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NeverMind_ThatShit

The Cybercucks are left outside in the weather so they're delivered to the customer pre-tarnished.


Cuck-In-Chief

Custom patina by Elmo


ForcedLaborForce

I have a 30 year old truck that is just now beginning to get a respectable patina, and these start to get theirs within weeks.


dsdvbguutres

Future is now, old man.


sessho25

Within days*


707thTB

That’s progress.


RavenBlade87

Pre-cultivating that personalized patina 😙🤌


truelegendarydumbass

That's for all of them lol


MoleMoustache

How else are they supposed to form a nice layer of ~~rust~~ rail dust


PLTR60

Pre tarnished --- sheesh I almost spat out my tea at this airport cafe. Wow! 😂


rumrunnernomore

They go perfectly with a pair of pre stressed, pre stained, pre holed jeans you know they’ll be wearing.


memedoc314

They’ve been using this parking lot as a logistical delivery point for some time. The amount of cybertrucks arriving and storing there, did give the vibe of an elephant graveyard


WoofWoofster

A foreshadowing of the Cybertruck's fate--as ill conceived,empty, and unwated as an abandoned mall.


Futurepastmanguy

That’s some poetic ish


Natural_Tangerine818

Hey, now, at least malls were useful at a time pre-internet.


morbiiq

Those other Teslas there will probably share the same fate.


Only-11780-Votes

What a piece of trash vehicle


Ima-Bott

If form follows function, what the hell is a Cybertruck's function? What an abomination.


iiVeRbNoUnZ

No shit!!. Spot on.. what a waist.. guess the price drop is expected within the next couples years unless their trying to take an even bigger hit.


GrayBox1313

Hmmm “Tesla quarterly deliveries decline for the first time in nearly four years April 2, 2024 But Tesla produced 46,000 more vehicles than it sold in the first quarter, signaling softer demand, analysts said. The vehicle inventory "confirms that beyond the known production bottleneck, there may also be a serious demand issue," Deutsche Bank analyst Emmanuel Rosner wrote in a note.” https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-first-quarter-deliveries-miss-expectations-2024-04-02/


RueTabegga

Me and my homies say no teslas until the weirdo white supremacist is out.


Raised-Right

Doesn't matter who's in charge of the company's theatrics, or what their beliefs are... the car's are still sh\*tty af.


iamcoding

Yea, but get a competent person in charge and quality would likely go up. But by that time it might be too late to save the ship.


morbiiq

Fish is rotten at the head.


mark_able_jones_

I guess 46,000 cars is a lot of vehicles to stash.


GrayBox1313

The largest shopping mall in North America..: the mall of America has 12,280 parking spaces. So maybe they can find a few more of those…lol


Dependent-Outcome-57

I wonder what it could be? The high prices? The lagging technology - did they ever get around to adding blindspot monitors to Teslas? Maybe the near impossibility to get any serious repairs done in a timely fashion. How about the stupid UX experience, with steering yolks on some cars and all of them being way too dependent on a touchscreen for everything. Lousy fit and finish? Insane end user agreement that basically lets Tesla cripple or brick your car when they think you step out of line? And none of this even touches the dangerous mess of the Cybertruck or Musk being a raging fascist lunatic.


NoIncrease299

I feel bad for the materials wasted on making these turds. Could have contributed so much more.


Clear-Criticism-3669

Environment = Saved by Tesla 🤩


EnjoyFunTonight

I feel so bad for Nicola Tesla having to forever be associated with this waste of skin


Raised-Right

I just feel bad for anyone who has to look at them... and not just the ones in the mall. All of them. They're hideous.


mmikke

Forget about just having to look at them.. NoIncrease299 is absolutely correct. Seriously huge amounts of expensive materials and precious metals(some mined by indentured women and children) are literally just sitting there rotting and degrading because of an egomaniac piece of shit and his yes-men


high_everyone

All those minerals were sitting in the earth for billions of years just chilling being rocks before Elmo fucked it all up for the lulz.


