You all are really digging up some really good clips from Elon to try to persuade him and I do respect and applaud that!
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Is this what Cybertruck lovers need to do… hold a candlelight vigil outside of GigaTexas? @elonmusk @wmorrill3 @wholemars @mrfundman 🕯️
Back in 2009 on David Letterman Elon spoke about the impact of GM shutting down the EV1 program on people who had those electric cars.
“Well, there was a great movie, Who Killed the Electric Car?, by Chris Paine, which I think explores that question. And it’s noteworthy in that movie that Chris shows how much people really wanted that EV1 car.
“In fact, they wanted it so much that when the cars were forcibly taken away from them and crushed… you know, they weren’t actually just stored, they were actually crushed. The people who had those cars held a candlelit vigil for the destruction of those cars.”
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@kneubuehl , when is the Cybertruck candlelight vigil?
I'll be there as long as it doesn't interfere w a Starship launch. @CYBRBEATZ could compose a slow, sad, lights-dimming light show w funeral music. An Irish "farewell" tune, perhaps. 🤷♂️
This was back when he cared about creating cars for consumers. Now all he's worried about is creating subscriptions for consumers while they own nothing.
This is a huge fail if they go through with this! Americans drive cars, we own our cars, that will never change- regardless of how good FSD is and how many robotaxis there are.
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@elonmusk says this while killing one of the best products ever made.
Ohh …the irony
CyberTruck: At $130,600 CAD and a generous 20% profit margin, each Cybertruck yields approximately $26,100 in profit, collected once at delivery.
CyberCab: It earns recurring revenue as a robotaxi. Riders pay about $0.88 per kilometre, and Tesla’s target operating cost is approximately $0.26 per kilometre, leaving about $0.61 per kilometre.
At 161 kilometres a day, that’s roughly $36,000 a year per car, more than a truck’s one-time profit. Over five years, net of a $42,360 build cost, one cab clears about $138,000.
At a more conservative 80 kilometres a day, it still nets about $48,000, nearly double a truck. Payback at 161 kilometres a day is approximately 14 months.
Scale: At roughly 30,000 trucks a year, profit is just over $706 million, earned once.
30,000 Cybercabs could bring in about $1.06 billion annually, every year.
Cybercab production line is designed to eventually build one car every 10 seconds, matching a year’s worth of Cybertruck output in less than four days.
#Robotaxi #Cybercab #CyberTruck
I calculated the figures in Canadian dollars. Currency conversions use approximately $1 USD = $1.412 CAD (November 9, 2026).
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Best explanation I heard is that the demand for the Cybertruck wasn't there to keep a full shift running. It's what happened with the Model S/X.
Elon said demand exceeded their current production but that's different from the theoretical capacity.
The steel exoskeleton not being structural and the high weight doomed any chance of makng a more affordable Cybertruck which would have raised demand.
I hope Tesla goes back to the drawing board. I would like more choices than just the 3 and Y.
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