Good riddance, Cybertruck!

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Tesla plans to wind down Cybertruck production next year and shift capacity toward its Cybercab, according to Elon Musk. The article reflects on the retreat from a vehicle once promoted as a flagship expression of Tesla’s engineering and design ambitions.

I'm calling it: time of death, November 6th, 1:30 AM, by tweet. Elon Musk's declaration Friday that Tesla would be "winding down" production of the Cybertruck next year to make room for the Cybercab was fascinating for a number of reasons. First, it was a humiliating way to kill a vehicle that was once hailed as the pinnacle of Tesla's engineering - faster than a Porsche 911, more powerful than an F-150, able to leap over the Model Y as a singular representation of Musk's Blade Runner-inspired designs for the future. "I think the Tesla Cybertruck is our best product ever," he declared during a 2019 earnings call. (He prefaced the statement … Read the full story at The Verge.