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  • Blueduck
    Blueduck Member Posts: 1,734 Standard Supporter

    The Tesla truck looks exactly like something you would see in a cheezy 1970s futuristic scifi flick.

    Ladies and gentlemen, you have finally arrived in the future!

  • Bendintheriver
    Bendintheriver Member Posts: 7,270 Standard Supporter

    I don't get it. Exactly who thought that was a good style or look? The overwhelming majority think the Tesla Truck looks horrible.

    I love my Tesla, but that truck, whoa.

  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 38,900 Standard Supporter

    That's not a truck. looks like a shitty prop from a shitty scifi movie. Hook your 12k lb. 5th wheel up to that I want to see what it can do!

  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 18,095 Standard Supporter

    Should do pretty well unless you are towing up hill with the AC on and you have 100 miles to the next charging station.

  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 38,900 Standard Supporter

    For about 75 miles.

  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,573
    edited June 2024

    Their range is shit unless you pay $16k for a range extender battery

    While the Cyber truck can tow up to 11k pounds, towing creates additional drain to the battery range by as much as half. Towing while traveling uphill? Good fucking luck…

    The bed is too small for even a full-size dirt bike, unless you leave the tailgate down.

    The bed is so cool that when it closes it can cut vegetables or your fingers if you aren't careful.

    They rust very easily, unless you pay $5-$6k for a protective coating.

    You need a user manual to wash it or risk staining, and washing it in direct sunlight creates an even higher chance of permanent staining.

    Many have been getting returned due to poor construction. (gaps in doors, tailgate opening up randomly and not closing, rattling, windshield fluid hoses leaking into the the battery compartment, etc)

    Promised to enter the market at $40k, but early adopters are having to spend $100k if buying from Tesla, and almost $200k in some cases buying it through a third party.

    Tesla banned reselling the units for one year or risk a lifetime Tesla ban

    Anybody buying this POS "truck" (it's closer to a SUV) is doing it as a status symbol. There isn't much about this "truck" that is functional for a typical truck owner.

  • EverettChris
    EverettChris Member Posts: 8,778 Standard Supporter
    edited June 2024

    It’s hard to believe they went to market with it. Seems more like a publicity stunt.

    I do have to add that I live in a ranch-heavy part of Montana and don’t think I’ve seen a single full-size truck Big 3 EV, either. Every truck ad you see during football games is directed at this demographic. How could those companies whiff so badly on something where there is almost no market? People in San Francisco aren’t going to buy a Ford 150 EV with so which Greenies are these made for to drive?

  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,573

    the biggest issue with EV trucks is their range while towing. Very few people own trucks that don’t tow, as towing is a trucks main purpose.

  • EverettChris
    EverettChris Member Posts: 8,778 Standard Supporter

    Here in cattle and horse country, people are towing a trailer for a few of cattle, sheep, horses, boat, 5th-Wheel, or a crop in a Ford or Chevy 4WD pickup.

    The range and weight of an electric for that purpose makes no sense at all. Who did this market research? City people with trucks I knew in Portland hid on weekends to not be hit up with requests to help when people moved homes. Did not have a single neighbor in Slabtown with a large truck, either. It was the guys in the suburbs.