Demand for the Tesla Cybertruck electric car was significantly lower than expected. Production volumes are declining, and unsold pickup trucks are starting to accumulate in warehouses. This is reported by the Electrek website..

In 2024 (the first full year of sales), only 40,000 Tesla Cybertrucks were purchased. Let us remind you that the electric car at one time collected approximately 2 million pre-orders. The Texas facility is designed to produce up to 500,000 pickup trucks per year..

However, now the production capacity is not too heavily loaded, and therefore Tesla plans to reorient the enterprise to produce more updated Tesla Model Y Juniper, because this model is in much greater demand.

The main reason for the mass cancellation of orders is said to be inflated prices.. As you know, in 2019, during the presentation of the model, the price of Tesla Cybertruck was announced at the level of 40-70 thousand. dollars, but now the cheapest option costs $79,990. In addition, the range of the electric car turned out to be significantly less - 563 km versus the promised 800.

There are already $1,600-$2,700 discounts on Tesla pickup trucks. Moreover, at factory warehouses they began to remove decor and equipment from cars in the limited edition Foundation Series (costing from $120,000) in order to turn them into a standard model and, accordingly, reduce their price to $99,990.

Focus previously reported that General Motors had launched an affordable electric car for $6,500.

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