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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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-…

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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…

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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…

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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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Cybertruck Driver Uses Giant Truck To Ram Package Thief’s Car Into Tree

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Cybertruck Driver Uses Giant Truck To Ram Package Thief’s Car Into Tree More than 1.7 million packages go missing in America every day, whether they get lost in transit or are swiped from your stoop while you’re out and about. Not wanting to add to that stat, a Tesla Cybertruck driver chased after a porch pirate who allegedly swiped one of their packages, forcing them off the road and… Read more…

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YouTuber’s Tesla Cybertruck Thoughts After 13,000 Miles: ‘Parts Should Not Be Falling Off While Driving’

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YouTuber’s Tesla Cybertruck Thoughts After 13,000 Miles: ‘Parts Should Not Be Falling Off While Driving’ Oh, the Tesla Cybertruck. It’s somehow the most popular six-figure car on the market and also such garbage that you could kill it with a simple car wash. That makes it the perfect choice for YouTubers to take to Moab or shoot to see how bulletproof it really is. After eight months, YouTuber JerryRigEverything has put… Read more…

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Tesla’s Cybertruck range extender just became an even worse deal

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Tesla’s Cybertruck range extender just became an even worse deal Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeTesla has delayed the release of its range extender for the Cybertruck and downgraded the amount of mileage it will add for the dual-motor version of the truck, as noticed by Electrek. The reduced range and delay are just more ways that the Cybertruck, which saw some big changes from when it was first a…

The Verge 1.1k 2024-10-22

Repairing A Totalled Cybertruck Is Much More Trouble Than It’s Worth

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Repairing A Totalled Cybertruck Is Much More Trouble Than It’s Worth The Tesla Cybertruck has only been terrorizing America’s roads for a little over six months, but someone has already managed to get their massive electric pickup truck totalled. A plucky engineer bought the wrecked monstrosity and is attempting to bring it back to life, but it doesn’t sound like a fun task at all. Read more…

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Police Department In Southern California Wants To Be The First to Have A Cybertruck

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Police Department In Southern California Wants To Be The First to Have A Cybertruck The Anaheim Police Department inquired about how to get a Tesla Cybertruck for its fleet before any other police department as early as February, recently leaked emails show. That’s despite the $100,000 truck likely serving no law enforcement purposes whatsoever. Read more…

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Tesla Cybertruck Ice Cream Truck Vandalized By Ohio Woman

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Tesla Cybertruck Ice Cream Truck Vandalized By Ohio Woman As it turns out, the Tesla Cybertruck isn’t completely useless. It can, apparently, be used as an ice cream truck that attracts bizarre vandals with questionable motives. At least that’s what happened to a Cybertruck owned by a man in Bellbrook, Ohio. A random woman vandalized his 2024 Cybertruck, and thus his ice… Read more…

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Redesigned Cybertruck Wheel Covers Fix The Problem Tesla Made For Itself

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Redesigned Cybertruck Wheel Covers Fix The Problem Tesla Made For Itself It has been about six months since Tesla’s Cybertruck made headlines for its unique aerodynamic wheel covers. The wheel covers eventually caused a stop-sale because they gradually ground holes in the tire’s sidewalls every single time the tire rotated. Now though, some Cybertruck owners have reported receiving… Read more…

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Cybertruck’s Sharp Doors Just Sent A Passenger To The ER For Stitches

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Cybertruck’s Sharp Doors Just Sent A Passenger To The ER For Stitches Tesla’s Cybertruck is not only a scourge on society with its awful looks and poor truck performance, it’s also out for blood. After the truck was found to be slicing legs with its super sharp edges, a Cybertruck passenger has now been left in need of emergency care after slashing their hand while trying to open the… Read more…

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