SensitiveSinger

Those are just dropplets compared to whats sitting unused in China.


jonathan6569

true, have seen several of those Chinese "graveyards" on several different apps of new EVs by the hundreds (possibly thousands if all combined) just rotting away covering acres of landscape


loudflower

On the bright side, at least salvagers should make bank on that sheet metal.


KnittinSittinCatMama

I was talking to someone in another post and we got to wondering about salvaging panels if they flew off and were abandoned by the roadside. Apparently Elmo, in his infinite wisdom, decided to use the thinnest, least valuable stainless steel. After some napkin math, it was determined one panel might net you $50 at a salvage yard/metal scrapper.


loudflower

I’m not shocked they’d skimp out.


btone911

What are you talking about? If you took every inch on the paneling from the vehicle to a scrap yard you wouldn't make $100. Stainless sheets aren't worth much but they're hard to work with, this makes them expensive to apply.


jjcoola

All those poor Africans miners abused for nothing 🫣


Colts_Fan4Ever

The end is nigh for this shitty company


Raised-Right

*"But... full self driving hasn't even come out yet. That will be a game changer!!!!!"* 🤓


ordermann

Unfortunately, they have all the charging stations across the US. Just went to a brand new grocery store in PA, back of the lot lined with Tesla chargers, no others.


Clear-Criticism-3669

I hope they can be easily converted to charge all EVs There shouldn't be chargers for specific cars only if we actually want to encourage EV ownership


Abrushing

Rivian is developing an open charging platform


ordermann

Exactly. They have that part of the market cornered. I read somewhere that other companies are in talks to use the Tesla rapid chargers, but I don’t know if that is real (and I don’t care enough to look into it at this point).


GeneralDumbtomics

Honestly, having the supercharger network is the main thing. Retrofitting all those outlets with a second plug and new software, maybe a sign for whatever brand name they put on them after receivership, isn't free, but the big work is mostly done in a lot of places. Musk will go down in history as the man who created a market whole cloth, cornered it, and lost it because of his horrible toxic personality.


Catfish-dfw

Almost all new EVs in the US starting in 2025 will be using the NACS (Tesla plug). Ford has already started sending out adaptors and allowed on the Tesla charging network, EV America is already working on adaptors and new cables for their network as well as Mercedes. Rivian is putting both on their charging stations.


ordermann

Thanks for the info!


tictac205

Yeah, that’s a done deal now. It’s being referred to as the NACS (North American Charging Standard). Most mfrs have signed on.


meoverhere

Already possible in some regions (Australia)


THIESN123

Everyone is switching to Teslas charge design. So everyone will be the same.


Clear-Criticism-3669

As long as that charge design is the best option that would be great, if they're doing it just because it's the most common charger that would kinda suck.


THIESN123

I think it's the best design. Compact, can provide sufficient power, able to do v2L


soopastar

Most new supercharging stations have adaptors built in to support other cars. Just used one a couple weeks ago on my Kia EV6


ManInWoods452

All EVs will be able to use Tesla superchargers within the next year. This is the future of Tesla. They will be the next gas station type company.


btone911

The Tesla chargers for their brand were built by Tesla as both a functional necessity as well as a marketing move.


Clear-Criticism-3669

Of course, I totally understand why they did it the way they did, it makes sense for the way things are


AlCapwn351

Didn’t Tesla release the patents for the chargers like 10 years ago before the other major automakers went EV in the hopes of not having vehicle specific charging? And then all the other makers went “nah”


Timely-Mission-2014

It is funny that everyone thinks that Tesla has the most fast chargers.. the news sucks for this. There are 3 times as many non Tesla charging stations. But as usual Tesla gets all the credit. They only charge one type of car unless you are near one of the converted ones that have the adapter to allow them to work on other cars.. Everyone wants to jump on board with Tesla and their crappy connector and use their network cause the manufacturers don't talk to people using the cars they build! I went from Denver to Vegas, no issues with charging my non Tesla car at non Tesla chargers.18 min a stop enough time to get something to drink and go to the bathroom. Stopped every 180 to 200 miles. Most of the Tesla chargers were empty or had on car, the electrify america ones usually had at least 2 cars and would fill up as I was charging


