[dmarcos]

FWIW it looks there’s now a demand surge with the introduction of the new cheap cybertruck variant. delivery dates pushed out to the fall of 2026.

[robrain]

That was an artificial boost created by setting a time-limit for a low price. There were ten days to buy at the price, then they put it back up. [1]

[1] https://electrek.co/2026/03/01/tesla-cybertruck-awd-price-in...

EDIT: grammar

[parineum]

What's an artificial boost? Sounds like you're describing a sale.

[hananova]

Sales are artificial boosts yes. The difference is in the connotation. A sale is given for something that people generally would buy anyway, but now more people will. An artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy.

Or in other words, sales raise $high_number to $higher_number while artificial boosts raise $essentially_zero to $acceptable_number.

[dmarcos]

Your claim is that people that bought the cybertruck at a lower price don’t actually want it?

[sigmarule]

I believe the claim is that the demand side did not change, the supply side did, as in sales != demand.

[dmarcos]

Just quoting the above

“An artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy”

So people spent 60k on a cybertruck that they didn’t want? Is that the claim?

[parineum]

> artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy.

People do want it, clearly, but it's too expensive for them.

Sales don't make people want things they otherwise don't.

[bdangubic]

> Sales don't make people want things they otherwise don't.

That is exactly what sales do. most sales are made sellings things to people they don’t want, until sales does what sales does

[dmarcos]

So people spent 60k on a cybertruck they don’t want? Do you believe that?

[sillyfluke]

literally almost everything I have bought on sale is something I wasn't looking to buy at that moment in time.

[parineum]

How many of those things cost more than 10,000 dollars?

[RobRivera]

[X] doubt

[NewJazz]

Look up what their production targets were and compare that to their sales. A small temporary demand surge isn't going to be enough to chew through their current inventory, let alone keep the production lines busy.

[MPSimmons]

A push on delivery dates is as likely to mean production issues as it is an influx of interest.