There’s a culture problem I see in these stories. Every factory and every company has stuff that could catch on fire, ruin the environment, etc.

We’ll obviously never know, but I’m curious what Tesla would’ve become without Elon. He’sclearly the reason they are so popular, since he’s able to outright lie all the time and get praised for it. But they weren’t even a year old when he came in with money, then the actual co-founders left a couple years after that,…

It’s the Trump effect, where 99,999 times out of ten thousand the dickbag head of a company trying to torpedo its own public image through dumbass, immature, off-the-cuff statements would be stopped, but no one on the board or ops or comms wants to say “no” to this one for various reasons. Any aspiring future dickbag…

Hey now, they will be thoroughly vetted via 3-5 bullet points of excellence. There is no more effective recruitment process known to man than this.

Nothing screams high-quality company like recruiting your legal team on Twitter.

This truck was announced in 2019. It was supposed to be on sale in late 2021. Then it was in early 2022. Now the report says it will go on sale “in 2023.” Who even knows what that means, but given their track record for stuff that was “supposed” to go on sale at X date, I wouldn’t hold your breath. This thing was…

This is the downside of Tesla being a software company first instead of a car company

I wouldn’t be surprised if the ship-it-and-fix-it-later mantra from software has crept into manufacturing. People that grow up hands off seem to not appreciate the validity of seeing something in action. It’s like programming tool paths then realizing too late you’ve swung the tool holder into the chassis. Things have…

Anecdotally Tesla may have jumped the shark. Friday night in downtown Bend Oregon I saw two parkedMustang Mach E’s and no Teslas, in a town with so many Teslas they built a service center next to the Sonic Drive In. 

musky cultists don’t care

Stamping is far, far less expensive than brake forming once the production numbers get anywhere near what they should be for a “mainstream” car. The handling and multiple “touches” needed for brake forming quickly outstrip any tooling costs. The other issue is that flat surfaces are weak as hell and impossible to keep…

Tesla is pretty expensive already (although it’s much worse here in Canada due to the rate of exchange). I also don’t think there is any chance of Tesla sticking to its MSRP when (if?) the Cybertruck launches.

Well, I make pretty good money and I sure can’t afford one. I can afford an EV though, I have deposits on more than one, and will buy the first one that I can actually get my hands on. Every one of them has better build quality than Tesla, which is my point.

The only word that comes to mind is “choad.”

Who said it’s a ”production-ready” Cybertruck?

90's volvo owner checking in.

Probably not.

Given Tesla’s bad reputation for build quality issues and the general doubt around whether or not this truck will go into production, why on earth would they show it like this? This was their chance to help turn the conversation, and instead they doubled down by showing something that looks as well-assembled as a…

“And here the Origami Truck looks 10 times worse in the aerodynamics department, so will its wind noise drive you nuts?”

Tesla, cool tech, but shit execution. Seems crazy, but I wish Tesla was more like Apple. Sure, it’s a premium product that costs more than the “equivalent”, but there is no argument that despite its pitfalls, a Macbook Pro is a near perfect execution of a laptop computer. That’s why it’s worth the expense to a lot of…