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It’s bearly a car ?

From NBC News: “Ford has logged nearly 200,000 advance reservations for its F-150 Lightning electric pickup, while Tesla says it has over 400,000 deposits for its repeatedly delayed Cybertruck. All told, there could be 10 or more battery-electric pickups on sale by mid-decade, including versions...

NBC News found it newsworthy to announce that Ford promises to, yet again, double their production of electric pick up trucks. Also newsworthy is that GM has promised to make an electric pick up truck. Where all of the batteries to fulfill these promises will come from, they do not mention...

With this design, FSD would need to know to avoid all underpasses with less than 20’ of clearance. Might need more batteries to route around underpasses and tunnels and tollbooths. And more batteries to keep a low center of gravity to avoid tipping over ?

Well, those are the ones still posting here. A moment of silence for those who moved their trucks and slept in refrigerators…

Is this disagreement “Some intersections would be less dangerous with cameras on the front of the vehicle“ & “Current camera positions are as safe as current human drivers”? Can’t both be true? I would love for my Cybertruck to be dramatically safer than any human driver because it can...

Doesn’t Tesla have a history of initially making short-sighted decisions on pricing and then reacting to the social media outrage with a more sensible stance? I don’t think they will stick to their corporate guns to save thousands of dollars on FSD fees while costing themselves millions of...

Oh, that sounds uncomfortable…whatever it means ?

Is this a semantic argument? I think that fixed overhead spread over less charging causes lower efficiency. This interpretation of efficiency applies beyond batteries, for instance to corporations or charities with fixed overhead supporting more or less productive activity.

Crissa, is this a reference to the board game go?

The cheapest solution for a bare minimum is to plug an extension cord into the Cybertruck and run it into the kitchen with a power strip. Unplug refrigerator and plug it in along with other critical devices (cell phone, a couple lights, maybe microwave oven). If you have frequent outages, could...

? … ? Until a real electrical engineer jumps in to correct me…because the metal enclosures would have to fully isolate the electronics. For that electronics to communicate with the world outside the box, you’d probably need optical interfaces so an electrical surge wouldn’t follow wires into...

Cell phones work in cars because cars are not Faraday cages. Cell phones do not work in microwave ovens because they are Faraday cages for a range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation that include the waves that cook food and that cell phones use to communicate. You can see into a...

Cement does not conduct electricity, so it would not protect against an EMP. While the stainless steel should make for parts of a good Faraday cage, the windows and antennas (for the truck to talk to the Tesla mothership) would bring the EMP inside to destroy the electronics. Here’s a thread on...

I hope Tesla keeps their factory line simple by building solar into every tonneau cover and then charging us for the option at purchase or anytime later via software upgrade (perhaps at a higher price than at purchase). That would also make it easier to stay under a tax rebate ceiling for CT3.

Gold cars are for people that can’t get stainless steel trucks.

That’s brilliant, but does Tesla have the technology for this? ?

This is a good aim. At the risk of distracting from the focus of this thread, here’s a modest aim: fill the vault with gear and hope the front seats move far enough forward to recline flat. CT provides lots of cushioned surface in the cab, which I don’t want to recreate in the vault. When I’m...

Whether the CT we get looks slightly better or worse than at the reveal, many of us fell in love with form following function, so we’ll be happy that the engineers continued to refine function. If another car company had offered something as radical-looking, it would’ve been motivated by styling...

How did you get such a high resolution photo of the Beta?!?