The Cybertruck Is Turning Into a Complete Disaster

Tesla is reportedly pulling back production of its much-maligned Cybertruck. According to Business Insider, the EV maker has dropped production targets for several Cybertruck lines over the last few months – and is going as far as to move workers from the line entirely at its manufacturing facility in Texas. "It feels a lot like they're filtering people out," a worker with knowledge of the situation told the publication. "The parking lot keeps getting emptier." It's yet another sign Tesla's highly divisive pickup truck is turning out to be a major sore point for the carmaker. According to an eighth recall issued last month, Tesla has sold a mere 50,000 Cybertrucks since it went on sale in late 2023. That's well short of the "quarter million Cybertrucks a year," which the company would "reach sometime in 2025," as Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised during the company's Q3 earnings call in 2023. As Electrek pointed out last week, 2,400 unsold Cybertrucks, worth roughly $200 million, are p ... Read full article.