I have series doubts about the Tesla’s ability to tow its full rating for any useful mileage. Simply driving uphill at highway speeds can halve the “range” of a normal EV. Because they are so efficient, with very little wasted energy, the effect of greater loads on an EV are more noticeable.

“plans to be profitable going forward”

This is absolutely the right answer and basically what I’ve been explaining to people who have asked me about it. That 3+mm thick stainless steel is actually 5x as thick as a lot of exterior body panels on typical cars and trucks (which are typically made of fairly soft, weak steel on cosmetic surfaces), and has a…

I think this thing is exactly what I’m looking for. We tow a race car or equipment trailer 6-12 times a year. We need a big car a few times a year. I sold my Yukon XL because it sucked too much gas for road trips or business delivery runs, it was too huge to commute with, and it felt silly to have a gigantic truck…

LOLOLOL. Tesla isn’t some struggling boutique automaker, hand-building prototypes with hand tools in the back of an English shed. They already have stamping machinery and paint shops. Those things aren’t some massive obstacle, and if they are, your company is already doomed.

I stick with things Tesla has had to actually tell shareholders vs what hits Twitter. China and Germany are the only new factories disclosed and both will manufacture existing line cars, with Germany only expected to do the Y as the volume vehicle once it’s online.

Uhm, you still need trucks. Even if everyone suddenly decided to go commute by bus. You would still need trucks to make deliveries.

Has Tesla ever revealed a vehicle for production and not released it? Even when people said stuff like Model X will never be released with the falcon doors (for better or for worse) it was.

Can you tell Bollinger that when they make things square and straight to save cost, they’re supposed to pass that cost onto the consumers? Thanks.

The stock was gradually going up for months now. The truck erased much of those gains.

They may have stamping equipment, but isn’t it being use for the other cars?  I love SMED as much as the next guy/gal but making an X (lower volume) and Cybertruck (likely also lower volume) with the same presses and line difficult with such different needs (towing).

Tooling is expensive, but it’s not much per vehicle when amortized over a production run. This body is cheaper to make one, but wildly more expensive to make, say 100,000. Every unibody vehicle in production today has stressed panels, and they don’t use 3mm thick stainless. 3mm of stainless is wildly more expensive…

except those production lines are at capacity and if they end up selling this in any volume it will likely need it’s own dedicated production lines. Lines that won’t need a paint shop, won’t need nearly as many of the robots to weld pieces together and probably most importantly won’t need as many human hands in the…

Yes, but a normal truck will often travel hundreds of miles a day, jobsite to jobsite. This is a different market, a commuter truck.

Why not? normal pick up sell for that much now

GUUUUUUH I’m so tired of answering this question. The sources are not hard to find if you look.

I think your coming to the same conclusion Elon must have come to at some point over the last few years.

LOL, okay, cam down.

Mostly it says that Tesla sees profit in pandering to market niches.

I wouldn’t worry about it too much. The CyberTruck is just what happens when a company is panicking and in various stages of chaos, and needs to jump start the news cycle to keep the stock price up. I love some of what Tesla has done, but the place is run by a delusional fantasist who seems to be entering the Berlin…