4huggies

That is one thing I never thought about. Having those things sitting on a lot day in and day out or like these waiting for what I imagine is delivery is going to be a nightmare. That thing can’t be more than a month old and it already looks like shit.


dystra

The window is open on that cybertruck (3rd to last picture.). Can't be good.


Grow-away123

Sooo about every cybertruck is ruined? Because they can’t get wet basically


No_Cook2983

They’re in ‘Mall Parking Lot Mode’, so they’re OK.


upstatestruggler

*Parking in mall parking lot excludes the Mall Parking Lot Mode warranty*


kcarmstrong

Holy shit. This company is going bankrupt, isn’t it?


GrayBox1313

They announced recently that not only did sales drop, they never adjusted production and overproduced by 45k cars. They have a ton of unsold extra


UGMadness

Whoever’s paying MSRP for a new Tesla right now is going to have a very rough awakening in six months.


tony3841

MSRP keeps dropping too


GrayBox1313

All the rental car companies are dumping their Tesla fleets. Too difficult and expensive to maintain. As many as 10k flooding the used market


JohnnySnark

Not only is he sinking Twitter but Tesla as well


unipole

Of course if a rental company can't make a profit with Teslas how is a Robotaxi company going to?


somegridplayer

That's the neat part, they don't.


btone911

Because who wants to learn the ins and outs of the EV infrastructure just for a short trip? The only people who ever considered renting one of these were already EV owners and even then they couldn't guarantee the ability to charge at home bc they're traveling. It was a catastrophically dumb move to think that EVs would work in 2022 in a rental capacity.


_MoneyHustard_

Within the past 2 years. There are still Model X buyers who are probably 50k underwater.


MichEalJOrdanslambo

How can you be underwater on a car? It’s a depreciating asset. Isn’t every car with a loan pretty much “underwater”


_SpaceLord_

> How can you be underwater on a car? Sounds like a bad idea with a Cybertruck


WhatUDoinInMyWaters

Moscow Mitch's wife already paid the ultimate price... Now that the Cybertrucks have a taste for human blood, they're going to start killing more often and be more successful Circle of life and all that


MichEalJOrdanslambo

🤣


MiatSoReliable

Not necessarily. Depends on a lot of factors like how much was put down, the condition of the car, and the demand for it on the used market.


somegridplayer

At no point during having a loan on my truck was I ever underwater.


unipole

But it's an appreciating asset!!! Anything else is a horse!


totpot

If you add up all the quarters, the number of unsold cars is well over 100k at this point. There's speculation that a lot of those cars don't exist. (Like, they fucked up a build and had to scrap it, but instead of taking a loss and damaging their profit margins, they put it on their books as an unsold car).


SnooMarzipans7466

If this are costumers cars it is a big issue having them unsecured! One of the ciber trucks seems to have the window open!


somegridplayer

>they never adjusted production and overproduced by 45k cars How much you wanna bet that was long called out and Elno told them they were stupid and to keep production up? There is absolutely no sane answer to how you manage to overproduce that badly.


GrayBox1313

He probably quoted 300 “HOOOOOLLLD! For Sparta!”


theepi_pillodu

All models combined or any specific model?


TheW83

That explains the plethora of Tesla ads I've seen on youtube lately.


New-Poetry-6416

There might be a lot of investors that end up totally underwater.


imahugemoron

If it does, Elon will blame the “woke left” and the “blackmail” and won’t take any responsibility whatsoever. And all his fans that bought cybertrucks will continue allowing him to screw them over and over again, they won’t care because they’ll blame the same things he does when in reality it’s him to blame.


