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Tesla Cybertruck
Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck. Apparently, many people think it's ugly. I absolutely love it. It took the jellybean esthetic of modern vehicles and ran it over. Twice. There's simply no point in saying anything about this truck -- you have to look at the pictures:
In order to make this TFS less short, a few specs, but really, they don't matter until you see if it appeals to you which it either will or won't in spades. The low end 250 mile range version is supposed to be about $40k. The body is unpainted cold rolled stainless steel. Upmodels will have a towing capacity variously described as 10-14k pounds and at the top end, a 500 mile range. They'll cost a lot more.
"Bulletproof" Musk Cybertruck fail
Elon Musk bragged that his "cybertruck" was bulletproof to a 9mm round, but two separate attempts to demonstrate just how tough it is failed when ball bearings thrown by hand literally caused the windows to come crashing down in pieces. So much for safety glass; even on cyber trucks, windows sucks.
We created an exoskeleton," Musk said to rapturous whoops from those attending the Los Angeles launch. "It is literally bulletproof to a 9mm handgun."
Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla's chief designer, asked Musk if he could lob a metal ball at the window of the vehicle. "Really?" said Musk. The window smashed. "Oh my fucking God," said Musk. "Maybe that was a little hard."
Showing confidence in the vehicle, Von Holzhausen then suggested he should lob it at a second window. "Try that one? Really?" asked Musk moments before the rear window was also smashed. "It didn't go through, that's the plus side," a stunned Musk said.
Also at Ars Technica and Wccftech.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @03:16AM
Journalists like to write about other peoples failures. So there has to be at least a partial failure so they have something to feel superior about.
Though one problem I can see right off the bat is that trim line down the whole side. No way that ever gets straight again after somebody fucks it up. Don't care how strong they say it is. It won't last around a forklift. It was funny seeing journalists talking about colors. Its stainless. You just costing yourself more money, and making future repairs expensive by painting it. That is the whole point of using stainless dumbass. Of course while stainless is weldable, it isn't the kind of thing your average knucklehead mechanic or body man will do. So the body, once bent, is going to pretty much stay bent.
Not that I would have a problem with that. Its a truck, not a prom dress. But Americans are vain. Some people will see a contractor drive up in a tin accordian, and not want to hire them because of it. Doesn't matter how recommended the guy is. So yeah, how it looks does matter to commercial buyers.
I actually like it though. Would consider buying it if it were used, already beat to shit, and had a diesel conversion kit for it. Which is to say after one of the douchebag journalists spent 10k$ over book, and another 20k$ paying dumbass tax (repairs on first adopter equipment), and 30k$ in market depreciation for a product they can't unload for the remaining financed balance.