"For context, in 2024 - the first full year of the Cybertruck being on the market - Tesla sold around 39,000 of the notoriously unreliable pickups. That's a figure that isn't even in the same planet as CEO Elon Musk's up-front boast that the automaker would sell up to half a million of these every year. The year following, any hope that it would be a late-blooming success story went up in smoke like a wrecked EV."
"A pitiful tally of just 20,200 Cybertrucks were sold in all of 2025, and that shortfall of around 19,000 sales, representing a near 50 percent collapse, is the largest sales drop of an EV on sale in the US, according to InsideEV. (And that's without getting into how Musk reportedly sold Cybertrucks to his own companies to juice sales figures, so the real picture may be even worse.)"
"Still, the cratering sales didn't come out of nowhere. Earning a reputation for being unreliable rustbuckets, the Cybertruck has been recalled ten times for issues as serious and embarrassing as its accelerator pedal getting stuck in the down position and losing power while driving. Add to that the recalls for its stainless steel body panels flying off because they were held on with crummy glue - and another glue recall for its lightbar attachments, too -"
Cybertruck sales collapsed from roughly 39,000 units in 2024 to about 20,200 in 2025, marking nearly a 50% decline. The drop represented the largest year-over-year sales fall by volume for any EV in the U.S. Reliability issues and an accumulation of ten recalls damaged consumer confidence. Reported defects included accelerator pedals sticking, loss of power while driving, stainless-steel body panels detaching due to adhesive failures, and lightbar attachment glue problems. CEO projections of up to half a million annual sales were far above actual demand. Reported internal vehicle transfers may further exaggerate official sales figures.
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