HaulingAss
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I'm sure you could drive it, but the chassis would not be as stiff and responsive, and it wouldn't have a 2500 payload capacity.
Technically, even the thin, soft, mild steel panels of a traditional uni-body vehicle add a little stiffness, but not anywhere near the amount that the super stiff, super strong cold-rolled steel that is a full 1.4-1.8 mm thick adds. That's why it is fastend with numerous M8 bolts, each one capable of thousands of pounds of clamping force and laser welded to stamped stainless steel backing panels. Anyone who understands this kind of constuction knows that it's structural in a very meaningful way.
You need to question your sources, because there are a lot of them trying to paint Musk and Tesla in a bad light and one method of many that they use to do this is to claim that he's lying or exaggerating when he calls it an "exoskeleton". Of course there is no vehicular definition of what constitutes an exoskeleton, so they are free to make up their own definition. These type of people want to make people think the Cybertruck is nothing new, that it's rather ordinary, or that it's even worse than the way it's been done for over a century. But no one who knows automotive technology actually believes that, it's simply a narrative to fool the ignorant and preserve sales of ancient, cheap, out-dated technology. Tesla has leveraged the software engineering tools available in a modern world to build a lighter structure that is stronger and more rigid, and that has better and safer driving dynamics than any legacy truck. Anyone who says safety and driving dynamics don't matter is an apologist for crappy, outdated technology.
Technically, even the thin, soft, mild steel panels of a traditional uni-body vehicle add a little stiffness, but not anywhere near the amount that the super stiff, super strong cold-rolled steel that is a full 1.4-1.8 mm thick adds. That's why it is fastend with numerous M8 bolts, each one capable of thousands of pounds of clamping force and laser welded to stamped stainless steel backing panels. Anyone who understands this kind of constuction knows that it's structural in a very meaningful way.
You need to question your sources, because there are a lot of them trying to paint Musk and Tesla in a bad light and one method of many that they use to do this is to claim that he's lying or exaggerating when he calls it an "exoskeleton". Of course there is no vehicular definition of what constitutes an exoskeleton, so they are free to make up their own definition. These type of people want to make people think the Cybertruck is nothing new, that it's rather ordinary, or that it's even worse than the way it's been done for over a century. But no one who knows automotive technology actually believes that, it's simply a narrative to fool the ignorant and preserve sales of ancient, cheap, out-dated technology. Tesla has leveraged the software engineering tools available in a modern world to build a lighter structure that is stronger and more rigid, and that has better and safer driving dynamics than any legacy truck. Anyone who says safety and driving dynamics don't matter is an apologist for crappy, outdated technology.
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