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Tesla tells workers on Cybertruck line no 'need to report to work' for the next 3 days
Going nowhere? Cybertrucks in transit, Austin, November 2024. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images |
Elon Musk is having a terrible, no good, very bad week.
First a judge struck down a stock grant that Musk persuaded Tesla shareholders to give him, in part by threatening to leave the company. That grant, originally worth around $50 billion, would now be $100 billion, thanks to a post-election rally for the company whose owner went all-in for the next president.
$100 billion: even for the world's richest man, currently worth $333 billion, that's real money. The grant would have doubled Musk's lead over the world's second-richest man, Jeff Bezos, in the all-important billionaires list.
But news that is subtly worse for Musk's long-term prospects just leaked out of Tesla's Austin factory: Cybertruck production appears to be ramping down. Workers on the vehicle's assembly line have been told that there's no need to report to work for 3 days.
According to Business Insider, which has four sources on the factory floor, this comes on the heels of several similar slowdowns in October. Not to mention an increase in cleaning and training duties to fill their hours, and a sharp decrease in overtime offers.
Tesla hasn't yet commented on the reason for the slowdown, but this is not what you would expect to see from a carmaker with a hit on its hands. Automotive companies usually see most of their sales in the spring, when potential customers get tax refunds and driving conditions improve. So if Tesla execs were anticipating banner sales in a few months, the Cybertruck factory should be cranking right this minute.
You wanna buy a Cybertruck?
Instead, Cybertruck inventory seems to be backed up — never a good sign when your job as a business is to shift it. Especially not good if you had two million pre-orders, because it suggests nearly all of those pre-orders, bar 50,000 or so, weren't serious. (Which, given that potential customers only had to put down a $100 deposit, seems a likely outcome.)
Normally, you shift inventory by lowering price. Tesla has instead raised the average price of the Cybertruck (the cheapest trim vanished from its website in August), even as its 350-mile range turns out to be lower than Musk promised.
This isn't just a detail for car nerds to care about. Because if there's any non-Trump-related fundamental driving Tesla stock growth at the moment, it's the uptick in Cybertruck sales (while other Tesla models have seen flat or diminishing market share). Some 28,000 of the oddly angular vehicles were sold in the first 3 quarters of 2024, according to estimates by Cox Automotive (Tesla doesn't break out its sales figures).
Analysts, in the aggregate, expected 48,500 Cybertrucks sold this year, so that's not a bad showing — certainly better than rival electric trucks from Rivian and Ford.
But here's the $100 billion question: Will Tesla get anywhere close to selling 250,000 Cybertrucks a year? That's the production capacity Musk has insisted on, and effectively bet the future of Tesla on. Given that the Cybertruck isn't for sale outside North America — and given its trouble with regulators in Europe and China, it isn't likely to happen any time soon — Musk's bet is almost entirely focused on the U.S. truck market.
Two million pickups are sold every year, so it seems reasonable to assume Tesla can grab an eighth of that total. But can it? Or is reality about to overwhelm Musk's "if you build it they will come" approach?
The Cybertruck has seen six recalls in 2024, a massive number in the car business. The most recent was just this month — thanks to a faulty part that may cause, wait for it, a loss of power to the wheels.
SEE ALSO:The Cybertruck's failure is now complete
You have to squint really hard to see the Cybertruck as anything other than the butt of recall-related jokes. Every week seems to bring with it a new report of Cybertruck owner woes on social media, from an expensive case of leaking oil to a massive systems failure during an outing for a protein shake. This winter may bring worse news for Musk, judging by the Canadian Cybertruck owner whose vehicle died after two hours of use, while he was trying to defrost it.
At least there is one silver lining for Musk. If Cybertruck sales are falling off a cliff, and if they start to take Tesla shares down with them, at least the stock grant Musk missed out on will be worth less than $100 billion. The question is, will he?
It is a $100k vehicle. There is no way that every year, more than 250,000 people buy a car that expensive. And it is way too divisive and controversial for a car to sell that many, especially seeing how the overwhelming majority of people seems to hate it.
ReplyDeleteDownvoters are denying the truth.
