Ahem (shame about the typo
)And with that bit of blatant self-promotion, I'm off to bed. Has been a gas, folks, have a great weekend!
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Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable
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Ahem (shame about the typo
)And with that bit of blatant self-promotion, I'm off to bed. Has been a gas, folks, have a great weekend!
hell yea sucka playa. This thing straight up murks the old school Escalades.
hater hos need to get over their five stages of grief in quickness and accept that this is a pimp ass ride.
Fact Checking
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Why are we assuming that it's a conventional pickup truck? Could GM be the mystery "major carmaker" that @KarenRei's confidential source suggested is Tesla's pickup truck EV drive-train partner? With the Tesla Design Studio working on an EV version of the Chevy Silverado?
Get the feeling something went really hinky during the presentation last night, as Elon recently posted this on reply to a question about the glass:
"We threw same steel ball at same window several times right before event & didn't even scratch the glass!"
Bizarre...
"We threw same steel ball at same window several times right before event & didn't even scratch the glass!"
Bizarre...
willow_hiller
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More information on it found in this Reddit thread: I held "the ball" and talked to Senior Reliability Engineer for 30 minutes about the broken glass incident. : teslamotors
"I talked to their chief reliability engineer at event and held the 1 kg steel ball Franz threw. He said they threw it 5 times the night before with no issue, and suspected microfractures were root cause. Interestingly, they had spare windows on standby and fixed it within 45 minutes. But they chose not to use the fresh windows during event. They also recommended to Elon that he should NOT try it, and instead just stick with the ball drop gag."
So, quick review:
member estimates are at 100k+ for reservations on the Cybertruck within past 18 hours of presentation.
Top google searches/interest on Cybertruck are not coming from California, but... wait for it... coming from *Middle America*
Oh how the irony works its magic.
Goes to show the how detached from reality these “analysts” are.
The excitement of something as imagination provoking as the Cybertruck stimulates new ideas and aesthetics which companies were too fearful to bring to market because “polling problems.”
It will be hard to think that getting into a Cybertruck on a daily basis won’t put a smile on your face, or get you to enter a new world of imagination to distract from the daily monotonous grind of same old same old. It provides a sense of freedom not found in the same old designs and experiences we’ve seen over and over again for the past few decades.
The Cybertruck maybe that shock to our systems required to free our senses from the slumber of stasis and mediocrity.
How could we expect anything different from Elon. This is the *brand.* He shocked the internal combustion stasis. He shocked the fossil fuel utility stasis. He shocked the space industry stasis.
This is just what Elon and all his businesses do. And this is what consumers want, the early Cybertruck numbers don’t lie, sorry to be counternarrative dear “analysts.”
member estimates are at 100k+ for reservations on the Cybertruck within past 18 hours of presentation.
Top google searches/interest on Cybertruck are not coming from California, but... wait for it... coming from *Middle America*
Oh how the irony works its magic.
Goes to show the how detached from reality these “analysts” are.
The excitement of something as imagination provoking as the Cybertruck stimulates new ideas and aesthetics which companies were too fearful to bring to market because “polling problems.”
It will be hard to think that getting into a Cybertruck on a daily basis won’t put a smile on your face, or get you to enter a new world of imagination to distract from the daily monotonous grind of same old same old. It provides a sense of freedom not found in the same old designs and experiences we’ve seen over and over again for the past few decades.
The Cybertruck maybe that shock to our systems required to free our senses from the slumber of stasis and mediocrity.
How could we expect anything different from Elon. This is the *brand.* He shocked the internal combustion stasis. He shocked the fossil fuel utility stasis. He shocked the space industry stasis.
This is just what Elon and all his businesses do. And this is what consumers want, the early Cybertruck numbers don’t lie, sorry to be counternarrative dear “analysts.”
Hell Kimball loves it and he wears a cowboy hat all the time... proof enough for me!
$100 refundable deposit means nothing. It should have been $2000 refundable deposit.
jkirkwood001
Active Member
Many are saying the CYBRTRCK's styling is too radical for typical US pickup buyers. That's a fair point, but IDK. I did a road trip from Canada to Florida in the spring and stopped to charge late on a Friday evening at Love's Truck Stop next to the Alabama International Dragway. There were dozens and dozens of pickups gassing up to go the strip that night. None of these decked out rides looked like they had ever loaded bails of hay or pulled anything. All had paid big bucks to build the most awesome pickup they could buy. In other words, a big proportion of US buying market, even in small town USA, wants a kick-a** looking pickup. Sure, farmers might not bite, but many of these guys will, I'd bet, especially when it outdrags any other truck!
Time will tell how popular the CYBRTRCK can be.
Love's Truck Stop, Alabama (that's my red Model 3 at the chargers in the background - I felt like a guppy thrown into a shark tank!):
Time will tell how popular the CYBRTRCK can be.
Love's Truck Stop, Alabama (that's my red Model 3 at the chargers in the background - I felt like a guppy thrown into a shark tank!):
sundaymorning
Active Member
Red state or blue state, it comes down to sales. Tesla has sold over 100,000 reservations now. How many of those were potential Ford or GM owners of Red States? All it takes is one Tesla in your town and the buzz will ignite.
Lucky_Man
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There's only one issue I can see with pulling an RV with the Cybrtrck and it's only relevant to 5th-wheel style trailers. The high sides of the vault will hit the trailer during radical turning, or backing into a campsite. Not sure because of my lack of experience, but maybe a gooseneck-style trailer might work. Travel trailers will work perfectly tho.
Great analysis Foghat! But I still think your first album was your best. Finest cover of Maybelline ever recorded.
Brought some $345 calls expiring next Friday.
Just my guess, but if the order number is super impressive there is a decent chance Tesla provides the number before market re-opens on Monday.
I wouldn’t 100% expect them to do it (they didn’t for the Y) but given the “mixed” reaction to the unveiling (and the stock sell off) it might be something they do to correct the narrative.
A number over 100,000 would be amazing for such an unconventional design, and will start a serious debate about what sort of volume ballpark the vehicle production will be.
I think at this very early stage, and with little facts to go on, that the volume will be higher than S/X/R combined, but lower than the 3 or Y. That’s a big range though: between 100k - 500k annually. (More likely will be closer to 100k annual capacity I think, but will have a big backlog for a considerable time)
Just my guess, but if the order number is super impressive there is a decent chance Tesla provides the number before market re-opens on Monday.
I wouldn’t 100% expect them to do it (they didn’t for the Y) but given the “mixed” reaction to the unveiling (and the stock sell off) it might be something they do to correct the narrative.
A number over 100,000 would be amazing for such an unconventional design, and will start a serious debate about what sort of volume ballpark the vehicle production will be.
I think at this very early stage, and with little facts to go on, that the volume will be higher than S/X/R combined, but lower than the 3 or Y. That’s a big range though: between 100k - 500k annually. (More likely will be closer to 100k annual capacity I think, but will have a big backlog for a considerable time)
It's already estimated to be over 130,000 for North America and Europe. China has it's own numbering system, so I'd guess worst case 250,000 world wide by Monday opening.
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