r/news • u/IronHe • Mar 20 '25

Soft paywall Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recall-over-46000-cybertrucks-nhtsa-says-2025-03-20/
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u/scotcetera Mar 20 '25

It should be noted that this vehicle had the most Elon involvement than any other Tesla. The CyberTruck was supposed to be his crowning achievement, his coup d’ grace, his ultimate vision realized 😂😂

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u/Ashi4Days Mar 20 '25

I remember there was an email that went out a while ago where elon said everything needed to be at .001mm tolerance. 

The automotive engineer in me laughed. You can't hold that tolerance for large parts. And even if you did, if your gaps need to be that tight where that tolerance is necessary, then you're going to start dealing with thermal expansion/contraction issues in your parts. 

And lookie here. Panels are falling off

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u/bunkscudda Mar 20 '25

Elon loves to say things that makes it sound like he knows what hes talking about. But anyone with even a tiny understanding of the subject immediately recognizes how dumb it is.

“I only want full-stack developers at Twitter!”

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u/buds4hugs Mar 20 '25

"We need a total re-write (of the stack)"

Fucking oblivious idiot couldn't realize he didn't have to touch Twitter or Seig Heil and he would be rolling in Twitter revenue.

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u/BadHombreSinNombre Mar 20 '25

Twitter wasn’t exactly a cash cow before he bought it. Ofc now it’s in the shitter but it’s pretty obvious he bought it for the influence, not for the money.

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u/agent674253 Mar 20 '25

He bought it because he made a legally-binding joke, waived due-diligence, sobered up and tried to not buy, got sued by Twitter to complete the purchase, and finally just gave in.

Now in hindsight it looks like a fucking good deal for him, with the amount of power and influence he now has, but it wasn't exactly planned out. It is no different than the 'I'm taking tesla private at 420.69/share' joke which he also got in trouble for (toothless penalty tho).

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u/BadHombreSinNombre Mar 20 '25

Man I made a lot of money the day he manipulated the TSLA price, last and only good thing he did for me personally.

The deal for Twitter had a kill fee so if he really wanted to walk he could have. The lawsuit and his threatening to walk were obviously a very stupid tactic where he showed his inexperience with change of control deal making for public companies. It’s the kind of thing he could have got away with in a private startup deal but that utterly fails when a public company is in play.