Tesla has certainly had their share of problems in recent months. Since Elon Musk got involved with the Trump administration and was put in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), it seems as if their numbers have been declining.
One way that this is seen, and it was even a problem prior to Donald Trump going into office, is with the Cybertruck. At this point, it is reported that Tesla is overstocked with those overpriced Cybertrucks and is currently sitting with more than 10,000 unsold units in its dealerships.
Even though Musk claimed that some 250,000 Cybertrucks would be sold annually and they had a million reservations, it seems as if they weren’t worth the paper they were written on. In Q1 of 2025, Tesla only managed to sell about 6400 Cybertrucks.
If you do the math, that’s about 25,000 by the end of the year, far short of the 250,000 that he projected. That’s also only the number if they don’t continue to experience problems, such as having the side panels fall off or the accelerator getting stuck to the floor.
This may lead you to wonder why Tesla Cybertrucks are not selling well. Considering the fact that it was a massively hyped vehicle that supposedly was at the forefront of EVs, it is now going the way of the Edsel. Even with financing that is rock-bottom, they just can’t move them off the lot.
It probably doesn’t help that the Cybertruck received some bad press after Elon Musk began to align himself with far-right movements worldwide, including the US and Germany. Many people are now referring to them as the ‘Swasticar’.
Add on top of that the global protests that had people defacing Teslas and Cybertrucks, and you really have a recipe for disaster. With a rollback in Cybertruck production and declining Tesla sales, it seems as if nobody is lining up to take one and drive it around town.
Now that Tesla is getting desperate to dump some of the inventory, they are going with a ‘cheaper’ rear wheel drive version in April. That ‘cheap’ truck will come with a price tag of $69,990.
Things are not looking good for Cybertrucks, and we will just have to watch it more carefully. They aren’t exactly ready to pull the plug yet, but they might have one foot in the grave.
