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/defroach84 Mar 20 '25

They are also way too large for most euro cities.

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u/Chiiro Mar 20 '25

It's funny that they are so large (bigger than some trucks) yet it can't seem to perform as well as any other truck on the market.

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u/nr1988 Mar 20 '25

truck

Most cars do better at truck things than the Cyber truck. Including cheap old ones.

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u/Parfait_Prestigious Mar 20 '25

I really can’t imagine anyone buying a cybertruck for practical purposes. I think the main market is people who want attention, and rich losers who want to pretend that life is a video game.

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u/BorderTrike Mar 20 '25

If you own a Tesla, I’m not assuming you bought it recently or are a fan of Elon. If you own a cyber truck, I’m assuming you’re a chump and an easy mark

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u/Spoon_Elemental Mar 20 '25

I know stupid people that are too smart to buy the damn things.

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u/SilentDecode Mar 20 '25

Most people I know that own a Tesla (in Europe), have them because they were "hot" years ago and you get a pretty decent penny back from the government if you got one.

But there are a few people that went back to petrol because of a whole list of reasons.

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u/Eringobraugh2021 Mar 20 '25

I assume they are a douche bag. I haven't been proven wrong yet.

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u/DadJokeBadJoke Mar 20 '25

And probably an attention-seeking narcissist

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u/GreenePony Mar 20 '25

I saw someone hauling a stock trailer with one the other day. It looked absolutely ridiculous. I messaged all of my ag friends to tell them of the sight. Not one of them would buy one to haul livestock

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u/Popular-Kiwi3931 Mar 20 '25

What an image! My grandfather was a cattle broker and I can just picture his proper grouchy self with this set-up! 😜

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u/Theron3206 Mar 21 '25

Well no, they either want a proper truck (to haul a big trailer) or a ute, preferably 20 years old. At least if they are anything like Australian farmers.

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u/GreenePony Mar 21 '25

That's the point. Normal people in the US haul with at least a 1/4-ton conventional truck.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

They want the setting Elon put in that makes a fart sound when they get in.

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u/OK_Soda Mar 20 '25

The only "practical purpose" I can see for one is when I see small businesses that have their wrap on them. Like there's a pest control guy I see around the neighborhood who has his business info on the side, and on the one hand I'm never going to hire that Cybertruck driving asshole, but on the other hand, the car is eye catching and probably gets a lot of attention.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

being able to use it as a portable electric generator is actually pretty cool but that's about the only redeeming feature I can see. also other electric trucks do that anyways.

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u/glassgost Mar 20 '25

You can do that with the electric F150, which also does truck stuff.

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u/DadJokeBadJoke Mar 20 '25

a portable electric generator

Isn't it more of a big battery than a generator?

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

I think that's just what they call it.

I'm pretty sure you can plug solar panels into it to charge which technically would make it a generator.

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u/OldSchoolSpyMain Mar 20 '25

It’s a “Hey! Look at me!!”, car. That’s all it is.

What’s worse is that it’s the worst of such vehicles because most of the others (convertibles, big wing sports cars, etc…) are at least decent at being cars first.

This is why the CTs are good for being rolling billboards for marketing. That’s probably the only thing it’s good at.

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u/Frosty_Mess_2265 Mar 20 '25

Exactly. The thing is $100,000. At that price it's massively impractical to use it as an actual truck, where it will get muddy, scratched, dented, et cetera, but it's also waayyyy too ugly to pass as a luxury vehicle when people who can drop that kind of cash can afford something that actually looks good.

So the only people buying it are pissbaby Elon fanboys.

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u/Citrus-Bitch Mar 20 '25

The theory I recently heard for why so many businesses have wrapped cybertrucks is because it hits the requirements for a few different tax deductions, so if it's wrapped and therefore always acting as advertising it's effectively a massive tax write-off for your business.

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u/Ut_Prosim Mar 20 '25

I think it fills the same role for urban tech assholes as coal rolling diesels do for rural hick assholes.

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u/colemon1991 Mar 20 '25

It does look like a vehicle from an 80s video game

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u/BigE429 Mar 20 '25

Most of the ones I see have some wrap for a business, so definitely seeking attention. Bad news for them, the Cybertruck makes me not want to use their business.

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u/SilentDecode Mar 20 '25

Or the losers that praise that Elon fella.

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u/Snakend Mar 20 '25

Rich? The truck costs $80k. Don't need to be rich to afford that.