Confirmed: 11,000 lbs tow rating / 2,500 lbs payload capacity (official specs)! + Shatter-resistant glass

[Knucklehead]

Best advice I can give anyone is “watch this”. It has been well documented that there have been a number of lives saved when people who watched this episode subsequently drove their car/truck into the water…

Thanks Pete, I feel so much better now. ?

BTW, it says "shatter-resistant glass" not proof.

To my original point tho, that text I quoted (repeated below) explicitly said the front side windows were laminated but the rear side windows were not.

That is true for some version of the current Tesla cars depending on where (country) the car was built from my reading. Today they may all be laminated.

"Note that the rear side windows may still be made of tempered glass, even if the front ones are laminated. That’s crucial info, because you might still be able to escape your car in seconds if you can just shatter those windows."​

This is something that could end up being a huge safety concern. Will you be able to open the door if the car is in the water? If not, like the guy in the video Pete shared, how can you get out when you have seconds to act? Hopefully you can lower the window, as they say electric windows can still work when the car is in the water. Hopefully.

If the window refuses to open, then you need to break it or wait for the car to fill with water. And you may drown before the pressure equalizes enough so you can open the door.

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[Mini2nut]

13 Cybertruck’s!

 

[AlexD]

From the sign at the San Diego Tesla store (where a Cybertruck is on display currently)!

Official specs:

11,000 lbs tow rating
2,500 lbs payload

Good thing they call it an exosekelton and not an exoskeleton which it definitely is not!

 

[nicolae]

It seems that you need a Semi

 

[nicolae]

Good thing they call it an exosekelton and not an exoskeleton which it definitely is not!

They should have stick with “monocoque”, but I guess they wanted to avoid some negative opinions of the lovers of the true chassis based trucks

 

[AlexD]

They should have stick with “monocoque”, but I guess they wanted to avoid some negative opinions of the lovers of the true chassis based trucks

If I am correct (?) it was going to be 3mm thick hardened stainless steel. Once they gave up on the exoskeleton idea, did they stay with the 3 mm stainless steel or use a thinner gauge?

 

[Bkb13]

No effect on earnings. Here’s the 10k details on how Tesla deals with this. They have 1,063 Million in customer deposits. No matter how you look at it, that is a lot of money that is accretive to Teslas business in many different ways….

well, some around here are convinced Tesla takes this one of the various options available to it from an accounting perspective

I guess at some point, I swim with not against the current


I don’t know if they book this as revenue up front (and hold in escrow account collecting interest), or instead land it directly in available cash balance offset with deferred revenue.

If they’re not taking this as revenue up front, and instead as deferred revenue, they can use “the cash,” but must always be able to deliver the truck or the payment.

Either way, the net effect on operational cash flows is zero, until the prepayments have moved onto the income statement's revenue item when products are delivered. Cash balances rise, but so too do Tesla's liabilities.

 

[PilotPete]

Thanks Pete, I feel so much better now. ?



This is something that could end up being a huge safety concern. Will you be able to open the door if the car is in the water? If not, like the guy in the video Pete shared, how can you get out when you have seconds to act? Hopefully you can lower the window, as they say electric windows can still work when the car is in the water. Hopefully.

If the window refuses to open, then you need to break it or wait for the car to fill with water. And you may drown before the pressure equalizes enough so you can open the door.

Mike,

If you really watch both times they did this test, the thing you come away with is this. DON’T PANIC! You have time to act. Even when they don’t lower the window, enough water comes through the air vents to fill the interior. By filling the majority of the interior with water (not all) the pressure is qualified enough to allow you to open the door and swim to safety. Fighting the door gets your body to start really burning through the O2 you breathe, an increases your O2 consumption. They also talk about opening the window early to assist preventing a large pressure diff.

And I think the CT will have sufficient buoyancy to give you time to get the door open, or even open the window. Even if it isn’t truly a “boat”.

 

[chalupacabre]

Towing will halve range

 

[Diehard]

It seems like most posted info is targeted to be the best. Since payload did not meet originally announced specs but still better than other BEV trucks, range may not meet the original 500 but beat Silverado on paper.

 

[Cyberman]

In case anyone was wondering what SMC means

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheet_moulding_compound

That's fake news. SMC is a process where the truck bed is made by students at Santa Monica College.

 

[Cyberman]

Towing will halve range

Physics is still a thing.

 

[cvalue13]

No effect on earnings. Here’s the 10k details on how Tesla deals with this. They have 1,063 Million in customer deposits. No matter how you look at it, that is a lot of money that is accretive to Teslas business in many different ways….

I agree RE it being accretive to business. WhyI originally characterized it as a “loan.”

Loans also must also be repaid.

Though, my business has to pay the lender interest.

Your 10K seems to quiet the chorus that Tesla books this as revenue/places in escrow.

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