A year and a half after Elon Musk first unveiled a Tesla Cybertruck prototype in November 2019, he allowed for the possibility the pickup wouldn’t be a hit.

"It's time for somebody to run Tesla," one early investor said this week. "The business has been neglected for too long."

Thousands of Tesla Cybertrucks have been recalled in the US due to concerns about part of the electric car's trim falling off in the model's eighth and largest ever recall. The issue affects more than 46,