Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
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Re: Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
#2At the size of Ford, sales numbers can be at a different mark for what is considered successful than others. Not to mention dealer gamesmanship fudges real sales numbers.
As to the Cybertruck it's both interesting and kind of ugly... repairability is another concern/issue as is pure cost...
I'm far more interested in the Slate[1] myself. It's probably closer to what a lot of consumers would want in an electric truck. It really feels like a spiritual successor to the OG Jeep (GP).
1. https://www.slate.auto/enRe: Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
#3Ford doesn't have a benefactor worth close to 1T usd...
Re: Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
#4It says a lot that spacex had to buy so many trucks just to help the sales numbers. I always thought the ford lightning was a better option for most people anyway. It is too bad they are stopping production when it seems to be the winner.
Re: Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
#5Ford doesn't have a benefactor worth close to 1T usd...
Nether does Tesla
Re: Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
#6It says a lot that spacex had to buy so many trucks just to help the sales numbers. I always thought the ford lightning was a better option for most people anyway. It is too bad they are stopping production when it seems to be the winner.
If you sell five thousand units but built production capacity for a quarter million units, that's not a success.
Re: Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
#7At the size of Ford, sales numbers can be at a different mark for what is considered successful than others. Not to mention dealer gamesmanship fudges real sales numbers. As to the Cybertruck it's both interesting and kind of ugly... repairability is another concern/issue as is pure cost... I'm far more interested in the Slate[1] myself. It's probably closer to what a lot of consumers would want in an electric truck.…
I'll be interested in the Slate when I can actually buy one. I've seen far too many startup car companies fail to launch to ever get my hopes up. Also, the hopes that the very first vehicle from a brand new company will be affordable are not realistic. Making affordable vehicles requires production at large scale, and that requires enormous capital investment, which generally means your company needs to already have income. Even if it just to prove to potential investors that you have basic competence.
Don't think that just because a billionaire is interested in the project that the funding will be easy. Billionaires don't like to spend their own money and can be easily distracted by newer and shinier projects.
Re: Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
#8I'm sure the usual detractors will be here to whine "Electrek is biased against Tesla!"
To which I would ask: Is it "bias" because they simply report on Tesla frequently? Would it be "less biased" if they ignored Tesla? Obviously Electrek can't simply invent positive press for Tesla to report on.
Putting that aside though. The Cybertruck by all measures has been an abject failure. Its production run was so limited that insurance companies refused to cover it [1] and the NHTSA took something like two years just to crash test the thing due to how few of them there were on the road.
Combine that with 10 fucking recalls for absolutely horrific safety issues [2] and the company making the batteries taking a 99% slash in its $2.8 billion dollar contract [3] the thing is a complete travesty
[1] https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/insurance...
[2] https://www.cnet.com/home/electric-vehicles/every-tesla-cybe...
[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29/tesla-cyb...
Re: Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
#9It says a lot that spacex had to buy so many trucks just to help the sales numbers. I always thought the ford lightning was a better option for most people anyway. It is too bad they are stopping production when it seems to be the winner.
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Re: Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
#10Ford doesn't have a benefactor worth close to 1T usd...
Are you suggesting that markets are rational?