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Potentially they can be produced like that, but the Cybercab has a focus for autonomy and clearly has the ability to have a wheel and pedals. The Zoox vehicles could be quickly adjusted to have a driver. Make the windshield clear instead of blacked out, turn a seat around, add pedals. The...

I agree they won't offer it, but it shows the capability and ease of adding controls to any platform with the technologies they have developed. Platforms will transition from being primarily driver focused to be autonomous focused, but the platforms will be able to do either for a relatively...

There are size and equipment differences, but it is based on the same platform with many of the same parts. Franz has also confirmed it will have new styling. It isn't really any different than the Y and 3 being related and the S and X. Platform sharing is a pretty common tactic to keep costs...

I agree he's determined, and he's going to make autonomy happen. I'm saying he knows what pays the bills, and he won't kill that until autonomy is solved and the margins are there.

Elon, despite what many try to say, is not an idiot. He knows that to scale as fast as he wants (which will be fast than they actually can), they need the infrastructure. The infrastructure is almost completely paid for by vehicle sales. Until the program can be self-funding, the sales will be...

While autonomy opens up a lot of revenue and margin potential, we are a decade or more away from it being able to replace the volume needed to justify large assembly lines and factories. Tesla has to sell drivable vehicles in the meantime and will continue to sell them for a long, long time...

Just for clarity, Tesla said they won't use Stainless Steel Exoskeleton and air bending of stainless steel in future products. Not that they won't use an exoskeleton with paint or other stamping/finishing processes. Now I don't think this will get made for purely volume reasons.

Black is newer.

They switched up the coatings near the beginning of the year.

Both have an impact… and for calendar aging, what SoC the truck is maintained at has a huge impact (and the exact chemistry matters a lot too… the 955 chemistry really prefers lower SoC where 721 or 622 doesn’t care much as long as it’s below 90%). With this chemistry, if maintained at 50%...

I was just making a joke. In my experience, I hit my shins less on full running boards than steps like these (and the shape!!)... but I won't pretend that I'm not clumsy.

They could do the same basic design and simply paint it. The air bending is simply there to keep the surface of the stainless finish acceptable. They could stamp those pieces out of slightly thicker than normal sheet metal pretty easily and painting would get rid of any marks left by the...

My shins hurt just looking at these pictures.

For clarity, they haven't come out and said they are not making a CyberSUV. They have said they won't use stainless exterior again nor the air bending process, but they could easily utilize more normal steel body panels with a traditional painting process and fall right in line with their...

That would be about 5% degradation and at 43k mi that would fit within the norm. The degradation is the heaviest early in the vehicle life. 5% wouldn't be super abnormal at 10-15k miles. It levels off though and really you should only lose 5-10% more over the next ~100k. The tricky part here is...

I'd love for this to be produced, but I have doubts it ever will. We can see from the R1S and even ICE large SUVs like Expeditions and Tahoes that this market is limited. Take all controversy aside, 60k sales would be a good number. 100k would be amazing. Now that is more than the CT and it...

I'm purely guessing here, but most attached garages keep heat better than detached. Though each situation is unique. My detached garage is better insulated than my house... :ROFLMAO: Anyway to keep up temps helps though. Whether that is garage, ending charge right before you have to leave...

You're missing the whole debate here. I argue that the OEM AS tires are better tires for the VAST majority of CT owners. There is a small segment where the AT tires are better OEM to OEM... but again I'd argue... those would likely be much better served by other AT tires on the market that are...

:ROFLMAO: at the bolded. You're making the mistake of assuming I don't use the CT hard and as a truck. I'd be shocked if more than ~5% of people use the CT as hard as I do. I have an off grid cabin that is pretty much up a 4x4 trail to get to it. Sharp rocks that puncture tires (funny enough, a...

I know what nerf means. There are two ratings and Tesla has built the vehicle around the ratings.... they are just a different spiderweb. You can also get all seasons with a higher load rating than factory all terrain tires. Also, by your definition, you are nerfing drivability and safety by...