After The Midterms: Review Your Portfolio Exposure

The midterms are behind us. If your next instinct is to check whether your portfolio won or lost the political argument, ask a more useful question: what could hurt several holdings at once?

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• Group holdings by the economic factors that influence them.

• Ask how a new position would change those shared exposures.

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🛻 Tesla Is Pulling The Plug On The Cybertruck

Well, this is the end of an era. On November 6, Elon Musk announced that Tesla is winding down production of the Cybertruck at its Texas factory around the middle of next year. The futuristic, stainless-steel pickup that turned so many heads will be phased out to make room for the Cybercab, Tesla’s new self-driving robotaxi. For a vehicle that generated this much hype, going away after just three years on the market is a genuinely wild turn. Let’s break down what happened and what it means.

The sales just weren’t there

Here’s the cold, hard truth behind this decision: almost nobody was buying it. When Musk first revealed the Cybertruck, he predicted Tesla would sell around 250,000 of them per year. The reality fell dramatically short. In the US, Cybertruck sales hit 38,965 in 2024, then tumbled to 20,237 in 2025, and slid even further in 2026. For a truck that reportedly had well over a million reservations before launch, that’s a stunning collapse from hype to reality.

Why it flopped

So what went wrong for a vehicle so many people claimed to want? Two big reasons stand out.

First, the price. When Musk unveiled the Cybertruck back in 2019, he promised it would start at just $39,900, positioning it as an affordable truck for the masses. By the time it actually launched, the cheapest version cost nearly $61,000, and the premium models blew past $100,000. That’s a massive gap between the dream and the sticker shock, and plenty of would-be buyers walked away. Ironically, right after announcing the wind-down, Tesla even hiked Cybertruck prices again.

Second, the timing. The truck hit the market right as Musk was becoming a deeply polarizing political figure. For a flashy vehicle that screams for attention on the road, that association turned off a big chunk of potential buyers who didn’t want to make that kind of statement.

• 📉 The reservations never converted. Despite more than a million people signing up early with deposits, only a small fraction ever became actual buyers.

• 🏭 Capacity sat unused. Tesla built the factory to produce up to 125,000 Cybertrucks a year, but total sales over three years didn’t come close to even one year of that capacity.

• 🔧 The design was a challenge. The bold stainless-steel exoskeleton that made it iconic also made it expensive and tricky to manufacture at scale.

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The bigger Tesla picture

Here’s where the story gets really interesting, because the Cybertruck isn’t the only model getting the axe. Tesla already halted production of its two priciest cars, the Model S and Model X, to make room for its Optimus humanoid robots. Now the Cybertruck is going too, in favor of the Cybercab robotaxi. See the pattern? Some observers now wonder if even the Model 3 could eventually be on the chopping block, since it’s not wildly different from the better-selling Model Y.

This raises a huge question about where Tesla is actually heading. The company is clearly pivoting hard toward robots and self-driving technology, moving away from the consumer cars that made it famous. And the Cybercab, the thing replacing the Cybertruck, is a robotaxi. It’s not even clear yet whether regular people will be able to buy one, or whether Tesla is quietly stepping back from selling vehicles to everyday drivers altogether.

The Munch Take: Alright, let’s get personal for a second. We absolutely love the Cybertruck. Life is too short to drive a boring car, and that angular, sci-fi beast is undeniably cool. So part of us is genuinely sad to see it go. But loving a vehicle and running a profitable business are two very different things, and the numbers here were brutal. A truck promised at $39,900 that ballooned past $100,000, launched right as its CEO became a lightning rod, was always going to struggle. That’s the lesson: even the most hyped product on Earth can flop if the price and the timing are wrong. The far more important story, though, is what this says about Tesla itself. First the Model S and X, now the Cybertruck, all being pushed aside for robots and robotaxis. This is a company transforming before our eyes, betting its future on autonomy and AI rather than the cars that built it. That’s a bold, fascinating gamble, and whether it pays off is the real question for anyone watching Tesla. The Cybertruck may be the end of an era, but it might also be the clearest signal yet that Tesla wants to be something entirely different. We’ll be watching this transformation very, very closely.

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