Comment on Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks

• ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I mean… It’s unique in it’s looks. I don’t know if that’s positive

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  • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s unique in it’s looks.

    That’s what they said about me.

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• niucllos@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  For many of those years it was the only electric pickup truck. And also, yes people do like the Tesla name. Musk and growing competition has done a ton to tank the reputation lately, but until just a couple years ago Tesla was seen as far and away the best and most advanced electric car, and sometimes car period, by tons of people. That perception shifts slowly outside of well-informed groups, and the Musk hate is really only affecting well-informed left wing groups

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  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Rivian and Ford are killing it in the EV truck space, which doesn’t help Tesla.

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    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Rivian was also first to market and showed their concept a year and a half before the cyber truck reveal (where the first showed it and smashed its windows).

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It was the first EV pickup, at the time of announcement, and the battery tech sounded excellent, as did the list of features. Most importantly the announced price would have made it one of the lowest priced EVs. How could you not get hyped?

  But when it dragged out so long and they were going to deliver on features offer price, maybe they should have cut their losses.

  At the time, I was saying Cybertruck was a huge success because it pushed Ford to build the F150 Lightning.

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• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Now that it’s available for sale, and ignoring the looks, I think the biggest thing to be excited about is the steer by wire.

  Reviews seem to be saying it drives exceptionally well because of it, and that’d really differentiate it from the other options.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Let me get this straight: you not only actually want a vehicle that decides where to go based on software instead of with a mechanical linkage you can directly control, you want Tesla, of all companies, to provide it?!

    Get help:

    duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=suicide+hotline&ia=answe…

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There’s a lot of Tesla hate on build quaility on Lemmy/Reddit, but they actually have some of the most reliable power trains and exceptional software. There was some problems back in the very early days of the Model S with the 85kw/h packs, but they’ve moved beyond that now.

      Give this is part of the power train, and software, it’s right in line with their expertise.

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I wouldn’t trust any software from any manufacturer to steer for me, at least not in such a way that I can’t easily disable and use a mechanical manual backup.

        Also, steering isn’t “power train.” If you’re gonna lump it in with something, it fits closer to the [alleged] self-driving system.

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  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Reviews seem to be saying it drives exceptionally well

    I’m guessing here, but did 100% of these reviews come from a country with some of the worst fucking drivers on the entire planet?

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What does that have to do with how a vehicle feels when driving it?

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