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If it goes in a mud bog I'll hit it with a pressure washer. Again to get the road salt residue off of it twice each winter. Otherwise, Why Bother cleaning it? There's no reason.

You guys are silly. Do you really think that one-Inch hail would do even slight damage to 3mm stainless steel or armor glass? I don't think it will. I think you'd need sledgehammers raining from the sky. The only reason you would ever need to take your CT inside is in extreme cold, to preserve...

About the weight of the 3mm stainless body.... How much does the frame of an F150 weigh? I'd say it's "a heck of a lot" The CT has no frame. The CT trades the weight of a frame for extra weight in the body. The body of the CT is probably about the same weight as the body and frame of a regular...

Have been looking for more pics showing the steel edge-on, to hopefully get a better idea of how thick... Here's a couple of screen caps. Both are from the unveiling event. This is inside the bed, with the tailgate down, and you can see the latch the tailgate hooks to. Look just above the...

I'm looking for information about wrapping stainless steel, not finding much. In the meantime, I'll make some guesses. I do not claim to be any kind of expert. If you put a sticker on it, and then five years later remove the sticker, the area under the sticker will be LESS weathered than the...

Corrosion, at least on the stainless steel portions, will be a non-issue. Have you seem this? Tesla says they are using 3mm of cold-rolled stainless. 3mm is slightly thicker than 12 gauge. It's almost an eighth inch thick.

Pitting corrosion is something we will definitely see, especially where road salt is used. But it is mostly cosmetic damage, and it will take decades for the pits to be larger than pin-pricks. In salt mines they use all kinds of corrosion inhibitors on their trucks and still they never last two...

Titanium, in most of it's alloys, is about the same hardness as carbon steel. It gets it's name and reputation from a lot of other things. Chemical resistance, almost as light as aluminum, biological compatibility, temperature resistance (hot and cold), can be bent repeatedly... The best...

If you need something like a ladder rack, the easiest way to do it is going to be..... weld it directly to the body. There's no paint. I do believe that a lot of mods are going to be done that way. Just stick it on and weld the gap.

I'll say it again. This is not going to be like anything that came before. You are comparing aluminum at 0.032 inch and work hardened stainless that is 0.11 inch. It looks like a piece of of angle iron flew right through that aluminum. The same piece of angle iron flying at the same speed...

The two square tubes are 2-1/4 and 2-1/2 inches. Regular steel, not stainless. The smaller tube is said to be 30 percent stronger at the same weight. I looked up DOT-111, and railroad tank cars are a minimum thickness of 7/16'th inch or 11.1mm. And I found an interesting stainless steel fact. It...

This is not going to be like anything that came before. When they say "exoskeleton" it sounds like the body is very, very structural. Even a small deformation in one panel will pull other panels out of alignment. Then add the folded origami construction, and we're starting to get weird. It's...