Tesla Cybertruck fails to spice up 2024 gross sales as annual deliveries fall for first time | TechCrunch

Tesla delivered fewer automobiles final yr than it did in 2023, marking its first year-to-year drop and signaling that the corporate is struggling to achieve new patrons. Which means Tesla’s Cybertruck, which is the corporate’s first true new mannequin since 2020, did little to spice up the corporate’s progress in its first full yr of gross sales.

The corporate introduced Thursday it delivered 1.77 million automobiles globally in 2024, down 2.2% from 1.81 million in 2023. Simply 85,133 of these automobiles delivered have been what Tesla refers to as “different fashions,” which incorporates the getting older Mannequin S sedan, Mannequin X SUV, and the Cybertruck. Tesla’s inventory, which has been on a run since CEO Elon Musk helped Donald Trump win re-election in November, dropped about 5.4% as of 10:20 a.m. ET.

The drop in deliveries is a stark change for Tesla and Musk, which spent years selling the purpose of a 50% annual progress price. The corporate already began to overlook that mark over the previous few years — even with huge, unrelenting value cuts. The drop in 2024 is the primary time annual gross sales truly declined since Tesla began delivering its first mass-market automotive, the Mannequin S, in 2012.

Tesla warned buyers originally of final yr that progress could also be “notably decrease” in 2024, and claimed it was an organization in between “two main progress waves.” In April, Tesla laid off greater than 10% of its workforce in a restructuring that was meant to re-focus on Musk’s long-promised concept of constructing a fully-functioning robotaxi.

On the similar time, Tesla deserted plans to make a $25,000 electrical automobile. The one different new automobiles it has within the near-term pipeline are mysterious fashions the corporate says shall be constructed on current manufacturing traces. They’re anticipated to be cheaper than Tesla’s present choices (which begin within the low $40,000 vary), although it’s not clear by how a lot.