Frederick Foley Rousseau

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@UnpluggedTesla I am no expert, but I trust that with some small design/manufacturing changes there could be cost optimizations for the CT. Optimus is the future maybe, but there is so much you can automate these days in manufacturing. Tesla’s good on that front but I would focus on this day 1

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@jeremyjudkins_ And lower the price by 15k also, so more people can afford it lol

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@Friendness62 @UnpluggedTesla Have you driven one? It’s simply amazing. Really responsive, insane acceleration, quietest interior, excellent sound system, cargo to spare, and never have a dent on your doors (got a door bumped into my car 1 week after delivery lol). Just way too expensive…

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@jeremyjudkins_ I am a day one reservation holder but never converted into buying as the price is way over what I was expecting/able to afford. In Canada the truck is 167000$ plus taxes it’s insane.

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@jeremyjudkins_ The thing that pisses me off is why they aren’t finding a way to bring the cost cheaper. Although polarizing, if that truck was sold at a 15% premium of lets say a Model Y, it would sell like hot cakes, at a volume competing the model Y I am sure (in USA and CANADA).

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@DriveTeslaca @elonmusk @OwenSparks Yep, simply find a way to produce cheaper and sell at a price about 10-15% over a model Y and it would sell like hot cakes.

[Orlando @OrlandoLorenzo]

Unpopular opinion!

To all Tesla fans and Cybertruck owners who are wholeheartedly defending Elon’s decision to discontinue the Cybertruck:

I’m a huge Tesla supporter, shareholder, and Cybertruck owner. My Cyberbeast is the best vehicle I’ve ever owned. I strongly believe in Tesla’s future, FSD, Optimus, and Cybercab. But that doesn’t mean I have to blindly agree with every decision Elon makes.

The argument that Tesla needs the Cybertruck production space and experienced workers to ramp up Cybercab production is understandable. But why are we pretending these are mutually exclusive goals?

Tesla has the land, capital, engineering talent, and manufacturing expertise to build additional production facilities. If the goal is eventually to produce 2 million Cybercabs annually, Tesla will need significantly more manufacturing capacity anyway.

But here’s what bothers me even more: Elon is effectively conceding America’s biggest vehicle segment, and one of its largest consumers of fossil fuels, to ICE manufacturers.

Think about that for a moment. Pickup trucks are deeply embedded in American culture and are essential working vehicles for millions of Americans. They aren’t going away because robotaxis become popular. If Tesla abandons this segment, Ford, GM, and Ram will happily continue selling millions of gasoline and diesel trucks.

How exactly does that advance Tesla’s mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy?

The Cybertruck was Tesla’s opportunity to disrupt one of the most profitable, fuel-consuming, and difficult-to-electrify segments of the American auto industry. Instead of improving the product, lowering costs, and expanding production, Tesla would be walking away from it entirely.

And please don’t tell me Tesla has no choice because it needs the factory space and workers for Cybercab. Tesla has built entire factories in record time. Surely a company capable of revolutionizing autonomous driving, robotics, and AI can figure out how to manufacture two different vehicles simultaneously.

Robotaxis will revolutionize transportation, but millions of Americans will still want to own their vehicles, especially pickup trucks.

Being a loyal Tesla supporter doesn’t mean defending every decision Elon makes. Sometimes loyalty means speaking up when you believe the company is making a serious mistake.

We should be demanding better decisions, not inventing excuses to justify questionable ones.

I support Elon and Tesla’s mission, but abandoning the pickup truck market to gasoline and diesel manufacturers while claiming to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy seems like a massive contradiction to me.

And I refuse to pretend otherwise just because Elon made the decision.

@elonmusk #Cybertruck

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@elonmusk @WR4NYGov As many people point out, just find a way to produce a CT cheaper, and sell it at a 15% premium of a Model Y. It will sell like hot cakes. The product, although polarizing, was never the problem. It was always the price.

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@SawyerMerritt If Tesla found a way to produce the CT cheaper and price it like +15% of a Model Y, then the CT would have been well above the 30b mark.

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@cybrtrkguy @elonmusk @Tesla @cybertruck Signed. That simply have to find a way to produce it 20-25% cheaper. If they can sell it for a +10-15% higher price than Model Y, it will become their second best seller, if not first.

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@elonmusk Find a way to produce it cheaper and sell it 20% less and it WILL sell like hot cakes. Product is awesome, but totally unnafordable for the real people.

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@elonmusk @SawyerMerritt @OwenSparks Find a way to produce it cheaper and sell it 20% less and it WILL sell like hot cakes. Product is awesome, but totally unnafordable for the real people.

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@EV_Agnostic @RJScaringe @Rivian , hope we can get a max pack on the R2 as this is REALLY bad. This and backrest not cooling is currently preventing me from converting my day-one (unveil) reservation into a purchase.

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@cyrildorsaz Will this be included for first deliveries to Canada? Day ONE reservation holder here….

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@TorsoReaper @3lectricBrawl I think your manners are failing at life ;)

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@TorsoReaper @3lectricBrawl The point is valid. FSD is an eternal payment. You never pay it fully, it’s never yours. This is bad as it compounds over time. If you don’t understand it, your problem. Lane keeping assit answers the need of most people. I have a M3, want a Y, but no autopilot is a no-go.

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@Tesla Can we have a lite FSD or the autopilot back (lane assist)? Willing to change my current tesla, but losing Autopilot is a NO-GO. And paying 100$/month jumping the car payment 15-20% upwards is a NO-GO also.

[Frederick Foley Rousseau @ffoleyr]

@elonmusk Can we have a lite FSD or the autopilot back (lane assist)? Willing to change my current tesla, but losing Autopilot is a NO-GO. And paying 100$/month jumping the car payment 15-20% upwards is a NO-GO also.