Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units
doener
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April 17, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
jazz9k
This also happens in the Startup community....
jgbuddy
What would the alternative have been? Not reporting that they were purchased at all? The premise here seems to be that spacex purchased the trucks for the sole purpose of inflating the tesla reporting, which of course makes no sense from a business perspective
hnburnsy
Currently no in stock new or used and a two month delivery estimate.
ChrisArchitect
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799420
quicklywilliam
The real question is who bought the other 5,742 of them