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Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by ilkkao »

canada_dry wrote: post #190
atonse wrote: post #64

You couldn't invent a more polar opposite of Steve Jobs than Elon Musk. VERY disorganized presenting. Badly rehearsed. Awkward speech. Speech is almost never in sync with slides. Demos failed spectacularly. The rest of the event was him with a backdrop of two broken windows. They didn't show the interior, and barely talked about the bed. Is this even good as a pickup truck? Is there enough storage? This all seemed ha…

Can someone that has actually worked closely with Musk confirm: is his thought process and speech as utterly disjointed as happens in most of his presentations? Or, is this a nutty professor kinda of shtick that Elon thinks makes him seem more personable? His presentations are painful to watch.

In the end of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ36Kt7UVg he is more relaxed that I have ever seen. I don't think there is any acting in his presentations

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by Aloha »

waiseristy wrote: post #306

I feel like I am taking crazy pills with the amount of good sentiment to this design. This thing is absolutely fugly. The guys over at Rivian must be having a party right now.

It looks absurdly expensive to produce, and is ugly as sin.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by elihu »

rdoherty wrote: post #33

I agree that electric trucks are important to combat climate change, but wow. If their goal is to sell to the market that buys pickup trucks, I think the styling is way off the mark. Huge, beastly trucks are a status symbol and signalling to others that you are are certain demographic. Same reason some people buy cheap cars and add shiny wheels and lights. Same reason some people buy BMWs and Mercedes. These are all…

I don't think we can know how the market that buys pickup trucks will react to this without running the experiment. Pickup truck buyers haven't had the option of buying a pickup truck that doesn't look like a conventional pickup truck.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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eo3x0 wrote: post #81

I know a lot of folks are walking away from the puzzling aesthetic but I think that’s the point. Existing Tesla owners with a taste for existing design cues won’t push Tesla sales any further. They’ve got to expand the demographic and this design has a chance to do this. Think of all the wrangler, hummer, truck buyers who want a militaristic, rough, unpolished steel look and this is that flavor taken to an extreme. O…

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Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by laacz »

The design might be intentional. Knowing that they would not be able to fulfill all orders of a beautiful Cybertruck, this might be a smart move. Reduces number of potential orders, proves a EV pick-up truck point, and sets an extreme price baseline, which for other manufacturers could be very hard to reach.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by Gravityloss »

Is it a good idea to make it so shiny? Coupled with the slab sides, you get quite strong reflections. Could be annoying at best to other drivers and potentially dangerous.

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Post by mattlondon »

pesfandiar wrote: post #272
nimbius wrote: post #252

Great truck. Very exotic design, excellent price point, However, there was one statement that stood out as a MASSIVE mistake: >The glass is stronger than standard car glass Please stop doing this. Audi and Mercedes pulled this gimmicky crap about 8 years ago until they realized samaritans, Firefighters and EMT's need to be able to breech safety-glass windows in the event you become entrapped in the vehicle (possibly…

The main reason cars with internal-combustion engines catch on fire during collisions must be a breach in the fuel system. While your point about rescuing passengers is valid, I'm not sure fires alone could support it.

The person(s) you hit, or that hits you, may be driving a petrol vehicle.
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