If the talk about Cybertrucks actually rusting in the rain is true, they will be worth less and less and less...
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Correction. They are worthless. lol.
I'd buy them for their scrap metal and batteries if they were cheap enough for me to not feel guilty about giving money to tesla
yeah, if nobody wants them, then they are worth 0 dollars net
The batteries are still expensive and good to use for anything else. So it should be 20-25k in scrap.
I live in a pretty conservative area. I might pay $15k for a brand new one.
I think its crazy that they made $800 mil worth of these cars. Who the hell thought they would sell well?
They had a ridiculous number of people putting in a deposit to reserve one, about two million reservations according to this: https://insideevs.com/news/687142/tesla-cybertruck-2-million-reservations-crowdsourced-data/
I guess they came to their senses.
I always thought he was making them as a limited high-end run. It's neither of those things.
Oh its gonna be limited thats for sure. But yeah I had very similar thoughts as well. Theres one cyberfuck in my town and every time I see it I can’t help but think what a fucking goober one must be to buy it
That's 80,000 vehicles. The production capacity is 250k. Ford sold 460,000 F-150s last year.
Chrysler had an inventory of over 1 million last year, they've ran through that by March.
Chrysler had an inventory of over 1 million last year, they've ran through that by March.
That's insane considering Chrysler hasn't made a decent vehicle in 20+ years and the majority of them are just as big piles of shit as the cybertruck.
They don't charge 100k
Elon underestimated how willing people were to buy a truck from a nazi.
Even people who would buy from Nazi's still want a functional car.
These things randomly stop working, break if you drive it into a half a foot of water, have rear view mirror housings which bust off when you try to pull down the sun visor, have a single ethernet cable routing all the controls and devices so that if the connection breaks anywhere everything stops working suddenly, a shelf underneath the headlight which accrues dirt or snow as you drive until it is not serving its purpose, exterior panels which just fall the fuck off, and hardly get any mileage.
The only people who buy these are those incapable of the barest reasoning.
That's a cool stance to take.
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Oh no... anyway
How abut: The truck is just plain ugly.
It looks like a refuse bin. Square back, low opening front.
When I worked in a lime quarry, we used a bin something like that shape to put all the crap and garbage in The a-frame had a bar across the top and the kiln truck picked it up worth its hoist and loaded it on the back, and hauled away the load to the dump.
$800 million worth is giving a lot of value to something they can barely give away. Maybe $800K worth of material after the cost of dismantling.
$800 million according to labor theory of value. 0$ million according to subjective theory of value
The $800m figure is only useful for figuring out how much Tesla was expecting to make out of it. When you factor in the development and manufacturing costs, they're hemorrhaging money.
They really should use the number of units. If Musk cranks the price from 80k to 120k, they suddenly have $1.2B sitting there? It's the same 10,000 ugly-ass pieces of shit.
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If nobody wants them... they are not worth that amount. simple economics.
supply and demand...
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You hate to see it, whomp whomp
I actually don't hate to see it
I can, explicitly and unequivocally, state that I derive intense joy from having the privilege of seeing this.
If he drops the price to about $8k and includes lifetime fast charging, I'd consider one. Of course, for $8k, there are plenty of much nicer used trucks available on the market, though.
Lifetime anyfeature is only of value as long as the company still honors it. Will Tesla still be in business in a decade? Seems doubtful.
Idunno, they seem like they'd be perpetual rotten fruit magnets. Like you'd have to hose them down a lot
Hosing it down would just accelerate the rusting
They get you coming and going!
And they actually have truck functions that trucks should have. And they aren’t completely useless if the iPad in the cab decides to not work
Strip out the bad stuff and drop them in the ocean and they can become reefs for fishies and their buddies?
Strip out the bad stuff
What's left after that?
The reef is made of negative space
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