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- technology@beehaw.org
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/22132981
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Correction. They are worthless. lol.
yeah, if nobody wants them, then they are worth 0 dollars net
The batteries are still expensive and good to use for anything else. So it should be 20-25k in scrap.
I live in a pretty conservative area. I might pay $15k for a brand new one.
I’d buy them for their scrap metal and batteries if they were cheap enough for me to not feel guilty about giving money to tesla
I think its crazy that they made $800 mil worth of these cars. Who the hell thought they would sell well?
I always thought he was making them as a limited high-end run. It’s neither of those things.
Oh its gonna be limited thats for sure. But yeah I had very similar thoughts as well. Theres one cyberfuck in my town and every time I see it I can’t help but think what a fucking goober one must be to buy it
That’s 80,000 vehicles. The production capacity is 250k. Ford sold 460,000 F-150s last year.
Chrysler had an inventory of over 1 million last year, they’ve ran through that by March.
Chrysler had an inventory of over 1 million last year, they’ve ran through that by March.
That’s insane considering Chrysler hasn’t made a decent vehicle in 20+ years and the majority of them are just as big piles of shit as the cybertruck.
They don’t charge 100k
They had a ridiculous number of people putting in a deposit to reserve one, about two million reservations according to this: https://insideevs.com/news/687142/tesla-cybertruck-2-million-reservations-crowdsourced-data/
I guess they came to their senses.
If the talk about Cybertrucks actually rusting in the rain is true, they will be worth less and less and less…
Time to play…”WHO DO YA BAIL OUT! HUBBA-HUBBA-HUBBA, MONEY-MONEY-MONEY…WHO DO YA BAIL OOOOOUUUUUUUUT?!”
Elon underestimated how willing people were to buy a truck from a nazi.
Even people who would buy from Nazi’s still want a functional car.
These things randomly stop working, break if you drive it into a half a foot of water, have rear view mirror housings which bust off when you try to pull down the sun visor, have a single ethernet cable routing all the controls and devices so that if the connection breaks anywhere everything stops working suddenly, a shelf underneath the headlight which accrues dirt or snow as you drive until it is not serving its purpose, exterior panels which just fall the fuck off, and hardly get any mileage.
The only people who buy these are those incapable of the barest reasoning.
That’s a cool stance to take.
How abut: The truck is just plain ugly.
It looks like a refuse bin. Square back, low opening front.
When I worked in a lime quarry, we used a bin something like that shape to put all the crap and garbage in The a-frame had a bar across the top and the kiln truck picked it up worth its hoist and loaded it on the back, and hauled away the load to the dump.
Oh no… anyway
You hate to see it, whomp whomp
I actually don’t hate to see it
I can, explicitly and unequivocally, state that I derive intense joy from having the privilege of seeing this.
“$800 million worth”?
“Nobody wants”?Sounds like creative accounting…
They tried that in Canada and got caught. They’ll get a free handy for doing it in the US under Tump though.
That’s what Trump’s big legal battle with New York was about - lying about the value of a penthouse or something.
So much of these “rich” fuckers wealth is just bullshit on paper.
I have $800M worth of lint in my belly button, apparently
Except these actually have value as scrap especially in the batteries.
Yup. Their boss controls the IRS. They’ll write them off, get a bailout check, and sale the remaining trucks to the US military. Triple dip the American tax payer.
The photograph that says it all. Let’s remember Elon Musk for the Nazi that he is.
This photo is taken out of context, though. I mean, he slapped his chest before the salute, and he did it twice in a row… Ah shit nevermind, he’s a Nazi.
The hand on his heart really does make you think twice about the meaning though, just like it did with that other guy.
Wow. I had no doubt it was a salute, but seeing them side-by-side is chilling
That cadence…
You can just tell it was practiced in front of a mirror with the video as model.
Am I the only one that sees Adolfo “using” it and Musk “feeling” it?
You had me for a second there bud.
he doesnt look commited to it though, because hes doing the lip sucking thing that children do when they are unsure if they will get a bad reaction from it.
