Ford (New York Stock Exchange code: f) Investors have a lot of negative news recently to digest. 2024 is a bumpy journey. Ford must respond to higher warranty costs, advanced electric vehicles to occupy the Chinese market and the challenges of the same city competitors. Universal car Seemingly flourishing and seizing every opportunity to guide.
But investors may have good news worthy of attention: Ford F-150 Lightning competition seems to be slowing down.
See at the first glance TeslaThe F-150 competitor Cyber Truck was well received by critics and fans. Its unique design aims to take over the sales of F-150 nameplates with a long history and dominant Ford. This is an interesting scene, because bystanders want to know if the dominant position in the history of Detroit trucks will penetrate into the electric vehicle nameplate, or when it comes to electric trucks, will the consumer loyalty of traditional gasoline trucks weaken?
Although this answer takes time to fully answer, as far as the number is concerned, the result is half ginseng, but in terms of critics, there is nothing to say.
"I think Cyber Truck can now be officially regarded as a failure," said Karl Brauer. " Car newsEssence "Remember, this will be Tesla's F-150. The Tesla brand's new benchmark and basic models to maintain its super powerful, super profit and high output."
The attitude of other analysts is even more severe, Bernstein Analyst said that Cyber Truck was "half -body": "We emphasize that Cyber Truck is a huge strategic misunderstanding and opportunity cost of Tesla, because it has spent 4 years to develop and inevitably inevitably inevitably Moved people's attention to low -cost products, and Tesla is now in despair. "According to Yahoo, chief car analyst Toni Sacconaghi wrote: finance.
Despite harsh words and fierce criticism, Cyber Truck eventually became the fifth largest most popular electric vehicle in the US market, with a sales of nearly 39,000 units. This result is enough to make the Ford F-150 Lightning. It jumps sixth in sales slightly higher than 33,500 units. This is enough to promote RivianR1T sales are slightly lower than 11,100 units, ranking among the top 10.
Although Cyber Truck successfully surpassed the F-150 Lightning in sales, there are some subtle signs that the demand for Tesla's unique products is weakening. According to CNBC, Tesla started discounts on the new Cyber Truck. According to the decoration level, the discount was $ 1,600, and the low -milemoic demonstration version of the maximum discount was 2,600 US dollars.
There are other signals that demand is not as strong as investors' hope. Tesla launched a Cyber Truck lease plan, hoping to pass on some electric vehicle federal tax credits to the rental vehicle (these vehicles do not have the same income and the recommended retail price limit) to obtain a total tax of $ 7,500 waived.
According to reports, last October Business inside, Factory workers were sent home or undertake additional cleaning tasks to fill the scheduled working hours. It is said that Tesla also asked the workers of the Cyber Truck production line for a few days in early December.
For Ford and Rivian investors, these preliminary results and weakened early rumors are a good sign for their respective products to maintain competitiveness in electric truck sales. Especially Ford, the fear of the unique design of Cyber Truck is not as expected by some people.
However, for Tesla investors, this pessimistic mood may be exaggerated to some extent. Even though Cyber Truck failed to achieve high expectations and early speculation, Tesla itself still dominated, although its global sales slowed in 2024. In fact, the sales of Tesla Model Y and Model 3 reached 28.6% and 14.6%, respectively.
Although Cyber Truck's demise may be exaggerated, this is still a good news for Ford and Rivian investors, because it obviously does not take over soon.
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