DeleteDownvoters have stock in Tesla
DeleteTesla nis toast. Musk did what every shouldn't do....become a political product. You alienate half of Americans and reduce your market potential by even more considering Republicans don't like EVs. 100k for broken truck? Only fanboys pay that. I predict Tesla will move overseas because green car buyers are mostly Democrat and musk hates them and is very vocal about it. He lost so many potential customers. Hopefully his fans will buys multiple trucks to save this horrendous looking hunk of junk. He will leave Tesla very soon I predict.
ReplyDeleteAlso a really bad product!
DeleteToo bad you don't understand any of this. It's not a good idea to speak with the air of authority on a subject of which you are ignorant.
DeleteCan you believe I had to explain that to a supposed adult?
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DeleteYou just pouted and said he didn't understand anything. You explained nothing.
I hardly see anything wrong with what was said so feel free to actually explain, other than Elon 'leaving' because he'd technically be kicked out (from what I can tell, he only owns around 20%) by people that like their company to make money. The only thing Elon's still got is his uncanny ability to feed people lies to raise stock prices and even that's dissipating fast.
Hold on - saying that the 2 million reservation holders weren't serious is disingenuous. The vehicle didn't come close to meeting expectations.
ReplyDeleteI reserved a vehicle in the first few days for $69,900 that fell short on all of its promises and would have cost me well over 130k delivered. I wanted the CT to succeed, but it became an ego stroke.
Truck requirements aren't difficult to understand, Musk and his team chose to ignore them and built what they wanted a truck to be. Clearly they've failed.
Sure, it's wicked fast, but a truck with no range and no towing capacity is a toy.
You forgot to mention the three children that met their horrific deaths this week in this rolling dumpster.
ReplyDeleteMusk should be sued for 100 billion, not gifted it.
Those college students were racing in residential areas topping speeds that exceeded 80 MPH before they lost control and struck the tree which fatally killed 3 of them. The other vehicle racing them is who pulled the 4th college student out from burning to death. Reckless driving especially after drinking is never smart no matter what vehicle you are behind. Sorry for the families losses and the one who survived that will require a lengthy recovery!
Deleteim not defending anyone but the model of the car shouldnt matter, lives were lost thats what matters. it would be any type of car driving it dosnt matter.
DeleteYou forgot to provide a credible citation for your claim. So, no.....
DeleteIf you're charging that much for a vehicle, then it better be real good. From what I'm reading about the problems the Cyber Truck owners are having, I think I'll pass. Interesting idea, but not well implemented. But maybe they can clean up their act. WHo knows?
ReplyDeleteIf these were $39,000 like they were supposed to be, they would have no problem selling them all.
ReplyDeleteEven Yugos had better reliability than Musks Cybertruck.
ReplyDeleteand this has nothing to do with a component shortage out of Europe? Did you investigate that as a potential reason for the halt? This “article” reads like revenge porn on Musk. I don’t care what your opinion is of him or the company, but don’t treat this op-ed piece as a news story if your facts are preceded by the phrase “seems like”.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard not to agree with you. Reads like a hater demographic piece. Mostly.,..
DeleteWow 3 whole days... Ford shut down Lightening production for 6 weeks 😆 no story on that?
ReplyDelete"Whatabout Ford..."
DeleteNormally "whatbout" isms are bogus. You are correct. This particular example is giving context to one of the main points of the authors argument.
DeleteElon simp says what?
DeleteUgliest truck on the planet, though the new Jaguar joins it at the bottom.
ReplyDeleteAnd....that's relative to what?
DeleteOther trucks on the planet
DeleteImagine getting 3 uni degrees just to spend all day whining about elon musk 🤣 reporting like this is why journalism is dying
ReplyDeleteThoughts & Prayers!
DeleteI think they are not good vehicles. Perhaps they can be a border.
ReplyDeleteLeon will sell them all to Donold for his wall.
