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Updated: Apr. 02, 2025, 3:17 p.m. | Published: Apr. 02, 2025, 10:15 a.m.
By Lauren Sforza | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Elon Musk’s Tesla woes are continuing to pile up.
Tesla has faced a number of issues since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, including plummeting stock prices, fewer deliveries of its electric vehicles and mass protests against Musk at its dealerships. Many Americans are protesting Musk and his efforts to slash federal government spending as a part of the Department of Government Efficiency.
Now, some Cybertruck owners are reporting that Tesla will not accept its own vehicle as a trade-in, according to electric vehicle website Electrek.
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Henry203
(470 posts)The owners were born yesterday.
sakabatou
(44,444 posts)newdeal2
(2,197 posts)He’s dismantling all consumer protections, watchdogs and regulators for a reason.
Disaffected
(5,483 posts)has to accept anything as a trade-in, even its own model(s).
EdmondDantes_
(371 posts)At least for the first year of ownership sell it back to Tesla. I guess supply outpaced demand
Voltaire2
(15,366 posts)I had a friend who sold his back to tesla for the guaranteed price.
sakabatou
(44,444 posts)I'm trying to interpret what Musk is saying. Is he admitting that his company is selling lemons, or that all used Teslas become lemons?
BOSSHOG
(41,821 posts)BoRaGard
(4,758 posts)
Hope22
(3,821 posts)Of those trucks. Did we buy trucks that we won’t receive or get use out of. Hmmmm….
eppur_se_muova
(38,710 posts)Hope22
(3,821 posts)Where that guy is concerned my brain gets overwhelmed!😊
progressoid
(51,186 posts)I don't drive anything fancy. But next to that heap of metal, my car looked like a queen.
mwb970
(11,790 posts)It is the ugliest motor vehicle I have ever seen. It looks like a Fascist fantasy made out of a garbage dumpster. Yuck.
progressoid
(51,186 posts)I imagine he thinks it's the coolest thing on wheels. I thought it just looked ludicrous.
yardwork
(66,053 posts)I parked next to one a month or so ago and it felt just like squeezing into the spot next to the dumpster.
I hear they rust, too.
AllaN01Bear
(24,562 posts)mwb970
(11,790 posts)He was successful and respected. Then he hooked up with trump and everything in his life immediately turned to crap.
trump, of course, was unaffected and continues in his evil ways with no consequences. Who's next?
niyad
(123,042 posts)minute I heard about the way he treated wife #2.
yardwork
(66,053 posts)Read about how his first marriage ended. The guy has been a mean con artist from day one. Raised by literal Nazis, overstayed his student visa in the U.S., lied about his resume (he doesn't have the degrees he claims to have. No engineering degree. No advanced degrees. He might have an undergraduate degree in Econ, maybe), stole other peoples' ideas, consistently ignores design flaws in his products, runs his businesses like concentration camps, abuses drugs, abuses women, is estranged from his grown kids.... he's just like Trump. A complete fraud.
exboyfil
(18,187 posts)Who as photographed with an insurrection plan in his pocket.
Wiz Imp
(4,602 posts)So what if you screw over your customers (who spent $80,000 on the monstrosity) in the process.
AZ8theist
(6,677 posts)Wiz Imp
(4,602 posts)I just checked and the most basic one apparently started at around $80,000 and the top line version is $120,000.
I can't understand why anyone would ever buy one period. It's the ugliest vehicle I've ever seen. Add in all the issues that have been discovered with them and they have to be a candidate for the biggest failure in automotive history.
AZ8theist
(6,677 posts)But not a single shit is given for anybody would bought that piece of crap....
calimary
(85,702 posts)The birds will do a very creative (AND textural) remodel!
Even better if some four-leggeds start homesteading!
Meowmee
(8,235 posts)
Mountainguy
(1,657 posts)Deserves the ripoff they are getting.
If Musk was half as smart as he thinks he is, he'd have kept his goofy ass out of politics and funded a back to the future reboot using the cyber truck instead of the DeLorean, and used that to market it.
DinahMoeHum
(22,809 posts)Hey Cybertruck owners:

Klarkashton
(3,237 posts)exboyfil
(18,187 posts)Guess he can get one now for a steep reduction. Of course he traded up to a larger Tesla sedan before the election.
He is a great husband and father, but we do have a point of disagreement that neither bring up. At least he doesn't vote. My wife, daughters, and me all reliably vote for Democrats (it doesn't make much of difference in Iowa).
prodigitalson
(3,058 posts)of people concerned about climate change.
This will probably be studied in future marketing classes as how not to conduct yourself in the market.
Xavier Breath
(5,463 posts)
LetMyPeopleVote
(160,957 posts)No trade ins.
https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3llseisufv22y
Link to tweet
https://electrek.co/2025/04/01/tesla-is-sitting-on-200-million-worth-of-cybertruck-inventory/
A year and a half into production, Cybertruck production has ramped up, and inventory is building up.
Last year, Tesla could blame low Cybertruck deliveries on the production ramp, the more expensive Foundation Series, and the lack of access to the $7,500 tax credit.
All of those excuses are not available to Tesla this year. The Cybertruck is simply proving challenging to sell, and the automaker has to throttle down production to avoid building up too much inventory.
