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Comment by breve

8 hours ago

Yes. It's a flop:

https://insideevs.com/news/784715/tesla-cybertruck-ev-sales-...

A flop is not a truck that was the best selling in the world two years ago and then 3/4 as many as Ford's EV truck and more than everyone else (according to your link).

And since when is HN just like Reddit when one is downvoted for asking a question for clarity?

  • OK, not a flop.

    An failure that didn't live up to the hype that generated the initial sales volume in pre-orders.

    The idea of the Cybertruck sold well — at a time before Musk's Roman salutes, shadowing Trump, running DOGE, and further enshittifying what remains of Twitter.

    The actual Cybertruck, once the pre-orders ran out... did not.

    Nearly half of all Cybertrucks sold (about 75% of those sold in 2024) were pre-orders.

    That's to say, people stopped buying once they saw the Cybertruck for what it actually was (ditto for Elon).