Gee, that’s too bad. I do Nazi the problem.
They have a lot of problems … they’re about this high … raises right hand up on the air palm down
If nobody wants them, then they are worth $0.
You could definitely sell those for more than $0. The batteries alone aren’t cheap.
So somewhere inbetween as the article says “more than 10,000 units” and “$800m” so they appear to be valuing them at ~$80k/unit which is ridiculously optimistic.
My guess is closer to 1/3rd of that value but nobody likes to lose half a billion in the blink of an eye
I was debating if I’d be willing to take a free cybertruck, your comment reminded me i could take it straight to the scrap yard
A while back, I read an article by a guy who had inherited a SwastiKKKar from an uncle, including free life-time charging. He didn’t like the idea of driving a Tesla, but free was free.
It wasn’t the reactions of others that made him throw in the towel on it, it was the poor build quality. He thought it felt cheap and rattley so he traded it in for a smokin hot Mustang. He lost a fortune over what the car was bought for, but it was free to him, so he didn’t care.
i don’t have full confidence it will make it to the scrapyard
Jokes on you, I’d pay $1 for the lot.
Prepare to pay a $200m fine for littering.
They’re worth something as scrap, I’m sure.
Next week: US Department of Defence announces purchase of fleet of Cybertrucks.
Can’t wait to meet the successor to M1 Abrams: the M2 Sad Tin Can.
That’s just ridiculous. To spend money to remove infrastructure, out of hidden spite.
hidden?
Well barely. Their given reason is it’s “not mission critical” which is a statement veeeeryyy far from “We are doing it out of spite for electric cars” or “We want our oil narrative to hold from our highest echelons of social hierarchy” or whatever other insane reason
Letting bad actors get away with excuses you are basically making up for them, is how the USA went down the toilet
Already in the works:
State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
Can’t wait to see how well it works to glue armored panels on.
If nobody wants them… they are not worth that amount. simple economics.
supply and demand…
This is exactly right. They’re worthless if nobody is willing to pay what’s being asked.
So what they’re “worth” is nothing.
I know i would get made fun of for this but a good price is a good price. I would pay $15,000 for one. I think most people would.
Edit 2 min later - I thought better of it. No i still wouldn’t want it. I wouldn’t trust Tesla not to hack it at some point and take it over.
yeah, for $15k USD I could buy an old Ranger or B3000 and have 5-10 years worth of fuel
cyber truck is a hard sell
You could rip the batteries out of them and use them for a solar setup. The rest could be sold for scrap.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I’d love to take that as a project vehicle.
Batteries for home setup (on TOU plan, so it’d be nice to charge when rates are low and discharge when high).
Then slap an combustion engine in there that just acts as a power plant for the electric motors. It’d probably be biting off more than I can chew, but it sounds like a hell of a learning opportunity and tickles my engineering/tinker brain’s fancy.Of course, after blowing something up, I’d probably focus on dissecting the drive train and using them motors for something else. I’m suddenly curious what the suspension set up is like. If they’ve got some crazy high tech mag-ride system, I’ll bet that could be repurposed for another vehicle (pending Tesla proprietary protocols for connecting to ECU).
But now I’m rambling. The thoughts of what I could do with those parts though.
Ninjaedit: just took a look as some of the pondering above. I forgot how silly the interiors look, so def wouldn’t bother with attempting it as a project car.
There are a lot of videos of the frame cracking from mild outdoor use, which instantly totals the whole vehicle.
I would pay $15,000 for one.
I would pay $15k for a better vehicle. I’m not getting in The Truck That Kills You Instantly.
I would totally take one for 15k (only if its used, never from tesla itself) take the batteries out, sell those and put the frame on a truck and drive it out to an event or protest and let people smash whats left. Let people rent a sledge hammer for a bit and vent, would be a fun and very public statement. Once thats done sell it as scrap. The batteries should alone should cover the next one.
$15000 is rookie numbers.
I can offer $150 for one!
