The truck that was supposed to revolutionize everything is flopping fast.

The hype is dead. The Tesla Cybertruck, once billed as the future of electric vehicles, is now looking like a commercial bust.

In the second quarter of 2025, Tesla sold just 4,306 Cybertrucks, down a staggering 50.8% from the 8,755 units it delivered during the same period last year, according to new data from Kelley Blue Book. This plunge is a signal that America’s most hyped truck may already be out of gas.

  • Headofthebored @lemmy.world
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    I like how people don’t hate it because its electric, they hate it because it’s objectively terrible. Maybe if it didn’t stink like a dead nazi, people would buy it.

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      It’s ugly, and it looks like it jumped off the screen from the Cyberpunk 2077 world. It’s poorly built and ineffective at the job it was designed to do. And then Elon did his thing, and now it’s irrevocably tied to a dead Mid-20th Century ideology that the entire world fought to dismantle. I’m glad it’s falling by the wayside. An object lesson – don’t build stupidly engineered items, and don’t tout murderous ideologies that get a majority of the world against you.

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        It doesn’t look like it came out of Cyberpunk, literally every vehicle in that game looks way cooler and more advanced. The Cybertruck looks like it came from a “futuristic” wireframe video game from 1985. It’s obviously trying to play off DeLorean vibes, it’s made as nostalgia for a 40-year old vision of a future that never came. It’s like if someone made a 50s rocket-punk styled car in 1990, it’s just a botched anachronistic mess, more past than future.

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        I get it kinda. I like Charcuterie.I abhor Cybertrucks. Aaaagghh. Dangit. Now I understand. Just gonna close my evening out feeling kinda meh. Thanks, I guess. For the ugly ass vehicle that has absolutely ruined my appetite for any charcuterie plates for me this week. Maybe it’s a good thing? It certainly wouldn’t kill me to est super clean for a week but f that.

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      Maybe if it didn’t stink like a dead nazi, people would buy it.

      I dunno, I kind of like the smell of dead nazis.