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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

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Post by iknowstuff »

IntelMiner wrote: post #204
qwerpy wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CT driver here. I didn't even get one for the attention. I thought it was cool-looking, useful, and could make for a good family car. I was right! I'm an introvert so the constant attention (almost all positive, even in the Seattle area, surprisingly) was definitely an adjustment for me. Trust me, I'd be perfectly fine without the constant attention but people just keep giving it! Now I actually kind of enjoy it. My…

As a fellow Seattleite, I'm excited to see it rust to hell now that it's raining more and more

this right here is an example of a terminally online person who feed their algorithm the wrong way :as just a bit of sleuthing reveals how wrong the statement is ◡̈

Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US

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Post by iknowstuff »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #49
sashank_1509 wrote: post #40

The 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…

I feel this is also selection bias. People approaching owners in public are unlikely to be aware of what an engineering disaster the thing is, what with all the issues with quality control, slow delivery, and very slow repairs/maintenance from Tesla, or the funnier stories where owners have had their trucks brick entirely due to getting the thing washed, whereas in the comment sections you're referencing, those topic…

I hope this is gpt generated and you didnt spend your own time writing that. its fine. a couple early failures get fixed as production ramps, as usual, and itll become a best selling ev, as usual.

Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US

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Post by iknowstuff »

gmerc wrote: post #200

This clearly has nothing to do with running down the preorder list which has now been exhausted and had a less than 10% claim rate. Those numbers are going to crater hard in the coming months

same thing was said about model 3 and model y. won’t happen.

Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US

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Post by iknowstuff »

jen20 wrote: post #336
pfannkuchen wrote: post #95

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Have you actually driven one? The only thing I use the touch screen for on a near daily basis is the defroster in the winter and that is before I start driving. Everything else I need regularly does have physical controls, e.g. wipers and blower speed. I do have a model that still has the stalks though, haven’t driven the stalkless type enough to comment.

I haven’t driven a cyber truck, but I was in a friend’s Model X the other day and the gear selector was on the touch screen.

not something you touch at speed in an EV, and actually very convenient given how the touch area is generous, right by the wheel, and the car usually selects the direction by itself so you dont even have to do it.

Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US

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Post by harambae »

Fairburn wrote: post #371
SanDiegoSun wrote: post #358

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People who are uninformed were trying to dunk. Dismissing its aerodynamics when it has a CD of .34; and decent efficiency per battery size. Ultimately ignorant terminally online people complain and dismiss what is the best selling ev truck. You can disagree, but you would be objectively wrong.

It is a truck in name only. Hardly usable as a truck

Some of us need trucks purely to move dirtbikes and snowmobiles and it will do that.

Add in the requirement of "electric" and there are cheaper options but none that are cheap that are also allowed to be sold in the USA (remains to be seen how much you can get away with temporarily moving a BYD Shark over the border from Mexico and never bringing it back)

Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US

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Post by muixoozie »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #190
mdhb wrote: post #170

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Right, it’s kind of known as the incel mobile I think by most people. In the same way when you see a MAGA hat on the street, you already know a lot about the person before they a a single word and you do your best to avoid them but other people with MAGA hats will give each other the wink and nod. In my experience that’s the closest thing I could describe to the cyber truck experience and how most people look at it.

The Jeep wave, but less bend in the elbow

Wow had no idea there was a name for this. I rented a jeep in Colorado once and noticed other people driving jeeps waving (peace sign) at me while driving to Alma from Denver. First time I've experienced anything like that. Think I've motorcyclist slightly wave at each other before. To be honest I'd probably wave too if I saw another miata driver in Texas, but that's about as rare as seeing a lifted Japanese compact truck.

Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US

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Post by thedrbrian »

RollAHardSix wrote: post #57

My girlfriend owns one so to share our experience, the cybertruck is an unreliable POS. She's had it three, four months now & we have had it in the shop for suspension repair, an ECU computer which fried itself at a charging station (2k), a coolant leak part replacement from the cyberbeast rear engine (1400), the passenger window falling inside the door after the wire used in the gear window retraction snapped or tan…

Why is she driving two hundred miles a day for work for?

Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US

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Post by anonfordays »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #372
anonfordays wrote: post #328

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All of the aforementioned things are 100% covered by warranty. The GPs comment is entirely made up, LARPing for internet points.

Having that many problems with a new vehicle -- covered by warranty or not -- qualifies that vehicle for "POS" label

Except none of those problems happened because the GP just made it all up. The post is a great example of Elon Derangement Syndrome. LARPing as Cybertruck owner, fabricating posts about the experience of owning one to virtue signal.

Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US

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Post by insane_dreamer »

anonfordays wrote: post #388
insane_dreamer wrote: post #372

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having that many problems with a new vehicle -- covered by warranty or not -- qualifies that vehicle for "POS" label

Except none of those problems happened because the GP just made it all up. The post is a great example of Elon Derangement Syndrome. LARPing as Cybertruck owner, fabricating posts about the experience of owning one to virtue signal.

How do you know that they made it up?

Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US

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Post by insane_dreamer »

GMoromisato wrote: post #36

Anecdata, 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.

PNW here, I see a Rivian (or multiple) every time I go out -- only very rarely a Cybertruck.

Don't know which part of the country is buying the cybertrucks but I don't think it's here.

Rivian now has dedicated charging stations now out in wilderness-type places (i.e., at the entrance to national parks).

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