You can put the prototype of something on the road and kill people sometimes because it doesn’t work correctly, and that’s kind of OK? It’s not for me.
One should not use a social media account listed as a corporate disclosure account for such purposes (as, for example, indicating a significant change in ownership status without consulting with the board, or to defame parties irrelevant to one's business).
If Eberhard stayed there, they would've made a slow and tiny car that would've flopped before 2010.
westurner•6mo ago
westurner•6mo ago
The market didn't want a remotely controllable by stolen phone APC.
The sharp edges on the bed area are a likely source of injury.
The sharp edges disqualify the cybertruck for sale in at least the UK because there are specific regulations about how rounded the body of a vehicle needs to be to spare pedestrians.
The dependency upon the sole - the largest - steel stamping machine in Texas is self-saboteurial.
What did market testing indicate about the "cyber punk" ethos? Is that your average EV purchaser in the US or worldwide?
westurner•6mo ago
Make a throwback truck or trucks. Wheel well flares.
You're a friend to the EV conversion axial torque and other rebalancing methods community, which is seeking to retrofit legacy trucks with batteries and torque
Bioplastic for the superstructure and bioplastic for the relatable ding-resistant panels.
To safety spec injection molded bioplastic panels would be a good start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injection_moulding
Fusion induction welding as necessary.
Anode disconnect on thermal runaway by melting, swelling
Twisted SWCNT have sufficient density the lab to compete with Li(FEPO4) and sodium ion out of just carbon; it just needs a controlled process to scale it up.
Are you compatible with other accessories on the market?
What do AI analyses of hypercritical videos about the product say, in summary?
toomuchtodo•6mo ago
westurner•6mo ago
From "Battery-Electric Heavy-Duty Equipment: It's Sort of Like a Cybertruck" (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626591 :
> For instance, their flagship product, the Dannar 4.00, can accept over 250 attachments from CAT, John Deere, or Bobcat.
There are scoop buckets with short forks on the front.
How to put a normal brush guard on it
How to mount a crane to the bed without puncturing a test load of beach balls
westurner•6mo ago
The Tesla skateboard design is also modular.
Skateboard (automotive platform) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skateboard_(automotive_platfor...
dzhiurgis•6mo ago
Actual dealbreaker is risk of people vandalizing your car.
westurner•6mo ago
> Tesla Cybertruck's Stainless Steel Won't Be Used In Future EVs: Nearly every piece of Cybertruck tech is heading to future Teslas—except its stainless steel body.
Which drivetrain and other components are sold to external customers these days?
Per-wheel (radial axial flux, no rare earth) motors would probably sell for EV conversion and other applications
A boat cooler than the boat Thunder in "Thunder in Paradise" (1993) could utilize certain components for marine applications. Humanoid robots working docks would need to resist saltwater corrision