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by KingMachiavelli 1705 days ago
Really? Assuming the cyber truck actually ships I think it will be crazy popular. It's a very competitive price for pretty great truck at least on paper. Sure there is a market segment that isn't going to buy anything but an F150 but they probably aren't going to get a electric car anyway. Plus the cybertruck will probably attract as many or more hummer/mall-crawler enthusiasts.
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It's an extremely weird looking truck with terrible marketing and a hilarious meme of its window shattering repeatedly. It'll be an incredible uphill battle to sell that thing imo.
Tesla and every other EV maker is battery constrained.

Tesla will sell every Cybertruck they can make as fast as they can make them.

Tesla still doesn’t sell that many cars overall per quarter. But they can’t keep up with their demand.

Ford will not be able to sell many electric F-150s because they won’t have the batteries to do it

Tesla's most recent profits were a staggeringly high $9.22bn.

Ford's most recent profits were a startlingly middle-of-the-road $19.934bn.

The Cybertruck is going to sell to nerds who think they're a handyman, but the eF150 is going to sell like crazy, and Ford has the money to buy up capacity that Tesla can't really match up.