DeleteThey're butt ugly and completely impractical. The EV technology is still evolving. EV range isn't 'that great'. Its charging time is 'too long'. There's virtually no infrastructure in the US to recharge. They're no good in bitter cold weather (nor are hybrids). The US doesn't have the energy infrastructure to support a nature of EV's. Add to that the needs for AI (in the future) and the US would have to triple its power grid manufacturing. Hopefully small nuclear power plants can be built quickly and efficiently for our 1st grid upgrade in decades. We need it for any number of reasons.
ReplyDeleteCan one rent Cybertruck
ReplyDeleteI suspect they will all be used to film junk flying off cliffs in action movies.
DeleteCYBERTOY
ReplyDeleteIt is seriously the most ridiculous design that we have seen, unless we include children's drawings on refrigerators.
DeleteYour ideas are not good, they should disappear from existence. 😏
ReplyDeleteOffer better ones or be quiet.
DeleteYou can stop slobbering for Elon, he's not going to give you a horse.
DeleteWhy do “journalists” keep quoting a children’s book when speculating about business articles? Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Can’t you write your own material? Isn’t that your “job”. At least Elon isn’t copying some ridiculous trend that is also copied from a 1972 child’s book. This wasn’t even amusing the first time a 2 bit writer did it.. Now it’s a just meme for bad writing.
ReplyDeleteWhat are you crying about?
DeleteCue Black Box's "Everybody Everybody".
ReplyDeleteThe guy who's going to be in charge of "government efficiency..."
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Couldn’t happen to a better guy. Business 101, keep you’re on the ball namely your new electric auto business. Maybe Musks distraction with Trump will force his hand and take him out of America’s business so he can mind his own. Americas roads would all be better if these butt ugly vehicles make their way to the scrap heap. https://www.facebook.com/share/17pBcyVBWi/?mibextid=WC7FNe
ReplyDeleteWhen ego runs the company.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't happen to a nicer person...
ReplyDeleteI seen this coming.
ReplyDeleteNo da una!!!
ReplyDeleteIgualmente que su gran amigo Trump!!!
No loss😉
ReplyDeleteCan’t wait to see what one looks like when they take it out of the box!
ReplyDeleteSo sad....
ReplyDeleteThat’s what you get for $100 billion!
DeleteUgly fake truck tanks in recalls, sales and production
ReplyDeleteGo DOdGE
Ілон Маск переживає жахливий, поганий, дуже поганий тиждень.
ReplyDeleteСпочатку суддя скасував грант на акції — грант, який Маск переконав акціонерів Tesla надати йому, частково погрожуючи покинути компанію. Цей грант, який спочатку становив близько 50 мільярдів доларів, тепер становитиме 100 мільярдів доларів завдяки мітингу після виборів для компанії, власник якої пішов ва-банк за наступного президента.
100 мільярдів доларів: навіть для найбагатшої людини світу, стан якого наразі становить 333 мільярди доларів, це реальні гроші. Грант подвоїв би перевагу Маска над другою найбагатшою людиною світу Джеффом Безосом у списку найважливіших мільярдерів.
Але новини, які трохи гірші для довгострокових перспектив Маска, щойно просочилися з фабрики Tesla в Остіні: виробництво Cybertruck, здається, скорочується. Працівникам конвеєра транспортного засобу сказали, що не потрібно з’являтися на роботу протягом 3 днів.
За даними Business Insider, які мають чотири джерела на виробництві, це сталося після кількох подібних уповільнень у жовтні. Не кажучи вже про збільшення обов’язків з прибирання та навчання, щоб заповнити їхні години, а також різке зменшення пропозицій понаднормової роботи.
Tesla ще не прокоментувала причину уповільнення, але це не те, що ви очікуєте побачити від автовиробника з ударом по руках. Автомобільні компанії зазвичай припадають на продажі навесні, коли потенційні клієнти отримують відшкодування податків і покращуються умови водіння. Отже, якщо керівники Tesla очікують продажів банерів через кілька місяців, фабрика Cybertruck має запрацювати прямо зараз
Ви хочете купити Cybertruck?
