There's a difference between being able to afford something and not seeing the value proposition in a premium markup.
Being able to do something, and doing it, are two different things.
Some of us refuse, on principle, to pay above MSRP for a vehicle (as many other things). Which is not at...
Battery technology will continue to improve. Higher energy density, ability to accept higher C-rates without harm, and greater longterm pack health are pretty much all givens.
And at some point the Lithium-chemistry technology that the entire EV industry turns upon today will give way to...
Given that Tesla is having to actually invent various manufacturing processes for the Cybertruck, one might imagine that this ramp is somewhat unique. Some of what they learned with previous ramps might be a bit helpful. But, broadly, I suspect even senior Tesla management is unsure how...
Lithium chemistry batteries will not charge at or below 0C/32F. A vehicle BMS will constrain charge rates as those temps are approached. So, yeah, EV's benefit from a little more planning when it gets cold.
Tesla's have negligible pack cooling from airflow while driving. But the battery pack...
Most of us here are rooting for the Cybertruck, or we wouldn't be here.
But the constant need to rationalize whatever choice we've made - like that's the one, pure truth and anyone making a different choice is an idiot - gets a little tiresome.
The chart posted by @BayouCityBob illuminates the central issue at the heart of most of the Cybertruck range and charging woes today. There's much to be said about that, the long and short being that the 4680 has been a very challenged project for Tesla.
A high energy, low cost, dry process...
Like @bang21 said, very likely not needed, at least in the context of an ICE pickup with its very high weight-forward bias.
That said, throwing some additional weight in the bed of the Cybertruck is likely to improve traction in snowy conditions, simply because you're increasing traction over...
I certainly don't expect a watertight bed in the Cybertruck. The tonneau cover moves within a channel, after all. And it folds. Making it absolutely waterproof would be challenging.
But it certainly needs to be significantly water resistant.
Beyond the obvious use case of carrying gear -...
Out of Spec does range tests as well as anyone and we should applaud their efforts. I wish Tesla would loan them both an AWD and a CB for a month.
The problem is that cars are "rated" for range using an EPA test suite that is in no way remotely akin to what Kyle and company do. And so when a...
I'm a truck guy, with well over a million miles driving a steel bed down the road. But I'm also a science and technology nerd, and so from its very beginning I was deeply intrigued by what Tesla was doing. My six-weeks-after-the-reveal Cybertruck Tri-Motor reservation was kind of a lark. The...
I'd be surprised - happy, but surprised - if Tesla was producing 50 Cybertrucks a day this early in the ramp.
I'll also note that social media in general, and YouTube in particular, has everybody and their brother pushing out Cybertruck "content" right now. Not because they know anything, or...
Human beings seek affirmation. And human beings can rationalize anything they want - any choice, any behavior.
What human beings aren't very good at is seeing and acknowledging bias within themselves. They usually aren't very receptive to hearing something that is contrary to whatever...
Poor wording on Tesla's part. It probably means those trims will be shipping in 2024, not your specific vehicle.
If a new-today customer can order a Cybertruck and have it delivered in 2024 it means that the conversion rate of those 2m reservations has fallen off a cliff.
On reveal night, four years ago, it was the 500 mile range of the Tri-Motor trim that stuck in my mind more than anything else.
We don’t know what we don’t know, though. And sometimes something that seems imminently clear… turns out anything but.
Fast forward those four years. Cybertrucks are...
On reveal night I still expected Tesla to go bankrupt.
That was my reason for waiting 56 days before pulling the trigger and dropping a C-note into Tesla’s coffers. By that time the reservation order number sequence had already ratcheted up 466,000 spots.
Subtracting out the estimate for...
No.
Clearing price is everything.
Tesla knows exactly what it is doing with its higher-than-expected pricing. They know that it will result in a much smaller conversion rate.
We talk about 2m preorders like it's a good thing. To paraphrase J. Paul Getty.... if there are thirty or forty or...