The Actual Reason the Tesla Cybertruck Has Failed?

Final Up to date on: twenty second Might 2025, 06:18 pm

In response to and attention-grabbing article from Jennifer Sensiba relating to Tesla failures attributable to Elon Musk, one reader, Roger Lambert, had a critique and his personal clear tackle why the Cybertruck has failed. He additionally provides just a few extra Elon Musk failures which have harm Tesla. To finish, he brings up the unlucky scenario for a big group of individuals typically forgotten and ignored on this complete dialogue. Right here’s Roger’s full comment:

“The boring, modular design of trucks might be bad for efficiency and bad for people who want something a little more exotic, but it unlocks economies of scale that manufacturers desperately need to compete.”

Oh, c’mon. Financial system of scale comes from mass manufacturing. There’s nothing inherently magical about an 80 year-old box-on-frame design. And the Cybertruck’s enchantment had little to do with being “exotic” — it’s ugly from many angles.

It’s promised enchantment was that it was a big EV pickup that would comfortably seat 5 individuals, with a big mattress, with nice vary, with nice efficiency and utility, with an electrical drive practice that will final one million miles, that it wouldn’t rust (vital within the NE USA) for a greater than truthful worth.

If Musk had delivered what he promised, the Cybertruck would have hundreds of thousands of gross sales, and no one can be speaking hooey about “unlocking economy of scale” of box-on-frame.

However — he did NOT ship. I’m out the curiosity on my $100 deposit. Tesla is out billions. This alone ought to have resulted in his departure from the corporate. He has made a LOT of blunders at Tesla not talked about on this article:

* His obsessive insistence that the X have gull-wing doorways delayed that car for years.
* His judgement that LIDAR wouldn’t be helpful for self-driving.
* His resolution to take a position billions in typical batteries in-house, dismissing solid-state batteries.
* His interpersonal obnoxiousness ensuing within the brain-drain of too many proficient individuals.

We’d like not go into his hijinks at Twitter or his ham-fisted antics with DOGE. The person, and now the corporate, is fractally poisonous. That Tesla the corporate is poisonous is a bloody disgrace and tragic nearly past phrases for the 125,000 employees it employs.

Addendum: One other commenter, Randy Wester, had a fairly humorous and pointed response to that longer remark. Right here it’s:

“… decision to invest billions in conventional batteries in-house, dismissing solid-state batteries”

Ought to have purchased Toyota inventory as a substitute of Twitter.