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I would be interested in a non-fucky Tesla "truck."
What did the alternate sketch look like? Kharn |
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5000lb trailer - 300 miles - 30 degrees F
That should be the starting standard for any electric truck. |
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Quoted: Has the Cybertruck not already launched? I thought it had recently. I saw a Cybertruck with other Tesla models on an car transport heading west out of Austin last week and assumed it meant it was in production. View Quote Yeah, I find this article confusing. The other day there was an article about Pepsi in CA using a fleet of the Tesla electric trucks. |
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Quoted: Yeah, I find this article confusing. The other day there was an article about Pepsi in CA using a fleet of the Tesla electric trucks. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Has the Cybertruck not already launched? I thought it had recently. I saw a Cybertruck with other Tesla models on an car transport heading west out of Austin last week and assumed it meant it was in production. Yeah, I find this article confusing. The other day there was an article about Pepsi in CA using a fleet of the Tesla electric trucks. Tesla semi truck. |
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View Quote Powerful like a gorilla. |
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Quoted: Powerful like a gorilla. Yet soft and yielding like a Nerf ball. |
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Quoted: This interview illustrates why Musk is successful. He deals in reality. Most of the companies I have worked for, faced with this kind of self inflicted wound, the owners and senior execs would steadfastly avoid any responsibility for setting unrealistic goals, continue to claim that solving the problems should be relatively easy to handle, and push the issue down to the mid level managers to solve. When they fail, it's THEIR fault, fire and hire, rinse and repeat. View Quote That last part is certainly his competition's way. At least it is how the big 3 typically operate. Especially GM from my experience with these huge Hummer/Escalade sized EVs and the boondoggle Cadillac Celestiq. The huge money pit that the Celestiq has been so far in development is astounding for the volume that will be produced. |
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Like a bolt on Ferrari kit for a Fierro
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It's special all right. Ugly. Expensive. Expensive to repair. Expensive to insure. Ugly. And dumb. And impractical. And ugly. Did I mention ugly?
But he's rich, and it's his grave. Carry on, Elon. |
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Haha...this one got raked by gunfire
https://twitter.com/teslaownersSV/status/1715407593378898329?t=78KADnOW0XYbhFfbf9b7yw&s=19 |
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Quoted: Oh look, masked idiots drooling over an idiotic truck. The damn thing is a turd. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/27564/IMG_8527_jpeg-2997823.JPG View Quote I love how GD this comment is. "People in masks looked at one, so I hate it." |
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Quoted: Elon Musk has a problem discerning between reality and video games. Sorry Elon, as much as you want it to be, life is not a CGI video game. View Quote True. Elon is in that elitist class where he smells his own sh*t and thinks it's wildflowers. However, when it comes to 2A stuff, GD also smells his sh*t and calls it wildflowers. So there's that. |
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Cybertruck is bulletproof (according to Elon lol)
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Elon would do well to diversify into hydrogen combustion engines. That is the future. EVs are an obvious dead end.
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Quoted: Why the fuck do people think a 'truck' that looks like a 5yr old designed it so fucking good looking? At least make it look something like a truck, Rumbler-ish from the Dark Knight isnt gonna be easy to build. View Quote The design is actually pretty brilliant. Trucks are a hard market to break into because of the brand loyalty around them. People love their Dodges, Fords, etc... Only way to break into the market in a big way is to produce something drastically different. The only way to compete with the big auto makers in this market is to avoid competing by offering something completely different. The Cybertruck is a radical change from normal trucks because it would otherwise just be a Rivian and Rivian will never have a dominant share of the market. |
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Quoted: I could build 25 million of those in my garage with a sheet metal brake. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Why the fuck do people think a 'truck' that looks like a 5yr old designed it so fucking good looking? At least make it look something like a truck, Rumbler-ish from the Dark Knight isnt gonna be easy to build. I could build 25 million of those in my garage with a sheet metal brake. Maximum doubt |
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Quoted: Cybertruck is bulletproof (according to Elon lol)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F85ctSOXMAALADZ?format=png&name=900x900 View Quote Try that with a .223. I dare him. Double dare. |
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Quoted: Circus stunt with a stripped out body mounted to jig. ALL the underpinnings were missing. "But muh Elon put a car in to space!" No. No he did not. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Circus stunt with a stripped out body mounted to jig. ALL the underpinnings were missing. "But muh Elon put a car in to space!" No. No he did not. He didn't launch a car with every original piece, so he didn't launch his car to space with his rocket......your butthurt with Musk is reaching new levels. |
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I mean, the man is nothing if not entertaining.
"We dug our own grave..." just isn't something you'd expect to hear in anyone else's earnings call. |
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Quoted: I mean, the man is nothing if not entertaining. "We dug our own grave..." just isn't something you'd expect to hear in anyone else's earnings call. View Quote I remember the first time I heard him say it while talking about the lunar starship proposal. He meant it in a very literal sense there. |
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Out of context is out of context.
He said it off hand becuase it’s been a hard ramp up. Simple as that. It’s hard. He recognizes it’s harder than they thought. That’s it. Flash back to “our factories are giant money furnaces” Doomed gonna doom. |
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View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I would be interested in a non-fucky Tesla "truck." What did the alternate sketch look like? Kharn https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08/Tesla-Cybertruck-Toyota-Tundra-wrap.jpg?quality=82&strip=all Still fucky. I mean one that looks like a normal vehicle, not my spaz of a 5 year old drawing something. Kharn |
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I also can’t wait for a 100% mad win America truck to out race and out tow any of the Hecho en Mexico POS brodozers out there.