Натомість інвентаризація Cybertruck, здається, є резервною копією — це ніколи не є хорошим знаком, коли ваша робота як підприємства полягає в тому, щоб її перемістити. Особливо погано, якщо у вас було два мільйони попередніх замовлень, оскільки це означає, що майже всі ці попередні замовлення, крім 50 000 або близько того, були несерйозними. (Що, враховуючи те, що потенційні клієнти повинні були внести лише 100 доларів США).
Зазвичай ви змінюєте запаси, знижуючи ціну. Натомість Tesla підняла середню ціну на Cybertruck (найдешевша комплектація зникла з її веб-сайту в серпні), навіть якщо його запас ходу в 350 миль виявився меншим, ніж обіцяв Маск.
Це не просто деталь, про яку повинні дбати любителі автомобілів. Тому що якщо на даний момент і існує якийсь фундаментальний фактор, не пов’язаний з Трампом, який стимулює зростання акцій Tesla, то це зростання продажів Cybertruck (у той час як частка інших моделей Tesla не змінилася або зменшилася). Згідно з підрахунками Cox Automotive (Tesla не розголошує дані про продажі), у перші 3 квартали 2024 року було продано близько 28 000 дивних незграбних автомобілів.
Загалом аналітики очікують, що цього року буде продано 48 500 Cybertrucks, тож це непоганий показник — безперечно, кращий, ніж у конкурентних електричних вантажівок від Rivian і Ford.
Але ось питання на 100 мільярдів доларів: чи наблизиться Tesla до продажу 250 000 Cybertrucks на рік? Це виробничі потужності, на яких наполягав Маск і фактично зробив ставку на майбутнє Tesla. Враховуючи, що Cybertruck не продається за межами Північної Америки — і враховуючи його проблеми з регуляторами в Європі та Китаї, це навряд чи станеться найближчим часом — ставка Маска майже повністю зосереджена на ринку вантажівок США.
Щороку продається два мільйони пікапів, тож здається розумним припустити, що Tesla зможе захопити восьму частину цієї загальної кількості. Але чи може це? Або реальність ось-ось перевершить підхід Маска «якщо ви побудуєте це, вони прийдуть»?
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Наразі збій Cybertruck завершився
Ви повинні дуже сильно примружитися, щоб побачити Cybertruck як щось інше, ніж приклад жартів про відкликання. Кожен тиждень, здається, приносить із собою новий звіт про біду власника Cybertruck у соціальних мережах, від дорогого випадку витоку масла до масштабного збою системи під час поїздки за протеїновим коктейлем. Ця зима може принести гірші новини для Маска, судячи з канадського власника Cybertruck, чий автомобіль загинув після двох годин використання, коли він намагався його розморозити.
У Маска є принаймні одна перевага. Якщо продажі Cybertruck падають з обриву, і якщо вони почнуть забирати з собою акції Tesla, принаймні грант на акції, який Маск втратив, коштуватиме менше 100 мільярдів доларів. Питання в тому, чи буде він?
2024 році Cybertruck було відкликано шість разів, що є величезною кількістю в автомобільному бізнесі. Останній був лише цього місяця — завдяки несправній деталі, яка може спричинити, зачекайте, втрату потужності для коліс.
Foreshadowing
ReplyDeleteQuelle surprise.
DeleteLoser. Hearing him talk hurts my brain.
DeleteHopefully, he and his Trumpy DOGE cabal will be first to launch themselves to Mars
Lol
ReplyDeleteHahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha already...
ReplyDeleteI prefer to call it a Deplorean
ReplyDeleteSince day one of the cyber truck wondering how its real headlights can deal with snow storms once its front bumper becomes like a shelf accumulating snow, the heat it may generate may not be enough to melt the snow. (That light bar is just the daytime running lights)
ReplyDeleteIt’s so sad … once upon a time all things Tesla were bright and exciting and innovative and now the brand has been tainted right through with the poisonous antics of the truly evil, fascist antics of Elon Musk.
ReplyDeleteyou far left throw that word about like you almost know what it means 😂.
DeleteGoing to happily stick with my Ford Ranger 👍😎👍😎👍
ReplyDeleteI am amazed ANYONE would buy anything that Musk is involved with!
ReplyDeleteCan’t build an automobile out of computer parts. He’s out of his element.
