They'll fail in the used market until they're so hated that the price drops to scrap metal levels and then a few people will snatch them up for the novelty or literally for the scrap value.
So, the batteries and a pile of plastic garbage, then. Good grief, from how awful the "stainless" veneers look with just a few days too many parked under a pine tree, I can't imagine there being any serious use for the stuff as raw material. It might not even really be worth the money to resmelt. If iron stops being cheap, we're all well and truly f——d.
Dunno, though. Haven't seen a Cybertruck in this neck of the woods for a while. Can't think why, but being the center of that whole parking lot's attention certainly didn't seem to be doing the fellow with the pine-besmirched one as much good as you'd have sort of thought it might, for someone who'd spent so much on something so flashy.
That makes me wonder ... what could you do with a cheap Cybertruck? Take all the panels off and remake them in something else? Maybe put a 3D printer to work and create something really unique. Sure, you'd still be stuck with a CT but a lot of the tech in that vehicle is pretty good. Could you turn it into a sand buggy? What about a flatbed truck? Maybe a repair truck with welders and other electrical equipment?
> a lot of the tech in that vehicle is pretty good
For all the insistence that "Tesla is a software company" and "Tesla's advantage is software", the Cybertruck has entirely software defined anti-slip and skid prevention loops that are utterly broken.
Which is funny, because ICE cars have solved this, again, fully electronically and with significantly less control over the drivetrain (the primary control is holding the brakes on whichever wheel is slipping and letting the diff sort it out) for decades.
My VW GTI can crawl its way across sheer ice by just holding down the gas pedal and letting the computer sort it out. A VW Passat from 2008 could do the exact same thing. Every other ICE vehicle manufacturer had this as standard functionality by like mid-2010s.
Meanwhile, you can find videos of Cybertrucks struggling to deal with an inch of slush, which is an trivial situation for electronic stability controls to handle.
There is no excuse for a fully electronic drivetrain which has perfect ability to modulate not just the speed but also the force with which it turns the wheels to be this bad. It's pathetic.
