Maybe, maybe not: Nissan Leaf is the first mass produced EV and sold over 500,000 worldwide by end of 2020 according to Wikipedia. A cursory Google search of "nissan leaf recall battery" has "Battery Bonding Plates" as the only battery-related recall, which seems to me nothing to do battery itself.
How many sigmas?I give the chances of CT being a disaster as < 0.0000000000000000001% but hey...what do i know?
Leafs haven't had fire issues, but they've had heat related degradation issues.
yeah, Wu Wa's 800 3 is spot on and that makes the 1,000 number more credible.
This is not the advantage that people make it out to be. We have an F-150 4x4 that is taller than Cybertruck and the better handling of our Model 3's is far more important to safety than any view improvement the driver gets from sitting high. And you won't sit that high in Cybertruck unless you drive around on paved roads like a peacock with the chassis jacked way up to max. Just silly. The only time it is an advantage to sit high is when you want to make a right turn and there is a big truck to your left blocking your view down the road. If sitting high improved road safety, it would be a contest to see who could sit the highest. And as vehicle heights leapfrogged one another, road safety would steadily decline. This argument is like arguing night driving would be safer if every car had four crab-boat lights mounted to the roof facing forward so everyone could see better.
When my wife and I both drove gas cars, we would take our F-150 the 20 miles to Costco for our (roughly) quarterly re-stocking trips. Our average trip was for around $600-$700 worth of mostly food items. Since we both have Model 3's for the last 3 years we take one of those because neither of us wants to drive (or ride in the truck) even though it's still almost new with only 50K miles after 12 years. With COVID we have been making fewer (bigger) trips to Costco averaging closer to $800-$900 worth of food and everything still fits in the Model 3! It takes a minute or two longer to load but is much easier to unload when we get home because I no longer have to climb up into the bed to get everything out and to open and close the manual hard tonneau cover. So, it's actually easier to fit everything into the Model 3 than it is to get everything out of the truck. And, we don't have to drive it or stop for gas as often. I see other Costco shoppers with their trucks at Costco and it's VERY rare to see ANY of them with more stuff or with bigger stuff than we have. This is one more silly excuse people use for why they drive a truck. The Cybertruck will solve most of those problems with it's electric drivetrain, motorized tonneau cover, and the ability to lower the rear and raise the front to make stuff easy to unload. It will also drive and handle better so no reason to avoid it.
Theoretically, it's due to the shorter production line, fewer robots, no paint shop and the decreasing price of batteries and power electronics over the last decade. The strength/tow capacity comes from a structure with superior engineering (uses the structural materials more efficiently than twin I-beam body on frame). I hope Tesla got the price/spec ratio correct because the obvious solution to cover for a mistake is to delay until prices match projections. I don't think they will need to delay beyond the availability of plenty of 4680 cells.
I think he’s referring to the energy transition as the change coming to sweep away the old guard (and maybe he’s a bit ticked off). The book he names discusses the end of an era:
www.barnesandnoble.com
9:1 stock split? Isn’t that a bit extreme?
Along with all the advantages you listed, I cannot wait to see what kind of wrapping gets applied to the Cybertruck. That flat body is a virtual canvas for some awesome artistic creations (and some weird and ugly ones too).The Cybertruck is going
revolutionize the US light truck market. Cramer is going to say "I always knew Tesla had some special magic to make their ugly truck a wild success".
Better "extinguished" than extinct, like wise leadership nearly everywhere. Pogo is right and Godot never comes except in occasional false flags. But at least TSLA is up today. I remember the effort of solace by my first wife's Wellesley roommate: "what do you expect from a day which begins by getting out of bed." Morose at such a young age!
Since i'm in Texas, and moved from SoCal, i think the visibility on turning would be advantageous here in Texas. There are quite a few pickup trucks and certainly at many intersections, it is challenging to turn. Also getting run off the road is pretty common by pickup trucks, including nearly getting run over with our MX with bikes/bike rack.This is not the advantage that people make it out to be. We have an F-150 4x4 that is taller than Cybertruck and the better handling of our Model 3's is far more important to safety than any view improvement the driver gets from sitting high. And you won't sit that high in Cybertruck unless you drive around on paved roads like a peacock with the chassis jacked way up to max. Just silly. The only time it is an advantage to sit high is when you want to make a right turn and there is a big truck to your left blocking your view down the road. If sitting high improved road safety, it would be a contest to see who could sit the highest. And as vehicle heights leapfrogged one another, road safety would steadily decline. This argument is like arguing night driving would be safer if every car had four crab-boat lights mounted to the roof facing forward so everyone could see better.
When my wife and I both drove gas cars, we would take our F-150 the 20 miles to Costco for our (roughly) quarterly re-stocking trips. Our average trip was for around $600-$700 worth of mostly food items. Since we both have Model 3's for the last 3 years we take one of those because neither of us wants to drive (or ride in the truck) even though it's still almost new with only 50K miles after 12 years. With COVID we have been making fewer (bigger) trips to Costco averaging closer to $800-$900 worth of food and everything still fits in the Model 3! It takes a minute or two longer to load but is much easier to unload when we get home because I no longer have to climb up into the bed to get everything out and to open and close the manual hard tonneau cover. So, it's actually easier to fit everything into the Model 3 than it is to get everything out of the truck. And, we don't have to drive it or stop for gas as often. I see other Costco shoppers with their trucks at Costco and it's VERY rare to see ANY of them with more stuff or with bigger stuff than we have. This is one more silly excuse people use for why they drive a truck. The Cybertruck will solve most of those problems with it's electric drivetrain, motorized tonneau cover, and the ability to lower the rear and raise the front to make stuff easy to unload. It will also drive and handle better so no reason to avoid it.
Theoretically, it's due to the shorter production line, fewer robots, no paint shop and the decreasing price of batteries and power electronics over the last decade. The strength/tow capacity comes from a structure with superior engineering (uses the structural materials more efficiently than twin I-beam body on frame). I hope Tesla got the price/spec ratio correct because the obvious solution to cover for a mistake is to delay until prices match projections. I don't think they will need to delay beyond the availability of plenty of 4680 cells.
The Cybertruck is going to revolutionize the US light truck market. Cramer is going to say "I always knew Tesla had some special magic to make their ugly truck a wild success".
Really good point!Ford sells around 900,000 F-150 trucks/year and yet, after three years in production they don't even plan to make 9% of that? And that's after doubling their previous production targets?
/s
I have to hand it to Ford though, they sure know how to put a good spin on weakness - "due to strong demand for the Lightning, we are doubling our previous production targets". And, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Ford ever released or leaked their previous targets. So this is a way to release very small targets while trying to make them sound big. And, they always have the option to go back to their original, miniscule, targets and say, originally, we never planned to produce more than this anyway!
And this is supposed to be a threat to Tesla?
They found a good deal on used cells from GM...Really good point!
So, Ford's original goals were:
7,500 F150L in 2022
27,500 F150L in 2023
40,000 F150L in 2024
And that's with over 120K reservations! It's as if they don't want to make them....or something.
Good point about potential business usage of Cybertrucks.
Meanwhile, I suspect that a great many folks will buy them in lieu of SUVs.
