Re:Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poo...
by alt227 on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:03AM
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Possibly, but as it cost $100k to put down a deposit I would be surprised if that many people were willing to actually pay for something they only tolerated.
Re:Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poo...
by HarHarVeryFunny on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:30AM
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It was a refundable deposit (and small), so I wonder how many people were even that serious - no real commitment.
2019 USA annual car/pickup sales were ~17M. I find it very hard to believe that 10% (2M cybertruck pre-orders) of those purchasers were seriously interested in a cybertruck - it really is not a design made for mainstream tastes.
Re:Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poo...
by alt227 on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:18AM
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If you owned a company and announced a product that 2 million people went and paid you $100 each for to preorder it, Im pretty sure you would think differently.
Re:Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poo...
by HarHarVeryFunny on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:40PM
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Not sure what you mean by that - I'm sure Tesla was happy to have the reservations (great publicity - maybe that was the point), but there is no indication they took the numbers seriously.
No doubt there is some demand for an "out there" design, but I'd have to guess that the projected $40K price was itself a large part of the attraction.