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Tesla unveils Cybertruck

I saw the report on the nightly news, love the shatterproof windows that did not hold up to the steel ball thrown at them. Does not look like much of a pick-up, bed about like an El Comino or old Rancheros. It is ugly by todays pick-up standards. Oh well at 39,9 I'll never buy one and I won't live long enough for the gov't to mandate I do so. gobble
 
Both look like over priced pieces of junk. That will cost more to dispose of the leftovers, than if they just put a gas engine in them.
 
Personally, I think the whole Tesla thing is a big Ponzi scheme. They collect huge prepayments for cars that have yet to be built so that they can build the cars that were bought and paid for long ago. somewhere down the road, they will not have the resources to build cars that have already been paid for.

Then Elon Musk might get a cell right next to Bernie Madoff.
 
Well I sure wouldn't buy it for it's appearance. At least the E10 electric has looks going for it. Styled like a 1962 C10 Chevy pickup but with 450 electric horsepower engines under the hood and a box full of batteries.
1962 Chev E10
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Now that's a new truck I'd buy even if it is electric. Love those early 60's GM trucks.
 
I looked at the electric vehicle sales figures. Tesla sells and deliveres almost as many cars as everyone else put together. Never really added them up just scaned them. My sil took a Tesla model 3 for.a test drive. It had the max batteries and 4 wheel motors. And would go anywhere you told it to unassisted. He was impressed. Thought he might have to have one 70000.
 
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Now that's a new truck I'd buy even if it is electric. Love those early 60's GM trucks.
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Jim, as nice as that E10 Chevy pickup is, I'd still choose the icon derelict 49 Mercury built by Johnathon Ward. All original on the outside but electric power under the hood. Now if they could just make it sound like a flathead V8 :)


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Bullet proof glass, eh? Looks like they didn't want to invest in some real dies and formed everything up in a brake. Anybody notice that their stock plunged today?
 
The only thing I saw that looked interesting is the tailgate/ramp. Nice for loading mowers and atvs, IF the bed is big enough.
 
ArleninOr
I'm thinking of the movie, Back to the future.
Didn't the delorean have a giggawatt flux capacitor? So at 88 mph I could be transported into the future with a Kubota. How cool would that be? The bullet proof windows would be important when re-entering back from the future.
geo
 

Still has the problems inherent to battery powered vehicles . Limited range and long recharge time required .
Anyone who states there are new batteries with considerably more capacity and shorter recharge times . They are unaware of battery technology.
 
B&D
Just wondering how cold temps effect the batteries
ability to charge and discharge rate?
geo
 

Lithium batteries are cold tolerant. Lithium s problem is heat,
electrolysis from high charge or high discharge . If the battery becomes too hot thermal run away occurs . POOF.
 
(quoted from post at 17:47:10 11/23/19) B&D
Just wondering how cold temps effect the batteries
ability to charge and discharge rate?
geo
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Like any other battery.

Last year electric car owners complained about using the heater when it was cold. They said it really cut into range. Tesla's response was "don't run the heater". :shock: :lol:

We have long cold winters here. What few people here who have bought electric cars have done was either get rid of them at a loss or they get parked for 4-6 months over the winter.

Now total car sales in the US last year was north of 17 million. Electric's made up about 350,000 or about 2.1%. So right now it all a bunch of hype.

IMO until an electric vehicle will run non-stop 500-600 miles at freeway speeds, with the lights on, stereo playing and the heat or AC running, then recharge 100% at the normal time for a gas station stop for an IC vehicle electrics will remain a novelty vehicle purchased to make an environmental statement.....while recharging from coal fired electrical outlets :twisted:!

Rick
 
I think you are right except for one thing.If the Greens get control of the gov't things like gasoline and diesel fuel will be made very expensive or even unavailable
so electric will be the only choice.Think that is what companies like Tesla are counting on happening.That's the way those folks operate force the general population into such things while they ride in Limos and private jets.If the last election hadn't been a big upset we'd probably way down that road right now.
 
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