I keep thinking this design is a joke, that and both windows breaking makes me think this is just Elon f$cking with all of us. How does a company as large as Tesla allow windows to break in a live demo? Something is fishy.
Tesla Cybertruck
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I was thinking the same. I think it could be a joke to bring attention to the model and then they will say "sike" and bring out the real truck soon... I hope.
Elon Musk is a Joke! Anyone who buys any piece of shit from that Liberal Whack Job is a moron!
I’ll take the Rivian please: https://rivian.com/r1t/
Yep, I'd definitely take a Rivian any day over this wedge of Tesla...
But Tesla's advantage is it already has a pretty good charging infrastructure in place that can't be used by any other EV....
I don't understand where people think they are gong to charge non-tesla EV's when away from home. 110 outlet behind the gas station?
Anything less than a 480V charger...and you're gonna be waiting a LONG time.
so um....
would the police radar even pick this truck up?
would the police radar even pick this truck up?
I find it interesting and like the others I find it so odd its kind of cool. Everyone is bitching about the windows, but really why? What other truck is even close to this out there? Do you need balistic windows when the trucks body is already more robust then anything else out there? Doesnt balistic glass spider shatter like that? If I was in the market I would look into one.
Hell the ATV they drove into it was cool as hell too. Can we buy a matching ATV? That would be a hell of a package.
I get the team in charge of the truck probably ****ed up and put in the wrong glass. In which Im not sure balistic glass is a great idea as side windows are meant to shatter to allow you to escape in an emergency situation and not cut you. But again you are talking some of the safest cars on the road, so who knows what else they really have up their sleeve.
Hell the ATV they drove into it was cool as hell too. Can we buy a matching ATV? That would be a hell of a package.
I get the team in charge of the truck probably ****ed up and put in the wrong glass. In which Im not sure balistic glass is a great idea as side windows are meant to shatter to allow you to escape in an emergency situation and not cut you. But again you are talking some of the safest cars on the road, so who knows what else they really have up their sleeve.
I was thinking exactly this. Like it’s April Fool’s Day in November.
My understanding is that's why it looks like it does. It's strictly a cost & strength approach:
https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-electric-pickup-engineering-manufacturing/
The plusses for a folded stainless steel, origami truck are compelling: no paint shop and no expensive tooling. No Godzilla-scale stamping machines stomping it with multiple strikes. Without all that, the capital and environmental costs of using stainless steel body panels are small. And big attractions for a company that's sensitive to both types of green—cash and environmentalism. Just groove the steel where it's supposed to fold (avoiding cracks) and bend it on simple, cheap machines (like I was actually doing last week with my garage vise!)
Brilliant … but prickly with trade-offs. Unlike the strength-to-weight efficiency of compound curves (feathery eggshells are the epitome), the flat-ish planes between the Cybertruck's simple bends require greater thickness to resist buckling compression loads or wrinkling oil-canning. Adding weight.
To counter this? Ditch the heavy, traditional, body-on-frame, and rethink the structure as weight-efficient trussed bridge in its simplest load-spreading configuration: a triangle set on its hypotenuse. One side is the Cybertruck's wedgy cab, the other, its tapered, sail-sided bed, their meeting point at the truck's tall peak resulting in a huge cross-sectional area for maximum stiffness.
Brilliant … but prickly with trade-offs. Unlike the strength-to-weight efficiency of compound curves (feathery eggshells are the epitome), the flat-ish planes between the Cybertruck's simple bends require greater thickness to resist buckling compression loads or wrinkling oil-canning. Adding weight.
To counter this? Ditch the heavy, traditional, body-on-frame, and rethink the structure as weight-efficient trussed bridge in its simplest load-spreading configuration: a triangle set on its hypotenuse. One side is the Cybertruck's wedgy cab, the other, its tapered, sail-sided bed, their meeting point at the truck's tall peak resulting in a huge cross-sectional area for maximum stiffness.
In, looks sick.
It's impressively ugly, you have to really try to make something that atrocious. Nice demo with the window too. Should have unveiled on April 1st.
This! No way would I ever buy a Tesla over a Rivian R1T (or the R-S).
Starts at $69K.
Up to 400+ mile range.
0-60 in 3 seconds.
Quad-motor system.
Wading depth over 3 ft.
Up to 750 hp.
Or for $3,500 more, the R1S with the same specs. Tesla IMO is a joke when you compare it to the new all-electric vehicles here and coming. The Rivian will be a freaking home run IMO!
Detroit is retooling and letting a lot of the older engineers retire/leave on good terms. That being said a new generation of engineers are slowly trickling in. It won't be long for something out out of Michigan/Detroit.
I have a hard time believing this is the version to be released so I’ll hold judgement for now. I’m hoping either Tesla brings something better or another of the big 3 step up with an electric truck and I’ll be in line to buy
For anyone who thinks the glass breakage wasn't
intentional I have some oceanfront property in Arizona I'd like to sell you.
That window breaking stunt was marketing genius and helped put that concept vehicle at the top of every automotive magazine and forum on the planet. Find a single automotive forum today without a thread on it. While it's not for me right now it's hard to argue with the capabilities, and they can always fix 'ugly'... The best part, he broke not one window but 2 for effect.
I can only imagine the high-5s and champagne corks popping offstage after that event
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intentional I have some oceanfront property in Arizona I'd like to sell you.
That window breaking stunt was marketing genius and helped put that concept vehicle at the top of every automotive magazine and forum on the planet. Find a single automotive forum today without a thread on it. While it's not for me right now it's hard to argue with the capabilities, and they can always fix 'ugly'... The best part, he broke not one window but 2 for effect.
I can only imagine the high-5s and champagne corks popping offstage after that event
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Let me guess Elon smoked some weed and watched his childhood fantasy movie Megaforce....
Anyone care to admit they watched this movie as a kid?
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Anyone care to admit they watched this movie as a kid?
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