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And, as it turns out, maybe not a great idea even if you had all the specs in hand and they were firm/fixed for the CT you eventually get, anyway. Tesla's wheel & tire combos are "calibrated". The truck's computing systems will be made aware of tire & wheel characteristics, some derived...

I feel like the take-rate for the entire pool of reservations would be very hard to predict, given that they'd take such a long time to fulfill, and the amount of change that can occur in that time frame (both positive and negative). A refinement of the question seems possible, though, given...

The next big step would seem to be about making a small number of production-representative Cybertrucks to get the vehicle firmware development effort moving, in parallel with the manufacturing story. Vehicle firmware and volume manufacturing have complex interdependencies. Having even one CT...

Slate chose to dwell on the weight issue a bit when the F150 Lightning was announced: https://slate.com/business/2021/05/ford-f150-lightning-electric-weight.html (so technically I suppose the CT would still be lighter than an F150 if it weighed less than 6500 lbs) I suspect higher-nickel...

Yes, precisely that, and it makes me think we are at a point of needing investigations into the investigations. This has gone on long enough now, and it would not be the first time that disruption of an industry attracted corrupt minds to defend the status quo. The coal industry leaps to mind...

Judging by the posts above, I'm not the only one who felt grumpy when reading this article. Sensationalizing things in order to sell clicks is starting to get on my nerves. The author wrote the headline and then shaped the narrative in a sad attempt to support it. Happens all the time. I am...

I wouldn't necessarily stack those two statements, except to say that pretty much every Cybertruck will have the then-latest FSD hardware. Tesla doesn't build a lot of vehicles with designs it has left behind. This could mean that an early trimotor has a different FSD hardware suite than a...

Yep didn't mean to suggest that Tesla would paint these. I can see owners having that done, though. If cheap/easy enough I might buy spares, have 'em painted with something tough (Imron, maybe?) and put 'em on so I can tell my CT from the next one over in the parking lot. Am now hopeful...

Many vehicles have a plastic body-colored bumper cover, plus (at least at the front end) a black plastic underbody panel meant to minimize the amount of road grime that drifts into the engine compartment. The former is cosmetic, the latter lightly-protective, and both can help with aero...

304 will tend to acquire some light surface rust over time in that climate (my boat, on Monterey Bay, likes to tell me about this) whereas 316 will not. Many metal polish products will take the rust off of 304 with ease. Since Tesla is planning on using its own alloy, I suppose we won't know...

I don't know how you deal with the possibility of a ricochet in a test like that. Hope nobody gets hurt! McMaster (https://www.mcmaster.com/metals/stainless-steel/) sells various stainless steel types but you'd probably have to guess at the specifics Tesla will use and somehow extrapolate from...

Yeah that'd depend on a significant towing capacity increase for CT. As I understand it the current limit for the tri-motor is 14K lb. I expect to be towing the occasional rented bobcat and such, and custom mid-sized box trailer built for toy hauling at 80MPH that I have yet to design. I...

That's a really good point. While Tesla has some great engineers and they certainly do innovate, it is really hard to see how four wheel steering doesn't introduce a whole bunch of additional bits and pieces that have cost and weight, and can break, but won't get put to use every day. Unless...

Congrats on the Model 3! That experience does make me wonder if our delivery options will be different based on where in the quarter/year the delivery date happens to fall. Tesla still seems to have that funny rush-to-deliver-at-the-end thing going on. Maybe a pickup in early April will be...

I thought Electrek did a nice job with this: https://electrek.co/2021/06/28/tesla-massive-recall-china-adding-a-chime-when-activating-cruise-control/ So, yeah, adding a chime via an OTA update. I don't know how the TSLAQ crowd gets the press to do its bidding, but at least this time it has...

Comparisons to Roadster 2 are illogical, IMO. That is a low-volume trophy car that only indirectly supports the company's mission and it is smart to de-prioritize it. Pickup trucks are another matter. Change the emissions footprint of the American pickup truck and you've actually done...

Admittedly I see my CT towing big trailers (boat as big as the road allows, travel trailer with elbow room, that sort of thing). I might have a different perspective if a small cargo trailer would do. Seems likely to me, then, that many circumstances will suggest decoupling a trailer to...

Why is breaking ice preferable to melting it? I'm still a little lost on this idea.

Agreed, definitely silly! So yes, you're on - and I'll concede at the first evidence of anything panel, underbody, and/or subframe made in Austin showing up a Fremont-made CT. It will be fun to try to figure that out...

I've seen my share of frozen doors and have broken off a frozen door handle of my own (decades ago, on a Swedish-built Saab, right from Trollhättan, even). In the land where block heaters rule and one occasionally has to pour hot water on a door seal and/or handle to get in, I think the CT will...