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Re: Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs

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Post by zuhsetaqi »

hunter2_ wrote: post #797
reacharavindh wrote: post #795

> *Prices assume IRA Federal Tax Credits up to $7,500 for Rear-Wheel Drive and All-Wheel Drive and est. gas savings of $3,600 over 3 years.See Details Now, that’s amusing. So they exhibit not the real price of the car? But a hypothetical “price after savings” assuming the tax credits will still exist at the time, and that the buyer is going to stop using their gas car and use the cybertruck the exact same miles? What…

You're looking at the second tab, "probable savings." Switch to the first tab, "purchase price," and the footnote changes from the one you quoted to this: > All prices are shown without incentives or est. 3-year gas savings.

But why is the probable savings the default tab?

Re: Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs

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Post by baz00 »

NovemberWhiskey wrote: post #525
baz00 wrote: post #213

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Not totally. They have two redundant computers in the control loop. But they worked out this was a shitty idea if there was a failure so there are mechanical and electrical backup systems. Whilst "fly by wire" technically speaking they don't involve a computer in the loop. I'd still rather have a totally mechanical backup.

> Not totally. They have two redundant computers in the control loop. But they worked out this was a shitty idea if there was a failure so there are mechanical and electrical backup systems. Whilst "fly by wire" technically speaking they don't involve a computer in the loop. What's the basis for that claim? Even in direct-law, there's still a computer in the path. In aircraft with the BCM, that's still a flight contr…

AFAIK BCM is straight servo loop.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs

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Post by kortilla »

theluketaylor wrote: post #375
grecy wrote: post #308

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> * Easy enough any automaker can do it if they choose* Ahh, no. The Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat with 707 horsepower runs a 11.4 [1] That is the very definition of a car built to go fast in a straight line. Massive engine, supercharger, massive rear tires, and it's slower than the Cybertruck. > Lots of trucks aren't actually bad at it Please show me a truck that gets even remotely close to a sub 11 quarter mile. Heck,…

Hellcats are built to go fast in a straight line with the limitations of a 20+ year old platform. Beating a vehicle Dodge spent about $20 developing in a shed with a giant pushrod engine and hand-me-down parts they got from 90s Mercedes Benz isn't that big an accomplishment. Going fast in a straight line is easy for electric motors, so it's just not that impressive. It's like a native speaker enrolling in language 10…

> plus F-150 Raptor R does a 12.1 quarter mile. That's pretty close to running 11s

That’s 10% over the ceiling. That’s not close.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs

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Post by kortilla »

JumpinJack_Cash wrote: post #478
O5vYtytb wrote: post #456

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What is their utility? They launched more mass to space than everyone else in the world combined (states and private). Did you mean to question the utility of starlink? Because the utility of the company on the whole is quite obviously apparent.

Satellites are for comms and military. Consumers don't ever benefit from militaries so the only other option to extract quality of life from space is comms. But given that 90% of the population lives in urban areas comms are much more efficiently done using 5g cell towers and the good old cable fiber. The way I see it, SpaceX is like the SR71 or the Saturn Rocket, monodimensional individuals will always fall in love…

> But given that 90% of the population lives in urban areas comms are much more efficiently done using 5g cell towers and the good old cable fiber.

Don’t be daft, 10% of the population doesn’t by your own numbers. People in rural areas all over (Alaskan native schools, schools on the Amazon River, etc) are getting online for the first time because of starlink.

Your post comes across as “I don’t care about projects to eliminate hunger worldwide because most people have access to food”.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs

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Post by ikekkdcjkfke »

masklinn wrote: post #768
oceanplexian wrote: post #765

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Sounds like a terrible idea to me, honestly. Even Boeing aircraft still have a mechanical linkage. And Cybertruck won’t be a fighter jet no matter how much Elon proclaims it so, it’s just worlds away in terms of maintenance and safety engineering compared to what happens on an aircraft. Not saying it will be common but some sucker will eventually be killed by this.

> Even Boeing aircraft still have a mechanical linkage. Airbus has been FBW for nearly 40 years now. And recent Boeings are FBW as well, the mechanical linkages are only between the yokes, something which is not relevant on a car.

When i hear fly-by-wire i think of wire rope going from the flaps the cockpit

Re: Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs

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Post by 93po »

JumpinJack_Cash wrote: post #177
everfrustrated wrote: post #72

Faster quarter mile drag speed than a Porsche 911 _while also towing a 911_ That's incredible marketing. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1730331223992472029

> > That's incredible marketing. Still the best statement to describe Musk and his companies.

Which is amusing because they effectively do zero advertising

Re: Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs

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Post by amai »

It still looks to me as if the cybertruck originally was Teslas secret project for the military but then got rebranded as some kind of Madmax SUV. Ukraine could probably make good use of them.

Re: Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs

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Post by rcxdude »

gopher_space wrote: post #744
Projectiboga wrote: post #705

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I hope they learned from the Titan submersible to always go at least one step up from the cheapest game controller.

Their whole problem was custom hardware. I don't know why people were so hot on them reinventing tested commodity electronics.

The complaint wasn't that they used an off-the-shelf controller, it's the fact that it was a no-name aliexpress special (and wireless to boot). They didn't even bother to use a well-respected brand like the wired xbox 360 controller, which has been used in all kinds of similar applications (they also didn't have a spare). It was obvious even to a relative layman that this was emblamatic of a cowboy attitude, compared to the carbon fibre hull which is much harder to evaluate.
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