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Not sure it matters whether you can still see the road with the frunk open, since you would obviously be stopped (or else be hitting the brakes for all you're worth ;-)

The angle is unavoidable because the windshield is curved. To avoid it it, you'd need a piano hinge (perfectly straight) between the windshield and the hood. Flat windshields are bad for lots of reasons (they give blinding reflections, they are much less strong than curved ones, etc.) and...

So that's why they parked the CT in front of the exhaust of the wind tunnel ;-) They can presumably crank up enough force to make sure the arm won't twist while in action, sort of a tornado or something...

The side fenders sure look primitive...

That I know of Tesla never stated that the exoskeleton would support the load, only that the exoskeleton would be strong stainless steel and replace some of the usual internal structure. The front and rear castings and the piece joining them should be the main load-bearing part, with the...

You can see the wheel wells, then the rear casting above them and extending farther back -- that casting will support the bed.

Tesla already mixed metals in Model 3 and it looks like a mix here as well. One needs to "bond" the front and rear castings with something very tough; the shell reinforces the resulting 3-part body, but is not the main structural component.

An option would be good, but I doubt it's feasible: structurally, the design needs to be fundamentally different if a midgate is present, in order to preserve rigidity. I would prefer having a midgate and the picture rather worried me at first, but I agree we cannot decide present/absent from...

Rear gate support? The angle from which the pic was taken can easily mislead us about relative heights.

Real wheels, and they match the aero wheels of my Model 3 (w/o the aero cover). The front looks much more practical and the wiper no longer looks like someone attached a truck to it... Am curious about side windows and what does and does not open.

I don't think the nose is shorter -- I suspect it's just an optical effect due to the dark reflections on the hood and mostly to the horizontal compression caused by the telephoto lens. I am pretty sure that the wheels are all the same size, but the "cheetah" posture / rising main body crease of...

Yes and no. Main damage to batteries is charging, so the 1'000'000 miles figure is a generic shorthand for a certain number of charge/discharge cycles. Most of the testing Tesla has relied on up to now is from a research lab in Canada that has studied Li-ion batteries for many years and...

Why are we assuming that the CT will have the same old charger on board as the current Teslas? The trimotor is likely to have twice the battery capacity. Even if Tesla revived the dual chargers used on older LR Model S (and the 1st-gen HPWC), we would get 96A at 240V and so take at least...