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Re:Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poo... by paulpauper on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:10PM (#50396885)
The article even said it was a rounding error in terms of Tesla’s earnings, and expectations were tepid to begin with, and other brands such as Ford also failed with electric trucks. It is not as big of a deal as people have made it out to be. The cars are Tesla’s main business by far. The Cybertruck was a distraction basically.
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Re:Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poo... by kibwen on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:17PM (#50396991)
> It is not as big of a deal as people have made it out to be.

No more of a big deal than any other $2 billion loss.

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Re:Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poo... by layout on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:41PM (#50398201)
> expectations were tepid to begin with

Tesla projected selling 250k of these a year or $15-20b in revenue per year. This is a big number and would’ve added significant total vehicle sales. Instead, they’ve sold less than 70,000 total trucks over its production history.

This is an absolute disaster and failure by any rational analysis

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Re:Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poo... by kalleboo on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:19PM (#50401026)
Tesla was bragging about having 2 million pre-orders, I'm not sure if that counts as "tepid"
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