There’s a lot of truth to design converging on a particular solution. I’ve seen it a lot with bicycles where over a century of empirical experience has resulted in doing most things the same way.

Eh, wouldn't be the first time a manufacturer chooses style over the most functional choice. 

The impressive part isn’t that it’ll out pull or out haul a gas powered truck, the impressive part us that it has competitive specs while also being competitive on price. I think this is the first EV to be directly competitive to a gas powered vehicle without requiring factoring fuel costs or rebates.

All windshields allow the interior to heat up, I doubt the truck would be that much worse than the Model X.

I dont want to reduce my suspension travel by the 4 inches it’d need to get to “normal” height

The looks have grown on me.

Personally, I have never cared for Tesla, but I want this.

Where are you getting $50k base price? They’re claiming $39,900 for the lowest spec.

“That’s already difficult in modern trucks.”

“It is still quick with decent handling, something most trucks are not great at.”

The Model X also has crazy powered doors, a separate structure under the body (rather than a stressed skin), and a lot more interior than the Cybertruck. I’m sure it’ll be heavy, but it might not be that far beyond what we’ve seen in the Model X.

- we’re looking at a truck roughly the weight of a modern diesel HD

I guess one has to have environmental guilt or think they get poor fuel economy.

It also appears that the payload capacity is not up to spec on the vehicle we saw. Look at the rear sag with only an ATV and a person in the “bed”. That looks like someone throwing a cu. yard of sand in their 1994 ranger for crying out loud...

Realworld urban dad driving a crew cab with kids here. My ‘16 F-150 with the 5.0 v8, 4x4, crew cab, etc. has a 36 gal tank and a range of ~700mi.

I can’t see any way that the design actually improves anything about the actual operation and use of a truck. Really, it seems like it would be an awkward truck to actually live with and use.

As someone who works for an engineering company, I enjoyed reading this.

There is a theory in engineering that there is a natural path a design solution takes to the best solution. A sort of natural selection. Over the years we learn from our bad designs and our good designs, eventually working our way towards the ideal design.

Ok, that is really cool.  

Just like my 4x4 crew cab Titan....