Americas best selling vehicle, decades running is the F150 and place 2/3 usually are Chevy/Dodge trucks.
What is HNs view on the Cybertruck? Outside of the design will it be substantially differentiated from the American leaders?
What is HNs view on the Cybertruck? Outside of the design will it be substantially differentiated from the American leaders?
Please don't buy one.
While certainly cybertruck looks tough and dangerous, there is no reason why there can't be crumple zones. It makes it safer for passengers as well.
If you’re being serious, it would boggle my mind that people pick vehicles based on politics. Suppose Bernie Sanders was CEO of a EV company that made great cars. I’d happily buy one of his cars!
Virtue signaling isn't technically the same as politics, but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius
Also not quite politics, but Subaru famously leaned in to marketing to lesbians.
There's also a generation of Americans who refused to buy Japanese cars because of politics.
Worse, the Cybertruck is looking less and less useful: the payload capacity is ? The tray size is ? Basically what is a Cybertruck for? Who is buying it compared to another vehicle at this point?
It's a pile of features which no one needs, and very quiet about the ones people do. No one needs "shatter proof windows" in a car. No one needs it to be a boat. What I need is it to carry heavy loads and seat 5 people. Can it do that? Can it do that better then something else?
Nobody has an actual viable electric truck right now. Cybertruck stats remain to be seen.
This is dogshit... how?
Stopping to charge for an hour every 140 miles is awful.
https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/148x6oa/cybert...
I am not sure if that's a test vehicle, or if they have started production.
People buy ugly cars. God knows why. Why did people go bananas for the beetle?
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/smart-fortwo-2010-3...
I only kind of want a truck but the cybertruck claims to add enough interesting features (bulletproof, 500mi range, Teslas charging network and autopilot) that it crosses the threshold into buy territory for me.
why does anyone need a pickup whose bed can't fit a sheet of plywood?
why does anyone need leather seats in their pickup truck?
why does anyone need 4WD, when they go on gravel roads 1 day a year?
why does anyone need a grille taller than a middle schooler?
who is buying this crap?
everyone is lol. drive around sometime.
That's an absurd statement.
Total truck sales in the US are 2 million a year. Total BEV truck sales so far is under 50k per year.
Saying the Cybertruck is to late make absolutely no sense what so ever.
Its a total misunderstanding on the ability of Ford and Rivian to grow their sales. Ford has a serious battery issue, as they were very, very late in setting up their own battery factories.
> the payload capacity is ?
Better then that of the competing trucks ...
> The tray size is ?
The same as an F150
> Basically what is a Cybertruck for?
The same thing most trucks are for, for dumb Americans to feel cool.
> Who is buying it compared to another vehicle at this point?
Anybody who would buy a dumb truck.
> No one needs "shatter proof windows" in a car.
Actually window replacement can have pretty high cost.
> No one needs it to be a boat.
That's not an official feature but something Musk talked about on twitter once.
> What I need is it to carry heavy loads and seat 5 people. Can it do that? Can it do that better then something else?
Yes it can. It will also be far more efficient then the F150 meaning you will spend far less on fuel. And it will likely have better range to.
Also it will likely be cheaper, F-150 has gone up in price and dealers add another huge chunk on top.
As for using it for casual camping who cares people take everything here camping. Heck I’ve seen plenty Tesla’s down FSRs here to go camping parked next to miata’s.
I can’t speak for everyone, but if it has vehicle to home power and a button to the play Mad Max fury road theme while shooting flames… I’m buying one.