Gmc Hummer Ev Outsold The Tesla Cybertruck Last Quarter

Sales of Tesla’s Cybertruck person plummeted from their highest past year, to nan constituent that nan hulking (and expensive) GMC Hummer EV outsold nan polarizing steel-clad curiosity successful nan 2nd quarter.

Tesla sold conscionable 4,306 Cybertrucks successful nan 2nd quarter, conscionable awkward of nan 4,508 Hummers that GMC moved successful nan aforesaid period, according to new information from Cox Automotive.

Both were hit by Ford’s F-150 Lightning, which erstwhile again became nan best-selling electrical motortruck successful nan U.S. successful nan first quarter, beating retired nan Cybertruck. But moreover Ford’s offering is struggling; nan 5,842 Lightnings sold successful Q2 was nan lowest quarterly full for nan institution successful complete a year.

To beryllium fair, nan GMC Hummer tally includes income of some nan pickup motortruck and its SUV variant, though location is very small that differentiates nan two. Put different way, nan SUV type of nan Hummer EV still much intimately resembles a motortruck than it does a emblematic athletics inferior vehicle.

Rivian has besides been struggling pinch its ain electrical truck, nan R1T. The institution sold conscionable 1,752 of them past quarter, down from 3,309 successful nan aforesaid play past year.

But nan Cybertruck has had nan biggest autumn from grace by far. After handing complete nan first fewer units successful December 2023, nan institution started trading them successful earnest successful early 2024. Sales changeable up to a precocious of astir 17,000 successful nan 3rd 4th of 2024, but fell conscionable arsenic quickly, arsenic seen successful nan floor plan above.

Whether that autumn was owed to nan marque harm wrought by Elon Musk and his engagement pinch nan Trump administration, aliases nan truth that nan Cybertruck is still acold much costly than nan $40,000 value tag Tesla promised erstwhile it revealed nan EV successful 2019, is difficult to say.

The company, astatine 1 point, predicted it would beryllium making arsenic galore arsenic 250,000 Cybertrucks a year, and now has a tremendous magnitude of unused capacity astatine its Texas mill arsenic a result.

As Musk once said astir nan shiny EV: “we dug our ain sedate pinch Cybertruck.”