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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago
[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

I'd pay five thousand dollars for one. Round off the sharp corners and put a Honda sign on it and BOOM I beat capitalism.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 157 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So then they have $0 worth of cybertrucks.

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Or report their value as the scrap value or cost of materials

[–] techt@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 day ago

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

[–] DoYouNot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's literally in the second sentence of the article.

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 9 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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."

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

-$800 million those weren’t free to build.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago)

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.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 115 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Came here just to upvote you.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 93 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If no one wants them, they're not worth anything.

[–] stephen@lemmy.today 20 points 1 day ago

Cut to the Trump administration buying them all for $250,000 each.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

There's always scrap metal and selling the batteries for other purposes!

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[–] swagmoney@lemmy.ca 12 points 19 hours ago

i flipped off two of these nazi dumpsters today

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

he probably does eat shit too. there's probably some ultra rich bullshit delicacy that is like essence of baby turds or something that has stem cells and electrolytes.

fuck him and his digestibaby shit.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Civet coffee?

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Yes and now the stock is back above 300. I really don't understand these meme stocks.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago
[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

All those preorders cancelled bc they lied about the price and the quality doesn’t match. Tesla was doing fine until the CEO got involved. Idk why those assholes wanted to give him billions of dollars as a bonus. Just absurd.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago

they probably want his name to be still have some recognition, because Xitter is a very useful tool for the right to control the supporters, that is more valuable than tesla.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 28 points 1 day ago

And entire production lines configured to produce shit nobody wants.

[–] mikenurre@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Then why the hell is the stock back over $300?!?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 22 points 1 day ago

Because modern stock market is not controlled by buying and selling but rather by derivative markets esp off the book derivatives

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago

The Boring Company is propping up the price with the sales of NotAFlameThrowers to DOGE.

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[–] PostaL@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yet their stock went up 20% past week...

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 12 points 23 hours ago

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.

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

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 3 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

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

Please, nobody insult the DeLorean this way.

[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tbh I'd take one for free. It might look kinda cool in my garden with plants growing out of it.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

i would keep the battery, buy some solar panels, an inverter for my house, and sell the chassis as scrap metal

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ehhhh, that would require a cybertruck to look cool though.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sell them to ocean shipping companies .... they can tie a chain around them and use them as boat anchors

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They'd probably (definitely) suck at that too.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Watch them rust quickly in salty water

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago

if nobody wants them, they're not worth $800million

[–] sfled@lemm.ee 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

No wonder they're begging police departments to buy them.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 5 points 17 hours ago

A part of me wants the police to have them so they can be a cluster fuck for them to maintain.

Unfortunately, they'll maintain it with my tax dollars.

[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day 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.

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