And finally make that noise ubiquitous with slow and weak. |
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Quoted: Elon would do well to diversify into hydrogen combustion engines. That is the future. EVs are an obvious dead end. View Quote Obviously. You should really talk to Elon, I’m sure he’s tired of waiting on hold. He’s just giddy with all the great ideas you have. Quoted: Try that with a .223. I dare him. Double dare. View Quote Why? |
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Quoted: Careful not to set the bar too high, my 2500 big 3 truck cant do that...but i can fill it up in 5 minutes or less. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 5000lb trailer - 300 miles - 30 degrees F That should be the starting standard for any electric truck. Careful not to set the bar too high, my 2500 big 3 truck cant do that...but i can fill it up in 5 minutes or less. You’ll spend far far more time at gas stations with your f150 than a tesla truck will. Since your gas station will be at your home. |
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Quoted: Everything we know says the opposite tho. MAYBE long haul trucking. Probably not though. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Elon would do well to diversify into hydrogen combustion engines. That is the future. EVs are an obvious dead end. Everything we know says the opposite tho. MAYBE long haul trucking. Probably not though. As you said, maybe. When you see all the headaches that NASA has with using hydrogen as a fuel. Maybe it's not a good idea to trust that kind of thing to Billy Bob's Truck Stop in the middle of freaking nowhere. |
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Yeah, it is damn ugly but Musk has already done the impossible a few times so I am sure he knows a lot that I don't.
I doubt I will ever own an electric car. I doubt I will ever own a 1 ton diesel dually too but that doesn't mean nobody else wants one. |
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Quoted: Obviously. You should really talk to Elon, I’m sure he’s tired of waiting on hold. He’s just giddy with all the great ideas you have. Why? View Quote Because who actually owns a Thompson and uses it? Because the .45 acp is not known as a particularly powerful round? Because why not use a .22 lr for bragging rights, instead? Because why not use something more ubiquitous, like the 5.56? I dunno. Why not? |
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Quoted: I’m sure that means the world to Elon. However, you didn’t listen to anything He said. He can sell Millions today. And lose money on each one. But, he’s gonna make it up on Volume. View Quote No, he said he can sell a small quantity today and lose money on them. It's going to be years until they've made a million. That's exactly the problem he's describing - if they could make a million next year then they'd have no problem being profitable very quickly. This is manufacturing 101. High costs to get started that have to spread across a volume of product in order to be profitable at a reasonable price so you lose money while ramping the production line. |
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Quoted: You’ll spend far far more time at gas stations with your f150 than a tesla truck will. Since your gas station will be at your home. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: 5000lb trailer - 300 miles - 30 degrees F That should be the starting standard for any electric truck. Careful not to set the bar too high, my 2500 big 3 truck cant do that...but i can fill it up in 5 minutes or less. You’ll spend far far more time at gas stations with your f150 than a tesla truck will. Since your gas station will be at your home. Exactly. That’s what the GD mouth breathers don’t seem to comprehend, with a Tesla you wake up every morning with a “full tank”. |
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Wait until the Teamsters start burning and sabotaging entire yards full of their trucks. They think they have supply problems now...
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Quoted: Because who actually owns a Thompson and uses it? Because the .45 acp is not known as a particularly powerful round? Because why not use a .22 lr for bragging rights, instead? Because why not use something more ubiquitous, like the 5.56? I dunno. Why not? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Obviously. You should really talk to Elon, I’m sure he’s tired of waiting on hold. He’s just giddy with all the great ideas you have. Why? Because who actually owns a Thompson and uses it? Because the .45 acp is not known as a particularly powerful round? Because why not use a .22 lr for bragging rights, instead? Because why not use something more ubiquitous, like the 5.56? I dunno. Why not? I’m going to guess the truck would be rated about level 3A and maybe not even that. It being slightly armored is a byproduct of using SpaceX stainless. Whatever level armor rating the truck would be, it’s a higher rating than any other major manufacturer has. |
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Quoted: You’ll spend far far more time at gas stations with your f150 than a tesla truck will. Since your gas station will be at your home. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: 5000lb trailer - 300 miles - 30 degrees F That should be the starting standard for any electric truck. Careful not to set the bar too high, my 2500 big 3 truck cant do that...but i can fill it up in 5 minutes or less. You’ll spend far far more time at gas stations with your f150 than a tesla truck will. Since your gas station will be at your home. Until you want to pull your camper the nearly 500 miles from Detroit, MI to Lake Superior Provicial Park, Ontario. Then my gas burner will spend under 1/2 hour making gas stops vs the Tesla's ??? hours. I bring this up because it is a typical MI vacation profile. Only 20% of MIs population live N. of US-10. The other 80% of us pull our campers and boats a few hundred miles on a Friday night to go north for vacation. I picked LSSP as my destination because it or something similar in N. Ontario is a common destination for me. |
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Quoted: Until you want to pull your camper the nearly 500 miles from Detroit, MI to Lake Superior Provicial Park, Ontario. Then my gas burner will spend under 1/2 hour making gas stops vs the Tesla's ??? hours. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: 5000lb trailer - 300 miles - 30 degrees F That should be the starting standard for any electric truck. Careful not to set the bar too high, my 2500 big 3 truck cant do that...but i can fill it up in 5 minutes or less. You’ll spend far far more time at gas stations with your f150 than a tesla truck will. Since your gas station will be at your home. Until you want to pull your camper the nearly 500 miles from Detroit, MI to Lake Superior Provicial Park, Ontario. Then my gas burner will spend under 1/2 hour making gas stops vs the Tesla's ??? hours. Actual range of the CT hasn’t been published yet. I wouldn’t use the f150 or rivian as the benchmark either. |
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