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Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by bob1029 »

buboard wrote: post #558
chrissnell wrote: post #42

As a truck guy who has owned a lot of trucks and currently owns a 2017 Ram 2500 CTD 4x4 and a Land Rover Defender 110, I'm telling you right now: this is going to kill it. This is the suburban status item of 2022. I want to buy this right now. This has nearly the towing capacity of my Ram and will smoke my wife's Audi on the track.

isn't the electric-grid dependency completely antithetical to the ownership of an off-road, off-civilization vehicle ? (also, honestly this design is a fugly tin can. Elon musk is generally going through a tin can phase (starship etc)). I wouldn't bet on many sales for this, but it's still interesting to see something so different

500 miles is fairly substantial range. I can see this being useful for a very wide variety of use cases, but obviously not those longer-term multi-day excursions into the wilderness.

That said, it is a truck, and maybe someone (perhaps even Tesla) will develop a modular LNG/propane/diesel generator unit you can put into the back of the truck for purposes of range extension. I realize this is inefficient, not environmentally friendly, and going in the opposite direction of what the electric car is supposed to do, but its also only applicable in those extreme edge cases where you need to be away from the grid for days or weeks.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by bob1029 »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #458
chrissnell wrote: post #42

As a truck guy who has owned a lot of trucks and currently owns a 2017 Ram 2500 CTD 4x4 and a Land Rover Defender 110, I'm telling you right now: this is going to kill it. This is the suburban status item of 2022. I want to buy this right now. This has nearly the towing capacity of my Ram and will smoke my wife's Audi on the track.

> This is the suburban status item of 2022. Yeah I don’t think so. Trucks are not suburban status items. This is more like the El Camino of 2022.

> Trucks are not suburban status items.

Have you ever been to Texas?

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by adriand »

bobm_db wrote: post #479
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.

Whether you like it or hate it, you have to take your hat off to the Tesla marketing department. This thing is a meme on wheels. _Everyone_ is going to see this, have an opinion on it, and want to know what everyone else's opinion on it is.

Exactly right. It's polarizing. Very polarizing, if this comment thread is any indication. And the pole of people who absolutely love it will buy it. That group of people does not need to be large for this to be successful.

This is a great example of the marketing strategy that advocates focusing on a small group of very passionate customers. If you can create a set of fanatical early adopters for a brand-new product, you're on your way to success. Very few products achieve immediate mainstream success and assuming that Tesla won't likely have the production capacity to meet mainstream demand anyway, this is a very smart play.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by dfc »

wongarsu wrote: post #500
sytelus wrote: post #484

Stupid question: what’s up with trucks in urban areas? I understand the utility of a truck in rural/farm setting but never figured why folks want to lug around that pointless empty half while living in cities. Two of the folks I know who owns trucks have used empty halfs probably twice in a year when bringing home some furniture but that too could have delivered free by the store. Again, as I said, stupid question.

Trucks in urban settings are an exclusively American thing. Because of the chicken tax [1], a 20% import duty on trucks, foreign trucks are unprofitable in the US. This lack of competition incentivizes American auto makers to create as much domestic demand for trucks as possible. 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

How is the chicken tax related to practicality of trucks in urban settings? It makes American trucks cheaper. But OP's question was about the practicality of a large truck in an urban setting.

It seems like you wanted to show off your knowledge of the chicken tax and just threw it in an answer to whatever thread came up first.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by ollie87 »

tengbretson wrote: post #321
chrissnell wrote: post #42

As a truck guy who has owned a lot of trucks and currently owns a 2017 Ram 2500 CTD 4x4 and a Land Rover Defender 110, I'm telling you right now: this is going to kill it. This is the suburban status item of 2022. I want to buy this right now. This has nearly the towing capacity of my Ram and will smoke my wife's Audi on the track.

Your wife races her Audi at a track?

Really weird if you read that post and that was your only take-away.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by aequitas »

James0x57 wrote: post #456

What about that "Cybergirl" that introduced Elon? She called him her "creator". Just an actress (Grimes) on video with weird almost-flailing gestures or was it an animated AI from a secret Elon project made in the likeness of Grimes? https://youtu.be/0y3wE0pgXcM?t=131 For real. When she's done talking her expression just goes full neutral like she's waiting for input. edit: this is not criticism, I loved it, I am gen…

Though the delivery could have been better, to me it feels like a "Welcome to Thunderdome" at https://youtu.be/0y3wE0pgXcM?t=201 where Elon is just living out his Mad Max dream. Love it.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck

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Post by fergie »

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.

Some people won't "get it", and thats OK.
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