It could be $15 and have the range of an ICBM, it can still sit on the lot and scare the kids walking by.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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Longer range so it can get stuck further from home? 🤭😀👍
"Thanks for all the $16k loans at 0% shmucks. We've kept the interest we made while rates have been up and now you can have it back while they're dropping. Of course, your money is now worth less than it was when you gave it to us during high inflation. Suck it losers. Love, T E S L A"
EDIT: deposit was $150. Still shitty but not the same impact
EDIT 2: Or $2000? ... tl;dr: shitty
Enjoy your overpriced truck that under delivers. At least you look COOL™.
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However, Tesla had devised a solution to bring the range closer to what it originally announced: a separate battery pack that sits in the truck’s bed. Tesla called it a “range extender.” It costs $16,000 and takes up a third of the Cybertruck’s bed.
You cannot make this shit up 😂
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The dual motor was originally announced to be US$39,900, not 50,000. It is lies all the way down at Tesla.
Tesla is not the only one guilty of this, unfortunately. It seems to be standard practice in the industry now.
I was seriously considering it back then. My wife hated the look and wouldn't let me even consider it, but as someone who likes Back to the Future and Tron, I didn't hate the aesthetic, though it took some getting used to. And I want a comfortably large EV (my compact is too small for my old bones) with 500 miles to avoid range anxiety. A 100 mile distance in the middle of a midwestern winter without a charger at the other end is going to require 500 miles of range to get back home due to heating the battery and cabin, and driving at 80mph. And my longest daily commute was 212 miles round trip before someone asks how often I need to drive 100 miles away in the middle of winter.
I wouldn't say bullet dodged because I was never really close to getting one, but charging three times the price for only 60% range compared to that announcement is fucking insane.
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Tesla and unfulfilled promises.... Only slightly less an iconic duo than Tesla bad news and stock price going up.
Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it's actually ready?
Like, we don't have the means right now to achieve what he advertises, so he lies about it and then 'alters the deal' after taking people's money.
That's exactly what he's been doing with all his businesses. And it works. Tesla is still hugely overvalued as a company.
Oh he’s been called out for that for over a decade now, it just got buried under the mass of starry eyed reporting.
that's been tech as an industry for the last decade. product releases, then all promised features come as a half baked update a year later... if at all. phones, games, cars, etc all use this strategy now unfortunately.
Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it's actually ready?
Today's vocab word is Vaporware
selling half-assed tech, basically A scam, which is whole business model.
So he learned from the video gaming industry?
Yep.
"Games as a service" are released as a "minimum viable product" to see if it can hook enough suckers to make it profitable enough for the company to finish making.
If there aren't enough saps that take the bait, development ceases and whoever put their faith in the product look like tools.
Pray I don't alter it further.
Only a fool buys something on the promise of future upgrades and potential. Buy stuff on what it is now.
This is a bad look for Tesla for sure, but no one should be going “I wouldn’t have bought it if I knew this would get cancelled”.
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