Tesla is Reportedly Stuck with $800M in Unsold Cybertrucks

And NO ONE wants them

As someone who grew up in a city Tesla destroyed, this news brought me an exceptional amount of joy. We’ve talked about the global Tesla protests and their Q1 earnings call disaster, but this takes the cake.

Boycotting and protesting is working, especially when it comes to Tesla. Let’s dive into the good news I’ve curated for you today and basque in the temporary joy of Elon Musk’s ongoing downfall!

Tesla is reportedly overflowing with Cybertrucks, and they now have more than 10,000 unsold units just sitting at dealerships, rotting away.

No one wants to drive them.

VIA CNBC

Although Elon claims that he’s selling 250,000 Cybertrucks yearly, the math isn’t mathing. Tesla barely scraped by with 6,400 sold Cybertrucks in Q1 of this year.

If they continue on the trajectory that they are on, they wont even sell 20,000 by end of 2025. Is this because of the multitude of recalls Cybertrucks have had, or the fact that no one wants to rep Elon Musk? Only time will tell. If you ask me, it goes a little deeper than that.

Branded as the “Swasticar” it’s now aligned with Germany and America’s far right movement. People across the world were setting Cybertrucks on fire. So why spend so much money, on a car that is getting regularly recalled, that will probably become vandalized anyways?

Tesla has had the worst sale numbers in Europe, to the point where it’s been unseen (up until now). In a desperate attempt of trying to get rid of more Cybertrucks, they dropped a cheaper version priced at about $70,000 in April that comes with less features. Doesn’t seem like that’s working either.

What was once celebrated as the future of electric trucks is now probably one of the biggest flops in its own niche. Looks like parking them in front of the Whitehouse isn’t a good marketing strategy after all!

As a person who grew up in Fremont, where Tesla set up shop at and manufactured cars in, I remember at one point in my life Tesla brought me joy. I was excited at the new opportunities, jobs, and economy I thought it would create.

Instead, they drove up the price of rent to the point where most of us got pushed out to the suburbs of the Bay Area. Cost of living skyrocketed, they hired people to work there from outside of our city, and the only jobs they gave us were the ones that barely paid a little over minimum wage on the factory line. Their factory has been riddled in lawsuits, including:

1. Environmental group filed a lawsuit against the Tesla Fremont factory, claiming that the company’s emissions have exposed residents and workers to harmful chemicals

2. Racial discrimination and harassment against the Black workers at its Fremont factory

3. OSHA fines for failing to protect workers from excessive heat with one fine cited as a “serious” violation

4. Lawsuit settlements related to racial discrimination, including a settlement that involved a group of about 6,000 Black workers

5. Tesla has been fined and sued for mishandling hazardous waste at its Fremont factory

So yeah, watching Elon’s downfall has been the sweetest delight of 2025 for me.

In many ways, Tesla’s unraveling feels like long-overdue accountability. For those of us who witnessed firsthand the broken promises behind the company’s false innovation narrative, this moment offers a rare sense of vindication.

The boycotts, protests, and public scrutiny are working… not just for show, but materially.

While Elon continues to play the victim or inflate his numbers, the cracks are showing. The Cybertruck graveyards, the global backlash, and the plummeting reputation all point to a reality Tesla can’t spin its way out of.

For the communities hurt, displaced, or disrespected in the process, this isn’t just about a failed product. It’s about justice.

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