It’s incredibly fucking funny they had to do this now, too. Dealerships all over can’t keep EVs on the lot because so many people are making the switch. Even shit ones like the Mach E (which I begrudgingly confess is fun as hell to drive but sucks on every other metric) have waitlists. I haven’t seen last quarter’s statistics published yet, but in the quarter before EVs made up ~1\3 of new vehicle sales in the US and another other ~1\3 went to pickup trucks.
And yet because of how fucking ugly and useless the cybertruck is, and how much everyone hates musk, they’re stuck with what should have been a money printing machine but instead it just keeps cranking out coupons for Kmart…
It’s incredibly fucking funny they had to do this now, too. Dealerships all over can’t keep EVs on the lot because so many people are making the switch. Even shit ones like the Mach E (which I begrudgingly confess is fun as hell to drive but sucks on every other metric) have waitlists. I haven’t seen last quarter’s statistics published yet, but in the quarter before EVs made up ~1\3 of new vehicle sales in the US and another other ~1\3 went to pickup trucks.
And yet because of how fucking ugly and useless the cybertruck is, and how much everyone hates musk, they’re stuck with what should have been a money printing machine but instead it just keeps cranking out coupons for Kmart…