Shipping early 2023? Bring It!

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A lot of really good points, but I have some quibbles.

  1. If they are folded and cut by a third party, you add a lot of extra logistics for shipping and handling. The shape of the truck will be unstable without the windows and structural battery pack so you will need to secure the very large cut/ shaped body pieces with sort of temporary frame.
  2. Just shipping and receiving 5,000 - 10,000 Cybertruck bodies per week would be a fairly massive operation. They will be nearly as big as the finished trucks and cannot roll on/ off the trucks on their own. Shipping rolls of stainless is much simpler.
  3. I’m pretty sure part of the Cybertruck secret sauce is in this process. I think there will be some process which will be evolutionary, similar to the way the gigapress is an evolution of the front and rear assemble of the trucks.

That last point is conjecture, but in general, I think Tesla is making the truck bodies in house. Just the shipping concerns are a pretty big deal.
What if they are stackable… like solo cups. :)
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Part of the reason I suggested vendors might send pre-formed parts was to remind everyone that first principles are the way to go, not “here’s how it’s been done to date.”

Vendors won’t always have their heads up their asses when it comes to Tesla.

Elon bought milling machines and 3D metal printers to make things like rocket motors when vendors were dragging their feet, but smart aggressive vendors have a great case for having production-ready parts as well.

Be prepared to help the cause and I’m sure Tesla will reward vendors who use capital to add velocity.
 
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I don’t commonly use either phrase, but you made me curious. WTF does “Champing” even mean??

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Umm…. Yeah.
Internet searches give internet answers?!

I get that nobody here gives a flick, but to excise my own seamans! And since you took the time to look it up, I’ll foolishly excuse myself into thinking you might be interested in a real answer.

As the idiom suggests, the word in question relates specifically to an equine behavior - doing a [thing] to a bridle bit.

As it relates to equine behavior, the etymology of “champing” is broader than chewing and instead a word for a behavior seen in wild equine or anxious/nervous equine. When “champing,” an equine generally opens and closes the mouth rapidly, pulling lips back to show teeth, jaws back and forth. It’s thought to be a submissive behavior, or borne of anxiety.

here’s a video of a young horse champing at an older, more dominant horse

notice, nothing is in the young horse’s mouth. It is not chewing, or chomping.

Champing as an equine social behavior, became used to more broadly to describe equines jawing and lipping generally, including showing teeth. Champing never really meant to chew or chomp, so much as to mouth in a certain way.

Turns out, when an equine is anxious, or amped-up and has a bridle bit in its mouth, it might begin champing (not chomping)…

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… at the bit.


Outside of the equine sense, “champ” and “chomp” may be near synonyms. Lots of discussions online about the idiom by the likes of NPR, NYTimes, etc., blindly assume that.

But with equines, to “champ” describes something other than mere chewing; it’s instead a broader but more specific equine behavior (which incidentally, may or may not involve any biting at all).

And when racehorses are amped up behind the starting gates, waiting to go, they may begin a specific equine behavior involving snapping their jaw, jawing, opening and closing their lips to show their teeth, etc.

Incidentally, a horse chomping looks more like…

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Internet searches give internet answers?!

I get that nobody here gives a flick, but to excise my own seamans! And since you took the time to look it up, I’ll foolishly excuse myself into thinking you might be interested in a real answer.

As the idiom suggests, the word in question relates specifically to an equine behavior - doing a [thing] to a bridle bit.

As it relates to equine behavior, the etymology of “champing” is broader than chewing and instead a word for a behavior seen in wild equine or anxious/nervous equine. When “champing,” an equine generally opens and closes the mouth rapidly, pulling lips back to show teeth, jaws back and forth. It’s thought to be a submissive behavior, or borne of anxiety.

here’s a video of a young horse champing at an older, more dominant horse

notice, nothing is in the young horse’s mouth. It is not chewing, or chomping.

Champing as an equine social behavior, became used to more broadly to describe equines jawing and lipping generally, including showing teeth. Champing never really meant to chew or chomp, so much as to mouth in a certain way.

Turns out, when an equine is anxious, or amped-up and has a bridle bit in its mouth, it might begin champing (not chomping)…

1663637144750.gif



… at the bit.


Outside of the equine sense, “champ” and “chomp” may be near synonyms. Lots of discussions online about the idiom by the likes of NPR, NYTimes, etc., blindly assume that.

But with equines, to “champ” describes something other than mere chewing; it’s instead a broader but more specific equine behavior (which incidentally, may or may not involve any biting at all).

And when racehorses are amped up behind the starting gates, waiting to go, they may begin a specific equine behavior involving snapping their jaw, jawing, opening and closing their lips to show their teeth, etc.

Incidentally, a horse chomping looks more like…

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"Champ" is pronounced the same as "chomp".

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"Champ" is pronounced the same as "chomp".

boom
You’ve been led astray, but…


I will never hear Queen's "We Are The Champions" the same way again.
…. led so far astray, that you now expect to hear Freddie to sing “we are the CHOMPions, my friends…”?!?

Here’s an Englishman, born in Oxford, a Cambridge grad, and so with a standard British accent, who runs an English education program and YouTube channel, which includes a segment on explaining idioms … it so happens he has such a video on the idiom “Champing at the bit”



Fortunately, “we are [still] the CHAMPions”
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