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6d ago

Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants

Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants

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So then they have $0 worth of cybertrucks.
- I wish the article would tell us how many units instead, for this very reason.
  
  Last I remember they sold for $80k, plus that makes the math trivial, so... 10000 vehicles?
  
  That's literally in the second sentence of the article.
  
  Or report their value as the scrap value or cost of materials
- -$800 million those weren’t free to build.
  
  I'd love to know how much it costs to build each cybertruck, and visualise the other revenue loss of storing these, designing the machinery to build this shit and anything other costs that were factored into sales.
- $0 worth
  I'd be willing to pay that for a cyberdump. Wouldn't mind the pubic lovingly trashing it either. It even traps passengers while burning like a complimentary self-cleaning oven feature. The disposal fee might be a bitch.
  On further thought, it might not be worth it.
  
  Id strip it for parts and convert a classic car with one if the price was right. (Free)
  
  Just keep the windows down at all times. Then you can jump out and laugh at it when it's on fire.
- I was gonna say. Doesn't seem right that they can just add up the MSRP like that and claim it's millions worth of something if nobody's buying. Plus, I'd wager the manufacturing cost of all that is significantly lower.

- Came here just to upvote you.

If no one wants them, they're not worth anything.
- Cut to the Trump administration buying them all for $250,000 each.
- There's always scrap metal and selling the batteries for other purposes!
- I guess they're worth the money spent to make them? But yeah, it's just a pile of trash. I can't believe I still see so many on the road. I do live in a reddish hell though

Eat shit, nazi
- he probably does eat shit too. there's probably some ultra rich bullshit delicacy that is like essence of baby turds or something that has stem cells and electrolytes.
  fuck him and his digestibaby shit.
  
  Two Elons, one truck.
  
  Civet coffee?

And entire production lines configured to produce shit nobody wants.

Then why the hell is the stock back over $300?!?
- Because modern stock market is not controlled by buying and selling but rather by derivative markets esp off the book derivatives
- The Boring Company is propping up the price with the sales of NotAFlameThrowers to DOGE.
- Apparently musky boy said he was quitting DOGE.

waiting for someone to officially label them the DeLorean of the 21st century.
Please, nobody insult the DeLorean this way.

Yet their stock went up 20% past week...
- The stock price isn't an accurate representation of the worth of the company. It's an accurate representation of the amount of bullshit the company CEO is filled with.
- The economy is based on vibes and not the true value. However that doesn't mean they aren't allowed to borrow against those vibes, to avoid taxes.
- So did other stocks. The Dotard flip-flopped on tariffs again.

i flipped off two of these nazi dumpsters today

Tbh I'd take one for free. It might look kinda cool in my garden with plants growing out of it.
- i would keep the battery, buy some solar panels, an inverter for my house, and sell the chassis as scrap metal
- Ehhhh, that would require a cybertruck to look cool though.
  
  There should be ways to elegantly conceal the obscenity of a cybertruck, if we're talking about a picturesque garden .

Sell them to ocean shipping companies .... they can tie a chain around them and use them as boat anchors
- They'd probably (definitely) suck at that too.
  
  Watch them rust quickly in salty water
- But sharks.

if nobody wants them, they're not worth $800million

All those preorders cancelled bc they lied about the price and the quality doesn’t match. Tesla was doing fine until the CEO got involved. Idk why those assholes wanted to give him billions of dollars as a bonus. Just absurd.
- they probably want his name to be still have some recognition, because Xitter is a very useful tool for the right to control the supporters, that is more valuable than tesla.

Mobile dumpsters? Port o potties for the homeless? The possibilities are endless.
There’s probably a tax write off in there somewhere for Elon. Nice silver lining.

I'd pay five thousand dollars for one. Round off the sharp corners and put a Honda sign on it and BOOM I beat capitalism.

No wonder they're begging police departments to buy them.
- A part of me wants the police to have them so they can be a cluster fuck for them to maintain.
  Unfortunately, they'll maintain it with my tax dollars.

They're hideous, the places with a population that could afford them mostly view them as a social black mark, and in terms of utility - they're worse than just about any truck out there. It's not about max towing weight. It's about not being able to stack and strap a shit ton of stuff in there

Good.

…so almost enough trucks to supply the people affected by the recalls?

Yes and now the stock is back above 300. I really don't understand these meme stocks.

Funny how "market rates" only mean "it will cost more for poor people" and never "our worthless product is worthless so we need to lower the price"

Holy shit I forgot Vice was still a thing.
- They are trying to rebrand. Their OG content was fire but then classic enshitification happened.
  
  I mean their Co-founder later created the Proud Boys so it’s had a stream of sewage running through its core since the early 1990s.

Good.

I would consider picking one up for cheap to tear apart and use as parts for an EV conversion for my old jeep.
Well, depending on how locked down the software is. Probably would prefer to have no infotainment system, just a pedal.

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