The truck that was supposed to revolutionize everything is flopping fast.
The hype is dead. The Tesla Cybertruck, once billed as the future of electric vehicles, is now looking like a commercial bust.
In the second quarter of 2025, Tesla sold just 4,306 Cybertrucks, down a staggering 50.8% from the 8,755 units it delivered during the same period last year, according to new data from Kelley Blue Book. This plunge is a signal that America’s most hyped truck may already be out of gas.
I like how people don’t hate it because its electric, they hate it because it’s objectively terrible. Maybe if it didn’t stink like a dead nazi, people would buy it.
It’s ugly, and it looks like it jumped off the screen from the Cyberpunk 2077 world. It’s poorly built and ineffective at the job it was designed to do. And then Elon did his thing, and now it’s irrevocably tied to a dead Mid-20th Century ideology that the entire world fought to dismantle. I’m glad it’s falling by the wayside. An object lesson – don’t build stupidly engineered items, and don’t tout murderous ideologies that get a majority of the world against you.
It doesn’t look like it came out of Cyberpunk, literally every vehicle in that game looks way cooler and more advanced. The Cybertruck looks like it came from a “futuristic” wireframe video game from 1985. It’s obviously trying to play off DeLorean vibes, it’s made as nostalgia for a 40-year old vision of a future that never came. It’s like if someone made a 50s rocket-punk styled car in 1990, it’s just a botched anachronistic mess, more past than future.
Its from the movie Freejack, trashy sci fi action flick from 1992, Mick Jagger drives something like it
that looks more like an APC.
IIRC it’s a real amphibious APC used by the Royal Marines painted red.
It’s ugly
I agree completely. I mean back in the 80’s they were envisioning cool stuff like this:
… and instead Telsa decided to put out something that looks like some guy tried to turn his shed into a car.
Even amateur designers can start from the cyber truck design and make something a lot better with a few tweaks. The current design is just a great visualization of what happens when the boss purposefully ignores any suggestion and criticism from the employees. I mean, this not only happens with cars. There are many projects going that way. This is just a very visual high level example.
Yeah when I think of a car that’s actually cyberpunk it’s some civic with mods.
I’d say it looks more like a futuristic barn
its basically a giant metal coffin, which is also a charcuterie machine.
I get it kinda. I like Charcuterie.I abhor Cybertrucks. Aaaagghh. Dangit. Now I understand. Just gonna close my evening out feeling kinda meh. Thanks, I guess. For the ugly ass vehicle that has absolutely ruined my appetite for any charcuterie plates for me this week. Maybe it’s a good thing? It certainly wouldn’t kill me to est super clean for a week but f that.
remember the hand getting sliced open, the carrots. also it can cleave venison in half.
Maybe if it didn’t stink like a dead nazi, people would buy it.
I dunno, I kind of like the smell of dead nazis.
Its a modern day DMC DeLorean which ironically also had a raw stainless steel body. Hopefully it tanks the company just like the DeLorean did.
I don’t think the DeLorean reference is apt. That company was headed by a man who saw himself as a visionary, liked to highlight his middle initial “Z,” and had a drug addiction. No connection whatsoever.
Delorean built his cars in Northern Ireland during the Troubles while also smuggling drugs to try to keep the company solvent, and he still managed to produce a better vehicle than Musk did. At least Delorean managed to pick a stainless steel alloy that was actually stainless!
First of all, it’s stain less not stain never. Second of all, Musk would do all the drugs instead of smuggling them. Finally, the cybertruck as is an engineering failure and no amount of money can fix it.
Most people think of the thing in <thing>less like the tank in a tankless water heater, rather than like less sodium in reduced sodium soy sauce.
You made all my points for me, only one note: I can properly fix a cybertruck for $20USD. maybe less what have petrol prices been doing lately
At least DeLorean went out for something cool: smuggling cocaine in the vehicles.
The DeLorean looked WAY cooler.
Sounds full of e-boobies.
I mean at least the Segway was built well
And they are fun
I flip them off now. I’m doing my part!
But almost six years later, the truck’s surreal design, awkward size, high price, and late delivery have turned it into a niche curiosity, not a mass-market hit.
How the fuck do you write an article about the failed Cybertruck and not acknowledge Elon’s political bullshit impacting Tesla sales?!?
Dishonest shit.
Biggest takeaway; the media is still in denial.
The media is still
in denialreceiving money from the right.
Early reviews raised red flags over software glitches, poor fit and finish, and disappointing range for a vehicle of its size.
That’s the only sentence acknowledging the MANY mechanical failures, too.
Eh. Even if Musk still had his Iron Man in real life image the cyber truck would still be a complete failure.
Saying it’s a shitty car and a failure by only looking at it as a car seems like good journalism. This isn’t a good product that failed because people don’t like Musk anymore.
Well yes, but if you want to explain why it flopped you devinetively have to mention Elon Musk Teslas sales overall dropped everywhere around the world by up to 50%.
The concept was quirky but it had a ton of hype. It wasn’t helped by the fact that it has some fairly noticeable flaws, one being panels that are glued on and have been known to fall off. And headlights that are placed so close to the front bumper that any buildup of snow blocks them. Not smart design.
Teslastans hyped the fact that there were “2 million preorders” which was supposedly because of the mass appeal of the CT. Turns out once the novelty wore off, people just said ‘meh, Id rather have a more normal truck for doing truck things’ which is why the Rivian is still selling ok, the Ford Lightning is limping along and the Sliverado EV is actually a range champ with real world reports of over 800 km range that can actually tow a trailer for more than three blocks before needing a recharge.
it was never the future, it was only meant to hype of the stocks so he can get that 56bn payout in '23, it just took longer than expected.
Day one
sorry mate, maybe if you know, keep it from rusting, it might be a novelty some day. you can drive it in a funny car parade or something
I don’t have one?
i wouldn’t admit it either!
Okay…
Sounds like a misunderstanding from the other party. It’s not always that bad. Welcome to Lemmy!
Driving a Cybercuck is a great way to tell society you’re the village idiot.
The stupid thing is, it was so easy to see what needed to be done. Tesla needed to release a pickup that appealed to Red State America. Functional first, but high end and ultra manly. Kind of like the F-150 lightning but cool.
Tesla needed to appeal to traditional pickup owners. Then Musk’s run to the right would have actually fallen in line with that strategy. But the Cybertruck is the exact opposite of that. There are probably more techies who own cyber trucks than there are pickup owners, and that’s pathetic. That’s a failure to understand your target demographic. This really comes down to musks insane hubris.
Lol function first.
Most f150s are suburban grocery getters. They just needed to release a mall crawler and keep Elon out of politics
I think the F-150 has some really cool features for a serious work truck. The front with the low entry means you can put relatively heavy tools there. The power outlets add a ton of functionality. The only thing it really doesn’t have IMHO is the ability to do serious towing… But that’s a problem with all electric vehicles.
Now I’m not a serious pickup guy, but from what I’ve seen, the F-150 looks much more built for work than any other EV on the market (and most pickups).
Maybe function first helps with cosplaying as rural. People get very up in arms about frame type. The twice yearly sedanfull of potting soil is incredibly serious.
Busted ass truck is busted.
What, an ugly ass vehicle that looks like it came from an early 90’s video game is a flop? Whodathunkit?
I will forever point and laugh like Nelson at the morons who bought these Swastikar piles of shit.
I feel like 4306 units sold in one quarter is still quite a lot all things considered.
And only 4,200 of them will have panels falling off by the end of next quarter
I am so surprised by the panels falling off; I thought Elmer’s glue was supposed to be pretty good.
