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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!
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.
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!
Should do pretty well unless you are towing up hill with the AC on and you have 100 miles to the next charging station.
For about 75 miles.
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.
It's Fugly... just like the Honda fit
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?
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.
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.
It's basically a status symbol purchase.
Think of semi trucks. Two 8000lb batteries to run one. The juice needed to charge it isn't available and the electrical grid can't handle them. We'd need an entire electrical grid revamp and dozens of nuke plants. That would be rather expensive.
I've seen a few electric bus fire vids I'm sure a semi would be even more insane.
Disagree, it's a very regional distinction. Whole lotta people in suburbs drive trucks and haven't ever towed anything in their lives.
I've got a number of these in my neighborhood bc California and wasteful status symbols that virtue signal are in.
Would never buy an ev for a whole host of reasons but at least they picked a direction for how the thing looks love it or hate it it's distinct and recognizable. It's definitely bladerunner.
It's not like any American companies are putting out good trucks anymore unfortunately.