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One dead, seven injured as Cybertruck explodes outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas

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One dead, seven injured as Cybertruck explodes outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas The exploded Cybertruck outside Trump Hotel in Vegas on New Year’s Day. | Image: Alcides AntunesA Tesla Cybertruck exploded just outside of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday morning, law enforcement authorities have just confirmed. One person is dead inside the Cybertruck, and seven minor injuries have been reported…

The Verge 550 2025-01-02

Cybertruck Owner DIYs A $3,000 Repair For $25

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Cybertruck Owner DIYs A $3,000 Repair For $25 Denting your car sucks. It happens to everyone at some point or another, and it’s often more of an annoyance than a real pain — there are plenty of hacks for popping out your own dents. Yet, when a Cybertruck owner showed up to the service center with a dented door, Tesla wanted to charge $3,000 for the fix. The owner… Read more…

Jalopnik 559 2024-12-28

Tesla Cybertruck Owner Finds Grass Growing In His Truck’s Exterior Trim

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Tesla Cybertruck Owner Finds Grass Growing In His Truck’s Exterior Trim Earlier this week we rounded up some of the wildest Tesla Cybertruck stories from the year, and now we’ve got a late entry of another weird situation that’s seemingly due to the Cybertruck’s unique design. While fixing minor damage to their wheel arch trim, one Cybertruck owner discovered the truck’s rear air… Read more…

Jalopnik 726 2024-12-28

These Are A Few Of Our Favorite Cybertruck Fails In 2024

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These Are A Few Of Our Favorite Cybertruck Fails In 2024 It’s no secret that we here at Jalopnik have been critical of Elon Musk’s stainless steel middle finger to the automotive industry. In fact, we wrote over 60 Tesla Cybertruck blogs in its first year as a real car in the real world. Read more…

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Gifting This Levitating Cybertruck Model Lets Your Loved Ones Know You Actually Hate Them

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Gifting This Levitating Cybertruck Model Lets Your Loved Ones Know You Actually Hate Them It’s the season of giving, but not everyone in your life deserves a good present. Some people deserve to get crap, and that’s exactly what you can do by getting that very special someone a “Levitating Cybertruck” for Christmas this year. Man, Tesla really loves putting out shit like this rather than a well-built car. Read more…

Jalopnik 555 2024-12-17

NHTSA Investigating Fiery Tesla Cybertruck Crash That Killed Three

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NHTSA Investigating Fiery Tesla Cybertruck Crash That Killed Three The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into the deadly Tesla Cybertruck crash that happened in Northern California last week. It left three young college students dead and another in critical condition. Right now, the California Highway Patrol is leading the crash investigation. We’ll see how… Read more…

Jalopnik 1.1k 2024-12-06

Tesla Tells Cybertruck Workers To Stay Home

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Tesla Tells Cybertruck Workers To Stay Home It’s been just over a year since Tesla delivered its first Cybertrucks, and just a couple of months since reports said that basically everyone who wanted a Cybertruck already had one. Last month the company started trying to move unsold units by offering lease deals, and now we’re seeing the final stage of a car… Read more…

Jalopnik 527 2024-12-05

The UK’s First Cybertruck Is Doing About As Well As You’d Expect

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The UK’s First Cybertruck Is Doing About As Well As You’d Expect After almost a year terrorizing the streets of America, the Tesla Cybertruck has finally made it across the pond and into the hands of a buyer in the UK. The gargantuan truck has been let loose on the streets of Britain and the experience for its new owner has been far from plain sailing. Read more…

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Tesla Cybertruck Stainless Steel Gets Stained All To Hell In This Week’s News Roundup

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Tesla Cybertruck Stainless Steel Gets Stained All To Hell In This Week’s News Roundup After dealing with things like arrests over false complaints of rental thefts and a bad EV bet that’s seen a massive sale of a bunch of cheap Teslas, Hertz has another problem on its hands, at least at one of its locations. Workers at a Hertz in Syracuse, New York, abandoned their posts, resulting in customers… Read more…

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Cybertruck Values Have Cratered And Are Still Dropping

