymous, not anonymous. It's a little difference, but one that can determine whether you land behind bars/dead/doxxed.

[diffusive@lemmy.world]

All DEI fault for this failure

/s (if it wasn’t obvious )

[yurkshirelad@lemmy.ca]

It looks like something out of an 80s car video game.

[jericho_kane@lemmy.org]

Well yeah i guess. Taste is subjective

[jericho_kane@lemmy.org]

It's pretty funny because they kinda look like straight out of judge dredd. The shitty one.

[jericho_kane@lemmy.org]

And pee is basically just water

[bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works]

Driving a cyber truck is sure to get you some attention. That’s valuable to some people.

[jaemo@sh.itjust.works]

Why isn't the puny, petulant man-thing that runs the Nazicar Factory not suing us all for not buying them? That's how you deal with advertisers who don't wanna advertise with him so why not consumers who don't want to consume?

It's the next stupid, asinine step.

I hope anyone who ever admired this fuck face is deeply embarrassed. Or losing money.

[zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com]

Can't say that about anyone else. Dudes an absolute monster but there's a couple Silver linings

[siredcalot@lemmy.today]

I realize the American educational system has gone downhill, but surely at some point somebody taught you the concept of nuance? That not everything is black or white, good or evil? That sometimes things are shades of gray? Sometimes good people do bad things, bad people do good things, etc?
And that not everything is as it first appears at face value, you have to look deeper to understand?

I for one am very much a student of nuance.

I think we would both agree that of late, Elon has somewhat gone off the rails.
But that doesn't mean everything he has ever done or ever will do is automatically bad. I can dislike his current politics and the way he is approaching this efficiency project, without having to shit on everything he's ever done.

Thus, I remain a fan of SpaceX and Tesla, for the simple reason that they both lead their respective fields technology-wise. As someone who has owned a Tesla for years (going back to the days when everybody loved Elon), I can confidently say from personal first-hand experience that it is a fantastic car.
The fact that I now disagree with many of its founder's politics doesn't change the car in my driveway. It was a fantastic car when I bought it and it's an even more fantastic car now as FSD gets further refined.

I ask, for the good of our nation, please avoid black and white thinking. A population unable to grasp nuance and uninterested in looking deeper for motivations and questions below the surface is easily manipulated with range bait news. Republicans have been doing this for decades. Democrats have just started in the last 4 or 5 years.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

Apparently he did really found SpaceX. I'm not saying he did everything necessary on C-level to make it a functional company, but that's not really required (though if we think of such companies as Sun, there one can really see Bill Joy's deep participation in a lot of different core projects).

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

OK. Then I'd guess it's him sabotaging the idea of EV's.

[frostythedoo@lemmy.world]

Give him some time. Once his cronies get everything working right he won't have to sue, he can just deny federal benefits to people who don't order a cybertuck and send their hearts out to him when they receive it.

[blady_blah@lemmy.world]

I wonder how Tesla sales in Israel are going?

[gnulinuxdude@lemmy.ml]

I’m betting high odds he will force the federal government to buy them under the guise of a green EV transition. With trump’s full blessing, of course.

[westyvw@lemm.ee]

Tesla made 2.8 billion last year from selling regulatory credits. So they really didn't have to care how many cars they sold. But those surely are going away, so they are going to have to do some other government handout, which Elon is probably hand picking right now.

[theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world]

In the words of a wise yellow character HA HA

[mlegstrong@sh.itjust.works]

Na this is caused by immigrant
/s

[thermonuclearcactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I saw my first cybertruck in traffic yesterday, I initially thought that some redneck had every part you need to make a car except for the frame and body, and was like "I don't need none of that fancy shit, I got square tube and steel plate!" and welded together the laziest design they could think of. Then I realized it was just a cybertruck, and promptly laughed at it.