# Tesla Cybertruck **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2019, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866 "2019-11-23T10:32:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 78
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1541 "2025-02-06T18:47:33Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Did it look like this? No. The panels in teh vid look like a series of ~2"x8" functional cells in a rectilinear tiling with very little empty space (~1/16"?) between them. But all overprinted with a digital camouflage pattern in shades of gray made of about 1/2" squares. The thing I saw had no such camo pattern. The “cells” seemed to be ~1"x4", so much smaller, and had sort of an old timey satellite wing look. A rectangular matrix of dark blue cells and ~1/8" wide “grout lines” between the cells. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1542 "2025-02-06T20:13:37Z")
I was out with my wife yesterday and we passed a Cyber truck in the parking lot and she said “WTF is _that_ fugly thing?” Very much my reaction, although I knew what it was. They look even fuglier in person. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1543 "2025-02-06T20:22:40Z")
Until you’ve seen lots of them and then they’re just different. Eccentrically different, but just different. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1544 "2025-02-06T20:29:05Z")
I dunno, I’ve seen quite a few, and it’s still a pretty ugly design to my eye. The Pontiac Aztek never got any prettier through exposure, either. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1545 "2025-02-06T20:46:15Z")
Every time I see the one across the street (there are two generations living there, and they have 1 Cybertruck and 2 regular Teslas), it looks dirty, like a smeared stainless steel tabletop. It’s just…unattractive. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1546 "2025-02-07T00:16:44Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > it looks dirty, like a smeared stainless steel tabletop. It’s just…unattractive. They’re pretty much a kitchen sink in need of a wrap. I just saw a contractor driving around in an advertising wrap of his business. Major improvement over the bare metal. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1547 "2025-02-09T18:49:29Z")
“Service center etc has been less than responsive on this.” but o I love you Cybertruck. I wonder what the impact speed was. > ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1548 "2025-02-09T19:13:15Z")
They’ve become almost common here including a jet black one and a rainbow one. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1549 "2025-02-09T20:21:20Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > She rarely lets the tank go below half, and exhibits range anxiety if it does. So, on a long trip where recharging is needed, she would charge from 50-90% twice rather than let the battery go to 10% before recharging. This would be grounds for divorce. 😄 (Just kidding) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1550 "2025-04-04T05:13:18Z")
> Tesla has about $200 million worth of Cybertrucks in inventory in the US, as the truck is extremely difficult to sell. > > A year and a half into production, Cybertruck production has ramped up, and inventory is building up. > > Last year, Tesla could blame low Cybertruck deliveries on the production ramp, the more expensive Foundation Series, and the lack of access to the $7,500 tax credit. > > All of those excuses are not available to Tesla this year. The Cybertruck is simply proving challenging to sell, and the automaker has to throttle down production to avoid building up too much inventory. > **[Tesla is sitting on $200 million worth of Cybertruck inventory](https://electrek.co/2025/04/01/tesla-is-sitting-on-200-million-worth-of-cybertruck-inventory/#:~:text=With%20Tesla%20having%20issues%20selling,vehicle%20as%20a%20trade-in)** > > Tesla has about $200 million worth of Cybertrucks in inventory in the US, as the truck is extremely difficult to... ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1551 "2025-04-04T05:17:47Z")
There are five or six of them sitting on the lot of the dealership near me. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1552 "2025-04-04T08:19:01Z")
Tesla as a company is in serious trouble. Besides the Cybertruck not selling well, their [overall sales are shinking](https://electrek.co/2025/04/02/tesla-tsla-q1-deliveries-worse/). That has several causes, not least is that Musk is toxic to their traditional market (coastal elites) but those sales will not be picked up by MAGAs. They are doing well in selling batteries (Megapacks and Powerwalls), but I expect the Powerwall market to shrink, partly due to Musk-toxicity but also due to the new tariffs. The batteries are composed of LFP cells imported from China. The same for the Megapack, which will also suffer. Furthermore, CATL, the company they buy the LFP cells from, is geting into the utility battery business too, so they’ll either cut off selling to Tesla or undersell them. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1553 "2025-04-05T11:15:55Z")