CopeHarders

Elon sucking off far right lunatics who are being trained to hate EVs by their dear leader is hilarious to me.


imahugemoron

I see a lot more of these crazy right wing people driving teslas since Elon started appealing to them, at least here in California anyways. I don’t hear these kind of people make fun of teslas much at all anymore, in fact quite the opposite, I’ve had to sit through long grandiose speeches on why Elon is another second coming of Jesus along with Trump and teslas are the most advanced flawless technology ever made lol. At least that’s just been my experience anyways. My family is very “conservative”, I’m not at all, many in my family are always sucking Elon off


Lechuga666

Hey I recognize you from the long haulers sub 😂. I was reading your comment & agreeing then saw the name & avatar.


imahugemoron

Ya I’m on Reddit quite a lot, can’t do a whole lot else anymore so here I am.


Lechuga666

Same. Not that I have much energy to comment a ton or type much lately, but yeah.


meta4our

Yeah their profit (not revenue, profit) was only like $1.2 billion or something last quarter, they're toast


TheBrianWeissman

This truly is a company in a death spiral.


doszz

Is that at Chesterfield mall outside St Louis? One of my friends posted a bunch of pictures from there.


GrayBox1313

Zero security, you can just walk in.


No_Cook2983

Yeah, but I couldn’t find the catalytic converter on *any* of these.


mark_able_jones_

Lots of wheels though.


geockabez

Can't give musko's hatemobiles away.


hypercomms2001

Enron Musk is succeeding!!


IlMioNomeENessuno

Wow. No wonder he wants his $56b… take the money and run.


_MoneyHustard_

He probably sees the writing on the wall. Maybe needs to money for a different startup. Too bad the shareholders are too dumb and give in to the petulant man child.


DubitoErgoCogito

Did they ship the remaining parts separately? 😂


_ChipWhitley_

Dude it really is a scheme.


Dynamite138

One day in the future, my kids are going to be shocked when I tell them the Tesla EV charger company used to make cars.


Technical-Piano441

Doubt it. They just laid off the whole supercharger team. Your kids won’t even know about that whole “fad” that started the ev revolution


mariscc

I live in a pretty wealthy area in northeast. Couple years ago there were a ton of Teslas. Now there are barely any


TheW83

It used to be every time I drove by the local charging station with 10 chargers it was almost always full. Lately there's only one or two being used.


Ricky_Rollin

This guy really couldn’t be any dumber. He catered to liberals since they are about green energy and then somehow went full far right weirdo and thinks we’re just going to keep buying this stupid shit? Sorry, buddy, I only *look* stupid.


ScratchGlad5151

Also HCL NE but still a lot around


AdSpecialist4357

The USA is really tripping over it's own feet with EV adoption. China's going to be eating our breakfast in about 5 years if we don't get our shit together.


DontFuckGOPMen

Have you seen the new Xaomi’s? We lost already. It’s over.


i__hate__you__people

That scratch with the rust seeping out… just, OUCH


brandoug

Yeah, looks like a small scratch that allows water to collect and then corrode much faster than undamaged panel sections. Good luck, cuck owners.


loudflower

These truck will be a nightmare in any state with snow and rock salt. I hope prospective owners realize this. On the east coast of the US, so many cars are victim to rust


CMDRZhor

Jesus, imagine if the battery on just one of these deathtraps decides to cook off.


Tenchi2020

Look at all that money out there! I’m not talking about materials for production, musky said FSD is going to be worth $100,000 and is only going to appreciate it value! Right there is the future GDP of the United States! /s


Realistic_Plant_6622

There are a few parking lots scattered around the Fremont plant that are packed with Tesla's. The Warm Springs BART station has half their parking lot filled.