ReplyDeleteHope Musk will be hit by other failures and make people wake up that he is a real danger.
ReplyDeletelike our country. 🙄
DeleteThis is good news for raccoons, because they won’t be confusing them with dumpsters
ReplyDeleteHow long before his Mar-a-lago honeymoon ends?
ReplyDeleteOh no, now it's happening. One of the Ford managers said they are not worried about Cybertruck until Tesla stops their production to prepare for the cheaper model production. More Cybertrucks are sold than all the other EV trucks combined, and Ford F-150 is not the best-selling vehicle in the US. Troubles ahead?
ReplyDeleteI just want to say a short prayer for everyone reading this. I pray that God guides your steps in these remaining Days of 2024. May His wisdom lead you in every decision, and may you enter 2025 with clarity and purpose. 🙏🥰🎉
ReplyDeleteBless my day with a follow 👐🏻👐🏻❤
Ugliest thing I've ever seen.
ReplyDeletedon’t disagree but remember the Pontiac Aztec? Right up there with the cyber truck.
Deletethey look like they're daddy....lol.
DeleteI'm still amazed at how many I see on the road around here. Could you pick a worse commuter car? I don't think so.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty strong opinion!
DeleteWhat specifically makes you think that particular car is a bad commuter car? Is it reliability, fuel efficiency, or something else?
it’s just a huge, expensive and unreliable subzero refrigerator on wheels.
DeleteThat's a clever and humorous way to describe it!
DeleteI can tell you're not impressed with the design or functionality.
What do you think would be a more practical or innovative solution for the issue this vehicle is trying to address?
the Rivian is a much nicer design for an electric truck. What is the CT supposed to address?
DeleteI’m frankly not a big fan of trucks for everyday driving, and I cannot imagine anyone using a CT to do normal truck usage.
No serious driver would be caught dead in it as it resembles a garbage can on wheels.
ReplyDeleteTrucks for Cucks.
ReplyDeleteLet's see. Our entire future looks like a failure waiting to happen. Won't this be fun.
ReplyDelete#elonmusk
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Auto industry has a long history of unique vehicles driving some initial excitement and sales, then having sales plummet and the model disappearing.
ReplyDeleteA wise observation! The auto industry is indeed known for its innovative experiments and occasional misfires.
DeleteWhat do you think is the key factor that determines whether a unique vehicle will be a long-term success or a fleeting fad?
Does anyone know?
Deleteyes
DeleteThen why do companies make this kind of mistake over and over again?
DeleteIt's indeed puzzling why companies repeat similar mistakes.
DeleteI think it's often due to a mix of factors, such as rapidly changing markets, pressure to innovate, and sometimes, a lack of diverse perspectives. What do you think?
they already had diversity of models and options. Tesla has few.
DeleteElon Musk's head will soon fall off because he is wearing too many hats 🤦🏻♂️🤦
ReplyDeleteWho design that thing and why?
ReplyDeleteIt is not a surprise specially if something is desing by THE Dork MAGA
ReplyDeleteBut, but, but…ELON IS A GENIUS! Why would the libs do this to him!?? 😩🤣
ReplyDeletebecause he cooked his Goose with them.
DeleteThe DeLORIAN
ReplyDeleteMust have been designed by Elon's long lost brother Homer...lol
ReplyDeleteDump Musk.
ReplyDeleteAwwwwww….I just joined yesterday 😾😾😾😾😾😾
ReplyDeleteWho woulda thought?
ReplyDeleteElon Musk's controversial electric truck may have dug its own box-shaped grave.
ReplyDelete"The Cybertruck has seen six recalls in 2024, a massive number in the car business. The most recent was just this month — thanks to a faulty part that may cause, wait for it, a loss of power to the wheels." 🤔
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ReplyDeleteWho could have predicted this? Any of the engineers that Musk canned after they said that his "suggestions" for "improvements" would make the vehicle a joke, a safety hazard, and subject of multiple class action lawsuits. (You don't think professional designers and engineers came up with THAT design and feature set, do you?)
