The decision to halt production of Tesla’s polarizing polygonal pickup marks the end of an error.
Elon Musk, in a post on X, has officially called time on the Cybertruck, stating that “Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production.”
Produced for less than four years, the polarizing pickup is seemingly dying as it lived, with the news being greeted in a flurry of replies in praise of the EV as well as deriding it. James Star, claiming to be a Tesla employee, posted that it was “the saddest news! Cybertruck (was) the best car Tesla sold,” right next to a user called Captain Ford who simply replied to Musk with “Fuck that shitbox.”
The worst thing? The cybertruck is going to forever be a symbol of this era. It’s ridiculous, but so is the age we live in. Fifty years from now, if someone wants to set a movie in the early 2020s, there will be a cybertruck somewhere in the background. It will forever remain an instant visual clue of the era. It’s like how in a sci fi film, if you want to quickly establish that you are not on Earth, you throw second Sun or gas giant into the sky. Just quick visual language saying where or when a setting is or isn’t.
They’ll have to build a cybertruck for the movie then, because the current ones aren’t going to exist 50 years from now. At least if they go through a car wash or something
Eh. There are still some old model Ts tootin’ around. The rarer they become the more valuable they are as antiques and collectibles. The Delorean was never really a very popular or particularly well-selling car, but there’s still plenty of those around. When they become rare, people put more effort into preserving them.
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