Tesla has reportedly halted deliveries of the highly anticipated Cybertruck. Although Tesla has yet to confirm the reports, news of the delivery stoppage made its way to social media, linking the stoppage to an issue with the Cybertruck’s accelerator pedal. The potential delivery stoppage casts yet another shadow over the Cybertruck rollout, which began late in 2023 more than four years after the vehicle was unveiled, while adding to already significant headwinds for the EV producer.
Tesla influencer Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) took to X to acknowledge the delivery stoppage, tying it to an accelerator pedal issue. Tesla customers have also posted to online forums in reporting recent delivery delays and cancellations. Some Cybertruck owners report a sticking accelerator pedal.
Tesla has stopped all Cybertruck deliveries for 7 days due to an issue with the accelerator pedal
— Whole Mars Catalog (Supervised) (@WholeMarsBlog) April 13, 2024
The potential delivery stoppage follows further issues related to a significant number of initial Cybertruck deliveries requiring service soon after delivery, some after just a scant number of miles traveled.
Recent news suggests an overarching shift in Tesla’s operational tempo. Business Insider references an internal memo that signals production workers at the company’s Austin factory will work shortened shifts. Tesla has also announced impending job cuts, with more than 10 percent of the automaker’s global workforce expected to be laid off. Tesla has also slowed production at its Shanghai facility, while a ramp up in production of the updated “Highland” Model 3 at Tesla’s Fremont plant has been delayed.
In the wake of these headwinds and declining demand for new all-electric vehicles, Tesla has cut pricing for its Supervised Full Self-Driving subscription from $199 a month to $99 a month. Tesla has also cut pricing for the Model Y, a rival for the Chevy Blazer EV, and reports indicate Tesla has scrapped plans to produce a new low-cost electric vehicle – the so-called Model 2 – to focus on self-driving robotaxis instead.
Amidst the Tesla tumult, GM is gearing up with updates and affordable offerings in its electric vehicle lineup, including the next-generation Chevy Bolt EV and the Buick Electra E4 in China.
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Bummer Elon. When it rains it pours. Hope you have an umbrella.
Silverado EV rival? Hardly.
Cybertruck is at least $10K more expensive, but it barely functions as a truck with its tiny bed.
You know the cybertruck starts 57K right? Silverado starts at 95k
The hole thing is a joke! Make sure it’s running right before you try selling it. By the way it looks ugly to.
Cyber Truck looks so bad that holywood is buying em to show off.
It should be halted on eye pollution too well at least when they aren’t sitting rusting away
Stainless steel doesn’t rust.
Rust isn’t an issue so stop the FUD. At least Tesla has thousands to deliver where GM has made how many Silverado EV’s?
I think the Silverado EV ROCKS but how many will be on dealer lots with incentives to purchase? Silverado EV is he answer for an EV can’t do truck things. The Silverado can do most truck things hats off to you GM for making this truck. For me, I want a Maverick sized EV truck that can do Maverick sized truck things that can tow hundreds of miles. GM, ya listening?
Watch you don’t go any further than those hundred miles or you will be sitting on the side of the road with a dead EV truck. No where to charge it .
No where? You live under in a cave. There are thousands of chargers and yes you can even charge at home for tiny amount and never have to see the gas station again. Love paying Saudi princess do ya?
Your home charger will take DAYS to charge your truck. They don’t have home superchargers. How long can you own that EV truck before it needs a new battery and at what cost. A lot more than that truck will be worth in ten years which is how long many owners plan on keeping a vehicle these days.
How many miles do you drive in a day? A 220V home charger can put back plenty of miles overnight. If you are driving 400 miles a day or using all the charge up every day you are right it will take a special home charger to fill that tank up.
>>How long can you own that EV truck before it needs a new battery<< about 200 to 300K miles or when the truck is spent. Then the battery will be recycled because its worth money. If you just want to swap batteries prices have been falling dramatically every few years as more battery plants come on line to meat production demand and initial costs have been reduced. So.. Less than you think in a few years time.
Where do you get the numbers for the life of a battery? They are only guaranteed for 100K miles. Do you drive 2-300 miles on a weekend? If you just drive around town for 20-30 miles you don’t need a truck for the cost of a full size pickup. just get a throw away Bolt.
Current studies on EV’s show the battery degradation is less than they thought and several EV’s have gone well over 200K. Like any machine, some don’t do as well, but a larger percentage does. There are EV’s with over 500K miles on them, doesn’t always happen but it does happen. Many are going to last into 300K before something major gives up, they still have axles and motors etc. You want to research look up high mileage EV’s on google.
It’s a truck. Bring a generator along! 👍
Same as the agricultural industry getting pushed into electric, and literally looking at having to use diesel generators to charge the emissions-free equipment. Not many EV chargers in the middle of corn fields….
Drive more than few hundred miles in those corn fields do ya? That is one big farm. Fact is you should not need a charger on a normal basis. Maybe in some edge case.
I don’t see how GM can sell two assembly plant’s worth of a truck that for now hasn’t broken 4 digits in quarterly sales. Then again gm, as it has been since the Roger Smith era, has been about two or three years late to current trends.
Saw one up close and personal in a parking lot last week.
Pictures don’t do it justice – it’s much uglier in person. Much.