• commander@lemmy.world
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    They’re hideous, the places with a population that could afford them mostly view them as a social black mark, and in terms of utility - they’re worse than just about any truck out there. It’s not about max towing weight. It’s about not being able to stack and strap a shit ton of stuff in there

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      I guess they’re worth the money spent to make them? But yeah, it’s just a pile of trash. I can’t believe I still see so many on the road. I do live in a reddish hell though

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    3 months ago

    Mobile dumpsters? Port o potties for the homeless? The possibilities are endless.

    There’s probably a tax write off in there somewhere for Elon. Nice silver lining.

    • TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
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      The economy is based on vibes and not the true value. However that doesn’t mean they aren’t allowed to borrow against those vibes, to avoid taxes.

    • sfled@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      So did other stocks. The Dotard flip-flopped on tariffs again.

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      The stock price isn’t an accurate representation of the worth of the company. It’s an accurate representation of the amount of bullshit the company CEO is filled with.

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    3 months ago

    waiting for someone to officially label them the DeLorean of the 21st century.

    Please, nobody insult the DeLorean this way.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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      I was gonna say. Doesn’t seem right that they can just add up the MSRP like that and claim it’s millions worth of something if nobody’s buying. Plus, I’d wager the manufacturing cost of all that is significantly lower.

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      3 months ago

      I wish the article would tell us how many units instead, for this very reason.

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        Last I remember they sold for $80k, plus that makes the math trivial, so… 10000 vehicles?

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          Wow that has so much more impact to me, I can really visualise the endless parking lots full of them.

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          Just looked again and you’re right lmao. I did read it, but somehow missed it.

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          No, we don’t want the article to make us read. We want the article to grab our heads, pull our ears out and talk the information directly into our faces. You know, “tell us.”

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        I’d love to know how much it costs to build each cybertruck, and visualise the other revenue loss of storing these, designing the machinery to build this shit and anything other costs that were factored into sales.

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          The big 3 used to need to sell something like 1/2 million cars before covering R&D costs. But that was also back in the 60-70s when they sold a million cars a year and designed it all on paper.

          The cyber truck’s design was so stupid that it may have approached that level of r&d costs. Since bonding and forming such thick Stainless steel isn’t trivial.

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    Funny how “market rates” only mean “it will cost more for poor people” and never “our worthless product is worthless so we need to lower the price”