The decision to halt production of Tesla’s polarizing polygonal pickup marks the end of an error.
Elon Musk, in a post on X, has officially called time on the Cybertruck, stating that “Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production.”
Produced for less than four years, the polarizing pickup is seemingly dying as it lived, with the news being greeted in a flurry of replies in praise of the EV as well as deriding it. James Star, claiming to be a Tesla employee, posted that it was “the saddest news! Cybertruck (was) the best car Tesla sold,” right next to a user called Captain Ford who simply replied to Musk with “Fuck that shitbox.”
Literally could’ve built an electric equivalent to the Ford F-series with four motors and an ungodly amount of torque that nobody needs and sold them for 200k a piece. I’m not in the market for a pickup truck and probably never will be, but if I was and I was looking for electric, I’d buy that over the cyberdump.
Then if that sells, build a smaller one (a la Ford Ranger) with less power, less size, for less money. Like they did with S and 3, X and Y.