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True, I wonder if the cladding could have flanges on the backside that could be bolted/welded though, which would by invisible from the outside of the vehicle
by SteveNuts 2y ago
True, I wonder if the cladding could have flanges on the backside that could be bolted/welded though, which would by invisible from the outside of the vehicle
- cjbgkagh 2y agoI think the surfaces are mated on the edges, there would be a bend on the edges if you were to install a flange there. That would probably look weird. It's cold rolled steel which has nice properties but makes it difficult to install flanges. It's a hard look to achieve which makes it technically impressive but does require such compromises such as using glue. While I don't like the Cyber Truck design aesthetically or technically the manufacturing techniques used to create it are impressive. I do wonder if the manufacturing was done this way to have an option to make cheap military vehicles at scale, like how VW factories are now considering being repurposed to produce military vehicles. Personally the Toyota Hilux Champ 2.4L diesel is more my speed.
- rsynnott 2y ago> I do wonder if the manufacturing was done this way to have an option to make cheap military vehicles at scale ... I mean, while it would be very _funny_, I'm not sure that there's much market for self-disassembling tanks.
- cjbgkagh 2y agoI think due to drones there will be a trend towards very lightly armored vehicles that spend most of their time loitering with short periods of shoot-and-scoot. When even tanks can be destroyed by drones it doesn't make much sense to keep pursing stronger, heavier, and more expensive armor. The versatility of the CyberTruck manufacturing chain would make it pretty easy to pump out many variants for different roles and easily change the variants as tactics progress.
- SteveNuts 2y ago>It's cold rolled steel which has nice properties but makes it difficult to install flanges. I know nothing about materials science, but I'm curious if it could then be stamped at the corners/edges to create some sort of surface that could be used to attach using rivets/weld/bolts
- cjbgkagh 2y agoI think it would be hard to do that and keep the aesthetics - there would be a curve on the edge wherever the stamping is done. Glue is a workaround that has it's own tradeoffs but is not without president.
- bandrami 2y agoWeirdly, this entire aesthetic is downstream of the fact that it is nearly impossible to get regulatory approval for a car painting facility.