What is SpaceX doing with over 1,000 Cybertrucks?
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I believe they’re mostly using them as utility vehicles at the launch site in Boca Chica, Texas.
intercst
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Well, from your article,
It’s 1,279 registered to SpaceX in Q4 2025.
And:
It’s not entirely clear what Musk’s other companies are doing with the Cybertrucks, or why an artificial intelligence and social media company would acquire 50 of them.
Photos and videos have circulated online showing long rows of idle Cybertrucks on SpaceX property in Texas. The lead engineer for the pickup posted on social media in October that SpaceX was replacing gas-powered support vehicles with trucks. At least some are being used as security vehicles.
Anyway, I’m sure that these Cybertrucks were the best solution to SpaceX’s transport needs.
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Maybe they got a really good deal … after all, they know someone …
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You got to love a CEO who is that resourceful, to turn a dud into a money maker!
The Captain
I suspect if the markets found out that GM was stuffing the sales channel by force-selling cars to Delco AutoParts plants, OnStar execs, and GM Energy Units there would be headlines in every financial paper in the country.
At Westinghouse we were specifically proscribed from purchasing services from other Westinghouse Divisions, lest we have to report those activities to the (relevant) financial regulators at the time.
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SpaceX is not a division of Tesla. The common link is Elon Musk. Should SpaceX be forced to buy only from Tesla competitors?
The Captain
Fair enough, but I suspect if one company was required to purchase products of a separately owned company by the CEO, the investors in the first company might think he was paying himself or hyping sales in an inappropriate way.
To re-use my GM example: if Mary Barra required GM units to buy, oh I don’t know, skin care products or cleaning products or chain saws from a separate company she owned, even if they had no obvious use for them or could find a better solution but Mary insisted, would that be an appropriate use of the office?
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True enough. I was very unhappy with Tesla bailing out Solar City which stank of nepotism. For the time being, SpaceX being a privately held company, it’s up to the shareholders to decide.
The Captain
Of course, as Tesla, one assumes that Musk oversaw the design of CyberTruck to be an exceptionally useful vehicle as SpaceX one might recognize that utility for SpaceX needs. Nothing like “skin care products or cleaning products or chain saws”.
Most of the reports say there are dozens of the Cybertrucks just sitting around in SpaceX parking lots. With a shorter bed and less range than an ICE pickup, one has to wonder what those “special qualifications” might be that would justify spending twice the price for a lowly pickup truck.
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???
They purchased 1,279 Cybertrucks. Who is driving all these vehicles? There are only about 15,000 employees. Does a company with than many employees need their own fleet of over 1200 trucks?
Edit: And they purchased ALL of the them in the 4th quarter. They went from having no need to this massive need in just one quarter?
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But, obviously, with your perspective, you wouldn’t have designed the CyberTruck to be like it is … whereas Musk would.
And it seems that Tamhas has exactly spelled out the problem with the Cybertruck!
I think the original roadster and the Model S were very nice designs, but unfortunately it seems to have stopped there.
CT kinda grew on me somewhat pre-production as photos were released but then seeing how bad they look in person and on road makes it understandable why they haven’t done well. My personal opinion of course
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I don’t believe that for a second.
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The real question is what is what is he going to do with all those cybertaxis?
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I believe the thread title is slightly misaligned. It should read:
Insane Musk plans production rate for Cybertaxi.
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Which may mean you are lookin at it from your perspective, not his. Their use may not yet be apparent.
Certainly is odd that at no time during its development or launch, or for years after was this mentioned as a “good use”. And that it was only when sales cratered that they suddenly became a good idea. And that they are sitting around, unused in SpaceX parking lots.
Weird, that.
But maybe they will be good for driving around on Mars?
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Their use is apparent. The purchase of the cybertrucks was to help boost TSLA’s collapsing cybertruck sales numbers and TSLA’s collapsing earnings in general.
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