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Third-quarter sales numbers for Tesla’s misbegotten Cybertruck are in, and it is definitely spooky season for tech titan Elon Musk, who moved only 5,385 of the hideous things between July 1 and Sept. 30, a drop of 63% over the same time period in 2024.
Sadly for Musk, this anemic quarter is a continuation of an already extremely sickly year for the hands-down world’s ugliest truck. For the whole of 2025, Tesla sold about 16,000 Cybertrucks, which is on track for about 20,000 for the year.
Recall, however, that this is the vehicle Musk boasted receiving 250,000 pre-orders for when it was announced in 2019. In 2023, he was telling shareholders he could sell as many as 500,000 per year.
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But the world’s richest man has a plan to fix things, and it involves selling all those Cybertrucks he’s got rotting away in abandoned mall parking lots to … himself.
Well, technically, to his other companies, but you get the drift.
Over this past weekend, xAI took delivery of several truckloads of Cybertrucks. It’s unclear whether those counted toward that pathetic third-quarter showing or whether this is intended to shore up flagging numbers for the fourth quarter. Either way, perhaps some business genius will explain why Musk’s artificial intelligence needs Cybertrucks. There don’t seem to be a lot of transportation needs while building out a gross tool to make hardcore AI porn more efficiently.