Tesla Cybertruck

Kaido · Saturday at 8:09 PM

lxskllr said:
Frame should've been stainless, and the body aluminum.

For all of the off-road, superior Mars-rover hype, they should have just gone to Moab & hired experts to beat out a few iterations in the desert.

Again, I don't really see how they are going to fix the core issues without a production line change. The Delorean even has aftermarket stainless-steel frames that support an Ecoboost, Coyote, or LS3 swap:

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sdifox · Saturday at 8:12 PM

It is kind of bass awkward that the frame is not as tough as the skin.

bbhaag · Saturday at 8:53 PM

There is a reason it is called stainless steel not stainfree steel....JHC...

Corrosion resistance

Although stainless steel does rust, this only affects the outer few layers of atoms, its chromium content shielding deeper layers from oxidation.

The addition of nitrogen also improves resistance to pitting corrosion and increases mechanical strength. Thus, there are numerous grades of stainless steel with varying chromium and molybdenum contents to suit the environment the alloy must endure.

MrSquished · Sunday at 12:59 PM

MrSquished said:
Tesla is going to shit. The CT is a massive failure - for everyone but some small-balled bros. Tesla turned out to be a hype stock and Elon the coddled member of a board consisting of good friends and family all riding the gravy train to rich town. He built a cult of assholes, and revealed himself to be a giant piece of shit on the level of Trump.

They can't deliver semis either btw, article came out on that today. The company is a shit show and it makes sense, because Elon runs it, and we see who Elon is plain as day via Twitter. He made Tesla investors eat Solar City to save himself and his family too. Con man and snakeoil salesman that buys his way into things, takes the credit, and then promises vaporware based upon a media created personality that people eat up because we all love a good Phony Stark.

Until they get rid of Elon and that nepotist board, Tesla is fucked. If someone else takes over, well, Tesla has some hope. In the meantime the CT is the Incel Camino Wankpanzer. Couldn't have happened to a shittier CEO though. I hope that guy ends up in a rubber room where he belongs.

I stand by my call in April 2024 that the CT was going to be a shit show of a failure and Tesla was going to go to shit (in reality, but not necessarily as a meme stock) - a bunch of folks were telling me I was just being emotional only, or that I wasn't a car guy, etc, etc...when everything I said was backed by analysis. But that was not good enough

@bbhaag how do you feel about this non-car guy's prediction now? ))

BoomerD · 2025-03-31T01:03:19-0400

lxskllr said:
Fords don't rust, and they use lightweight, economical aluminum. Tesla got it ass backward, cause of course they did. Frame should've been stainless, and the body aluminum.

BoomerD · 2025-03-31T01:03:52-0400

Kaido · 2025-03-31T01:39:16-0400

BoomerD said:
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That's a FEATURE, not a bug!

sdifox · 2025-03-31T05:27:17-0400

Don't remember if this was posted here before but it can't handle potholes...

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/cybertruck-driver-hits-pothole-frame-snaps-in-half-he-gets-it-back-in-one-piece-34000-243909.html

Repost I guess

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Red Squirrel · 2025-03-31T08:47:17-0400

BoomerD said:
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Saw that accident on the news, was caused by a kid in a Little Tikes car, went out of control and slammed into the cybertruck. The kid is ok.

IronWing · 2025-03-31T09:52:16-0400

TBH, as long as the passenger compartment is intact, the rest doesn’t matter. If I can walk away, I’m totally fine with my vehicles dying for my sins.

sdifox · 2025-03-31T10:28:17-0400

My 2012 Odyssey was T-boned by a Accord and it didn't sustain as much damage. Mind you I have no idea how bad the CT accident was.

Fenixgoon · 2025-03-31T12:31:25-0400

IronWing said:
TBH, as long as the passenger compartment is intact, the rest doesn’t matter. If I can walk away, I’m totally fine with my vehicles dying for my sins.

A fair point, though i will say when it comes to crash safety, energy absorption and dissipation are very important aspects that cannot be ignored.

Yes cast aluminum has a good specific strength. But it doesn't absorb and dissipate a whole lot of energy.

bbhaag · 2025-03-31T19:05:23-0400

Fenixgoon said:
A fair point, though i will say when it comes to crash safety, energy absorption and dissipation are very important aspects that cannot be ignored.

Yes cast aluminum has a good specific strength. But it doesn't absorb and dissipate a whole lot of energy.

The Cybertruck received a 5 star safety rating from NHTSA. Despite the pictures you see on the internet of crashed CT's it is not the death machine that some claim.

bbhaag · 2025-03-31T20:56:23-0400

MrSquished said:
I stand by my call in April 2024 that the CT was going to be a shit show of a failure and Tesla was going to go to shit (in reality, but not necessarily as a meme stock) - a bunch of folks were telling me I was just being emotional only, or that I wasn't a car guy, etc, etc...when everything I said was backed by analysis. But that was not good enough

@bbhaag how do you feel about this non-car guy's prediction now? ))

I try my best to only provide unbiased information.

MrSquished · 2025-03-31T21:12:15-0400

bbhaag said:
I try my best to only provide unbiased information.

What is your point exactly - since myself and other political junkies and Tesla followers called this shit exactly right? Now we didn't know Elon would get into the Federal government and illegally use a flamethrower in it - but we knew that he was pure evil and it was going to show more and more and more, including politically and for all his basic socio-economic and political values and morals, or lack therof - which is what happened. And that would affect Tesla. We also were able to declare, with evidence, that the CT was going to be a giant shit show based on various facts we pointed out, not just ideologically, but aesthetically and mechanically - and also that shit like FSD was just all nonsense, and a lot of the hype around Elon himself is just mythos and hype, also based on facts we pointed out. I mean we hit it out of the park on all the levels. Couldn't have been more right about literally every point and prediction we made.

Just man up and admit we were right, that's all. It's not that hard 😂😂😂

Or are you going to argue that, hey if you don't like someone, you can't provide analysis or reasoning why things will happen about them and be considered a reasonable point of view? Cause that's pretty crazy. You would invalidate a majority of analysis out there because most people have a POV on something.

bbhaag · 2025-03-31T22:24:22-0400

MrSquished said:
What is your point exactly - since myself and other political junkies and Tesla followers called this shit exactly right? Now we didn't know Elon would get into the Federal government and illegally use a flamethrower in it - but we knew that he was pure evil and it was going to show more and more and more, including politically and for all his basic socio-economic and political values and morals, or lack therof - which is what happened. And that would affect Tesla. We also were able to declare, with evidence, that the CT was going to be a giant shit show based on various facts we pointed out, not just ideologically, but aesthetically and mechanically - and also that shit like FSD was just all nonsense, and a lot of the hype around Elon himself is just mythos and hype, also based on facts we pointed out. I mean we hit it out of the park on all the levels. Couldn't have been more right about literally every point and prediction we made.

Just man up and admit we were right, that's all. It's not that hard 😂😂😂

Or are you going to argue that, hey if you don't like someone, you can't provide analysis or reasoning why things will happen about them and be considered a reasonable point of view? Cause that's pretty crazy. You would invalidate a majority of analysis out there because most people have a POV on something.

Ok

MrSquished · 2025-04-01T11:15:47-0400

bbhaag said:
Ok

I rest my case.

MrSquished · 2025-04-01T19:08:19-0400

MrSquished said:
I rest my case.

200 million of overpriced and poorly engineered vehicles with shoddy construction repulsive wank panzer nazi trucks LOLOLOL

Who could have thunk it? A terrible business decision.

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