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points by HarHarVeryFunny 1 day ago | 0 comments

It was a refundable deposit (and small), so I wonder how many people were even that serious - no real commitment.

2019 USA annual car/pickup sales were ~17M. I find it very hard to believe that 10% (2M cybertruck pre-orders) of those purchasers were seriously interested in a cybertruck - it really is not a design made for mainstream tastes.

[–] alt227 1 day ago

If you owned a company and announced a product that 2 million people went and paid you $100 each for to preorder it, Im pretty sure you would think differently.

[–] HarHarVeryFunny 1 day ago

Not sure what you mean by that - I'm sure Tesla was happy to have the reservations (great publicity - maybe that was the point), but there is no indication they took the numbers seriously.