Tesla is sitting on $200 million worth of Cybertruck inventory

[dalton99a]

https://electrek.co/2025/04/01/tesla-is-sitting-on-200-million-worth-of-cybertruck-inventory/

Tesla is sitting on $200 million worth of Cybertruck inventory
Fred Lambert | Apr 1 2025 - 10:28 am PT

Tesla has about $200 million worth of Cybertrucks in inventory in the US, as the truck is extremely difficult to sell.

A year and a half into production, Cybertruck production has ramped up, and inventory is building up.

Last year, Tesla could blame low Cybertruck deliveries on the production ramp, the more expensive Foundation Series, and the lack of access to the $7,500 tax credit.

All of those excuses are not available to Tesla this year. The Cybertruck is simply proving challenging to sell, and the automaker has to throttle down production to avoid building up too much inventory.

This proved problematic in March as Tesla had to put a containment hold on the Cybertruck in anticipation of a recall of units produced to date over a trim falling off the truck.

At the production level, the fix was introduced on March 21st and Tesla still needs to fix Cybertrucks delivered to customers.

With Tesla having issues selling new Cybertrucks, the automaker is reportedly not taking any as trade-ins. Many Cybertruck owners reported trying to trade-in the truck for a new vehicle and they were told that the automaker currently doesn’t accept its own vehicle as a trade-in.

Some owners who have had their trucks in service for extended periods of time are also trying to get Tesla to take the truck back, but the company is forcing them to go through the Lemon Law process.

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[Coventina]

1. More like $200 worth.

For the scrap metal.

[Johonny]

2. DeLorean was a better vehicle

[synni]

27. Even the Edsel was better looking

The Swasticar is the dumbest design ever.

[jmowreader]

3. It might have been better...

...if they had made a pickup rather than the Second Coming of the Chevrolet El Camino.

[Jerry2144]

6. It's the

Incel Camino

[allegorical oracle]

23. Even the El Caminos had adequate bed space, the Cybertruck bed is

not very useful. Also have heard and read that if the truck or one of Tesla cars malfunctions, independent mechanics are not allowed to order repair parts. The vehicles can only be repaired at dealerships. In cities, that isn't a big deal, but it's not handy for wealthy folks who live in their 500-acre farms and ranches.

[Norrrm]

25. The El Camino was/still is a cool ride. It beat the Ranchero all to hell.

[Tim S]

4. Entire metal body panel are referred to as "trim" falling off??

[Jerry2144]

5. I'll take one off their hands

If they pay me $200 K in cash to drive it and own it. Not a penny less though.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. The empty carcasses will make fantastic emergency shelters

since FEMA is no longer in the disaster business.

[SheltieLover]

11. Maybe rump should use one as his bunker, since they have a habit of spontaneously combusting with no immediate escape

[allegorical oracle]

24. Or dumpsters. nt

[Demovictory9]

8. Last year, buyers were paying $20,000 extra to get the vehicles

[MissB]

9. A neighbor just sold theirs

They paid a bit more than 100k for it and were quoted 35k from one of the car buying places (like Carmax). They ended up trading it in for another EV and got a decent amount of trade in value for it. They still took a bath on the trade in. But presumably they could afford it, since they shelled out six figures for the piece of crap to begin with.

[maxsolomon]

10. 200 million is 2,000 completed, unsold trucks

give or take.

Entirely driven by his repulsive personality and alliance w/ MFer. If he'd kept his snoot out of American Politics, there wouldn't be an issue.

[SheltieLover]

12. Just like slobby, he could've gone on and had a presumably happy (miserable) experience, but no, they just had to get

into the Fed feeding trough.

Mistake on both their parts.

[Mike 03]

13. I'd love to see some daring Cybertruck owner try to get his/her money back

by claiming that Elon Musk's interference in politics and promotion of fascist ideals represents a MAC (Material Adverse Change), a breach of contract, in what the situation was when the truck was purchased and, therefore, the owner should be reimbursed in entirety and the truck taken off the owner's hands.

That would be a fun lawsuit.

[ImNotGod]

14. I heard the Department of the Interior is thinking about purchasing that inventory and use the trucks as dumpsters

in all the national parks. The only downside is that they attract racoons.

[tanyev]

16. Ha! Jinx!

[tanyev]

15. Have they tried selling them as dumpsters?

[Bluetus]

17. It is much worse than that. Pick-up trucks are supposd to be rugged.

Trucks are supposed to take a beating. Just as soon as Elon's Folly hit the streets a year ago, there were immediately reports of the back part of the frame just snapping off when using the trailer hitch. This is because the genius inventor used a cast aluminum frame. That was bad enough, but then the hitch piece was welded on, which is just not a good idea with aluminum. Rather than admit this catastrophic design flaw that was completely uncorrectable without starting over from scratch, Tesla blamed the owners and put out a complex formula for how little weight could safely be put on the trailer hitch.

Well, fast forward to this week, when a collision caused Elon's Folly to literally break in half -- again because of that terrible choice of a cast aluminum frame. A person would have to be insane to buy one of these things now.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/31/tesla-cybertruck-split-half-crash-with-g-wagon/

[dalton99a]

30. +1

[mwmisses4289]

31. So basically cybertrucks are

made of tinfoil, spit and toilet paper?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. How long before the accountants make musk write off that inventory?

[Kingofalldems]

19. That thing isn't even a truck.

[ms liberty]

20. Let the SwastiTrukkks rust!

[modrepub]

21. I'm Sure A Lot Of Them

will wind up in government fleets being purchased for MSRP or slightly above.

[Norrrm]

22. Donald Trump's new Tesla?

[Bluethroughu]

26. And he lost his big money race today!

Good always beats evil Nazis!

[Norrrm]

28. Take 'em up to Canada. I hear the dealers up there have some really good weekend sales.

[Blue Owl]

29. Cyberdumpsters

[no_hypocrisy]

32. Reporting from Paramus, New Jersey

Tesla is parking its inventory in a parking lot removed from its dealership. Row after row after row of cybertrucks, just sitting there. Estimated number: 50+. The rest is Tesla cars, more than 100.