If we assume for a moment that Tesla’s recent sales declines are entirely due to faulty management, specifically caused by people with the job title “program manager,” then Tesla is well in its way to massive improvements. The Cybertruck program manager—who also managed the Model 3—just exited the company, followed just hours later by the Model Y program manager.

In the third quarter of this year, Tesla sold 5,385 Cybertrucks, a 63% drop from the same point in 2024 . According to an October story in Electrek , Musk’s companies SpaceX and xAI are buying up excess Cybertruck inventory. There was a recall last month of 63,000 Cybertrucks due to the headlights being too intense, and that came after the more notorious March recall of 46,000 Cybertrucks after an embarrassing mishap kept

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