I'm not a truck person, but I think it's beautiful, and the Cyber Truck is ugly as sin.
Posted on 01/06/2023 7:37:51 AM PST by Red Badger
I saw a Rivian on the road Wednesday night in Destin..................
Rivian is a dead company walking, Ford lighting was proven junk.
Well he won’t in the winter time. Anyone dumb enough to buy something like this with a power grid in poor shape like ours, is a total nincompoop.
The front end styling is pretty unique...hard to miss.
They’re built in Illinois in a former Chrysler/Mitsubishi plant so I’ve seen a few in Indiana.
“So, it’s not a work truck”
bert,
Neither is the Honda Ridgeline. They sell a lot of those.
I am on my third Tacoma(88, 99, 2012). My current one is the double cab long bed. I still can not fit a 4x8 sheet of plywood/osb in my truck with the tail gate closed.
The three guys driving diesel Chevy/GMC pickups in my office do not use them for work. Two of them pull a boat occasionally. Another pulls a camper and plows along driveway.
Just what America needs another electric truck that cant haul or pull a load for any useful distance without depleting the battery. An expensive ‘truck’ for virtue signaling urban cowboys and faux tradesmen.
Any idea of the resources needed to construct “inductive highways”? As someone who’s been in the construction industry all my life my guess would be unless there are advances in “room temperature super conducting carbon nanotubes” that can be added to paving materials it’s all “pie in the sky” and no one here will live long enough to see it.
I saw interesting article and chart the other day about 350KW chargers. The big power dump happens within the first 30% of battery capacity. At about 50% of capacity, charging curves start to match up with the slower 120KW chargers.
I'm not a truck person, but I think it's beautiful, and the Cyber Truck is ugly as sin.
“You won’t be able to give an EV away once hydrogen fuel cells hit the market.”
The same is true of some of the new battery technology that is coming online. This is not the time to buy an electric vehicle.
We are on the verge of an energy revolution if we can keep the woke, “Science is racist” bunch at bay a little longer.
Perhaps the only multi-national corporation left with a lick of sense.
The Toyota Mirai doesn’t use batteries. The fuel cell generates electricity to power electric drive motors. Honda’s initial offering of a hydrogen powered vehicle will also include a plug in option, but that is more out of necessity than practicality due to the lack of hydrogen fueling infrastructure. Either way, I’d dump Tesla stock if I owned any. Toyota and Honda are both leapfrogging the competition in a huge way.
Musk being canceled for not being a liberal.
All this excitement over a truck that doesn’t exist.
Cameras instead of side mirrors. Just something else that’s expensive and prone to failure given Ram’s proclivity for crappy electrical systems. Why no leave the damn mirrors?
They still aren’t ready for primetime, but this is a bit closer.
I can’t imagine one working where you have to carry really heavy stuff in the cold, but I expect that for carrying a few sheets of plywood or sheetrock and a box of tools here in California they will catch on sooner or later.
Plus, at least around here (northern CA) for every legit tradesman there are 50+ posers who’ve never had anything bigger than a bicycle in the bed.
Yep, I saw it coming down a service road in Destin in the dark and immediately knew what it was by the headlights...........
I had a 1958. 290 with a granny low. Bought it for $300, drove the hell out of it, put the Fear of GOD into at least three tailgators and a couple of red light runners (it must have been the Rustoleum paint), sold it for $600 a few years later. Not going to do that with some electric $50K toy.
That is why the Tesla pickup will probably sell well to people needing a work truck. They are very tough, rugged even. I saw a video describing the very careful work related design. Companies that use trucks day in and day out will find the work features very attractive.
A few years back, I visited Texas and a guy in the campground insisted I take a day to drive around the Permian Basin oil fields. What was imbedded in my mind was the sheer volume of white pickups. Most had just one man on some unknown but busy mission. He was in his working truck. Those are the market Tesla is seeking I think.
Years ago I sold my well used and very old GMC pickup and bought a Sprinter van. It is a work truck at heart
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