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The design was meant to be functional. Tesla wanted to use stainless steel that doesn't need paint, which is a significant part of the car cost. But stainless
by cyberax 2y ago
The design was meant to be functional. Tesla wanted to use stainless steel that doesn't need paint, which is a significant part of the car cost.
But stainless steel is much milder than normal steel, so you need to use thicker panels. But thicker panels are more difficult to stamp. So why not then double down on thickness, and make the panels structural? It makes them impossible to stamp, so double down on the "flat" design.
Well, it didn't work out as intended. The whole flat panel look ended up being a total gimmick.
- asadotzler 2y agoThe structural panels never happened. That idea was shitcanned when they dropped the exoskeleton design for a unibody. Now the extra heavy panels are a stupid vestige of a design that never came to fruition. The truck is a damned unibody auto structure, hardly worthy of being called a truck, much closer to a Hyundai Santa Fe than a Ford F-150 and worse for having to carry all those heavy bolt on panels that do absolutely nothing for the truck functionality of the vehicle.
- bloopernova 2y agoIt sounds like a few software projects I've worked on. Incorrect base assumptions and not swapping out the components that were made unwieldy by those assumptions not reflecting reality.
- dzhiurgis 2y agoSeeing your other comments you seem to be a passionate cybertruck hater. Did you actually drove one or seen reviews? My impression from reviews was screaming "WANT". This is one of the most advanced car, not just truck on the market. There's literally nothing like it out there.
- cyberax 2y ago[flagged]
- itsoktocry 2y agoThey told us it was going to be the best selling car ever, over one million pre-orders. Reality: fewer than 100k actually sold. The truck was everything anyone with half a brain thought it would be.