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SpaceX Is Buying Up an Unfathomable Number of Cybertrucks (futurism.com)
submitted 3 months ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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Considering the pickup EV has been an enormous commercial flop, only selling barely a fraction of Musk’s promised 250,000 to 500,000 Cybertrucks a year, there’s a good chance Tesla is using the mercurial CEO’s other venture to boost the numbers ahead of the end of an otherwise disastrous year.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 3 months ago

I failed to understand why Tesla shareholders thought that it would be a success. Everything about it is stupid. Far apart from any political situation that musk cause caused.

It made out of suspect material that is obviously going to corroded and accelerated rate thus causing them to have to do financially onerous repairs, it's a regulatory nightmare anywhere outside of the United States, it's demonstrably not a very good truck and thus has a very limited market, and it's unnecessarily heavy without offering any real benefits for that weight so it has terrible range. Oh and it has a tendency to get stuck in mud any deeper than one micron. What a wonderful product, why isn't everyone getting it?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Straight up fraud

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Texas already has Cadillac Ranch. How about somebody do Cybertruck Ranch?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Ranch

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago

Anybody that even indirectly gives any resource to these companies is being had

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Operation Self Gluck

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someone has to buy them to keep the stock propped up.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

with the rules US market makers work under, not really. they get wide leeway in price manipulation when things are "volatile" to "facilitate liquidity".

add on the fact the US still hasnt made short selling illegal like most of the rest of the world did after 2000-2008, and the selling pressure to trigger these volatility thresholds can still be faked easily too

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So even the cleaners at SpaceX are getting company cars?

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No. That costs money. They sit in a parking lot and rot.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Which is strange, because Tesla is supposed to have a build to order business model only. Yet, the local mall near me has >300 Teslas rotting in the parking lot.

Time for another Margot Robie explanation.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

They keep shuffling around their inventory, earlier this year they were forced to move vehicles that were just sitting in a parking lot for months: https://www.jalopnik.com/1894493/hundreds-of-unsold-teslas-evicted-from-detroit-parking-lot/

I wonder if musk will run out of places to store his trash. The "rational market" still thinks tesla stock is worth near all-time highs, more than all major car companies combined.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So they’re used cars already?

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 3 points 3 months ago

“Pre-owned”

Oh wait, that probably doesn’t even apply.

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