CONFIRMED! Do You Believe It? Tesla's Elon Musk Says THIS Many Deposits Have Been Placed For The Cybertruck...

Since Thursday's Tesla event, it's safe to say that the all-new Cybertruck has taken the world by storm.

Partially it's due to the failure of the "armor" glass. Partially it's due to the vehicle's extreme styling. Partially it's just due to it being a Tesla.

All I know is I've been receiving more calls and texts since Thursday. Some expressing interest, others making jokes and others saying they're disgusted.

Long story short, it's amounted to 146,000 deposits for the Tesla Cybertruck.

Say what you will, that's a hefty number. And we're only two days in, Spies.

...Some Wall Street analysts were critical of the truck’s extreme style, while others speculated that the design could be a primary selling point for Tesla.

Tesla shares fell 6.1% in Friday trading to close at $333.04.

“The shattering of the truck’s unbreakable glass windows during the live demonstration was not a good start,” Deutsche Bank said in a note...

146k Cybertruck orders so far, with 42% choosing dual, 41% tri & 17% single motor

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 23, 2019

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Section_31_JTK - 11/23/2019 8:19:45 PM

+8 Boost

"A fool and his money are soon parted".

SanJoseDriver - 11/23/2019 8:51:43 PM

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I caved a couple hours ago and put a deposit for the triple motor 500-mile version. I don't even think it will fit in my garage. I'll have 3 years to decide whether to go through with it =)

mre30 - 11/24/2019 6:52:54 AM

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You probably have 5 years to see if it fits in your garage (Tesla usually misses deadlines by years).

SanJoseDriver - 11/24/2019 9:02:16 PM

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You could be right. If they had a slightly smaller version that would be perfect for me. Hoping they will announce something in the next 3-x years before my reservation comes up.

MDarringer - 11/23/2019 9:31:22 PM

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This is just more bullshit like the 500K fake orders for the Model 3.

valhallakey - 11/23/2019 10:57:56 PM

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I had heard a little over 300k just prior to the rollout? Where did the 500k come from? I had heard statements that they were expecting about 500k orders per year once production issues were sorted.

MDarringer - 11/24/2019 9:34:08 AM

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Stunningly you missed the point.

Truthy - 11/25/2019 8:42:57 AM

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Yea, that 146,000 number in totally unbelievable. Plus, there is no way that piece if scrappy origami is the finished product.

SanJoseDriver - 11/25/2019 10:38:10 PM

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200k

skytop - 11/23/2019 11:30:52 PM

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More Musk fantasies for sure. Above all, truck people are practical and the Muskmobile truck is anything but.

SanJoseDriver - 11/24/2019 9:03:54 PM

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It's fast, it has lots of range, seats 6, great towing capacity, 6.5 foot covered bed (and the way the cover works is slick), relatively inexpensive. Sounds pretty practical to me.

Truthy - 11/25/2019 10:57:18 AM

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Yea, above all, pickup truck users want fast (!?!). The bed is impractical. Plus, no tie-downs, the angled sides will be an issue for most. Other pickups seat six comfortably and the range will evaporate with a load in the bed. And SanJose, what is practical about the view (or lack thereof) out the front of this stainless steel oven?

SanJoseDriver - 11/25/2019 10:39:07 PM

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Tie downs along the entire bed on both sides. Pretty clever how they did it.

SanJoseDriver - 11/26/2019 11:49:09 PM

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The tie downs are one of the points here:

https://www.teslarati.com/top-10-tesla-cybertruck-hidden-features-you-may-have-missed/

Along with two hidden compartments on the sail pillars.

snowboard7 - 11/24/2019 1:03:02 AM

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Another you get down and you do it, but never happening... Anyone putting a deposit on this is an idiot.

PUGPROUD - 11/24/2019 6:01:53 AM

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This is the exact type of statement that the SEC needs to step in and verify. If accurate it establishes some credibility for Musk. If not the penalty should be extremely sever.

Agent00R - 11/24/2019 9:47:32 AM

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Exactly!

jeffgall - 11/24/2019 8:45:56 AM

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I believe there are 146k idiots in the U.S. that have $100 laying around.

SV8t - 11/24/2019 9:15:01 AM

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A lot of stone age people still thinks hammer will be a failure

MDarringer - 11/24/2019 9:34:34 AM

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The F150E will be the future. This isn't the future.

jeffgall - 11/24/2019 8:01:26 PM

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I do t have a problem with electric vehicles. But I do have a problem with poor engineering, low quality and low utility design.

SanJoseDriver - 11/24/2019 9:04:24 PM

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180k+

SanJoseDriver - 11/24/2019 10:39:11 PM

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200k+

Truthy - 11/25/2019 11:02:04 AM

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Elon will have to provide trustworthy documentation to back up his pre-order claim. He has not done so yet. The stock is rising slightly from the 10 percent cliff it drove off Friday after the unveiling. Musk is citing these numbers again to goose up the stock price.

greGARYous1 - 11/24/2019 2:48:14 PM

+6 Boost

LIES... ALL LIES... NFW!!!
With soooo much negative reaction.. Another Big Lie from Elon.. Full of shit!

Ccoxx - 11/24/2019 6:16:45 PM

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Another false headline from Elon to distance himself from the truth = he lost $768 million in net worth after the Cyber Truck fiasco.

carloslassiter - 11/24/2019 7:14:03 PM

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"he lost $768 million in net worth after the Cyber Truck fiasco"
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Please - the stock changes daily and breathlessly announcing this like it matters is ridiculous.

As for the truck, this looks like somewhere between a clay model and a first draft concept. Zero chance this is delivered in 2021. Maybe 2025.

SanJoseDriver - 11/24/2019 10:41:16 PM

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I dunno, they simplified the heck out of this. Stainless steel means no painting, which means no paint shop at all. They can also bend these pieces by hand if needed with almost no automation. Two years MIGHT be doable.

Truthy - 11/25/2019 11:05:54 AM

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Stupid response. The 10 percent stock drop is significant in that it is a measure of how disappointed investors are in this abomination. Saying that stock prices go up and down is brushing off the first true metric of expectations.
CybeJunk is a failure to date.

MDarringer - 11/25/2019 9:14:12 AM

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This is a failure. There were a billion pre-orders for the Model 3.

Truthy - 11/25/2019 5:20:52 PM

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Different only works if it is better. This is not better.

SanJoseDriver - 11/25/2019 10:40:23 PM

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I wouldn't be so sure about that

carloslassiter - 11/26/2019 12:46:18 PM

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It may be weird. And dumb. And ugly. And impractical. And it may not actually ever come to market.

But as a car/truck guy, I like it when a company at least tries something different and innovative, and frankly a lot of the other stuff Tesla has done through the years and which was heavily criticized here now seems to be being adopted by other companies. So who the heck knows.

SanJoseDriver - 11/26/2019 11:49:44 PM

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Have you seen the interior of the Model E?

SanJoseDriver - 11/26/2019 11:49:56 PM

-5 Boost

::cough:: Mach E