Tesla Cyber Truck

Cybertruck

Tesla unveiled its new pickup truck. Featured with an angular design with a cold rolled stainless steel unibody.

Any thoughts?

I think the design is very bold and risky. But I like it. In design, they have a “Most advanced, yet acceptable” principle. It may be engineered to be the best pickup truck ever created, but the buying public might not accept it. It’s possible this thing could become the Edsel of the Tesla corporation. Or it could be the game changer that leads the industry in design changes.

 

we definately need all electric pickup trucks and vans. to the extent that we 'need' personal vehicles at all.
more then we need motor vehicles that are neither, other then submini's with minimal power requirements.

tesla's offering in this context, from what i've seen of it, sure looks like an edsil to me too.
and i've seen others, not offered on the u.s. market, that might or might not be lawful to drive on u.s. roads,
that look more likely and better able to fill that niche.

(one offered by a name associated with golf carts and utility on campus runabouts, and a couple of others,
names i can't recall, only having seen their advertisements, and unfamiliar in the u.s.)

i would add, that "cyber" and "highway/transportation",
are like a whole different universe from each other,
and i have to wonder if musk has any idea how much they are.

i know some people like their plushmo/pimpmobiles to look like high tech eyecandy,
but for something they want to be able to rely upon, i could be wrong,
but i think they tend to shy away from needless features,
that are one more thing to worry about going wrong with it.
no idea how much that applies here, as i haven't yet looked at it more closely,
but having the tesla name on it, is bound to make it so expensive,
i could probably build a whole commune for less.

my impression of the syling, is that it is intended to appeal to what i would call,
the "vanity survivalist". the kind who put the biggest tyres the can fit on their s.u.v.,
adorn it with a surfit of hazard lights, bardon bumpers, roll bars and p.t.o. wenches,
and then never drive it off the pavement.

 

We were just having a good laugh about this. It's mega ugly for me, a laughing stock on its own accord plus it needs 2 electric motors to get the job done.  I reckon it'll be a flop just like the car. I ain't ever seen any of them getting around i highly doubt I'll see any these getting around either, the storage capacity itself is pathetic. 4wd need a tray back to dump a pallet on. This thing is a Lego car design. Nobody wants to a tow a trailer and pallet, the pallet sits in the tray.

I could fork a pallet onto my ranger and head up the steepest climb before you had to unpack a pallet and tetris fit the stock into the Tesla. Ssssawwwwyas.

 

6-eyed... "I hate modern architecture. Ugly boxes..."

Also, 6-eyed... "Cybertruck? bold and risky. But I like it."

 

Clearly he's planning to send it to Mars.

 

Isn't it awful???

(I'm laughing so hard) oh no...

 

Does it look like a Mars rover???

 

Chassis contains Titanium

90% of the worlds Titanium comes from Ilmenite with only about 7 million tonnes of it being mined in the whole world, back in 2013 anyway. Only around 18% of thar ore is Titanium by weight

So the whole world only produces around 1.5 million tonnes of Titanium a year

And Musk wants to use some of that for vehicles mostly soccer moms will never go off road in

 

And a quick reminder on electric cars

In their lifetime ev's only halve the carbon foot compared to gas vehicles.

Most of a cars particulate pollution comes from tyres and brakes regardless of whether they are electric or not

Cant find any specs on the Cybertruck battery, but model S is still just 5000 AA size lithium ion batteries strung together, would assume the Cybertruck would be near double that.....that will have to be replaced and disposed of after 1/2 million miles

If its about saving the environment, electric bicycles would be a far better option. They would renain fully loaded most of the time compared to a single user often driving around in a 2 tonne vehicle with 4 car tyres on the road

 

i'm pretty sure tesla's trolling us.

 

It looks like some Mad Max creation, only for Mars. The stainless steel will absorb radiation very well as will the exotic metals. The glass will have to be loaded with lead, but I heard it was "bulletproof", so it's easy enough to work into the laminations.

Obviously the tires will have to be something other than pneumatic rubber. To handle the load they'd likely employ the same method as they did for the moon rover tires/wheels. Lastly, the source of power is important. We learned that rovers relying on the sun exclusively can be intercoursed by the Martian weather. Which is why the latest is powered by an isotope battery (generates electrons by nuclear decay).

So the truck will need a boom sticking out behind it to hold the nuclear power source far enough away to keep it from interfering with the vehicle's electronics. Or irradiating the occupants.

Which will make it look like a tow truck!

 

finally Elon Musk built a car that I drew when I was five

-twitter

 

Not to mention the batteries involved to power the two poofy motors that don't break down in any conventional method at all period.

I will not see one of these things in my part of the world I'm 99.9% sure of it.

 

Has anybody seen the electric power Chargers that need a diesel generator to power? a diesel generator to power a charging station.

 

It says it tows 14,000lbs
Who the fuck converts that, what's the tonnage?
Ah sorry mate can I check the weight of the pallet in pounds?  oh never mind I can't even fit the pallet in.

 

That has more of a chance of making it up a country dirt road mountain.

And also another "selling" feature was 0-60 in 3.6 seconds, like that's great and all, but completely futile to anybody needing a utility vehicle, coupled in by the lack of storage space, like 6 eyes said I can see this selling to survivalists based on the shape only, but ain't no cowboys and cowgirls will be driving that to a mud ball and if the apocalypse did happen, these would be completely obsolete in favour of a proper diesel truck.

 

looks like a mixture between the back to the future car and a monster truck

 

if they could make it affordable, that'd be one thing. I can see riding around in one, but I'd like it to have more curvature; particularly at that highest point.