This article was first published at Finansavisen.
Tesla has now begun to accept the exchange of cybertrucks, probably because of massive impairment, reports the electric car site Electrek, which believes the electric pickup has been a commercial flop.
Previously, the same website reported that Tesla has refused to receive cybertrucks in the exchange more than one year after the deliveries of the car started.
When Tesla started production and deliveries in late 2023, the car was significantly more expensive and with lower benefits than initially promised. At one point, Tesla boasted of having more than one million reservations for the car, but only 40,000 customers ended up converting the reservation to actual ordering. Now unsold cyberrucks are in stock for months, and Tesla has to offer big discounts to get rid of them, Electrek writes.
A Tesla Cyber Truck Foundation Series, which was sold new for $ 100,000, and has gone about 10,000 kilometers (6,211 miles), is now considered only $ 65,400 by Tesla.
This results in a loss of 34.6 per cent in just one year.
In comparison, pickups usually have a loss of value of around 20 percent after one year and 34 percent after about three to four years, the electric car website points out.
