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Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Ima be honest, I like the design of this thing. I’m big into brutalism and the Delorean is one of my favorite car designs of all time. I was really hoping this would be good, but it has turned out to be one of the worst products in recent history in any category. It’s up there with the humane pin.
It makes me a little bit sad because I will never be able to live out my cyberpunk fantasy of driving an electric truck made out of bare metal manufactured by a technofascist corporation.
Coreidan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I hope the N Vision 74 will one day make it onto the streets
a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 2 days ago
hydrogen-powered high performance.
It will literally never make it onto the streets in the US.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Hey now, the US has multiple hydrogen stations, assuming you live in a certain area of California.
tekato@lemmy.world 2 days ago
twice_hatch@midwest.social 1 day ago
Toyota obviously hasn’t heard about this little thing called a Prius
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well, they can ditch the Hydrogen part, that technology is done
k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’m not a car guy so I don’t understand why your view seems to be so popular on the Internet (at least in the Anglosphere).
Is Toyota doing the Sony thing where they double down on a certain format in hopes that it will make them money if/when it gets adopted as an industry standard?
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 day ago
I don’t know man, the hyundai ioniq 5 has way more delorean vibes than the cyber truck. The cyber truck just actually looks like how i was drawing cars as a child.
gradual@lemmings.world 1 day ago
I absolutely hated the design and feel bad for anyone who gets into an accident with this monstrosity.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
What are you basing that extreme statement on? It seems to far from a bad product, let alone “one of the worst products in recent history”.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 day ago
A 100k “rugged offroad” vehicle where the bumper falls off when you tow something, that isn’t waterproof, sometimes the rims just break, it can slice you apart and the car is held together by elmers glue and hopes and dreams. What other product in that price range is that shit?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
Ah the BS JerryRigEverything “towing” test. Of course people on here believe that was a problem for the cybertruck.
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Basing it on the huge amount of recalls it has had? The fact that it is more dangerous than the Ford Pinto by a wide margin? The fact that the panels are glued on? That if you try to haul something with it you risk tearing it apart? Maybe the fact that it is more expensive than all its competitors while also having worse performance even though it was announced years before any of them?
The bar for cars is so high right now too, like you sit down in a 25k Kia and you’ll hardly miss anything coming from a luxury brand other than the badge and maybe a little bit of engine power.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
The “recalls” have all apart from 1, iirc (the accelerator pedal cover), been delivered via OTA software updates.
Many panels in many cars are “glued” on btw. Calling it “glue” is disingenuous too, attempting to make out like it’s not a specific panel bonding adhesive that is used all over the car industry.
I’m assuming you’re talking about the JerryRigEverything video with your “risk testing it apart” comment, right? That was, for lack of a more correct term, complete horseshit. The “test” was “rigged” in a way that it made it seem like it failed when in fact it passed with flying colours, lasting like 10x the quoted force. There’s no real world situation where that failure would happen, because the test exerts pressure in a way that can’t happen in any regular situation a truck can be in.
One thing I don’t think anyone can claim is that the cyber truck has worse performance than its competitors. It’s basically a supercar in terms of performance lol.
I agree the car market is in a great place in terms of build quality and features even on low spec cars, but the Cybertruck still isn’t “one of the worst products in recent memory”, not even close.
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Funny, or sad, how quickly we collective manage to forget bad grifts.