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Am I the only one here to pre-order the Tesla truck?

Jefe's Dope

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    Top of the line + the self driving option that will 'dock' w/ a trailer. ?

    $100 down and two - four year wait.



    I thought it was a joke at first but it's beginning to grow on me.

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    First ride. Lots of lighting, looks like it had enough torque to surprise the journalists. The 2 motor AWD cybertruck seems to be the sweet spot for me.

     
    '18 F150 Lariat, 500+ miles per tank, runs on gasoline (you know, that stuff that comes from the pump at gas stations ALL OVER THE FUCKING PLACE), definitely will back my boat next to the dock by itself (not to be confused with the "docking" Elon Musk does), and best of all, I didn't have to cut off my dick and move to CA to buy it.......
     
    Pretty cool for being so damned ugly. 300 miles isn’t very far in Tx and off road, where there’s no power supply, range is bound to drop if you’re having fun. Shit’s got to start somewhere and it’s nice that rich nerds are footing the development, that and alleged subsidies. I’ll be driving my F-150 into the ground for another 8 years. Maybe that’s enough time for them to make them look less like Buck Roger’s mom’s truck and probably deliver a $40k space truck.
     
    They recharge as fast as filling up a tank of gas, right? How much gas do I need for my generator if I take it hunting for a week?

    I sometimes eat lunch at a restaurant that has the charging stations. The cars take about 45 minutes on the Tesla super chargers (120kw), but those things are pumping way more juice than you'll get at home. Of course the home theory is that you're home and it can charge overnight.
     
    I sometimes eat lunch at a restaurant that has the charging stations. The cars take about 45 minutes on the Tesla super chargers (120kw), but those things are pumping way more juice than you'll get at home. Of course the home theory is that you're home and it can charge overnight.

    Do you get the same range on the 45 min charge, or is like a car battery when you charge with a lot of amperage, and the batteries get a surface charge that goes away more quickly if the battery is loaded?
     
    Tyey use lithium batteries. Huge ones. Cost something like 10-13k

    I have 2-12v 100ah batteries. You can charge those at 100 amps. No surface charge, no trickle charge, just pure bulk charging.
     
    Nope, and while we're discussing electric vehicles, the new Mustang Mach-e is huge NOPE for me as well. Thanks for tarnishing a legend Ford.

    LOL. Ford went ahead and tarnished that "legend" long about 1973-1978 with their Second Generation Mustangs.

    302 CI plant putting out an astonishing 140 hp with a two barrel carb.
     
    I guess they didn't use the guys who carve the full size models from clay during design stages, Elon just used sheets of plywood. They say to replace the batteries the cost is as much as buying a new vehicle. Does anyone here at the hide have a tesla, curious about what the actual cost is when you recharge your battery everyday .
     
    LOL. Ford went ahead and tarnished that "legend" long about 1973-1978 with their Second Generation Mustangs.

    302 CI plant putting out an astonishing 140 hp with a two barrel carb.
    Yet that tarnished reputation still killed the Camaro twice in less than 2 decades and dominated them since the early 80's.

    Also, the late 70's Charger was no gem.
     
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    For all you potential buyers please switch to either a mesquite or sweet Carolina themed deodorant, so when ems pulls your charred body from the wreckage after your truck catches fire they will get the full bbq effect.

    Yes, indeed. Fortunately, I drive myself and my family around in vehicles that present absolutely no fire risk... other than the 38 gallons of flammable liquid and multiple ignition sources.

    I'm not a big fan of Tesla's battery architecture nor their aggressive charge/discharge management strategy, but electric cars in general shouldn't scare anyone from the standpoint of fire. The largest pack currently offered by Tesla stores less energy than the fuel tank in my riding lawnmower (about 3.3 gallons equivalent).
     
    As for the rest of the truck, well, it looks like a blind person was given a verbal description of a Lamborghini Countach and then told to draw a pickup truck. My 9-year-old son loves it, and he's probably closer to the target audience.

    The stainless stressed-skin exterior is an interesting idea, but I suspect it will be quite expensive to manufacture and difficult to repair. It also may not survive the sort of abuse that many of us apply to our traditionally-built trucks (once the shape of the stressed skin is compromised by a dent or other deformation, it may lose a substantial amount of strength).

    To get 500 miles from an aerodynamically-inefficient truck will require a huge pack. There is certainly room to package such a pack, but I'm sure that Tesla is banking on substantial reductions in pack cost or else it will be challenging to make this thing profitably at a $70k sell price.

    The range is going to suck when towing 14,000 lbs, particularly if it's a trailer with substantial frontal area. I haven't yet done any back-of-the-envelope calcs, but 150-200 miles between charges might be a best-case scenario.

    Charging a pack of that size in a reasonable amount of time is going to take quite the charger. Tesla continues to increase the rate of the Superchargers, but hooking up 10-12 of those stations to the grid is going to be a challenge in itself.

    It will be interesting to see what else is announced by traditional truck manufacturers in the coming months. Can't say much more than that.