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.
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.
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.
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.
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 as a company is in serious trouble. Besides the Cybertruck not selling well, their overall sales are shinking. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …