Elon Musk's net worth plunges $768m in a day after cybertruck fiasco
Elon Musk's net worth plunges $768m in a day after cybertruck fiasco | Technology | The Guardian
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Elon Musk's net worth plunges $768m in a day after cybertruck fiasco
Elon Musk's net worth plunges $768m in a day after cybertruck fiasco | Technology | The Guardian
Elon Musk: 150,000 orders for Tesla cybertruck despite disastrous launch
Elon Musk: 150,000 orders for Tesla cybertruck despite disastrous launch | Technology | The Guardian
I've just seen that the figure is now supposed to be 200,000 - but it also pointed out that these are actually reservations in the queue, not actual orders. Their main function, as far as I can see is to give the company an indication as to how many people actually think it is good enough to plonk down even a small sum of money.
This is likely to inform their decisions on whether to go ahead and whether to stick with the published time frame, or to redesign it or delay it or even to drop the whole idea. The response seems to indicate that they are likely go ahead with vehicle (although expect it to be significantly different when it actually appears), and do their best, however good that may be, to meet the suggested time frame.
As it stands, it is difficult seeing it meet Australian ADRs, and one issue I see is that it probably had a GVM that takes it outside the most common class C licence conditions - with a 1.5 tonne payload and a battery capacity to move that mass for even the 400km version, it is difficult to see it being under 4.5 tonnes. No empty mass seems to be specified.
And it is more than a metre longer than a 130, not to mention wider, and 130s have enough parking issues!
Has Stevie Wonder been at the PC again, only a blind man would buy that thing.
Strangely I'm blind in one eye ( Failed graft & cataract) & cant see out the other eye when my contact lens falls out (Keratakonus) I actually really like it . Happily own one so long as it is optioned with a round steering wheel, That stupid Cessna yoke has no place in a car IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by loanrangie
Wondering how it would pass pedestrian impact ADR’s and similar regs in Europe - angles at the front and points near the headlights are a no no - even in England where you can road register a couch, that wouldn’t pass in certain areas. Probably only ’muricans will get to drive it (Thankfully - it’s ****ing ugly)
Really ugly thing that. Certainly wouldn't be welcome in my garage.
Irrespective of the looks, can't wait to see the payout to the poor soul that get their lungs punctured when some idiot backs into them with the rear corners of this projectile!
looks 'interesting', can't imagine it to be very aerodynamically stable at any speed either tho.
It does raise a few questions. If the exterior is a super tough bullet proof exoskeleton that doesn't even bend when hit with a sledge hammer (supposedly so it can hold a heavy payload without need for chassis rails) - how will it respond in an accident?
Maybe everything ahead of the bulkhead/firewall is soft, or it deploys pedestrian airbags?
I doubt they would have built a car that can't meet US and European regs. So should make it to AUS too - I really hope so!!