You can take the roof off! I’ve seen a lot of cybertrucks, but I’ve never seen one open. In contrast, pickup trucks are usually driven open.
I just don’t think anyone is using that as a truck. I think it’s being used like an SUV. I think the Rivian dominates the actual electric truck market.
I’ve seen two Cybertrucks actually hauling cargo, one at the floor and tile store, no less. Of course, that’s out of about a hundred or more I’ve seen, but it does happen.
There are the occasional people using it as a truck but it’s in the low single digit percent. I’ve seen a couple.
The “roof” is actually a motor-driven roll-top cover, like an old fashioned roll-top desk. It retracts onto a spool just behind the rear windows and rolls out from there towards the tailgate. It only covers the bed; the passenger cabin has a fixed hardtop.
I agree that most people seem to drive around with the cover closed, treating that area like a huge trunk or maybe the back part of an SUV. One advantage over a conventional SUV is there are no windows into the bed area. So more like a car trunk, whatever you put there is safe from prying eyes that might want to break in.
Heck, most pickup truck owners I’ve seen use their trucks as an SUV.
Actually, now that you mention it, the rate is not that far off what I see regular pickup truck owners using it for hauling stuff.
Since we can’t see inside the CTs’ bed/trunk, ghey may be hauling more stuff than typical pickups. Just not tall stuff.
So lotra tools of camping or beach gear or … it not washing machines or ladders.
Tesla is apparently now accepting Cybertrucks on trade-in.
Vin revealed that Tesla has offered him $65,400 for his 2024 Foundation Series Cybertruck, which has been driven 6,200 miles.
Brand new, this vehicle cost $100,000 before Tesla’s mandatory $2,500 doc and destination fee.
Also,
In the past few weeks, we’ve reported that Carvana was offering only $54,000 for a less-than-a-year-old Cybertruck with under 10,000 miles and a clean title.
Honestly, who wants to be in the business of trying to resell these.
Forbes article (may be paywalled; I was able to open it on my desktop, but not my phone), suggests that Cybertruck is harming Tesla’s sales generally, but also that it’s losing market share for its cars to other EVs (including some from China) that are cheaper and just a bit better in terms of performance.
China is starting to become a force to be reckoned with in the EV market, and at the same time, Musk’s sordid reputation is turning a lot of people away from Tesla. The ugly and dysfunctional Cybertruck is just making everything worse. I’m pretty sure that Tesla’s decision to start accepting these piles of junk as trade-ins is just Musk throwing money at the problem in the hope of resurrecting some goodwill. Given Tesla’s immense unsold inventory of Cybertrucks, these used trade-ins are definitely not going to sell either.
There’s supposedly a “cheap” Model Y to be released in the next several months which could help but it may be too late especially if Chinese cars can be sold in the US
I really doubt that Chinese imports will get approved for sale in the United States.
Starting to? More EVs were sold in China than the rest of the world combined last year.
I saw two interesting CTs over the last few days.
One was in an olive drab wrap that looked like the same shade as the familiar US Army color. Except it was high gloss, not flat / matte.
Boy was that a weird-looking combo on that sorta vaguely tactical / tacticool vehicle. It’s camo, no it’s shiny, no it’s … Does Not Compute!!!
The other one was a wrap that looked just like bright chrome. That made for a very eye-catching and spiffy CT. If Elmo made them in chrome, he’d probably less a lot more.
Overall observation unrelated to the above …
CTs have been common in my area for months now, and seemed to be getting ever more common. Up until a couple months ago when the growth has seemed to stop or maybe even reverse.
OTOH, this is also the time of year all the snowbirds go north again. So there are fewer of every kind of car on the roads. Yaay for that much.
I think you mean he would less a lot less.
I wish he would less more.
The Ford F-150 Lightning is the top selling EV pickup in the US for 2025 so far, having take the lead from the Cybertruck, both over 7000 in Q1. GM sold twice as many Silverado and Sierra EV pickups (combined) than the Rivian, but all three combined don’t equal the Lightning or CT.
Now that’s funny. I never used to be dyslexic, but my typing seems to be getting more that way all the time. Probably creeping brain damage. :eek:
Obviously (at least I hope it’s obvious), “less” was supposed to be “sell”. D’oh!
Man, two years ago I wouldn’t have guessed the Lightning was selling at all. I guess I underestimated Ford truck loyalty.
So, a pickle.