Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units (electrek.co)

> 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

I think you missed the part where Tesla is overevaluated and any bad news could utterly crush it's share value.

“This makes no sense” => “I don’t understand the purpose”

The most obvious motive is juicing the numbers.

It makes no sense? When the companies have the same CEO?

lol bro

Fucking of course it makes sense they are both owned by Elon.

> What would the alternative have been? Not reporting that they were purchased at all?

They could have purchased any other vehicle, from any other manufacturer. Any other heavy duty truck would be a better choice than the Cybertruck, which is impractical and poorly designed.

> 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

It's almost like the owner of SpaceX, which is doing quite well right now, made a decision designed to benefit the owner of Tesla, which is struggling to sell a bunch of 2-ton chrome shitboxes. Wonder what those two individuals have in common. I'm sure that anyone, even you, will be able to figure it out with a little googling.

Just the fact that this comment has been voted down just goes to show that Hacker News is no longer the place it once was. Pretty sad.

Wait for SpaceX to resell these to Tesla at a significant loss. Tesla sells these used at a decent profit, boosting both numbers and profits.