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Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
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Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#32I see multiple Cybertrucks every day driving around LA.
I'll admit the design has grown on me, and we need more mainstream vehicles challenging the boring design "norms".
I would love to see a cross between the Model Y and Cybertruck in the future.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought the Bolt had a good reputation. What's wrong with them?
No L2 charging for one.
What do you mean? All Bolts support level 2 charging via the standard J1772 adapter up to 7.2 kW or 11.8 kW depending on model year.
Level 3 charging aka DC fast charging was an option on them, so not all have the extra pins needed for a CCS charger.
I'm pretty happy with my 2017 Bolt which has the DC fast charging option. I wish it had distance-keeping cruise control; it's frustrating because it has the cameras and will even report following distance on the dash, but doesn't have the adaptive cruise feature for whatever reason. I also wish it charged a bit faster; 50 kW max is a little slow for road trips.
Next car is probably a 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5, which has has both features and is also pretty reasonable. Prices on the used models are slowly coming down.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#34Alternate headline: Tesla sales dip below 50% of all EV sales. Source: https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q3-2024-ev-sales/
This appears to be an alternate article, rather than an alternate headline for this one.
Cox Automotive generated the data[0] sourced in the second "paragraph" from the original article.
[0] https://www.coxautoinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kelley...
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#35That thing is a monstrosity. This to me implies that EVs have peaked and only the market for vanity vehicles remains at this time Edit: I also have a suspicion that this is primarily due to them filling all the preorders. It’d be good to see a breakdown as to how many new orders people are placing after seeing this POS in real life.
Given you can cancel your preorder without losing any money, one would presume that the majority of pre orderers were happy with the results.
Not necessarily. People who had placed the preorder were looking for a vanity vehicle, which it sure is. And, those people are not going to cancel.
I’m interested in the customer base once that market is exhausted.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#36Anecdata, but in the Bay Area I see a Cybertruck almost every time I go out. At the beginning of the year it was once per month. Now there are two or three Cybertruck owners in my immediate neighborhood.
I don't like the look, personally, but my kids love it.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#37https://archive.is/pBDXs
Relevant snippet:
"Tesla sold almost 17,000 Cybertrucks in the third quarter, according to Cox estimates, making it the third most popular EV in the US during the period. The only other EVs that sold better were the Tesla Model 3 and Y.
So far in 2024, more than 28,000 Cybertrucks have been sold. That's more than Ford's F-150 Lightning, Rivian's R1T, and Chevy's Silverado EV, Cox data shows."
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#38My witty retort would have been, “yeah, well, people bought the Pontiac Aztek, too.”, except Tesla has sold almost as many Cybertrucks in the 3rd quarter as Pontiac sold Azteks in an entire peak sales year.
Was it the Aztek that had really rabid fans? It was one of those boxy ones. Never could figure out if they actually had really good reasons for it or were just trying to justify having bought an Aztek.
You're probably thinking of the Element. There were a lot of reasons it ended up with a rabid fan-base: Honda reliability, available manual transmission, available all-wheel drive. It was overall a really practical vehicle for those who wanted something with a good amount of interior space who didn't care about frills or luxury. Amusingly the Element was targeted at then-millennial young buyers looking for "adventure," but ended up being more popular amongst older people looking for a practical daily driver.
The Aztek had some similar positive properties, but was from one of the particularly bad eras of GM malaise and was highly unreliable. It's had a tiny bit of a cult resurgence recently, but it was never popular in the way the Element was.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#39The reason theyre selling is likely due to a US small business tax loophole that allows you to write off things like range rovers and escalades as a business expense. coupled with US electric vehicle incentives state and federal, and its a pretty sweet deal on the most electric SUV per weight and length you can buy.
Honestly I fully expect to see these things crisping in the sunlit parking lot of a predatory auto lender in about five years, or rolling through the rough part of town on an 84 month co-signed auto loan with liability insurance only, wagon wheels, a lord beerus wrap and aftermarket stereo.
Like Range Rovers and Hummers they will be gobbled up by people who (with petite-bourgeoise socialism) can afford to buy the vehicle, but not maintain it. And if Youtube is any judge of build quality, this vehicle will start to fall apart the minute it exits the factory floor.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#40The weird thing I’ve seen is in almost all the online forums I visit, like Reddit, YouTube comment sections, parts of twitter, hacker news, the cybertruck is universally panned. Yet when I drove a cybertruck, the number of onlookers who approached me inquiring about the car with excitement is unmatched with even a Lamborghini that I once rented. Shows how much of a bubble the internet alone is. MKBHD got the ratio’s right in his review, 75% of all approaching population are excited about the car and when asked to guess its price, they all wildly overestimate it, guessing close to a million than a 100k. This car is probably a hit, it would be a bigger hit if it were a gas car, it’s low range and really low range when towing make it impractical for any actual truck work.