As unwanted Cybertruck inventory rises, Tesla is forced to introduce discounts. But even $6,000 savings aren't bringing buyers into showrooms.
  • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
    23·
    18 hours ago

    Don’t worry, the state department will buy them. No conflict of interest there!

  • vrojak@feddit.orgEnglish
    49·
    21 hours ago

    Even if there were offering them for 1000$ I wouldn’t want it, just because I want Elon to be angry since his shitty car isn’t selling. That, and I don’t want to subject myself to drive this behemoth on small European roads

  • Zimroxo@lemm.eeEnglish
    34·
    20 hours ago

    You couldn’t pay me to drive a cybertruck. Even before Elon going full nazi

  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14·
    19 hours ago

    I wouldn’t take a free Tesla either at this point but I love to purchase a share at a sub $1 price.

    The stock price is down 30% in the past month.

    It’s still up for the year but only because it had a huge jump with the time of the election. The price has now fallen below what it was on Nov 6th.

    When the robo taxi no one asked for flops, I should have my chance.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      17 hours ago

      Robotaxi wasn’t even real anyways. They had closed, specially designed streets, and IIRC, still had remote human operators on standby supervising.

      What Tesla (or any EV manufacturer) needs to make is an electric city bus.

      Low speed is better for EVs, stop and go doesn’t really matter. Instant torque makes them easier to drive. Quiet operation reduces sound in in cities. They have dedicated bus garages to charge at, and they would cost less in energy and repairs that conventional ICE options.

      The only big downside I can think of is weight. Busses are already a huge impact on street maintenance, making them 50% heavier might push them over the limit. Smaller more frequent busses are better for the customer if you ask me.

      • takeda@lemm.eeEnglish
        61·
        17 hours ago

        I think perfect example is the Hyperloop[1] in Las Vegas. How people are expecting them to implement FSD if they can’t do it in such fully controlled environment?

        [1] also looks like most people forgot it originally was meant to use vacuum to move a tube with passengers, not a tunnel for cars

      • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        15 hours ago

        They just need to integrate like China and sell an open source EV.

        Even before e-bikes were serious over a decade ago, the problem with buses is the limited bike capacity. That is what got me doing major commuting. The bus would show up with 3 bikes already on the rack and I could wait 30 minutes for it to happen again or just go for it on the bike. I was faster than a 2 bus route for 20 miles so I just started riding all the time.

        If you really want to change the world, design the whole system around the e-bike so that it is easy to do a hub and spoke type transit that is optimised for no more than 1/8th of a charge on the average e-bike between any common destination and a hub. Make human transport secondary to e-bike transport. Like design a double decker where the entire side of the bottom of the bus is open and can be filled with a few dozen bikes while loading a dozen or more at one time.

  • mostNONheinous@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    16 hours ago

    You literally couldn’t pay me less than a million dollars to drive a Tesla, a cyber truck though… it’d take a billion.