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- technology@beehaw.org
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/22132981
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Can someone explain how the demographic of people who loved to park their gas guzzlers to purposefully block tesla charging stations are now Musk fanboys all of a sudden?
Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
“nobody wants” or 60% of Americans can’t afford basic living expenses?
“$800m”… If nobody wants them, they’re not worth anything.
They’re not worthless, im sure you can use them for scrap metal
Cybertrucks are just sitting around, waiting for someone to officially label them the DeLorean of the 21st century.
Hey! You take that back! DeLoreans were always cool cars. Their demise wasn’t due to lack of popularity, the company just had problems getting established, and ultimately didn’t survive its initial growth phase.
Nobody despised the DeLorean, or it’s owner. They just ran out of money, and he tried a desperate Hail Mary play, that didn’t work.
Their demise was absolutely due to lack of popularity. In December '81 they had produced 7,000 units and sold 3,000. I’d argue that they failed for the same reason Fiero did – they looked like a sports car but were not. Top speed was 110mph. 0-60 time was 10.5 seconds. It had a V-6 that put out 130hp in a car with a curb wt of 2700 lbs. 0-60 time was measured at 10.5 seconds. To put that in perspective, about the same as a 99 Ford F-350 Super Duty Crew Cab 4x4 Dually or 73 LTD Brougham. There are virtually no modern cars that run 0-60 that slow. A 2024 5.3l Suburban has a time of 7.0
In addition, they had numerous quality control problems. This in a car that retailed for $25k or the rough equivalent of $86,000 in today’s dollars. While it’s probably true that nobody despised the car, it was not a good car. They were definitely cool sitting in a parking lot but getting spanked by a 1980 Chevy Citation (0-60 10.3) is not a good look
The cybertruck is on a different scale of unpopularity.
Nobody threw Molotov cocktails at Delorians.
Not with that spelling.
Fuck Tesla. No bailouts for Nazis.
Narrator: …
And retail investors continue to bail out the investors with money who are actually making money. Watch out for that rug!
I am expecting them to end up as ICE technicals, used to hunt down dissidents like…checks notes…American citizens, children, and the elderly.
Finally some good news
My pet conspiracy theory has been that Elmo was hoping Trump would mandate that everything gov related has to drive Teslas.
So your saying one will be able to avoid ICE by simply escaping on days when its raining?
Or, by running through sand or mud!
I would pay 10 bucks to use them in my survival kit as a fire starter.
maybe they should try making their cars not ugly as sin
The main flaw of that thing is its bad engineering. The design was meant to be polarising and if it was actually a good car, it would work in its favour.
They are also larger then expected or needed. The one I see at work just barely fits in the parking spaces, width wise.
But that goes for pretty much any pickup truck. The whole category is an affront to common sense.
Next week: US Department of Defence announces purchase of fleet of Cybertrucks.
Already in the works:
State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
Can’t wait to see how well it works to glue armored panels on.
That’s just ridiculous. To spend money to remove infrastructure, out of hidden spite.
hidden?
Well barely. Their given reason is it’s “not mission critical” which is a statement veeeeryyy far from “We are doing it out of spite for electric cars” or “We want our oil narrative to hold from our highest echelons of social hierarchy” or whatever other insane reason
Letting bad actors get away with excuses you are basically making up for them, is how the USA went down the toilet
Can’t wait to meet the successor to M1 Abrams: the M2 Sad Tin Can.
You know, by stock market logic, this would mean they aren’t actually worth $800m
They’re only worth what someone would be willing to pay for them. What’s the scrap value on a cybertruck?
Simple economy actually. Supply exceeds demand, value on the market is lower.
On the stock market, you can do all kinds of fuckery to gain from this.Stock market logic, sell one cybertruck for $1m and your whole inventory is now worth 10x
If the stock market had anythign to do with logic Tesla wouldn’t be worth more than all other car manufacturers combined
Bag holders.
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But they sold $43 million in 72 hours! /s
If nobody wants them, then they are worth $0.
Jokes on you, I’d pay $1 for the lot.
Prepare to pay a $200m fine for littering.
You could definitely sell those for more then $0. The batteries alone aren’t cheap.
I was debating if I’d be willing to take a free cybertruck, your comment reminded me i could take it straight to the scrap yard
i don’t have full confidence it will make it to the scrapyard
A while back, I read an article by a guy who had inherited a SwastiKKKar from an uncle, including free life-time charging. He didn’t like the idea of driving a Tesla, but free was free.
It wasn’t the reactions of others that made him throw in the towel on it, it was the poor build quality. He thought it felt cheap and rattley so he traded it in for a smokin hot Mustang. He lost a fortune over what the car was bought for, but it was free to him, so he didn’t care.
So somewhere inbetween as the article says “more than 10,000 units” and “$800m” so they appear to be valuing them at ~$80k/unit which is ridiculously optimistic.
My guess is closer to 1/3rd of that value but nobody likes to lose half a billion in the blink of an eye
They’re worth something as scrap, I’m sure.
