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        The batteries are still expensive and good to use for anything else. So it should be 20-25k in scrap.

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    $800 million worth is giving a lot of value to something they can barely give away. Maybe $800K worth of material after the cost of dismantling.

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      They really should use the number of units. If Musk cranks the price from 80k to 120k, they suddenly have $1.2B sitting there? It’s the same 10,000 ugly-ass pieces of shit.

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      The $800m figure is only useful for figuring out how much Tesla was expecting to make out of it. When you factor in the development and manufacturing costs, they’re hemorrhaging money.

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      $800 million according to labor theory of value. 0$ million according to subjective theory of value

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      Yeah, a better number would be how much it cost to build the fuckers. I’m assuming they also need ongoing maintenance while they sit around rusting.

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    I think its crazy that they made $800 mil worth of these cars. Who the hell thought they would sell well?

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      I always thought he was making them as a limited high-end run. It’s neither of those things.

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        Oh its gonna be limited thats for sure. But yeah I had very similar thoughts as well. Theres one cyberfuck in my town and every time I see it I can’t help but think what a fucking goober one must be to buy it

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      That’s 80,000 vehicles. The production capacity is 250k. Ford sold 460,000 F-150s last year.

      Chrysler had an inventory of over 1 million last year, they’ve ran through that by March.

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        Chrysler had an inventory of over 1 million last year, they’ve ran through that by March.

        That’s insane considering Chrysler hasn’t made a decent vehicle in 20+ years and the majority of them are just as big piles of shit as the cybertruck.

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    If the talk about Cybertrucks actually rusting in the rain is true, they will be worth less and less and less…

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    Time to play…”WHO DO YA BAIL OUT! HUBBA-HUBBA-HUBBA, MONEY-MONEY-MONEY…WHO DO YA BAIL OOOOOUUUUUUUUT?!”

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      Even people who would buy from Nazi’s still want a functional car.

      These things randomly stop working, break if you drive it into a half a foot of water, have rear view mirror housings which bust off when you try to pull down the sun visor, have a single ethernet cable routing all the controls and devices so that if the connection breaks anywhere everything stops working suddenly, a shelf underneath the headlight which accrues dirt or snow as you drive until it is not serving its purpose, exterior panels which just fall the fuck off, and hardly get any mileage.

      The only people who buy these are those incapable of the barest reasoning.

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    How abut: The truck is just plain ugly.

    It looks like a refuse bin. Square back, low opening front.

    When I worked in a lime quarry, we used a bin something like that shape to put all the crap and garbage in The a-frame had a bar across the top and the kiln truck picked it up worth its hoist and loaded it on the back, and hauled away the load to the dump.

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    If he drops the price to about $8k and includes lifetime fast charging, I’d consider one. Of course, for $8k, there are plenty of much nicer used trucks available on the market, though.

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      Idunno, they seem like they’d be perpetual rotten fruit magnets. Like you’d have to hose them down a lot

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      And they actually have truck functions that trucks should have. And they aren’t completely useless if the iPad in the cab decides to not work

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      Lifetime anyfeature is only of value as long as the company still honors it. Will Tesla still be in business in a decade? Seems doubtful.

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      Hell yeah if I could get a free cybertruck I’d have lots of fun salvaging the motors, batteries, sensors, etc.!

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          This is very doable without needing an EV battery. Solar panels and lithium batteries have never been so cheap - tho I’m not in America, maybe tariffs effect this in the US. I have a 500w panel, victron shunt, controller, etc, 200ah lithium battery - the whole build cost maybe £800 a couple of years ago and the cost has dropped a fair bit since. I live in a small space and my needs are few - laptop, lights, phone, heater, etc. This does the job fine for me but it wouldn’t be hard to scale up.

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      They tried that in Canada and got caught. They’ll get a free handy for doing it in the US under Tump though.

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        That’s what Trump’s big legal battle with New York was about - lying about the value of a penthouse or something.

        So much of these “rich” fuckers wealth is just bullshit on paper.

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      Yup. Their boss controls the IRS. They’ll write them off, get a bailout check, and sale the remaining trucks to the US military. Triple dip the American tax payer.

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      This photo is taken out of context, though. I mean, he slapped his chest before the salute, and he did it twice in a row… Ah shit nevermind, he’s a Nazi.

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      he doesnt look commited to it though, because hes doing the lip sucking thing that children do when they are unsure if they will get a bad reaction from it.

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      They have a lot of problems … they’re about this high … raises right hand up on the air palm down