I'm not worried about brush, I go slow when I'm pushing through branches and heavy brush and the cold-rolled stainless steel is pretty tough. Most brush guards are made of painted mild steel or chromed mild steel. I go through alder saplings and tall weeds in my Model 3 without damage as long as my car is clean and I don't drive through them too fast. The hardened stainless steel will be 100 times better than paint.
Except that the production CyberTruck is going to have giant plastic bumpers that make up the contact areas with brush, front or backI'm not worried about brush, I go slow when I'm pushing through branches and heavy brush and the cold-rolled stainless steel is pretty tough. Most brush guards are made of painted mild steel or chromed mild steel. I go through alder saplings and tall weeds in my Model 3 without damage as long as my car is clean and I don't drive through them too fast. The hardened stainless steel will be 100 times better than paint….
I hate to say it, but it could be a sign that his other equipment is not very adequate.
2018 wiring patent indicates they’ve been think about this for quite some time.
Listen to the presentation by David Lau and Pete Bannon.
Many of the roads in Canberra, Australia are essentially this!
You are my hero! See you can already get a PTO for your F150. link. So if the CT doesnt have a way to add a PTO its already behind the competition. Also the PTO could act as a generator. You could simply park in a stream or on a windy knoll and attach your turbine and connect it to the PTO and you are using the CT motors to recharge the vehicle. I see a lot of folks looking at trying to get solar power for the CT with some looking at huge fold out arrays. Well, converting mechanical energy to electrical energy is often a lot more effective.
You are correct in that having a seperate 5th motor would be a better way of doing it. You probably missed it, but essentially would only have to be a a 3 phase connection to the oboard inverter that can also act as a speed controller. That way the motor could be added aftermarket and be attached directly to the implement, and it would cost less than a $100 to add to the CT. We've been calling it a ePTO here and on other threads.Instead of a complicated PTO off of one of the drive motors, why not just a smaller motor that mounts to the front or back that handles all of these PTO functions? Tesla can certainly make little motors with the correct rpms/gear ratios needed for compressors or winches. This motor could even plug in via the ethernet bus to the main pc of the car if it needs to be controlled at the driver's seat for plows, etc. They say that the main drive motors cost $1K each so it's anyone's guess what this may sell for.
I only say this to get folks spun up about 5 Motor Cybertrucks, which makes quads look sensible.