Forbes dancing on the grave of the Cybertruck. > **[Elon Musk’s Epic Cybertruck Fail](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/04/03/elons-edsel-tesla-cybertruck-is-the-auto-industrys-biggest-flop-in-decades/)** > > Elon Musk’s polygonal pickup is a polarizing sales flop that's missed the billionaire’s volume goal by a staggering 84%. And there’s no sign that things are improving. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1554 "2025-04-05T18:56:54Z")
I’ve seen fewer CTs in the last month or so. But I have been seeing lots of Waymo’s. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1555 "2025-04-05T19:57:52Z")
Hmm. I had not noticed any changes until you mentioned it, but thinking back over the last month-ish … Our local CT count seems stable. It sure isn’t growing as it had been from, say, 12 months ago to 6 months ago. We have a confounding factor here in that we have a lot of seasonal residents, many of whom leave between about mid-Mar & mid-Apr. IOW, now. So our total traffic burden is shrinking and all sorts of cars are leaving or disappearing into garages until Nov. Of which a few fewer Model 3s or Camrys would be unnoticeable, but a few fewer CTs would. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1556 "2025-04-05T20:11:38Z")
Speaking from an igloo up here in the Great White North 😉 another confounding factor is that Canadians – snowbirds or otherwise – are just not traveling to the US any more. I’m also happy to mention, as a patriotic Canadian, that although I see an enormous number of Teslas here, I have not yet seen one single Cybertruck curse our landscape. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1557 "2025-04-05T20:23:00Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > another confounding factor is that Canadians – snowbirds or otherwise – are just not traveling to the US any more. I’d rephrase that a smidgen. Most of the usual snowbirds came down this time. Definitely more than prior years have since cut their stays short. Whether they come back next year is up in the air, but a LOT of them own seasonal property here. Now I agree that the Canadian “week long vacation in the warm” crowd has cratered since Jan. Ditto the “fly to FL and leave on a cruise” crowd. And I agree w you that they won’t be returning soon. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1558 "2025-04-05T20:59:52Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Whether they come back next year is up in the air, but a LOT of them own seasonal property here. Reports are that the Canadian snowbirds are starting to sell their seasonal properties in Florida: > [@](#): > > Some [Canadians](https://www.axios.com/2025/03/31/canada-us-travel) are ditching their winter homes in the U.S. as [tensions](https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/trump-tariffs-canada-autos) between the two countries simmer. > > **Why it matters:** President Trump’s [tariffs](https://www.axios.com/2025/03/11/trump-tariffs-canada-steel-aluminum) and [taunts](https://www.axios.com/2025/03/05/trump-tariffs-canada-liberal-party) may be the last straw for snowbirds who are already finding it more expensive to live south of the border, real estate agents say. > > **What we’re hearing:** “My Canadian sellers are worried. They feel like they have to take a break from the U.S. for now and see where it goes,” Alexandra DuPont, a broker who helps snowbirds buy and sell condos in Florida, tells Axios. [https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/canada-trump-tariffs-home-sell](https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/canada-trump-tariffs-home-sell) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1559 "2025-04-05T21:11:49Z")
Not a surprising reaction. Were I in their shoes I’d sure be considering it. Those folks can also turn into absentee landlords during “season” just as many of them have been for years during off-season. And meanwhile get their fix of fun and sun in e.g. Spain. Overall at least in my local zipcodes the number of Canadian property owners is not large enough to crater the market even if they all break for the exits. it’s a detectable bump, but not overwhelming. But _if_ purchasing by Americans is already cratering as greed here gives way to financial fear, there may be a lot of Canadians next year who’re still sitting on properties they hoped to have sold. Damn but is this a stupid situation to even be discussing. Never in my worst dreams prior to 15 years ago … ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866/1560 "2025-04-15T21:34:11Z")
Cross-posting this observation that probably shoulda been here, not there … > [@Cybertrucks falling apart](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cybertrucks-falling-apart/1014780/201): > > I saw something new today. A CT carrying a load of construction materials. Sorta. Tonneau was closed. There were 3 transverse raised racks over the downsloping aft half of the truck. Like you might see two of on the roof of an SUV to tie down a kayak or skis or … . They looked like a factory option or a quality 3rd party part, not homebrew. Anyhow, carefully strapped to there was a bundle of six ~8’ x 1" lengths of EMT conduit. A heavy massive load for sure, worthy of the rugged reality of … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866.md?page=77) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tesla-cybertruck/843866.md?page=79)