Demand for the angular electric pickup has continued to falter in the first quarter, making room for a new king.
The Tesla Cybertruck has lost the top spot on the list of best-selling electric pickup trucks in the United States. After finishing 2024 as a best-seller, Tesla’s only pickup has fallen to second place in the first quarter of this year.
After the first three months, the Cybertruck had amassed 7,126 registrations. The Ford F-150 Lightning overtook it with 7,913 registrations, according to the most recent data from S&P Global Mobility. The Chevrolet Silverado EV finished the first quarter in third place, followed by the GMC Sierra EV, Rivian R1T and GMC Hummer EV.
Didn’t realize the Cybertruck was selling at all. In the last three years since it went on sale, I can count on one hand the amount of Cybertrucks I’ve seen in person.
I live near Sacramento and I see multiple of these shit piles daily. Never fails to make me laugh either. Can’t get over just how fucking dumb they look. The trucks look stupid too.
Shout out, Elk Grove resident here!
Auburn here but work in sac mostly
Come here to Texas. They are fucking everywhere.
Or Arizona
I see them annoyingly frequently in my part of Texas, although I guess my experience is skewed, because I live near their factory in Austin and I also travel for work.
The number of cars they’ve left rotting in the factory’s back yard grows day by day, though. Which warms my heart.
I live in texas. I see nazis driving their scheisswagens every day.
Before I left the US, I was seeing a good 2-3 per day
It was EVER? 🤔
It wasn’t then, sure. But it also isn’t now.
I had a Lightning. Loved the electric part. Hated the software. The Sync 4 system is crap. Constantly locking up or not connecting. The intellisense cruise sucked. It constantly misread signs. Bluecruise worked when it wanted. The instument cluster went blank for a while. These are all known and documented. They sync issue is not isolated to the lightning. My dad’s 2021 f150 has the same system with the same problems. Ford has said “a fix is expected next quarter” for years now. Not that i will ever own a tesla anything.
Is the lighting using Android Automotive yet? (not to be confused with Android auto)
I don’t know tbh. A search says they unveiled it for 2024. My lightning was a 2023.
Yeah, I think this vehicle is still Sync 4. Which, as I recall, is BlackBerry’s QNX operating system. (Yeah, I know.)
Ford is following Volvo and some other automakers and is migrating to Android Automotive because their existing OS is dog shit and is updated at a glacial pace.
No, despite Ford’s claims, I don’t expect it to until the next gen F150s across the board make the switch.
Totally agree. That’s how most auto manufacturers roll. OTA updates are for maps and really critical bugs that could get them sued.
If your head unit is constantly crashing while you pick a song, they’ll let that slide.
Insane it’s still the 2nd most sold in USA, when the Heil gestures were January 20th.
I bet many Americans don’t even care about it, the failing sales are as much a result of how flawed Tesla cars are, both by design and in manufacturing.Of course we don’t have the stupid Cybertruck in Europe, but here Tesla sales are down 50% compared to last year. While USA only has managed a measly 13%!
Not many in USA are willing to do a lot to protect democracy?! 🙄
77 million people voted for Trump.
I am not at all surprised people are buying cybertruck regardless of what shit Musk does.
First, I would like a Ford F-150 Lightning. I looked at one once but there’s no way I could afford it.
The other think I wanted to say is, GMC Hummer EV…? An EV Hummer? Really? Who is buying these? Someone who feels the need to take up as much space and use as many resources as possible but still wants to hang out with the cool kids who want to save the planet?
The electric Hummer is close to 100k starting price. Only people with fuck you money are going to buy it so it tracks.
Have you sat in a Lightning before? I liked a lot of aspects of it, but after sitting in one, it is HUGE. My guess is that it’s at least as big or bigger than the EV Hummer. I wish they had one that was in similar size to the F150 of the nineties.
No I haven’t, actually. I was stopped by the price-tag before I ever got near one. I didn’t realize they were that big.
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The Slate truck might be something you’re interested in, the reservation price is super low
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I see the Hummer EV once or twice each day I commute. When you spot it, other than it screaming that the owner is a huge douche, it gives you that “jesus, that’s a massive tank filling up that lane” feeling. The F150 does not. It looks like all the other large passenger trucks on the road. So, maybe the Ford is longer or something, but that Hummer is deffo bigger. And obscene. I do not like them.
They’re making the ranger, who knows when that will go electric though. I’ve been really happy with my Rivian, it’s an R1T and I only leased it because buying a Gen1 electric is insane but I think Rivian has what it takes to be a real contender and it is smaller than the lighting
Remember the whole off-grid and prepper movement people love EVs and have a good number of people where the environment is just not a priority.
I imagine people thinking they’re gonna be the king in a mad max apocalypse are buying those
I’m something of a prepper I suppose.
Preppers who buy vehicles specifically for doomsday are buying pre-catalytic converter trucks that guzzle fuel but have a reputation for reliability, ease of maintenance, and resistance to EMP events. There is a level of distrust for newer manufacture vehicles, which is not wholly unwarranted.
There’s some movement towards accepting ebikes and electric dirtbikes, though. You even see those in the Ukraine war.
Plus, it is still a ford. Hard pass.
Tesla’s always been more hype than actual good products
Can you imagine having your truck sell less units than the ugliest dumpster fire vehicle ever to exist?
It was never really a pickup.
Vivian and F150 lightning were both on the market before the shit-truck was. In several states, I’ve seen more Rivians than anything and that’s only because the lightning can be hard to spot.
The Ford F-150 Lightning overtook it with 7,913 registrations
It is ironic that it is the original American swasti-car who took over this generation’s swasti-car.
So, I get that Henry Ford was an awful raging antisemite, but calling the Ford F-150 a “swasticar” feels incredibly disingenuous.
Henry Ford had obviously descended into antisemitic conspiracy theories before issuing his first publications on the matter, but those publications first started in 1920, a year after handing over the Ford Motor Company to his son. By the time the original F series truck was introduced in 1948, Henry Ford had been dead for a year.
Compare this to Elon Musk actively being involved with the design and production of the Cyber truck and giving a Nazi salute (twice) on stage while actively trying to sell his dream truck.
Trying to call both the F-150 Lightning and the Cybertruck antisemitic feels like the equivalent of calling people protesting the genocide in Gaza antisemitic.
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