Tesla took over the parking lot of a Detroit shopping mall and filled the parking lot with rows and rows of Cybertrucks, and that made the City of Detroit very unhappy.
The situation was first made obvious when a jokey Instagram reel went viral telling people if they wanted one of the EVs then they should come down to the ‘Cybertruck Graveyard’.
The shopping mall is home to a shuttered Bed, Bath & Beyond and now seems to have become a storage spot for tens of Cybertrucks.
Tesla has opened a new vehicle showroom nearby, but using a neighboring parking lot and shopping mall is in violation of the city code.
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Tesla is really putting the ‘beyond’ in Bed, Bath & Beyond, by taking over part of a shopping mall’s parking lot with overflow storage for its unsold Tesla Cybertruck EVs in Detroit.
There is no showroom for the EVs in the shopping centre, just a shuttered Bed, Bath & Beyond and a remaining Buffalo Wild Wings, but as reported on Instagram by @karkatstepdad, a sort of ‘Tesla Graveyard’ has developed.
A new Tesla showroom has opened in a neighboring area, but the showroom has not been given permission by the City of Detroit to use the shopping center as overflow storage for a serious number of Cybertrucks.
There are big plans for the shopping mall to get developed, but it can’t start until the unlicensed Cybertrucks are removed from the parking lot.
In a statement to Automotive news, the Director of Planning and Community Development for the shopping mall said that the landlord has “been notified that storage of vehicles is not a permitted use.”
These rows of Cybertrucks show the low sales numbers that Tesla has been reporting, but hopefully the automaker will be able to sell the excess EVs.
Imagine heading to the shopping mall for a new candle and coming home with a brand-new Cybertruck.
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