ReplyDeleteOnce you see the truck in person, this makes sense. For some reason it photographs OK, but in person the ratios are all off. IMO it looks ridiculous in the flesh.
ReplyDeleteSaw a Rivian pick up truck on the road yesterday. It looked like a truck, rather than a refrigerator vegetable storer.
DeleteI’m telling ya he should have just pretended to have it be ready for consumers in the back of Warner brothers studio instead of actually putting into production just like he does with most his other projects.
ReplyDeleteSuch a surprise! Elon is so soberly focused and intelligent. Lol.
ReplyDeleteThe raccoons will be so sad.
ReplyDeleteElon's Dumpster
ReplyDeleteThe Cyber truck is just a DeLorean on steroids..
ReplyDeleteBut they were doing so well?!? 🤔🙄
ReplyDeleteThere are hundreds of them sitting in the mall's parking lot. Just rotting away.
ReplyDeleteFords are 1/3 the cost, and I don't see any sitting anywhere. Especially, in the dealer's lot.
Deletenext to all.of the Ford lightnings
Delete"Workers on the vehicle's assembly line have been told that there's no need to report to work for 3 days."
ReplyDeleteOr another way to say they were given some time off which can be for a gazillion of reasons but let the Musk hating campaign weave it's own crappy fantasy story.
Elon Mush is wearing too many hats these days, but before his head falls off, his product did. May that be a lesson for those opportunistic and greedy entrepreneurs! 😱😱
ReplyDeleteElain wants those stock options to sell them before the bubble burts
ReplyDeleteCar sales are down globally, this is not a huge shocker
ReplyDeleteQuick make it available in red and orange!
ReplyDeletehttps://media1.tenor.co/m/ALbfyeOl5jcAAAAd/trash-spongebob.gif?
ReplyDeleteCRAP ..CAN'T EVEN Carry a spare!!
ReplyDeleteThey’re lighting them on fire down here in Florida to collect the insurance money
ReplyDeleteByTesla model.Y is the #1 selling car in the world .
ReplyDeleteI love you babe 💋🥰😍❤️
ReplyDeleteI wish you could say it back to me💕💕💕🙏❤️
wtf are you talking about?
DeleteGood. Take the My Pillow dive.
ReplyDeleteEveryone
ReplyDeleteNews for Tesla workers. If you're building the Cycho truck you're expecting me to buy, you can stay home that day too. Technology has made oil clean and it makes sense.
ReplyDeleteLiquid crude oil from the earth burning in any way, let alone cars will never be clean, liquid gas? Maybe.
DeleteAnd some people who didn't really want one, people who bought the new shiny toy to flip the new shiny toy.
ReplyDeleteJust increase the price .
ReplyDeleteThey will still buy it
Anyone who buys this truck or back to the future car which they look similar in design on the outside is just showing how much money they can waste on junk and still be full of money-Musk is a charlatan with elixirs that will eventually fail-more competent companies that care about their brand will overtake Tesla with electric vehicles-most companies provide good products without buying a media company to prop themselves up
ReplyDeleteTo most of America Cybertruck = MAGA voter. In fact Tesla to less degree than Cybertruck = MAGA voter.
ReplyDeleteUGLIEST THING EVER LOL
ReplyDeletePeople still buy that junk?
ReplyDeleteAn already polarizing vehicle, which also disappointed on specs and price, has been made even more polarizing by Elon’s hyper-political shift. I already suspected that the market for the Cybertruck was more limited than the deposits indicated, but this is looking quite dire for the future of the vehicle. It wouldn’t surprise me to see it discontinued within the next 1-2 years, even with a price decrease.
ReplyDeletePretty obvious that $100 reservation price created a false demand image, especially when the initial offering ended up being a $100,000 - $120,000 vehicle that fell short on promised specs. That 2 million reservation list has resulted in almost 28,000 deliveries and that reservation list is exhausted. Still very much a niche offering. I don't think the shutdown is so much demand oriented as it is for some line changes attributed to building the cheaper single motor model.
