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I drive a Cybertruck as my daily driver and I don't even know about most of these.
Cybetruck owners are the car world’s vegans.
This is a thread about the Cybertruck.
Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
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Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
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Someone commented on some forum: "People buying a car with a lifespan of their smartphone batteries is beyond me."
This isn’t even close to true, fwiw. You can easily find stats on EV batteries. There are early Teslas out there with 200k+ miles after 10+ years with minimal degradation.
Those are outliers. It's like saying there are people who live upto 106 years easily.
These batteries are subject to extreme temperatures routinely including fast charge/discharge cycles and we simply can't escape the physics with our wishful thinking alone.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#173There was a Cybertruck at the Paris Games Week (there was a Tesla corner in the con for some reason). That was my first time seeing one in person. The most striking thing was how tall it was. Half the kids attending the PGW were smaller than its front bumper. I hope these things never, ever get allowed in France.
That’s strange since the Cybertruck doesn’t meet European regulations (at the very least UN-R26) due to pedestrian safety. Not sure if there is a workaround if someone imports it as their personal vehicle though.
Obviously it's legal to own and display road-illegal vehicles. Just think about open-wheel racing, including go-karts. Just can't drive them on the road. The truck will have been transported inside a bigger truck or on top of a car transporter.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#174The weird thing I’ve seen is in almost all the online forums I visit, like Reddit, YouTube comment sections, parts of twitter, hacker news, the cybertruck is universally panned. Yet when I drove a cybertruck, the number of onlookers who approached me inquiring about the car with excitement is unmatched with even a Lamborghini that I once rented. Shows how much of a bubble the internet alone is. MKBHD got the ratio’s…
Nothing weird about it. It's panned as a vehicle to drive. Not panned as a way to attract attention, haven't seen anyone claiming it's bad at that.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#175Its the design. The memefication of reality is happening right under our eyes, and the Cybertruck is the perfect vehicle for it. Expect more such memetic design across everything. From people to products, the meme is the atomic unit of attention. Beauty is a secondary goal; to sprout memes is how you win in twenty twenty four - and beyond.
Very well said.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
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This isn’t even close to true, fwiw. You can easily find stats on EV batteries. There are early Teslas out there with 200k+ miles after 10+ years with minimal degradation.
Those are outliers. It's like saying there are people who live upto 106 years easily. These batteries are subject to extreme temperatures routinely including fast charge/discharge cycles and we simply can't escape the physics with our wishful thinking alone.
For actively cooled car batteries, they’re not outliers. At this point, the onus is on you to show the generally accepted data about EV battery lives are wrong.
You aren’t going to be able to find legit data that says EV batteries regularly fail around the 3-5 year mark, like phone batteries.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#177There was a Cybertruck at the Paris Games Week (there was a Tesla corner in the con for some reason). That was my first time seeing one in person. The most striking thing was how tall it was. Half the kids attending the PGW were smaller than its front bumper. I hope these things never, ever get allowed in France.
That’s strange since the Cybertruck doesn’t meet European regulations (at the very least UN-R26) due to pedestrian safety. Not sure if there is a workaround if someone imports it as their personal vehicle though.
If it's strictly the height that's the issue Tesla can make it so it's software locked not to surpass a certain height on paved roads or geo fence it.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#178Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#179There was a Cybertruck at the Paris Games Week (there was a Tesla corner in the con for some reason). That was my first time seeing one in person. The most striking thing was how tall it was. Half the kids attending the PGW were smaller than its front bumper. I hope these things never, ever get allowed in France.
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I drive a Cybertruck as my daily driver and I don't even know about most of these.
I smoke a pack a day and I haven't heard of lung cancer. I play the lottery every day and I haven't won a dollar. Etc etc
That's not equivalent.
You are describing likelihoods in time series, we are discussing the likelihoods of exceptional defects, period. Which is actually low.