{"id":83745,"date":"2025-09-16T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=83745"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:25:40","slug":"tesla-launches-cybertruck-uae-after-commercial-flop-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=83745","title":{"rendered":"Tesla launches Cybertruck in UAE after commercial flop in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tesla has launched the Cybertruck in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), marking a second international market in as many months, following the electric pickup truck\u2019s commercial flop in the US.<\/p>\n

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Love it or hate it, you can\u2019t deny that the Cybertruck has been a commercial flop.<\/p>\n

Tesla had accumulated over 1 million reservations for the vehicle and planned for a production capacity of 250,000 units per year, with CEO Elon Musk saying that it could be increased to 500,000 units.<\/p>\n

After Tesla unveiled the production version with a much higher price than init<\/span>ially announced and a significantly shorter range, demand plummeted, and now\u00a0Tesla is struggling to sell the truck at a rate of 25,000 units per year<\/a> \u2013 a tenth of the production capacity.<\/p>\n

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For the first 2 years of being on the market, Cybertruck was only available in North America (US, Canada, and Mexico).<\/p>\n

Last month, Tesla announced that Cybertruck is coming to South Korea<\/a>, with reservations being converted to orders.<\/p>\n

It was a curious market to expand to, considering pickup trucks are not particularly popular in South Korea. However, Tesla is very well-received in the market, where the automaker has not suffered from brand damage due to its CEO, unlike in Europe and Canada.<\/p>\n

Now, Tesla has also announced the launch of the Cybertruck in the United Arab Emirates (UAE):<\/p>\n

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UAE is fairly opaque with its passenger vehicle sales, but delivery estimates put Tesla\u2019s volumes in the country between 5,000 and 10,000 units per year.<\/p>\n

There are about 11 million people living in UAE and they buy roughly 200,000 new passenger vehicles per year.<\/p>\n

Chinese automakers have entered the market and disrupted it quite a bit.<\/p>\n

Electrek\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n

South Korea and the UAE are some of the rare, somewhat significant car markets that are not too affected by Elon Musk\u2019s brand damage.<\/p>\n

To me, it looks like Tesla is testing the waters there to see how many Cybertrucks it could unload.<\/p>\n

If successful, Tesla may be able to afford to keep the program going for a bit, but I don\u2019t see a future in the Cybertruck unless the automaker can bring significant improvements in a second generation that would be closer to what was initially unveiled in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Tesla has launched the Cybertruck in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), marking a second international market in as many months, following the electric pickup truck\u2019s commercial flop in the US. Love it or hate it, you can\u2019t deny that the Cybertruck has been a commercial flop. Tesla had accumulated over 1 million reservations for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}