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If it wasn't for the charging network and the potential for FSD I'd consider a Rivian right now.

The main reason I'd be willing to pay a lot for the CT is that I bought TSLA at a very low price, and could actually pay for one without killing my investment.

Hey, that's not fair...but a possibility. Probably suckered in.

I'd be out above $110,000.

Broken window decals

Elon and Tesla kind of lost track of the affordable part when they started adding four wheel steering, four motors, hardware four, heated/ventilated seats, heated steering wheel and such along with a Baja capable air suspension. CT could have been affordable if built like a truck...simple and...

A 79.9K trimotor CT would be the hottest seller ever...

The frame on this twenty year old truck was probably weakened from rust to some extent, and I'd be willing to bet overloaded by several hundred present of it's design capacity.

My understand was that the stainless skin is connected to the castings, just not with attachments that are robust enough to transfer energy/load the way it would if the skin were a primary structural member.

Cory Steuben of Munro Associates is an engineer, and his opinion is that Cybertruck's large castings are structural and the mountings to the body panels are "flimsy" so the term exoskeleton is not necessarily appropriate in this case. Cory went on to say Cybertruck is designed to be built like...

Looking forward to watching big powerful diesel trucks getting smaller in my rearview mirror.

Quark

There could be worse aspects of Cybertruck. I was wondering if the skin of pre production vehicles was thinner since the giga cast frame would be handling the structural load, and the skin would now be mostly cosmetic along the lines of the model Y.

20K ahead of me...maybe a couple three months further on. I'm cool with that.

Given the structure is more model Y like than an actual exoskeleton I'd be okay with slightly thinner stainless, but aluminum would be a major downgrade.

Fingers crossed...

Since controls along these lines have been used successfully in aviation for some time I'd welcome this technology with open arms. There are so many bells and whistles, unnecessary accessories my brother refers to as "donkey bottom wipers", found in the automotive industry. A few, such as...

What, the cop couldn't believe a LEAF could go that fast?

Fewer beers, less vomiting.

I can't believe you like beer too.