Cybertruck

[Morris Minor]

The surface is not brushed like stainless steel appliances.
Lifting fallout contaminants from normal paint surfaces is best done with a clay mitt (clay bar if it's really bad). It would be interesting to see how well that would work on the Cybertruck.

Or you could let it patina. Haha.

[565]

https://youtu.be/os6x0MC72Vg?feature=shared

[veeman]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2024/04/22/tesla-cybertruck-recall-electric-truck-sales/73416419007/

The Cybertruck recall showed that 3878 were sold since it came out in November. This compares with (1st quarter sales) 7743 Lightnings, 1688 Hummer EVs, and 2399 Rivian RIT pickup trucks.

It's very early in the production run.

Very hard to predict how it will play out in 2025.  100 thousand sales?  Probably too expensive.

[giant_mtb]

Yes. Most vehicles that are talked about for years and highly anticipated usually sell less than 4,000 units within six months and then suddenly sell 100,000 units the next year.

[veeman]

Yes. Most vehicles that are talked about for years and highly anticipated usually sell less than 4,000 units within six months and then suddenly sell 100,000 units the next year.

The base model isn't available yet. Base model has a starting price of $61 grand. As of February 2024 they were only delivered to 4 states. If you go to the Tesla website right now and try to order one, the earliest delivery of any version of the Cybertruck is 2025 which is 8 months from now.

So no I don't think it unfathomable that they sell 100 thousand a year in 2025.

I don't think they will (mostly because price is still too high and probable supply chain issues).  My guess is 1/3 that number.  More than the Rivian R1T and Hummer EV. 

[Morris Minor]

The vestigial door mirrors are laughably bad. The Feds should drop the "it has to be mirrors" mandate, as they did in Europe a few years ago.

[giant_mtb]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6th4AvMaxZ/?igsh=OGsybm5xcWtzZ3Rw

[veeman]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6th4AvMaxZ/?igsh=OGsybm5xcWtzZ3Rw

It's amazing to me Tesla can do an over the air update to address this with better sensing on the frunk enclosure. 

The amount of things Tesla can successfully address with over the air updates in many ways shows how advanced their product is compared with everyone else. That they let these oversights get through prior to releasing the car, to Mr. H's arguments, show they're also too reckless. 

[CaminoRacer]

Similar to video games nowadays. Before consoles were connected to the internet, games had to be tested and fixed before the launch, but now they just launch it and figure they can patch any issues later.

[r0tor]

Why use a carrot to test when you can loose a finger on Instagram and become instafamous

This world just continues to reward complete assholes

[giant_mtb]

Similar to video games nowadays. Before consoles were connected to the internet, games had to be tested and fixed before the launch, but now they just launch it and figure they can patch any issues later.

Yup, I was thinking the same thing.

I don't want to buy a car that needs updates and DLC. I want something fully fleshed outta the box. (aka, a Toyota )

[Morris Minor]

Yup, I was thinking the same thing.

I don't want to buy a car that needs updates and DLC. I want something fully fleshed outta the box. (aka, a Toyota )

How does Toyota get updates out there if it needs to fix something, or improve/add functionality?

[MrH]

How does Toyota get updates out there if it needs to fix something, or improve/add functionality?

They validate design and process before selling them to customers.  Crazy idea, I know.

[Laconian]

You can feel the difference with MS Windows. They laid off a lot of their QA team and now they just let the "insiders" find the bugs on their home computers for free.