This is their first product of this type. It's sort of how Tesla started with just the Roadster and not two, or three, or several models at the same time.
The company is also a successful facial recognition software company, so Cyberlandr isn't the only iron they have in the fire to generate...
Think of the shape of the bed in your GMC, with the lower sidewalls and the internal wheel wells...how in the hell do you expect a Cyberlandr to fold into that?
Cyberlandr may make a camper to fit a more conventional truck bed someday, but the design will need to be drastically different.
No offense, but you sound as if you get your investing advice from Jim Cramer.
The mainstream financial pundits want you to focus on the margins. In the long run, the margins from quarter to quarter don't matter, Tesla are miles more profitable than any other car company making BEVs.
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Ridglines are small to midsize trucks at best, not an apples to apples comparison as far as use cases go, despite the unibody construction.
Let's see how a Ridgline body panel looks after one blow from a sledgehammer.
Maybe this prototype doesn't have the video mirror, or maybe the driver forgot to close the vault cover, or maybe this one doesn't have a vault cover, or maybe the range fell out of the vault, since it wasn't properly tied down, or maybe it's Maybeline? /s;):geek: