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Elon Musk says Tesla has received 146,000 orders for its Cybertruck after botched debut

RetiredUSN said:
Awesome if you like a tiny bed and limited range.

Metrosexuals will probably go for it though.

Framers and Drywall guys................eh, not so much. :lol:
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It is designed more to compete with the crew cab short bed trucks that are generally used as personal vehicles rather than work trucks.

Most Ford F150's that I see as personal vehicles are the crew cab (super cab) with a 5 and half foot bed (might be 5 feet 8 inch). The Cybertruck is reported to have a 6 and a half foot bed. That is comparable to the vast majority of light duty full size trucks that are sold. Tesla aimed the size at the largest part of the market, and hit the size targets quite well.

The range compared to my Ford is limited (I can go 800 miles or so on a single tank of gas) while the Cybertruck top trim is supposed to have a 500 mile range (similar to a coworkers Sierra with the 5.3 L)
 
Rexedgar said:
Why hasn’t some manufacturer figured out how to engineer an electric vehicle that will plug in to basic household outlets? 120V or even 240V?
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They all do

With 120 V however the charge time goes way up. Like 8 hrs to get 30-40 miles of range. The 240 V would triple that. The Superchargers I believe double the 240 V rates at the very least.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
Well hes already made 20 million in pre-orders. For a car thats not coming out for 3 more years! I bet its gonna be the new Cadillac Escalade and tons of rap videos will have them.
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Eh... might want to check your decimal places. He has taken 200,000 pre-oders. the F-Series sells 10 times that amount per year.

If he is able to deliver 200,000 of those trucks in four years it will still be about 2.5% as many as the F-Series trucks sold in that same time frame.
 
jmotivator said:
Eh... might want to check your decimal places. He has taken 200,000 pre-oders. the F-Series sells 10 times that amount per year.

If he is able to deliver 200,000 of those trucks in four years it will still be about 2.5% as many as the F-Series trucks sold in that same time frame.
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200,000 preorders for 100 bucks each for a car thats not coming out for 3 years is ALOT dude. The cybertruck isnt really targeting cowboys and republicans I thinkn its targeting small business owners and hipsters and californias who want a big car.

The cyber truck bed is actually pretty damn big but the trunk topspace seems a little blocked. And the inside of the Cybertruck is WAY bigger that F150. I think its a bad idea for Ford to challange the Cybertruck to a tug of war dueling match hes just gonna give Musk more customers.

As you can see here they are pretty god damn close but the Cybertruck is even more comfy inside and holds 6 people instead of 5.

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I guess not having an engine and all the extra parts that comes with it REALLY opens up alot of space even though technically the Cybertruck is a little smaller. But it also doesnt have a standard frame that you have to bolt fenders and all sorta of extra crap on or the ****ton of extra parts that comes with combustion.

Hell you can even store groceries and stuff in the front. The cybertruck has a trunk in the front.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
200,000 preorders for 100 bucks each for a car thats not coming out for 3 years is ALOT dude. The cybertruck isnt really targeting cowboys and republicans I thinkn its targeting small business owners and hipsters and californias who want a big car.

The cyber truck bed is actually pretty damn big but the trunk topspace seems a little blocked. And the inside of the Cybertruck is WAY bigger that F150. I think its a bad idea for Ford to challange the Cybertruck to a tug of war dueling match hes just gonna give Musk more customers.

As you can see here they are pretty god damn close but the Cybertruck is even more comfy inside and holds 6 people instead of 5.

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I guess not having an engine and all the extra parts that comes with it REALLY opens up alot of space even though technically the Cybertruck is a little smaller. But it also doesnt have a standard frame that you have to bolt fenders and all sorta of extra crap on or the ****ton of extra parts that comes with combustion.

Hell you can even store groceries and stuff in the front. The cybertruck has a trunk in the front.
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You can get 6 people in a F150 if you opt for the front bench instead of the console and two buckets

The Cybertruck from the videos I have seen has plenty of interior space, and the bed is longer than most standard beds for crew cab light duty full size trucks
 
dirtpoorchris said:
200,000 preorders for 100 bucks each for a car thats not coming out for 3 years is ALOT dude. The cybertruck isnt really targeting cowboys and republicans I thinkn its targeting small business owners and hipsters and californias who want a big car.

The cyber truck bed is actually pretty damn big but the trunk topspace seems a little blocked. And the inside of the Cybertruck is WAY bigger that F150. I think its a bad idea for Ford to challange the Cybertruck to a tug of war dueling match hes just gonna give Musk more customers.

As you can see here they are pretty god damn close but the Cybertruck is even more comfy inside and holds 6 people instead of 5.

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I guess not having an engine and all the extra parts that comes with it REALLY opens up alot of space even though technically the Cybertruck is a little smaller. But it also doesnt have a standard frame that you have to bolt fenders and all sorta of extra crap on or the ****ton of extra parts that comes with combustion.

Hell you can even store groceries and stuff in the front. The cybertruck has a trunk in the front.
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Ah, I missed the "in" and your lack of a $ made it look like you were saying he took 20,000,000 pre-orders.

Also, I don't think that $20,000,000 is really all that much given the investment in creating an assembly line to produce the car. The vast majority of the cost of the building the assembly line will still be out of his own pocket, and that 200,000 will still have to materialize in 200,000 sales to recoup the investment, depending on where he builds it.
 
CLAX1911 said:
If you test it over and over and over it'll develop micro cracks. But who cares? Who needs an armored pickup truck?
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Every car should have 9mm protection in California.
 
I cant wait for Tesla's version of self driving Uber to come out. Its gonna revolutionize transport for a nice chunk of people. Would be nice to drive home then you tell your car to go gas itself up if the charging stations are able to do that.

But with their taxi service it will all be self driven and you can actually rent your car back to Tesla and it produces Uber and Lyft money for you while youre asleep.

Id be excited as hell if I paid for a taxi service the same price as Uber and a self driving Cybertruck shows up!
 
Helix said:
on long trips, the car apparently guides you to charging stations. a friend of ours made a road trip in a Tesla to hang out with us recently and wasn't too inconvenienced by it. however, it seems like it's more useful if you're just driving thirty minutes to work and back. the tech will almost certainly improve, though, and the butteries will charge faster. that has been the way that the tech has evolved so far.
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Driving from charging station to charging station isn't attractive. The other thing I noticed is more often than not there is no parking available - so you'd have to wait however long until someone leaves. Making this worse, in public areas it is common for non-electric cars to park in the few spots (generally 1 to 4) - so it isn't even competing with electric cars - but all cars.

UNLESS you have a charging station at your home a Tesla is totally impractical. Then again, most people going on long trips now rent a car for the trip. New cars are so costly that putting 2,000 miles on a newer or expensive car costs you less than the wear and tear plus depreciation would cost you.

Lack of charging stations is the biggest problem. Of course, running AC or heat significantly reduces your range - as does faster driving. You're not going far at 80 mph - and then 150 miles down the road you wait 2 hours for an open spot at a charging station, adding then another hour - for which you go to another charging station to wait - making your average traveling speed around 25 mph.

And what if you get to the charging station with 30 mile range left - only to find it's gone or out of order? I guess you have a tow truck take you the next charging station hoping that one works and is available.

Not for me.
 
joko104 said:
Driving from charging station to charging station isn't attractive. The other thing I noticed is more often than not there is no parking available - so you'd have to wait however long until someone leaves. Making this worse, in public areas it is common for non-electric cars to park in the few spots (generally 1 to 4) - so it isn't even competing with electric cars - but all cars.

UNLESS you have a charging station at your home a Tesla is totally impractical. Then again, most people going on long trips now rent a car for the trip. New cars are so costly that putting 2,000 miles on a newer or expensive car costs you less than the wear and tear plus depreciation would cost you.

Lack of charging stations is the biggest problem. Of course, running AC or heat significantly reduces your range - as does faster driving. You're not going far at 80 mph - and then 150 miles down the road you wait 2 hours for an open spot at a charging station, adding then another hour - for which you go to another charging station to wait - making your average traveling speed around 25 mph.

And what if you get to the charging station with 30 mile range left - only to find it's gone or out of order? I guess you have a tow truck take you the next charging station hoping that one works and is available.

Not for me.
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don't buy one.
 
CLAX1911 said:
If you test it over and over and over it'll develop micro cracks. But who cares? Who needs an armored pickup truck?
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They might come in handy for drive by shooters. ;)
 
CLAX1911 said:
Unless those windows don't roll down
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Place the shooters in the truck's bed - they pop up, fire multiple rounds rapidly in the general direction of their targets and then duck for cover under return fire as they reload. ;)
 
Bucky said:
Elon Musk says Tesla has received 146,000 orders for its Cybertruck after botched debut

Good for Tesla and good for Elon! This Cubertruck looks awesome. Already with a lot of preorders and more momentum than Ford's F-150. Elon is one of the most innovative leaders we have!
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the high end model gets 500 miles per charge and has an optional solarized bed cover that provides 10 miles of charge per day. With that I'd not even have to plug it in to go to work and back every day just by parking it in the sun where I work.
 
CLAX1911 said:
Major complaint I have about it is the stainless steel body. Why stainless steel?
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Reduces rust issues, allowing for getting rid of the paint booth, and paint of course. That would save $200 million in capital costs and $800 per vehicle (estimate on costs)
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
Reduces rust issues, allowing for getting rid of the paint booth, and paint of course. That would save $200 million in capital costs and $800 per vehicle (estimate on costs)
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Stainless steel does corrode, when it does it create a passivation layer. When you have this passivation layer it doesn't look shiny. So you have to scrape the passivation layer off which corrodes more. If you clean this off with a wire brush and the wire brush is not stainless steel it will begin to rust.

I would much prefer to just run a car through a car wash than scrub top to bottom with a wire brush.

Also if a body panel gets scratched or dented you have to replace that body panel. You can't do body work on it if you heat it up it becomes brittle.

There's a reason why there was only one car that was ever made with a stainless steel body and it's because it's a terrible idea.

If you're worried about corrosion make it out of aluminum. Sure you have to paint aluminum but purchasing the aluminum forming the aluminum and paintings aluminum it's probably cheaper than doing that with stainless steel. And aluminum doesn't rust it also passivates
 
dirtpoorchris said:
Thats where it loses me. I cant imagine leaving my car somewhere for an hour to charge and having to walk home.
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Optional solar rollback bed cover can provide 10 miles of charge during the day. For me, that would charge itself for the miles I drive pretty much daily.
 
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