Cybertruck Body Prototype Casting spied uncovered!! 😲

[HaulingAss]

YOU said “like an electric leaf blower”.

If you didn’t mean that, then you shouldn’t have said that. Or just… not argued when people said a compressor isn’t a blower.


You BLEW this all out of proportion when you should have compressed it into a simple “Oops, I shouldn’t have said blower!”

I think people are getting really pedantic here. A compressor is not a leaf blower, but it certainly can be used like one to clean out the bed of your truck if you attach a blower nozzle to your air hose. Kinda wasteful though (although it shouldn't take much air if you hold it correctly).

People use compressed air to blow out small areas all the time and I knew exactly what was meant by the phrase "like a leaf blower".

Lighten up people!

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[HaulingAss]

I am not wrong. There is clearly no SS exoskeleton in this pic.

Duh! The stainless steel skin has not been applied yet! And there is no way to tell if the visible sheet metal stampings are stainless or regular steel. We don't know yet and the fact that it's painted doesn't tell us that. It could be painted for visibility reasons. Clearly, it's not painted for corrosion protection because the paint does not extend to the top of the assembly! If the paint was meant to protect from water, the entire thing would be painted.

Duh!

 

[Ogre]

I think people are getting really pedantic here. A compressor is not a leaf blower, but it certainly can be used like one to clean out the bed of your truck if you attach a blower nozzle to your air hose. Kinda wasteful though (although it shouldn't take much air if you hold it correctly).

People use compressed air to blow out small areas all the time and I knew exactly what was meant by the phrase "like a leaf blower".

Lighten up people!

I said it was a bit pick from go.

That said it’s crossing signals. If I had a bunch of bark or yard debris in the truck bed, a compressor would be worthless while a leaf blower or vacuum would be fantastic. The two are not interchangeable.

 

[Ogre]

Duh! The stainless steel skin has not been applied yet! And there is no way to tell if the visible sheet metal stampings are stainless or regular steel. We don't know yet and the fact that it's painted doesn't tell us that. It could be painted for visibility reasons. Clearly, it's not painted for corrosion protection because the paint does not extend to the top of the assembly! If the paint was meant to protect from water, the entire thing would be painted.

Duh!

Or it could be painted because the final truck will be made differently from these extremely low volume beta trucks.

As you suggested, seems pretty clear these aren’t quite right in terms of how the final will likely be assembled.

 

[CyberGus]

I said it was a bit pick from go.

That said it’s crossing signals. If I had a bunch of bark or yard debris in the truck bed, a compressor would be worthless while a leaf blower or vacuum would be fantastic. The two are not interchangeable.

 

[RVAC]

Clearly, it's not painted for corrosion protection because the paint does not extend to the top of the assembly! If the paint was meant to protect from water, the entire thing would be painted.

Duh!

It's all coated, I don't see any bare aluminum or steel. White is paint primer.

 

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[CyberGus]

REALITY CHECK: Tesla is not yet in the business of building Cybertrucks. They are building a machine that makes Cybertrucks.

There’s go gigacaster, no stamping press, no origami folding machine. They just started getting these things installed, so this piece is most likely a test mule for sizing/calibration.

 

[HaulingAss]

Fundamentally the difference between exoskeleton and unibody seems to be the fact that with the exoskeleton, the skin contributes significantly to the structure. With unibody, the skin is entirely optional.

While the Cybertruck is going to have a unibody, big pieces of the skin will be part of the structure as well.

Maybe you haven't seen my other posts on this subject. A unibody vehicle can correctly be said to have an exoskeleton. That's what unibody refers to! Duh!

That the skin doesn't take a large portion of the load in a unibody does not disqualify it from being "exoskeleton" because the existence of a thin skin is not enough to disqualify it, especially since that skin contributes to the strength and becomes part of the structure. The term "exoskeleton" refers to whether the frame or skeleton is centralized or not. This is perhaps more clear in the animal kindom where the term originated than in manufactured items but a term is just used to communicate a principle.

Unibody vehicles can be accurately said to have an exoskeleton. The Cybertruck takes it to a new level because the outermost skin layer contributes a much more significant amount of the overall strength. In both cases the term is used to communicate a principle because a machine is not an animal.

Even the body structure of an F-150 could be said to have an exoskeleton but that doesn't make the truck an exoskeleton vehicle. If you applied the term to to the entire vehicle it would be incorrect or non-sensical because the body structure is just bolted to the chassis and does not contribute significantly to the overall structure of the vehicle. Yet, the cab and bed, looked at independently, also have supporting structure and that structure is not centralized but exterior.

In the end, it's just a term that is useful to describe how something is supported. Don't get overly hung up on it.

 

[HaulingAss]

I said it was a bit pick from go.

That said it’s crossing signals. If I had a bunch of bark or yard debris in the truck bed, a compressor would be worthless while a leaf blower or vacuum would be fantastic. The two are not interchangeable.

No one said they were interchangable. The phrase "like a leaf blower" was used to describe how the item could be used. Maybe you have never used a compressor to blow out debris from a corner of your shop or other area. I have.

 

[CyberGus]

...Then you're messy, and it's your own fault for carrying bulk cargo with midgate and vault open?

It is illegal to drive a pickup that has any of that blowing around, in any of the three westernmost states. Cover your load, clean your truck!

Do you also complain that it comes in when you open your windows?

-Crissa

Either you eat gravel for breakfast and huff toxic fumes for lunch, or you’re not a “real” truck owner

 

[HaulingAss]

It's all coated, I don't see any bare aluminum or steel. White is paint primer.

Look at where the white paint (or paint primer as you call it) extends up the A and B pillars. It clearly fades out towards the top, where the pillars join the roof frame. This is not how paint is used to protect from corrosion. Clearly the paint is being used for other purposes here (most likely to increase the contrast or visibility of the structure). If it were being used to protect from water and corrosion it would cover the entireity of the steel structure (unless they ran out of paint half-way through).

It's also not clear why you are so sure it's "paint primer". Primer is generally not glossy. In any case, it's abundantly clear this is never going to be a finished Cybertruck. It's a development chassis. There would be no reason to protect it from water because it's going to live out it's short life inside. It's just a tool.

 

[ED_SFO]

This body is prob used as a jig for the robots later on, to get them calibrated. The first test jigs have to be made by hand before they can be taught to the computers. Sounds like tooling stage to me. But I like we are progressing toward finally getting these bad boys built!

 

[Dids]

You people are wonderful.

 

[Ogre]

Maybe you haven't seen my other posts on this subject. A unibody vehicle can correctly be said to have an exoskeleton. ... Don't get overly hung up on it.

While I disagree with the first, I agree with your conclusion.

Exoskeleton is not really an industry term. Hard to really say what it is meant to mean.

Cybertruck definitely has a lot in common with unibody vehicles.

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