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It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] 10 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

Ford also voluntarily recalled 1.5 million of them and addressed the fuel tank issue that caused the problem.

"Fixing" the cybertruck would involve offering refunds scrapping them.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    All that lithium sitting in storage lots, wasted. Tesla could save the CT with some sort of body kit conversion that tears it down to the frame and rebuilds it as a more traditional truck. It’ll still not be a great truck, but better than letting all those batteries rot.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    The frame is unfortunately a piece of poorly designed garbage too, even ignoring the Whistling Diesel torture test. And you can't make something that isn't a cybertruck using it, because:

    It's not a traditional frame with a body built on top. It essentially is the cybertruck.

    They could (but won't) design a vehicle that isn't ridiculous and offer cybertruck owners a rebate on trade in. Yank the batteries, motors, and anything else that can be reused and scrap the rest.

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