Jalopnik: Tesla Cybertruck Deliveries Paused Because Losing Sharp Metal Body Panels On The Road Is Bad Or Something
3/14/25
https://www.jalopnik.com/1811333/tesla-cybertruck-deliveries-paused-reason/
Jalopnik:
"This may still come as a surprise to a lot of you, but the Tesla Cybertruck sucks. Not only is it bad at being a truck, it's also a bad vehicle in general. I mean, you can't seriously tell me you'd rather buy a truck that can be bricked by a simple car wash instead of a Rivian R1T? Really? I don't remember any Rivian owners complaining about body panels flying off their trucks while driving, but that's absolutely a thing with Cybertrucks. In fact, body panels flying off has become enough of an issue that Tesla has paused Cybertruck deliveries for now, Electrek reports."
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Road and Track: Some Cybertruck Owners Say Their Trucks Are Shedding Body Panels; One Thinks He Knows Why
A Tesla owner who wraps the vehicles for a living has come up with a hypothesis as to why his truck lost a piece of its bodywork at speed.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a63857202/tesla-cybertruck-losing-body-panels-reports/
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@AlliFlowers @ai6yr that got me thinking, the line workers probably aren't exactly super stoked going to work making trucks for Mr. two Roman salutes just asking questions maybe Hitler wasn't the bad guy.
Maybe someone working in QA decided leveling up in Path of Exile 2 was a better way to spend the work day.
Lawsuits do not paint a nice picture of the Tesla factory
@AlliFlowers @ai6yr @Finitum Not really.
Compared to Nazi Eloonatic Musk, Amazon boss Bezos might look like an exemplary employer (Not).
@AlliFlowers @ai6yr I believe brand new vehicles are not supposed to shed their body panels.
You can bet the farm some lower-level engineer brought this to his bosses and they shut him down hard so they could continue to sell Cybertrucks.
Reminds me of most Chinese crap you buy these days at Wally World. The garbage is only made well enough to get you to buy it and walk out the door. There is zero consideration to how long it might last.
It all comes back to #greed.