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Roughly 5 Percent Of All Cybertrucks Are For Sale Online Right Now

jalopnik.com Roughly 5 Percent Of All Cybertrucks Are For Sale Online Right Now

There are either a lot of Cybertruck flippers out there, or people aren't happy with their electric pickup trucks

People apparently don’t like their stupid trucks.

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I wonder how expensive it would be to scrap pretty much everything but the battery and chassis and then build a decent vehicle around it. I'd rather have a smaller EV than that, but I bet the range would be pretty great on that with a lighter build that isn't fugly and stupid and prone to failures.

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- Very. It's a lot more complicated than just a battery, it's a complex management system that, despite the reputation of Tesla for manufacturing details and their CEO for...well, himself, is very impressive. You'd need to keep or reinvent most of that to avoid cell failures (and fire).
  
  If you're really serious about a small DIY EV, look into the kits that are available to modify existing ICEs into EVs. Not quite the power level, but they do work pretty well if you don't mind the complexity of the work in strip down and rebuild. And often times they do use used/refurbished Tesla batteries in their makeup.
  
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  I'm very excited about Edison Electric's work truck conversion kits. You keep the body of the truck and put a small diesel generator, a battery pack, and an axle with electric motors. So you can convert existing vehicles to be very efficient, and they claim 8,000 lb ft of torque. So instead of buying a brand new hybrid tow truck or whatever, you do a swap for half the cost and get all the benefits.
  
  And this is okay for /fuckcars because we all agree we'll still need work and delivery trucks.
  
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  If the EV conversion kits work with refurbished Tesla batteries, what makes it difficult to work with refurbished Cybertruck batteries?
  
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  Why not just keep all that hardware? At the end of the day, it all communicates over a CAN bus or equivalent, and there are a bunch of DIY projects to effectively communicate with the various ECUs. Thank god Tesla is yet to go the way of Apple in locking down hardware against “unauthorized” modifications. I think worst case is they cut you out of supercharging.
  
  I think the more challenging bit would be separating the battery from the vehicle. If it’s built anything like the “structural pack” in the Y, the only way to remove it is with a hacksaw.
  
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- The Rivian R1 exists, as well as a Hummer EV truck.
  
  Of the three if I had to get one, probably the Rivian right now. But they're all ridiculously oversized and I'd rather get something good for what I do, which is mostly city driving.
  
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  Doesn’t the Rivian have an upcoming smaller lineup of EVs? I’d be interested in those if they weren’t expensive.
  
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- You'd be better off with an Edison kit, a MustangE "crate motor", or pulling a Tesla transaxle out of a wreck and going from there.
  
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People like money

They're trying to flip them

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- Especially before the bubble pops. There are an extremely limited number of people who actually want one. And an even small group that will pay an inflated price.
  
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Is that a lot?
How does that compare to other vehicles that have been out the same amount of time?

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- Just for reference, Rivian has sold well over 20,0000 R1T pickup trucks since it went on sale a few years ago, and there are just 187 of those trucks for sale in the U.S. right now on Autotrader. That’s sort of high, but it’s a far more normal number for the Cybertruck’s chief competitor.
  
  From the article.
  
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What a fucking disaster. They should punt the Idiot that green lit this lemon of a product.

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- the Idiot that green lit this lemon of a product.
  
  That idiot’s name starts with “E” and ends with “lon Musk.”
  
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Apparently the next version price is supposed to drop significantly which means virtually all founders edition versions will be upside down financing-wise. Its not like the special badging crap is going to hold value.

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I wonder if it is just scalpers hoping to make money of scarcity

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Are these people all paying the $50,000 fine for selling to early?

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- I watched hoovies garage video and he said he is selling his because Tesla don't seem to be enforcing this
  
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- Maybe that's why the prices are so high?
  
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- Completely forgot about that.
  
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Get a deal on it now before the next recall!

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- My poop is scarce but nobody seems willing to buy
  
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  That's what marketing is for
  
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i wonder what part of the other 95% have already been sold at least once.

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- Very little.
  
  Even people in Bellevue and Kirkland, WA only started getting theirs delivered about 3 months ago, and about 90% I have seen since have been within the last week and a half to two weeks.
  
  I have only seen about 40 so far, and 15 of them are possibly the same person just in different parts of town.
  
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So 5% hopeful morons and 95% jaded realists?

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I'm sure there are some flippers but it seems inevitable that many people will be disappointed with what they get after buying it on hype without even seeing one in real life

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