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by JumpCrisscross 454 days ago
> What are the reasons that truck shouldn't have entered production?

It’s selling like shit. And this was before the whole Tesla vibe shift. Instead of a leading-edge $25k EV we got a truck that can’t truck and robotaxi vapourware. Meanwhile, BYD is on its game.
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lupusreal 454 days ago
Sure, but that doesn't seem obviously relevant to the question of whether the truck features innovation or just a triangular shape.
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JumpCrisscross 454 days ago
> that doesn't seem obviously relevant to the question of whether the truck features innovation or just a triangular shape

The car not selling isn’t relevant to why it “shouldn't have entered production?”

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lupusreal 454 days ago
It's answering a question I never asked.

To recap:

>>> Tesla didn't innovate, they just made a triangle.

>> The triangle actually has several innovations, it's basically a concept car

> Concept cars usually don't enter production for a reason

Those reasons, in this case, being unrelated to the technological innovations, as far as I can tell. Correct me if I'm wrong. Tesla's problem isn't a failure to innovate, it's their leadership deciding to make stupid and impractical cars.

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JumpCrisscross 454 days ago
> >>> Tesla didn't innovate, they just made a triangle

Don't recap with fake quotes.

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anon22981 454 days ago
What do you mean it’s before ”vibe shift”, that’s not true?
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JumpCrisscross 454 days ago
Musk said, on a 2023 earnings call, that he expected “the Tesla Cybertruck to sell between 250,000 and 500,000 units per year” [1]. It sold fewer than 40,000 in 2024 [2]. Tesla’s sales in 2024 weren’t 100+ P/E calibre, but they also didn’t yet reflect the sort of cratering we saw at the end of ‘24 in both Tesla sales and resale values [3].

Cybertruck flopped as a product before Tesla flopped as a brand. It’s why Tesla is throttling down their production [4].

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/667723/musk-estimates-tesla-could...

[2] https://insideevs.com/news/747195/tesla-cybertruck-sales-dem...

[3] https://www.cargurus.com/research/price-trends/Tesla-m112?en...

[4] https://electrek.co/2025/01/16/tesla-throttles-down-cybertru...

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