Confirmed: 11,000 lbs tow rating / 2,500 lbs payload capacity (official specs)! + Shatter-resistant glass

[JamesG]

Yet nothing on tech and mileage... At first I bit the hook and thought "this is the future" now I'm beginning to suspect this may be the next Ford Edsel. Fingers crossed he comes out on stage and hits a grand slam because it's the bottom of the ninth bases loaded and I feel like our team is behind. Lol I need a truck (I have an 08 chevy 3/4 ton) but I could use my $$$ for a mid life crisis buy just as easy and keep my old "S" box!

I sympathize. Mine is a 2012 3500. I thought Ford was bad until I had a GM

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[charliemagpie]

Elon did say it's a new product and hard to keep the price down,

Seems by compromising and shaving off some specs, makes it cheaper, and sells it cheaper, yet still gets to sell as many as it can make for 2-3 years.

Still fine with me so far... just tick the 500+ box.

 

[CyberTW]

people here are so often talking about how often they tow so large and heavy, and all I can think is “sounds like you maybe shouldn’t be driving a 1/2 ton truck”




To be fair, the 2019-described Tri motor appears to suggest Tesla was encroaching on 3/4 ton territory, with 3,500 payload and 14K towing, air suspension.

To be fair-fair to Tesla, people here are assuming that what is being released on Nov 30 is the only thing Tesla will ever release.

Which amounts to basically saying “if Tesla doesn’t release everything all at once, it’s quits for me”

Any brief review of Tesla history would suggest that it was maybe unreasonable to expect Tesla to release everything all at once.

Not saying Tesla is going to have an “HD” version, or anytime soon - I don’t know. It’s what will be most interesting to listen for on Nov 30

Well hopefully a lot of people quit ahead of me, so I can move up and can get mine!

 

[Zapharus]

This is the first time since reveal we have seen anything about the glass. I am glad to see the "Shatter-Resistant Glass" as I had fears that was one of the things we might not see.

Aren’t most windshields shatter-resistant?
They could just be a layer of sandwiched materials like most automotive windshields.

 

[CyberTW]

Yeah, it’s a pickup that can’t do most of normal pickup things. They lost the bulk of the work crowd when someone can’t move their toolbox or anything over without buying a new one. Can’t do a gooseneck or 5th wheel with that bed rail set up. Parts seem fragile and thin. I’ve never been trusting of unibody type trucks and it will be interesting to see if this holds up under heavy use like a full frame truck does. Air suspension is more gimmick to me, it doesn’t hold up well on the Ram 2500 and the other OEM’s didn’t adopt it for reasons. Leaf spring is still effective.

It’s a response to the disproven narrative (see the 40% of F-150 sales that go Fleet as example, or owner surveys saying 25%+ tow) that most truck people just own trucks to feel good about driving. I guess I’m keeping my F-350 right next to my F-150 lightning for a good while.

Keep the lightning, don’t get the cybertruck. Thanks! 🫡

 

[CyberGus]

I hope so, I have a 14 k trailer and I need to haul my 12 k JD 350 C crawler.

No problem, just strip 3000lbs from the Cybertruck.

Removing the BAW should do it

 

[CyberGus]

Payload capacity is a huge limitation on truck bed camper type we can install. Shatter resistant, i hope that's not included in price and an option.

You must purchase the "shatter resistant" option in software. Otherwise, they fill the back seat with steel balls

 

[CyberGus]

A very large number of Cybertruck buyers will have never owned a pickup before, let alone care about ft-lbs of torque.

"Foot-pounds"? That's metric-racist

 

[CyberGus]

Having bounced my head off of a couple windshields over the years, I'd hope the glass isn't too rigid and has some force absorption.

Might I suggest an airbag? Perhaps a seat belt?

 

[Jhodgesatmb]

people here are so often talking about how often they tow so large and heavy, and all I can think is “sounds like you maybe shouldn’t be driving a 1/2 ton truck”




To be fair, the 2019-described Tri motor appears to suggest Tesla was encroaching on 3/4 ton territory, with 3,500 payload and 14K towing, air suspension.

To be fair-fair to Tesla, people here are assuming that what is being released on Nov 30 is the only thing Tesla will ever release.

Which amounts to basically saying “if Tesla doesn’t release everything all at once, it’s quits for me”

Any brief review of Tesla history would suggest that it was maybe unreasonable to expect Tesla to release everything all at once.

Not saying Tesla is going to have an “HD” version, or anytime soon - I don’t know. It’s what will be most interesting to listen for on Nov 30

You are the one that said this is all they will produce for the “foreseeable future”, and with total conviction I might add. If you had said then what you just said it would have made complete sense. Dual now, Tri later. It doesn’t matter that Elon has created something new with three motors; to most people here the tri-motor trim will be a thing with the specs Elon announced at the unveiling (or better). I think that most of us tri-motor reservation holders can wait a while for Tesla to make it, albeit grumbling until it does.

 

[Cybertruck 1974]

10 days people!!!!!!!!!!!! How excited are you? More than me?? No way!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bkb13]

It does not have to be put into escrow or a trust. That’s not how this works at all.

Tesla can immediately use the cash for whatever they want to.

From an accounting perspective they have an increase in cash offset by a liability for the pre-order.

This is how kickstarter works…

Escrow

I suppose it all depends on what you mean by “touch”

Tesla is free to place those amounts in interest-bearing escrow accounts.

Not like that’s world-shattering money for Tesla.

But I’d have rather put my $100 into TSLA in 2019, than in Tesla’s interest-bearing escrow accounts.

 

[Jhodgesatmb]

That may an outcome of having no marketing department. Marketing departments cost $$$; I'll put up with that sort of mistake to get more engineering for my $$$.

Like Tesla is cash strapped :-(

 

[Red61224]

Yeah, it’s a pickup that can’t do most of normal pickup things. They lost the bulk of the work crowd when someone can’t move their toolbox or anything over without buying a new one. Can’t do a gooseneck or 5th wheel with that bed rail set up. Parts seem fragile and thin. I’ve never been trusting of unibody type trucks and it will be interesting to see if this holds up under heavy use like a full frame truck does. Air suspension is more gimmick to me, it doesn’t hold up well on the Ram 2500 and the other OEM’s didn’t adopt it for reasons. Leaf spring is still effective.

It’s a response to the disproven narrative (see the 40% of F-150 sales that go Fleet as example, or owner surveys saying 25%+ tow) that most truck people just own trucks to feel good about driving. I guess I’m keeping my F-350 right next to my F-150 lightning for a good while.

So basically another gutless drugstore cowboy truck. My hopes for greatness are fading fast. This may thin the reservation que for people that had intended on using it in an actual work environment.

 

[Knucklehead]

" you might still be able to escape your car in seconds if you can just shatter those windows."​

How do you shatter a window that is shatter proof?

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