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Oh he’s been called out for that for over a decade now, it just got buried under the mass of starry eyed reporting.

that's been tech as an industry for the last decade. product releases, then all promised features come as a half baked update a year later... if at all. phones, games, cars, etc all use this strategy now unfortunately.

selling half-assed tech, basically A scam, which is whole business model.

That's exactly what he's been doing with all his businesses. And it works. Tesla is still hugely overvalued as a company.

Only a fool buys something on the promise of future upgrades and potential. Buy stuff on what it is now.

This is a bad look for Tesla for sure, but no one should be going “I wouldn’t have bought it if I knew this would get cancelled”.

Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it's actually ready?

Today's vocab word is Vaporware

So he learned from the video gaming industry?

Pray I don't alter it further.

How about giving up

The deposit for a cyberstuck was $150. The package was valued at $16k.

Being happy about lies being exposed is good, but spreading a false narrative about it is bad.

Tesla is not the only one guilty of this, unfortunately. It seems to be standard practice in the industry now.

I was seriously considering it back then. My wife hated the look and wouldn't let me even consider it, but as someone who likes Back to the Future and Tron, I didn't hate the aesthetic, though it took some getting used to. And I want a comfortably large EV (my compact is too small for my old bones) with 500 miles to avoid range anxiety. A 100 mile distance in the middle of a midwestern winter without a charger at the other end is going to require 500 miles of range to get back home due to heating the battery and cabin, and driving at 80mph. And my longest daily commute was 212 miles round trip before someone asks how often I need to drive 100 miles away in the middle of winter.

I wouldn't say bullet dodged because I was never really close to getting one, but charging three times the price for only 60% range compared to that announcement is fucking insane.

I don't know man, the hyundai ioniq 5 has way more delorean vibes than the cyber truck. The cyber truck just actually looks like how i was drawing cars as a child.

I absolutely hated the design and feel bad for anyone who gets into an accident with this monstrosity.

Think the end of the article pretty much nails it.

Tesla needed to install and remove it at a service center. Owners couldn’t remove them themselves. I think it was pretty much dead on arrival at $16,000.

But I think it could also be as simple as it’s not worth producing due to demand – both due to insufficient people reserving it and not enough Cybertruck buyers to create a market for the range extender.

Therefore, the range extender is dead for the same reason that the Cybertruck RWD now has the same battery pack as the AWD instead of a smaller pack for less money: the Cybertruck is a commercial flop, and it’s not a high-volume program enough to justify making several battery pack sizes, including a removable one.