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That is new information to me. Western engineering practice customarily designs for separate independence. U.K. are just the opposite leveraging off integration at every opportunity. That integration is not a first principle which is where I took the batterypack OG design at face value i.e...

Cyber tiles anyone? We are going to accent that s.s., aren’t we?

Exoskeleton frame was designed and engineered before Tesla 4680 structural batterypack was a real thing. Adding 4680 structural cells into the batterypack: unburdened the exoskeleton picked up load force below CG transferred energy from castings through the pack mediated transient force travel...

Just lazy, prototype stuff for show. The receiver for the hitch can mount higher where it would be in-line with CE. No 14k load is going to be pulled with that hitch mounted so low. I’m guessing hitch wt. will max. ~12K lbs. The 14-16k pulls will be 5th wheel trailers. I think @HaulingAss...

TRUE Tesla are fixing stoplights too far outboard with too wide a separation in between. Landrover made this mistake in its early Discovery I trucks and found that they had rearend collisions. Discovery II’s were fitted with larger stoplights and added a 4th brake light in the middle. The...

They sell that by the bag? You guys are into some good stuff – door bender quality. LOL

Repost: 2nd request Can somebody engineer the trailer hitch behind the License plate, pls. Ass dragging isn’t sexy nor a high tech solution but it is First Principles. This is lazy OEM-era bolt-on dealer option that’s still with the industry. Its accepted practice that Tesla is following...

Why RT? Its not a conditional. The s.s. body has infinite shelf life. No reqmt that it be fabricated RT. What purpose does RT(real time)serve in GigaTX factory? That’s my factory, I engineer out friction points, time sensitive impacts and any constraint that overrides throughput. Yes Sir, that...

Why care? It’s a truck. It’s gonna work. It was designed for that. Bleeding edge early adopters understand they are Beta testers in exchange for being first. Minimize failure if reliability is paramount. That’s 2170. Battery chemistry, technology and charging improvements are making decadal...

An idiot sites a factory in TX then proceeds to ignore resources, talent and capacity nextdoor. México do automotive assembly, fabrication and engineering at the OEM level. Its not their first rodeo. Mexicans built two of my finest cars a ‘97 Tahoe and ‘12 Sportswagon. Wish they’d built the ’91...

Yeah…that’s different than “because a robot did it”. Luv origami, poly design and automation but M3 taught that not all things lend themselves to automation. A lesson that near bankrupt the automaker. There’s a reason the machinery, equipment and tooling hasn’t been set in-place yet at GigaTX...

I’ll have what you we‘re smoking last night. Bends in the exoskeleton are structural not deformational(i.e. weakening). Every bend is there to add strength, rigidity and direct forces transmitted into sheetmetal in alignment with structure. Welds have been reported where prototypes joined...

NBD Single motor Cybertruck RWD w/2170’s - I’ll take it VIN00000002

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That’s huuuge! From 7th to 6th…now 4th during COVID, out migration and the high COL in the golden state. The disconnect must be high technology that’s a-cyclical.

Add ground fault tolerant sub panel someday… you’re all good

Narrower, relatively, promotes sidewall bulge - very offroad-y good trait. That also leans into lower p.s.i. tire inflation - very offroad. Shitty Whr/km Wider, technically, addresses contact patch - very traction forward. IDK, how contact patch improves efficiency. Rolling resistance favors...

RtR is not the death knell of car repair, repairpersons or car repair shops irrespective of that famous Australian example of extinction. I admire the fun literary usage in context, tho. Here’s the deal people are missing in RtR. The high level flyover view reveals hidden in the system is a...

Such a rebuild scenario begs an inventoried stash of cells with known properties to capacity-match back to the rest of the OG module subject to repair. Not cheap, not maintenance free on the shelf neither but those are the odds in play. Anybody doing pack-level surgery is up against long odds...

IIHS is not passing, waiving or overlooking Cybertruck stance projecting tire width beyond the fenders, flares included. Its an optical illusion that measured only amounts to ½” but sticks out projecting its offroad-ready stance. Will be interesting to see the production variant.