Elon Musk's SpaceX and XAI Are Buying Tesla's Unsold Cybertrucks

26 pointsposted 4 months ago
by mdhb
(electrek.co)

8 Comments

willio58

4 months ago

> Cybertruck turned out to be Tesla’s first real commercial flop.

It's not an uncommon feeling but the cybertruck is just a flop on so many levels. To me, the most striking way is visually. It's like what an 11 year-old dreams about for a truck. To me, if I want a truck EV at this point I'd pick a Rivian any day. At least those are visually appealing, where the cybertruck exudes "LOOK AT ME I'M A BIG MEME LOL".

estimator7292

4 months ago

It really does just look like no one with any industrial design experience had any involvement in the thing. Truck drawn by a child really is the only way to describe it.

hightrix

4 months ago

I’m nearly certain that if I had any of my notebooks from when I was a child age 5-10 or so, there would be at least one vehicle I drew that is exactly like the Tesla truck. Though my version probably had rocket launchers and machine guns on it.

lawlessone

4 months ago

All we need now is for Nvidia to buy them and in exchange for stock and start renting them to OpenAI

Zigurd

4 months ago

It's financial alchemy, turning capital invested in overvalued private ventures into revenue for a vulnerable public company. Conveniently, the shares of that public company can be turned into collateral for margin loans.

dzhiurgis

4 months ago

Are there other trucks that can drive themselves around factories?