By all accounts this vehicle is a failure. I suspect it wasn't actually intended to be the core to Tesla's future though, just an "epic" little novelty treat for Elon and some hardcore fanbois. But I am curious what their future is supposed to look like - were they expecting to grow based on sales of the existing (four?) models or do they have a new model in the pipeline?
Also curious what is their long-term future as collectibles. This vehicle is emblematic of the question. With cars and especially EVs being proprietary software on wheels, how collectible are they? In another era, the cyber truck would definitely be collectible.
I will bet that that did not take into account that the bonding substrates have different coefficients of thermal expansion. Bad engineers only look at the glue, and not what the glue is holding together.
But wow, why do people like the following put up with such bad design and engineering and still praise the company?
Tesla post 2020 is an interesting experiment in automaking. I'm fairly convinced that if the US wouldn't protect it's internal markets so much, both Apple and Tesla would probably be gone in maximum 10 years. Maybe not gone as much as greatly diminished.
Allegedly, the Cybertruck is the first car Musk was involved in designing. All the previous Tesla models were variants of the designs produced before Musk bought the company.
Musk didn't "buy" Tesla, he was its first investor, at a time when the company had only 3 employees, and he was chairman of the board since then (and he's its biggest shareholder to this day). Anyway, he was always involved in the design decisions (IIRC Model X falcon doors were his idea).
Tesla is done in Europe for political/cultural reasons. Tesla is done in Asia for competitive reasons but I think that Cybertrucks could be the nail in the coffin for even the most MAGA brainwashed Elon fan, once they drive it…
Model 3/y are still the best priced electrical vehicles on the market. There are enough poor people that can’t afford the new Mercedes CLA and must drive model 3 instead. I wouldn’t invite Elon for lunch, but I wouldn’t invite German brand managers either.
Tesla is done in Europe for political/cultural reasons. Tesla is done in Asia for competitive reasons but I think that Cybertrucks could be the nail in the coffin for even the most MAGA brainwashed Elon fan, once they drive it…
Tesla is done in the US as well. The brand damage is irreparable at this point with at least 50 percent of the population.
I went to Santana Row in the Bay Area and the Tesla store was very popular. Most regular people aren't terminally online and constantly worried about politics.
Tesla post 2020 is an interesting experiment in automaking. I'm fairly convinced that if the US wouldn't protect it's internal markets so much, both Apple and Tesla would probably be gone in maximum 10 years. Maybe not gone as much as greatly diminished.
Even the most fanatic Tesla fanbois, have given up on trying to justify anymore the absurd valuation as a car company....
They are always watching forwards.... :-) Now it's all about the value of the non existing...but coming soon robotics...And coming soon... but non existing, self-driving taxis.
Tesla is done in the US as well. The brand damage is irreparable at this point with at least 50 percent of the population.
I went to Santana Row in the Bay Area and the Tesla store was very popular. Most regular people aren't terminally online and constantly worried about politics.
You don't have to be terminally online to see nazi salutes at national political conventions or people protesting and pelting cars & stores nationwide.
I will bet that that did not take into account that the bonding substrates have different coefficients of thermal expansion. Bad engineers only look at the glue, and not what the glue is holding together. But wow, why do people like the following put up with such bad design and engineering and still praise the company? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT8FC4yF_68
But the entire world is California and Texas, right? No need to worry about extreme temperature swings.
I live in Ohio and have been LOLing at watching stainless steel Cybertrucks drive around completely covered in road salt. That’s gonna work great.
That is because iPhones are better and the US is much richer than Europe on average.
Thanks for your opinion. Oh forgot, lol. Markets are efficient and if the Europeans and rest of the world are not married to a US company(Apple) that doesn't mean the other product is inferior, the Samsung phone for example.
Now explain why iPhone is more popular in Denmark, Norway, Monaco, Andorra, Iceland, Sweden, Japan, Switzerland than they are even in the US.