Not if you put them on the roof, like Gov. Romney's dog. Then they'd add lift reducing the trailer weight and maybe a little forward momentum.
Who needs an aux solar panel on the truck when you have a cage of chickens?
Does it look like the weights are attached to a sled that moves forward and aft along those rails? May be a way to test the trailer with different weight distributions. My only experience is when I mis-loaded a trailer once and it danced me right down the highway at 60 MPH. Once was enough.
Which begs the question: "What is the range of a chicken?"
If we know how many chickens will fit inside a Cybertruck, we can easily calculate the CT range. CT Range = CT Chicken Volume / Chicken Range.
Granted, determining the volume of a chicken would require Bernoulli's method and would...
LOL Just saw that Fox will be airing a two-part interview with Tucker Carlson and Elon tonight and tomorrow.
To bring my last post to relevance with the thread, Tesla has flexibility on what profit it needs from the Cybertruck because they have two goals: Sell a lot of trucks and change the...
Yes!
Look at what he's doing. The culture in the USA is polarizing on so many issues these days. You're in good standing with Team A if you hold their set of beliefs. Same with Team B. Look at the foolishness around beer brands this week. People's identities are tied up in their brands. This...
Cool idea. Impossible to jackknife and you'd never need to back it up. Just turn the truck under it with 4 wheel steering or tank turn and push it into place. You'd need a camera on the back of the trailer to see where you're pushing it. I'd spend all weekend spinning this thing in a parking lot...
I dearly love my 2008 diesel Sprinter van, but I'd give it up in a heartbeat for a comparable EV van with a lift gate.
What about the fleet of vans that Amazon has running around? How many miles do they put in every day? less than 500? Nice market there with the transit vans too.
It's about...
Yes. I can see in the future TSLA supplying some kind of port with power and data connections for TSLA approved accessories. One interface for all accessories. Maybe one port on the front and one on the rear.
In the meantime to test the market it could be a data port (CANS or ethernet) and the...
Ah. Thanks JBee. I did misunderstand that. I was thinking that ePTO meant electric PTO but still connected to a drive motor somehow. it's an EXTERNAL PTO, like eGPU is external GPU. Or even External Electric PTO.
I suppose that it’s all in how you look at the Cybertruck for this application. It...
Instead of a complicated PTO off of one of the drive motors, why not just a smaller motor that mounts to the front or back that handles all of these PTO functions? Tesla can certainly make little motors with the correct rpms/gear ratios needed for compressors or winches. This motor could even...
That's what I never understood about the "Cash for Clunkers" program a while back.
You could only get the rebate on a new car if you destroyed the old one. It seemed like a lot of wasted residual resources that went into manufacturing the clunker vs the improved fuel efficiency of the new car...
I've been wondering about that. As I recall, TSLA announced that they were making an ATV. I think I ordered one with the truck. Have we heard anything about it since the reveal?