Exactly!! For some reason Sandy Munro said that CT would be the only SS vehicle they'd produce but I don't remember why he thought so.
One thing Munro appears to be overlooking is the real reason for the mass production stainless steel vehicles: To reduce the per-unit cost of the raw metal for the purpose of reducing the manufacturing cost of the SpaceX Starship and boosters.
People need to think about and understand why the Cybertruck is the way it is before they start doing mock ups of 100 different follow up vehicles. The Cybertruck was more or less created to make manufacturing a truck easier and cheaper. Making other vehicles that look like the Cybertruck might well not be the easiest/ cheapest way to make them. I'm particularly skeptical about the van which has really long panels.
That’s what I keep telling my sex therapist
It's like the old saying goes.
The vault cover will roll up in the floor.
It passes through the mid-gate. So if you have something through the gate, the cover is either stuck closed or open. Just like if something is sticking through the garage door.
I think the local stainless steel mill was a byproduct of CT and spacex. Tesla didn't make the CT to entice the factory. They may have sited Giga Austin for efficiency.
Like the CT, it will have to be function follows form. I'm sure Tesla will have a lot of lessons and innovations coming out of CT manufacturing that it makes sense to further expand the SS line-up.
The stainless is double the cost of carbon steel. And the 3mm plate is 3x the weight. So it’s 6x more expensive just for the material and don’t go to the big what about the rockets. Elon buys a lot of both and is getting deals on both. I think this stainless exoskeleton is going to be an eye opener for Tesla and not as simplifying in production and magical as it was made to seem. I think they are still going to have stamped interior body parts that the panels attach to. I think in the end they are going to realize it’s way more expensive to do this stainless idea and that’s why Munro is betting that this will be their one and only stainless vehicle. It just doesn’t make financial sense and it’s a sales pitch just like the dramatic look of the truck. If the CT wasn’t stainless it would be about 25% less cool. Let’s see how repairing those stainless panels goes for simple accidents and see how we all like the stainless then.