DeleteSome here still think that Tesla selling 28k trucks over the last year means that they are on-track to sell 30-50-100k in the next year. They are not. Tesla is demand-limited and not production-limited. And that 28k was high demand phase - when there were still reservation holders interested in getting a car, people who specifically waited for it for years. Now that reservations are done, the demand can only go down and Tesla will be lucky to deliver 25k Cybertrucks over the next year.
DeleteThis has been true for all Tesla cars. There is the initial growth in sales as reservation holders get their cars. Demand is guaranteed by the reservation list, so sales grow in line with manufacturing scaling up. Then at some point (1-2 years later) the reservations run out and sales (in the same geographic area!) go down and reach an equilibrium of sales per year. Tesla in the past then used the spare manufacturing capacity to start exporting the cars and sell it in more and more markets. This is not going to work for the Cybertruck - its basically a USA-only thing. And when Tesla runs out of new countries to expand to, the sales start to slip. Look at the curves for Model S, Model X and Model 3. They all have been in steady decline over the years.
This ignores that pricing will likely fall precipitously. The cyber truck was clearly designed to be a cheaper vehicle. The long range spec is going to be <$60k. The model S Plaid is a much nicer vehicle and <$80k.
DeleteThey WANTED the CT to be a low-priced vehicle, however considering the tech inside it and the way it is constructed I expect it to be anything but cheap. The rigid body panels it uses have low manufacturing yield, due to being difficult to manufacture within desireable parameters of flatness and surface finish.
Delete48V low-voltage system, steer by wire, rear axle steering and so on don't come cheap either.
It's not going to be that cheap until the dry cathode manufacturing actually starts delivering lower battery costs. And until it is actually manufactured at large scale. So far there is no indications that it has the mass appeal to get sufficient sales even at 60k.
DeleteThey could stick a regular-looking body on the chassis (since there's in reality no exoskeleton on that damn thing); the underpinnings aren't terrible. It just looks awful (and has some truly epic awful aspects to it like the huge blind spots created by those enormous A-pillars, that dumb windshield wiper etc), that's all.
DeleteNot a bad idea, they could bolt on a regular painted sheet metal body and save weight, reduce ugliness, and likely improve functionality.
DeleteMake that in a Ford factory, put a Ford badge on it and make the bed compatible with all the F150 accessories on the third party market and you are likely to have quite a lot of sales there.
DeleteElon could buy Ford also while he's at it then. :)
DeleteOne of the greatest own goals in corporate history was caused when a British CEO called Gerald Ratner insulted his products and customers at an after dinner speech. His "comedy" was recorded and he was gone within days. The company barely survived. If a collapse in Tesla orders becomes directly traceable to Musk's insane behaviour recently then he too must go.
ReplyDeleteAlready we see that lease buy-backs have changed, seemingly because the oldest Teslas may not be able to run a full version of FSD as Elon promised. If that breach of promise is ever the cause of a class action or fitting H4 to millions of cars, he should be fired for that too. Insulting the progressives who made him the richest man on earth is the behaviour of a mad man. One drug test would probably be the end of him. Good.
you're right! instead of worrying about his stock options he should worry about not letting the TSLA sink otherwise his options will be worthless... too sure of himself, that's usually when the most catastrophic mistakes are made
DeleteMaybe check TSLA stock price?
DeleteTSLA is a meme stock right now, just like DJT. TSLA at least makes money, but the crazy 95 P/E is outrageous. YoY car sales numbers are down. FSD and Robotaxi will never work, and Optimus? Seriously? It should be a 10 P/E ratio at best.
DeleteSince when has the stock price of anything been linked to reality? If the board fired him and the stock price immediately went stratospheric, maybe you would understand cause and effect are sometimes extremely complex. Basic morality however is easy in comparison.
DeleteFirst the DeLorean. Now the cyber truck. People do not like stainless steel.
ReplyDeleteAs an owner, I have to say the textured body is much harder to keep clean than a smooth one. I will get a wrap. A smooth/polished stainless surface would be easier to keep clean as well.
Deletemore than anything he doesn't like certain CEOs... go and look at the miserable end that CEO John De Lorean met
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ReplyDelete21st century DeLorean?
ReplyDeleteHubris on wheels.
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