Cybertruck Body Prototype Casting spied uncovered!! 😲

[charliemagpie]

Maybe one day we will see the Hummer and CT competing at the Dakar rally.

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[SolarWizard]

Hard to say without final specs. But my money is on a fully loaded Cybertruck being about the same weight as the Hummer empty. (Or less even)

You won’t be going off-road at max gross vehicle weight regardless.

All of my fleet goes off road at max or beyond payload occasionally. Not baja stuff but over huge undulations where equipment has gone, across ditches, etc. some of the off grid homeowner and new construction sites are really rough. “Overlanders” are pretty much always way over payload as well.

 

[Ogre]

All of my fleet goes off road at max or beyond payload occasionally. Not baja stuff but over huge undulations where equipment has gone, across ditches, etc. some of the off grid homeowner and new construction sites are really rough. “Overlanders” are pretty much always way over payload as well.

Cybertruck should definitely be able to handle that kind of treatment with max load.

I was thinking more about rock crawling. Which is about all the Hummer is suitable for anyhow.

 

[Crissa]

Max load isn't just about suspension, it's about speed. See also that thread about the F150 they crushed at the IIHS.

-Crissa

 

[jhogan2424]

I agree. a midgate would be just one more thing to rattle.

Finally, someone sees this “midgate“ business for what it is… A mostly worthless waste of time feature only usable for a tiny percentage of drivers with endless potential for annoying rattles. I hope the idea goes the same way as the cigarette lighter. I mean I am sure a built in blender that pops out of the bedside would be useful to 3 or 4 people on earth but I hope they don’t waste time, money, and resources engineering one. Not to mention charging each and every customer for a built in blender they’ll never use.

 

[John K]

I happened to be behind this truck today. Secure your load

 

[Ogre]

I happened to be behind this truck today. Secure your load

How’d you like to get killed by one of those flying out the back of a pickup truck on the highway?

Good news is your family wouldn’t have to pay for a gravestone, they would just need to extract it from your car and hose off the blood.

 

[Crissa]

How’d you like to get killed by one of those flying out the back of a pickup truck on the highway?

Good news is your family wouldn’t have to pay for a gravestone, they would just need to extract it from your car and hose off the blood.

It really should be yours if it kills you.

-Crissa

 

[tmeyer3]

All here:

Please keep in mind that this photo is likely NOT a CT at all. That doesn't make it fake, real, or anything in between. This is most likely a tooling mold, again, NOT a CT. I'd eat my phone if that is exactly what the inside of your future trucks will look like.

When tooling, you need something that is rigid enough to move around, lift, put through non exact automation lines, etc. This image does not provide any proof of features--or lack thereof. But yes, it is "real", or whatever.

 

[Jhodgesatmb]

I know that this is an old thread by now but I have been looking at this casting for some time now and what made me think it was partly a jig was the set of large flanges on the side closest to the viewer. I circled them (red) in the attached drawing. Are these possibly locations where the exoskeleton would be attached? I really do not know but they seemed incongruous to me so I thought (initially) that they had a different function than being part of the rear end. I still don't know about the upper sections (blue circles).

I did finally get the newest FSD Beta and Holiday Update so I am placated for a day or so

 

[Ogre]

I know that this is an old thread by now but I have been looking at this casting for some time now and what made me think it was partly a jig was the set of large flanges on the side closest to the viewer. I circled them (red) in the attached drawing. Are these possibly locations where the exoskeleton would be attached? I really do not know but they seemed incongruous to me so I thought (initially) that they had a different function than being part of the rear end. I still don't know about the upper sections (blue circles).

I did finally get the newest FSD Beta and Holiday Update so I am placated for a day or so

Seems likely to me.

Either that or as @Dids suggests…. Photoshop artifacts.

 

[CyberGus]

After doing my own research, I’ve determined that all mass, torque, and stresses of the truck are eventually supported by tires contacting the road.

Therefore, I deem the Cybertruck design to be a “wheeloskeleton”.

 

[Cyberman]

BTW, the 3D model I used for the overlay is an older one - with dimensions from the reveal, and even door handles - so that contributes to mismatching as well.

But, hey, I gotta thank the anonymous photographer who sent Kim the pic, and SolarWizard for posting it here - 11 pages of discussion in just a day!

Goes to show how we are bursting with anticipation.

Dude, your Pi is getting bigger and smaller...at the same time. Thought I was gonna fall in for a sec.

 

[Cyberman]

After doing my own research, I’ve determined that all mass, torque, and stresses of the truck are eventually supported by tires contacting the road.

Therefore, I deem the Cybertruck design to be a “wheeloskeleton”.

I think it's all three, exoskeleton, endoskeleton and wheeloskeleton.
I always figgered Elon would have a buncha skeletons in the closet.

 

[HaulingAss]

This is a great point. Also… it feeds back into reduced costs. Better the initial quality means less QA issues, fewer after sales repairs, etc. A better product is it’s own cost savings… also happier customers means you have to advertise less. Another cost savings

I'm not following - how do you advertise less than zero?

Maybe you are saying, with high build quality, Tesla will have to buy advertising spots to run anti-sell ads. These would be structured to reduce demand to more palatable levels. They could say things like:

Tesla, building the trucks of the future before you're ready for them. Your friends and family will not like the styling because they are not ready for the future either. Driving a Cybertruck will create unprecedented solitude and quieter trips free of distracting conversation from hitchhikers because not even hitchhikers will risk getting in a truck so futuristic it looks too dangerous, even for the risk tolerance of a typical hitchhiker.

Don't you think it's time you realized this truck is too futuristic for you? Have you checked out the F-150 Lightning? It's a very nice truck that will probably satisfy all your truck needs. It only costs a little more and we think you're worth it, don't you?

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