If I remember correctly, stainless steel is not immune from corrosion/staining, just a lot more resistant. And it will scratch. Boy will it scratch. And everyone says “that’s easy. just hit it with a scotch-brite pad” but that never looks right... I mean, there’s multiple reasons we coat steel and not all of them are…

At least the cybertruck deposit is only $100. That’s like missing out on $5 of interest over 3 years.  Roadster 2.0 required a $50,000!! deposit starting in 2017! And they don’t even talk about it anymore. Of course, Roadster is for the Richie Rich’s of this world so maybe 50k is like 100 to them.

Good thing they’ve avoided buying tooling, in exchange for only a 3+ year delay while they figure out how to actually make the thing.

The last thing you want in a body panel is a more rigid structure. The collapse of panels during a collision is an essential component of passenger safety systems. The panels need to be rigid up to a point, but we are already at that point with creased Carbon steel that allows for both low flex rigidity and…

 Did you read the whole article ? Tesla has fallen further than second place in autonomous driving 

I said this in an earlier cyber truck thread.  Stainless steel will not deform to the degree that aluminum will on impact, putting both driver and pedestrians at increased risk.  Imagine an offset head-on crash test with that stainless steel shitbox?  BOOOIIIINNNNGGGGGG!

I’ve been curious as to what grade of “stainless” steel they would be using for the Cybertruck body. The grade will have major implications for the cost, manufacturing processes, and durability. As you noted, some grades will not hold up well to environmental conditions (extreme temperatures, acid rain, salt, etc).

I mean just like how Elon stated that Tesla’s autopilot FSD is so advance that other competitors aren’t even close to Tesla

TBH Musk might have well put this on Kickstarter. 

The panels are supposed to be 3mm thick. What cost savings are there other than with production ones self-imposed by the abjectly stupid plan in the first place? The whole idea for this should have been a throwaway drunken “what if?” conversation. If this asswipe just wanted SS (because of the common abbreviation’s…

Boring Company.

Thank you for actual technical talk instead of Elon bad or Elon good.

His next project will be to ask “what if the whole airplane was made of the same material as the black box?”

It boggles my mind that people still believe this thing will get approved by the DOT and manufactured in any meaningful way. Why anyone would support meme lord douchbag Elon is beyond me.

Simple: he didn’t exist. It was always a made-up PR persona.

I know its a hot take but this Elon guy seems like he might be a piece of shit.

What has surprised me most about this leak is the number of fanboys who’ve seen the leaked footage, replete with placeholder models, temporary animation, and visible code superimposed on top of the gameplay and gone “WTF, Rockstar?! This doesn’t look like a finished game! What a clown show!”

Toyota doesn’t “make” the Mk5 Supra, so it doesn’t belong on this list.

That’s an easy one

Of course it’s a Fratzog. It was originally used on the turbo-encabulator. Since you couldn’t see it, they decided to put on the hoods of their cars as well so everyone knew they had a car with the turbo-encabulator.