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I simply can't connect with Cybertruck for some reason. It feels like everything a truck should not be. Take the wonderful off-road footage they showed. How
by robomartin 3y ago
I simply can't connect with Cybertruck for some reason. It feels like everything a truck should not be.
Take the wonderful off-road footage they showed. How did they handle charging? Did they tow a bunch of Cybertrucks to the site, get them town to where they just had enough power to get back on the flatbed an then tow them back?
Having driven trucks in the middle of nowhere, well, charging is very important. You can carry a couple of ten or twenty gallon cans in the back and get hundreds of miles of additional range.
There are thousands of products designed to "interface" with standard trucks. Not sure how that ecosystem applies to Cybertruck.
Beyond this, the stainless body is interesting. However, repairs of any kind are going to be massively expensive. My guess is full panels will have to be replaced. In general terms, a quick look at reports of repairs for these types of vehicles can be seriously expensive.
Finally, unlike a conventional truck, if you own one of these you will, at some point in time, experience the decidedly non-trivial cost of having to replace the battery. The terminal cost of conventional trucks approaches an asymptote in the low thousands of dollars. With Cybertruck that number will be in the mid tens of thousands. Today, replacing a batter on a Tesla car can cost as much as $25K.
If the purchase of a Cybertruck is because it looks good, different, unique, etc. Then, sure, why not, it isn't different from buying an expensive Italian sports car. As a practical working truck, not sure.