Elon Musk Reportedly Utilizing SpaceX Orders To Increase The Cybertruck’s Dismal Gross sales

When the Cybertruck first went on saleTesla CEO Elon Musk claimed that by 2025, the corporate could be promoting 250,000 incEl Caminos a yr. The one drawback is, it is at the moment the top of 2025, and Tesla hasn’t offered wherever near that quantity. Final we heard, there have been solely about 63,000 Cybertrucks in existencewith Q3 2025 gross sales sitting round 5,400. Seems, there are solely so many extraordinarily divorced males within the nation who can afford (and need) an $80,000 electrical truck that appears like a dumpster. However don’t fret, Electrek experiences Tesla’s steadiness sheet has a savior: Elon’s different firm, SpaceX.

If this all sounds acquainted, that is as a result of Electrek reported one thing related a number of months in the past. On the time, although, it stated SpaceX had taken supply of “lots of if not 1000’s” of Cybertrucks, which is a fairly wide selection. Quick ahead to as we speak, and “a supply accustomed to the matter” has now instructed Electrek that SpaceX has purchased greater than 1,000 Cybertrucks and will ultimately find yourself with a fleet of greater than 2,000. Performing some fast math and assuming SpaceX solely purchased the bottom model, that is greater than $80 million in gross sales from SpaceX alone. Doubling that will be about $160 million.

Some would say it is unethical for the CEO of 1 firm to order a second firm to prop up the primary firm’s gross sales with pointless orders, however keep in mind, that is Elon Musk we’re speaking about. Nothing about his actions over the previous a number of yearsand actually, your entire time he is been at Tesla, suggests he cares one bit about ethics. Additionally, he is made positive SpaceX is stocked with sufficient loyalists that nobody goes to push again when he tells them to do one thing. Particularly since this scheme would not seem like unlawful.

It additionally says quite a bit about how horrible Cybertruck gross sales are for Musk to make use of SpaceX to juice end-of-year gross sales figures by, at most, 2,000 items. He was speculated to be promoting 250,000 of them a yr, not (perhaps) 20,000. SpaceX’s fleet of Cybertrucks in all probability did assist filter some extra stock that will have been sitting on the steadiness sheet, however past that, it is not doing a lot. It isn’t like there’s that a lot of a distinction in promoting 21,000 Cybertrucks in a yr as a substitute of 19,000. It is nonetheless a complete flop.

Plus, whereas we’re at it, why does Elon care about Cybertruck gross sales within the first place? He already instructed us Tesla is now an AI and robotics firm that may clear up autonomy and shortly promote a humanoid robotic to each single particular person on earth. He already instructed traders who consider Tesla as a automotive firm to promote their shares. Ought to he not simply be centered on the robotic that is supposedly going to show Tesla right into a $5 trillion firm? Cybertruck gross sales are desk stakes right here, particularly when Tesla’s traders clearly do not care concerning the automotive enterprise both.

Is it potential Elon may need exaggerated his claims that true, camera-only autonomy is simply across the nook and that his robots are nearly prepared to switch human staff? No, that may’t be proper. Elon? Stretch the reality? I simply cannot imagine it.