Farewell to Elon Musk’s Cybertruck. Has any car ever been more repellent? | Arwa Mahdawi
Musk’s beloved Cybertruck, the steel monstrosity that looks as if it were designed by a five-year-old, is winding down production.
Key points
- Goodbye to a steel monstrosity seemingly designed by a five-year-old Elon Musk is having a rough go of it, isn’t he?
- According to Musk, this isn’t because it’s an abject failure, but because he is channelling his energy into other things.
- He also finds himself the subject of an unflattering documentary and, if the Democrats follow through on threats to investigate him, could potentially be in a spot of legal bother.
“But rather that the opportunity cost of the complexity of Cybertruck is vastly outweighed by the value of incremental Cybercab production.” (The Cybercab is a two-passenger robotaxi.) Continue reading...
“This is not a case of Cybertruck being unprofitable, as has been misreported by legacy media,” Musk tweeted on Monday.
Additional details
- The world’s richest man spent almost half a billion dollars on the midterms in a failed attempt to defend Republican control of government.
- Now the tech mogul, who moved from California to Texas to escape Democrats and regulations, finds himself in a newly blue state.
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