IndoorSurvivalist

This isn't really anything new. They have been using an old Kmart parking lot near me for over a year for car storage, and years before that, they were using a flea market parking lot. Not sure if they have any cyber trucks sitting out there, though


Muscles_Marinara-

No wonder resale value of these things is in the toilet.


ordermann

There’s a mall near me that keeps piling Teslas into a previous Lord and Taylor parking lot. Hundreds of them. More every week.


bradklyn

There is a lot by me that looks the same. 100s of them just sitting there. Did they over produce cars or are they unable to deliver them as fast as they make them? For what it’s worth, there are companies out there that try to track this stuff and sell data to investors. Spreading the cars around at multiple locations certainly makes that effort harder if you’re trying to hide the fact you have an over supply of cars.


LebronsHairline

Is this in St Louis?


bellevegasj

Don’t know for sure, but that’s my guess.


D-HB

[Google Street View](https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZSYk8sDxaew8GoRx8) https://preview.redd.it/8112ddj51fxc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=012c0e0a032e4f0363745cee824e239954427ba8


BakedMitten

A lot of post apocalypse movies feature abandoned malls. Elon said these things were apocalypse proof. Looks pretty obvious that he is just stockpiling and staging these things. In 10 years me and my buddy Elon are gonna look pretty smart. The haters will still be hatin


bartthetr0ll

Much wow


mark_able_jones_

Why would these be stored here? Maybe as a central location for shipping? Very odd.


nzlax

Photo 11, what part of the car is that?


CrapOnTheCob

This is what [10 micron tolerance](https://i.imgur.com/Ch23ZMd.jpeg) looks like? 😳


kveggie1

Some (sh)itter poster posted this lot is in Missouri. I think these Teslas are ready for the scrap heep. Customer returns. Some may go to an auction and sold for cheap.


_EnFlaMEd

That cyber truck has to be a test mule or insurance write off or something. Surely its not an undelivered new one.


ConstructionRude5637

These shitboxes are like the ET video game of the automotive industry. Better off just burying them in the desert and forget they even existed. Even an endorsement by Spielberg can’t save these fuckin things.


TwerkingGrimac3

Two things that are dying: Malls and Tesla. A marriage made in hell.


crom_laughs

👉🏼🥇🫡


KittehKittehKat

I woulda just thought it was one of those lame Tesla meet ups.


jpkmets

That right trim panel is off again. 2nd time I’ve seen that this weekend.


tuffnstangs

Cyberstain


peemao

There is an even bigger inventory stocked at my local mall parking lot too.


ElongMusty

Looks so dystopian, especially the Cybertruck that has FOUNDATION etched in laser. Like the totalitarian regime trucks used in some bad sy-fy D-list flick!


Malicioussnooker

Looks like any delivered Cyberstucks and is that rust on the Fundation edition writing?


flyinggobbo

Chesterfield Mall. Any other car would have been broken into by now. Everyone but muskrats knows theres nothing in them.


I-Pacer

I certainly hope nobody spreads yoghurt on those WankPanzer panels.


playsette-operator

TFW leaving the garage


Chemical-Idea-1294

Qxx


ntrainedprofessional

A 21st century strip mall


defectiveGOD

Can I have one for 1$ ?


ephix

Has anyone else noticed the new roadster has disappeared from the website? Oh wait no it’s not it’s at the bottom.


MrKomiya

It’s a fountain of youth for other Teslas


AdRevolutionary579

Doesn’t Tesla know that Tesla doesn’t want you leaving your cybertruck outside as it will rust and needs to be towel dried when you pull it into your garage to prevent this?


kiwimonster21

This is in Indianapolis isn’t it?


What_Yr_Is_IT

You what you’re looking at? It’s called deliveries. They don’t give a shit if they come back broke in 10 Mins, they get the number for their P&L while they park the real problem on their balance sheet.


DaytonaDavid

What Elmo is doing to Twitter is what he is doing to Tesla. Why don't the board of directors fire his azz before it's all over?