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Cybertruck Values Have Cratered And Are Still Dropping When the Tesla Cybertruck first launched, its earliest Foundation Series models cost $120,000. This didn’t stop Tesla loyalists from spending up to nearly double that to get their hands on one, and resale values have shown the folly of that approach: Cybertruck values are dropping far and dropping fast. Read more…

Jalopnik 1.0k 2024-11-22

Tesla Cybertruck Owners Discover New Weakness: Magnets

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Tesla Cybertruck Owners Discover New Weakness: Magnets There are many, many reasons why you shouldn’t buy a Tesla Cybertruck, but even if you don’t have a problem giving your money to its bigoted CEO, there’s also no getting around the fact that it just isn’t a good vehicle. Heck, even if you don’t mind the recalls, we’ve also seen them get bricked in a car wash, send… Read more…

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Tesla Scraps Factory Paint Protection Wrap For Its Unpainted Cybertruck

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Tesla Scraps Factory Paint Protection Wrap For Its Unpainted Cybertruck Tesla reportedly scrapped its factory wrapping service for the Cybertruck after less than a year on sale this week. The wrapping service, which is designed to protect paintwork on cars from chips or rust that might be picked up in daily drives, has been removed from the Tesla site after being sold out since January. Read more…

Jalopnik 1.1k 2024-11-20

Are You A Cybertruck Owner With A Degradation Kink? We Want To Hear From You

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Are You A Cybertruck Owner With A Degradation Kink? We Want To Hear From You The Tesla Cybertruck has had a rough launch. It’s had six recalls already, it gets damaged by stickers, and it’s become a laughingstock nationwide. On TikTok, in the news, Cybertruck owners are ridiculed at every turn. It raises the question: Is that why you bought one? If so, we want to talk. Read more…

Jalopnik 1.0k 2024-11-17

Tesla Cybertruck Recalled For Sixth Time Since Launch

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Tesla Cybertruck Recalled For Sixth Time Since Launch The Tesla Cybertruck is not a good truck or even a good vehicle. Children point and laugh when they see it. Women leave their husbands and take the children when one shows up in their driveway. Friends stop talking to friends who think they’re cool. It’s the incEl Camino through and through, almost like it was… Read more…

Jalopnik 890 2024-11-14

Tesla Cybertruck hit with sixth recall this year, this time over a bad inverter

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Tesla Cybertruck hit with sixth recall this year, this time over a bad inverter Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesThe Tesla Cybertruck was recalled for the sixth time this year — and the fix won’t involve an easy software update. Tesla voluntarily issued a recall for approximately 2,431 Cybertrucks manufactured between November 6, 2023 and July 30, 2024. The issue is related to something called the metal-oxide-…

The Verge 376 2024-11-14

Rudy Giuliani’s Mercedes And Tesla Cybertruck Cosplay In This Week’s News Roundup

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Rudy Giuliani’s Mercedes And Tesla Cybertruck Cosplay In This Week’s News Roundup Hertz is in a heap of public relations trouble once again as a location manager threatened to have a customer arrested if he didn’t pay a $10,000 mileage overage charge for driving 25,000 miles in one month. That’s a ton of miles for a car to rack up in one month, basically doing around 1,000 miles per business day.… Read more…

Jalopnik 396 2024-11-10

Dually Cybertruck Mod Is Just Heavy Duty Truck Cosplay

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Dually Cybertruck Mod Is Just Heavy Duty Truck Cosplay For many, the telltale sign of a heavy-duty truck is a set of dual wheels mounted on the rear axle. Truck customizer Red’s Miami unveiled a unique dually Tesla Cybertruck. While I’m under no impression that Red’s produces shotty work, this project is the off-road equivalent of putting a time machine in a DeLorean.… Read more…

Jalopnik 1.2k 2024-11-08

Tesla Cybertruck Lead Engineer: ‘The 11,000lb Tow Rating Isn’t Absolute’

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Tesla Cybertruck Lead Engineer: ‘The 11,000lb Tow Rating Isn’t Absolute’ Tesla has faced a lot of criticism over the Cybertruck due to it being a rolling disaster with a list of issues so long, it’s hard for even people trying to pay attention to keep up. Aside from the five recalls, the most infamous issue with the Cybertruck has to be when YouTuber WhistlinDiesel tried to pull out a… Read more…

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