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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.
The courses are long, rough as guts, and the woops destroy vehicles.
Faster quarter mile drag speed than a Porsche 911 _while also towing a 911_ That's incredible marketing. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1730331223992472029
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.
For what? It can't be used anywhere near the battlefields since there would be no infrastructure to recharge and it is far easier to haul fuel to those places than to haul replacement batteries. They'd be almost worthless, use it until its batteries die and then just abandon it.
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It's bizarre that in the middle of a oil market crisis it wasn't expected that the consumer market wouldn't have moved to higher MPG vehicles on it's own anyways. To me, this is one of the hallmarks of a highly monopolized market where consumers don't have any actual choices, and where competition for consumer approval is almost entirely absent. The correct answer would have been to increase the number of companies m…
>Now we have a market that's almost entirely bound to congressional whim Agree 100% >mostly disconnected from consumer demand Disagree. Sedans are still around (Camry, Corolla, Civic, Accord), but consumers are voting with their wallets for crossovers. Ford killed the Focus and Fusion because they simply couldn't be sold for a profit since most people didn't get the high end models, and to be honest, I'm surprised Ch…
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oh common, that is clearly another social media vs Twitter fight. It's not Tesla place the range. It's EPA range. Just read the article: >Tesla vehicles failed to accurately account for external factors impacting battery performance and vehicle range, leading to a gross overestimate of the vehicle's range. So, Karens want tesla to account for a/c temperature preferences, rain, wind, snow on the road, and other factor…
> that is clearly another social media vs Twitter fight. What? > So, Karens want tesla to account for... Tesla customers. People who paid $50,000+ for the privilege of owning a Tesla. Being dissatisfied with the performance of the car makes them "Karens"? Gee, I hope you guys remembered to formally excommunicate them from the Church of Musk. Edit: Ah, I think I see the problem. Have you considered that the range is r…
EPA range is standardised. Any OTHER car other than tesla also loses range if you use the AC or drive fast.
This isn't some grand lie by Musk to sell cars, as you want to believe. The range is measured in a standardised way.
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An obvious, easy solution would be to allow car makers to classify a vehicle as either a "car" or a "truck" (once classified, it cannot be reclassified without the car maker being subject to the worst of both worlds). Cars can be driven with a car driving license. Trucks can be driven with a truck driving license, or CDL, or have to be registered by a company, or _whatever licensing requirement makes it perfectly fea…
Except that in all of America that isn't a city (most of it), a truck is a super useful tool and requiring a CDL would basically be a bad joke.
Seems like there's been relatively less attention on the 48V/800V architecture and the Ethernet comms/steer by wire setup, but I think those are what make this particular vehicle quite interesting. Up until recently I think 48V power electronics have been fairly rare outside of telecom/other high cost situations, but I suppose one major difference is that at 48V, transformer-based DC-DC conversion is usually a better…
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Thanks for explaining your thoughts.
Motorsports enthusiasts look at Nürburgring lap times. The Porsche 911 is at the highest level of performance on any track where you actually have to use the brakes and steering wheel. If the Cybertruck can do a good lap on the Nürburgring then its "FAST", but it probably isn't, due to weight. The 911 is not built for drag racing, it's built for a track with corners where you have to use the brakes and steering wheel…
Opinion: this is the purest physical realisation of the Musk/Tesla world-view. A kind of Conway's law for cars. Deeply depressing, and the tech merely distracts from this a little. Why do we need this thing, again?
[1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/11/the-tesla-cybertruck-fi...