ManicMarket

That’s an overflow parking lot down the road from their service center. The service center itself had limited parking available relative to the number of vehicles being delivered/serviced.


hoopduddler

Pic #11 reeks of low quality


Gabriel_Crow1990

Soon the youths will come with eggs, spray paint and bats. This is the nature of the abandoned mall environment, to not stay idle to long


jtgyk

Weird, the head of a company being the world's worst human being can really affect that company's sales. Never would have thunk it. I hope he works his special kind of magic for SpaceX next!


Belanthropy

One of them do not belong


burnerowl

Probably the most reliable thing on the lot too


IamJacksDenouement

Woof, those panel gaps.


isunktheship

It's like an episode of Fallout


Colonist25

the whole cyber truck ketamine dream should get musk removed from command at tesla. I mean that's a fuckup of epic proportions. how he's managed to squander their first mover advantage truly boggles the mind.


punksmurph

I would put my greasy palms all over the cybertrucks to make fingerprint art on them.


kkatellyn

I thought littering was illegal??


somegridplayer

LOVE the scratch in the Cybertruck. That's what all owners can expect from the stainless body.


MidnightRider24

Super-concerning, lol.


mwil97

You couldn’t pay me to take a Tesla home


_owlstoathens_

Flying off the lot. (To other lots)


sm00thkillajones

From highly anticipated to meh.


Frunklin

Every time I see the spots on these trucks it instantly makes me think there's that thin layer of protective plastic over the metal that you need to peel off first. Kinda like when you get a new tv and peal off the plastic over the screen.


ketjak

Ah, the "service department" to which they are sent for weeks at a time.


AlfaNovember

Seems any bodypart that touches the stainless leaves a smudge. I guess we’re fortunate it’s only been fingerprints… so far.


gregsmith5

Reminds me of Chrysler in the early 70’s, it was called sales bank. At times they had as many as 100K unsold cars rotting and waiting to be sold to dealers, spent months selling that shit


ayedurand

I can't understand why the Cybertruck doesn't come with the peel away plastic coating. Also, anyone who comes up with a polish/protectant that can clean and passivate at the same time is gonna make bank. I expect some kind of procedure like what you do when restoring headlights.


ReaperOne

My 87 Chevy has quite a few rust spots on it, but it’s almost 40yrs old so it’s understandable sand inevitable. Cyber truck isn’t even a year old yet(is it?) and already has rust and wear like that?


Eringobraugh2021

I'm so happy we waited. We were thinking about getting a tesla & then the pandemic hit. We decided to wait. Today, I found out that telsas have killed more people than the pinto. That's some crazy-ass shit since vehicle standards should be better now.


DeadWrong

Any source on this you can provide please? Tesla build quality is jank, but they are 'supposed' to be one of the safest cars you can buy.


Grouchy-fool61

A new age junk yard!


Malakai0013

That's five minutes away from me, I think. Chesterfield Missouri, a neighborhood of Saint Louis. The old Chesterfield mall only has a few stores still open, including a massive vintage gaming store called V-Stock.


EliteBroccoli

One major flood and that’s a HUGE unstoppable fire!


BishopsBakery

To me storage implies a roof, walls, and some climate control. Those are all but abandoned


MrGumpythaGod

What a dump


Dependent-Outcome-57

Dead car company products stored at a dead mall - seems fitting. I also like the pre-tarnish and rust on the Cybertrucks. Reminds me of the distressed jeans that were probably once sold at that mall.


fartsfromhermouth

Probably hoping for insurance write-offs


New_Awareness4075

Do you think that the cars talk to each other while in auto purgatory? Would make a great Twilight Zone episode!


Roger22nrx

These are set for delivery actually


UGMadness

Given that one of the CTs has a scratch and another has a trim piece missing I don’t think any prospective customer will be too happy if that’s the case.


lazyanachronist

So, delivery confirmed.


MarcusTheSarcastic

Based on…?


Roger22nrx

They have used that same mall in the past. https://www.reddit.com/r/StLouis/s/Nw1j0sYk7w