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Many projects in his companies seem to be more and more Musk's vanity projects than ideas/products one can take seriously. This is also how tesla ended up with
by freehorse 8mo ago
Many projects in his companies seem to be more and more Musk's vanity projects than ideas/products one can take seriously. This is also how tesla ended up with a huge cybertruck stock that nobody wants to buy and thus had to be bought by his other companies. And it is becoming worse and worse, especially ever since he bought twitter and sped up his twitting rates.
- dmarcos 8mo agoFWIW it looks there’s now a demand surge with the introduction of the new cheap cybertruck variant. delivery dates pushed out to the fall of 2026.
- robrain 8mo agoThat was an artificial boost created by setting a time-limit for a low price. There were ten days to buy at the price, then they put it back up. [1] [1] https://electrek.co/2026/03/01/tesla-cybertruck-awd-price-increase-70000-artificial-urgency/ https://electrek.co/2026/03/01/tesla-cybertruck-awd-price-in... EDIT: grammar
- parineum 8mo agoWhat's an artificial boost? Sounds like you're describing a sale.
- hananova 8mo agoSales are artificial boosts yes. The difference is in the connotation. A sale is given for something that people generally would buy anyway, but now more people will. An artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy. Or in other words, sales raise $high_number to $higher_number while artificial boosts raise $essentially_zero to $acceptable_number.
- dmarcos 8mo agoYour claim is that people that bought the cybertruck at a lower price don’t actually want it?
- sigmarule 8mo agoI believe the claim is that the demand side did not change, the supply side did, as in sales != demand.
- dmarcos 8mo agoJust quoting the above “An artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy” So people spent 60k on a cybertruck that they didn’t want? Is that the claim?
- pas 7mo agothe claim is that it moved sales forward in time, but it'll have a corresponding dip in sales later, whereas a good sales campaign increases total volume (virtually no dip, brings in new customers, etc)
- parineum 8mo ago> artificial boost is given to stuff nobody wants, but at a lower price can be convinced to buy. People do want it, clearly, but it's too expensive for them. Sales don't make people want things they otherwise don't.
- MPSimmons 8mo agoA push on delivery dates is as likely to mean production issues as it is an influx of interest.
- NewJazz 8mo agoLook up what their production targets were and compare that to their sales. A small temporary demand surge isn't going to be enough to chew through their current inventory, let alone keep the production lines busy.
- scottyah 8mo ago[flagged]
- annexrichmond 8mo agoDrivel. They’re selling just as well as Rivians.
- izacus 7mo agoThey're not even selling as well as Volkswagens here anymore.