Tesla Cybertruck

Needs a 4” lift and some 35s

100 years ago when the choice was gas, steam, electric or horse this was understandable but today the definition of car truck SUV is clear, the choice now is just the power source and making it more efficient.

and what the fuck is a 6.5' vault length ?

and what the fuck is a tri motor ?



does Teslas fly ?

Looks like someone got really f**ked up and then tried to build a honda ridgeline out of DeLorean parts.



Very much real

That is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! Just kidding, it is the ugliest thing I think I have ever seen.

in terminator voice , John Connor your truck is ready .

I was sure that this was a troll and the real truck was going to be unveiled from behind another curtain. Wow.

The new Tesla Truck:


What inspired Tesla to make it:

Something uglier than a Renegade.

There are some pretty good ones in here:

https://kotaku.com/the-internet-reacts-to-teslas-cybertruck-which-looks-l-1839993378

It surely has to be a joke... even now it's sunk in I struggle to believe they're going to produce that.

Well, even with the 80s, cheap B-movie sci-fi inspired look aside, it seems that the glass was really the worst part of the event:






https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/21/t...truck-while-demonstrating-how-tough-they-are/



It actually reminds me of that one scene in Captain America when Howard Stark is showing off the "car of the future":

Tesla's new El Camino.

Like I said in the Ford Mustang thread, the teardrop is the most aerodynamic design. This is a squared off version of a teardrop. They likely needed to optimize aerodynamics to make the truck as efficient as possible so it can use it's electrical load to haul weight. Make it like a Gladiator and it's range for hauling and towing would probably be 20-50 miles at highways speeds. A person needs to spend an extra $10,000 on batteries to get one of their cars up to a 300 mile range. The designers probably couldn't win with the battery weight and volume to get the electrical power needed to haul or pull what a typical Ford F150 would handle. Increases in power to haul mean they end up hauling more batteries. Eventually, you're adding more batteries just to pull the extra batteries around and it becomes self defeating.

Trucks should be diesel electric hybrids at best so they can get the torque they need to get moving under load, with the diesel then keeping them going for range. Most city trucks are used as cars so those don't really count. Their owners could just as easily use a car or SUV with a tow hitch and small trailer for the 1 or 2 times a year they put anything in the back. Our work truck on the Farm was a low geared straight six rear wheel drive and could haul and pull like crazy. You weren't ever going to win a race in it, but that wasn't it's job.

One of my wife's friends drove a Ford F150 because she wanted 4 wheel drive and it was cheaper than most SUVs and got better gas mileage. They put a cover over the back so she would have a trunk, but basically it was just the cheapest 4x4 car she could buy.

Looks like the drawing a toddler did of the honda ridgeline

the only thing stoping me from buying when they're available is the lack of three feet of plastic cladding all the way around the lower half

I still don't understand the window thing. Had the ball bounced off that would have been cool. But the windows basically acted as any laminated window would when struck. My wife had a rock about the size of what the guy threw get tossed up by a truck on a highway. She said It sounded like someone fired a gun inside the car and it left a similar sized break pattern on the front window.

After watching how Musk get high on the Joe Rogan experience, I think maybe the design room for this truck was filled with some special smoke.

InOmaha said:

I still don't understand the window thing. Had the ball bounced off that would have been cool. But the windows basically acted as any laminated window would when struck. My wife had a rock about the size of what the guy threw get tossed up by a truck on a highway. She said It sounded like someone fired a gun inside the car and it left a similar sized break pattern on the front window.

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Yea, and the guy clearly wasn't really putting much weight behind the throw either. I mean, I know it's a steel ball, but it looked like Mr. Burns throwing a baseball.