CycleChat Investigates - Tesla

[Slick]

Joining the queue. Musk fans are not known for behaving rationally.

Nah, they may well be thick as but they're not going pay a deposit for bragging rights only to disappoint a few months down the line.

Did I tell you I put a deposit down on this bad boy.

https://www.velodrome.shop/track-cy...MI78Hl2MyD5gIVGLLtCh1z0g7EEAQYASABEgI8KfD_BwE

 

[Drago]

Now, if either of you had said Tango and Cash, or possibly Cobra, we could have discussed the point. As it stands, you are both just wrong.

Sounds like we have a topic for our next investigative discussion.

 

[Shadow121]

I wouldn’t turn my nose up at one, would even fix the window issues myself.
Though I find it hard to believe a bullet proof window would break like that,
am sure the glass will be analysed and who ever supplied it won’t have much
of a future in the bullet proof glass market.

Edit, had a look the video above, this truck looks like an Apple design,
like jobs boat, sleek lines, maybe they used the same designer.

 

[Edwardoka]

Not sure how all those pointy corners would fare in the pedestrian collision tests either.

If the cybertruck, as shown on stage and in the promo shots, hits a real person just right they will burst like a water balloon.

 

[Shadow121]

I will argue those angles are specifically calculated to flick you out
of the way for your own safety, just one of the many safety features
aboard, like the crumbling windows that also save lives on impact.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Bollinger is where it's at for E-pickups if you miss the good old Landrover Defender IMO

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w45L3kV8n1I


Or Rivian, if you like more Jap styles ones

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGFr2TgLAGQ

 

[mickle]

I like it. Mainly because it thumbs its nose at traditional boring truck design. Having said that, I think they could have achieved a radical design without it looking like an overgrown Trimphone. And the wheels are too small.

 

[Drago]

I'd be worried about being sliced in half if one ran into me. I'm not an 3xpert, bit I do seem to recall that no clefting pilgrims in twee was part of the crash testing requirements.

 

[MichaelW2]

An electric power utility vehicle should be able to power all manner of accessories (like a proper landrover did) ( winch, borehole drills, circular saw, water pump, hydraulics) as well as keeping std power tools recharged. The bonnet panels should be flat enough to lay out maps, geology samples and a anesthesatized lion. You should be able to power one unit from a buddy unit. The wheels should be replaceable with rubber tracks and a rear propellor pod should be optional in the amphibious version. Who cares what it looks like.

 

[NorthernDave]

An electric power utility vehicle should be able to power all manner of accessories (like a proper landrover did) ( winch, borehole drills, circular saw, water pump, hydraulics) as well as keeping std power tools recharged. The bonnet panels should be flat enough to lay out maps, geology samples and a anesthesatized lion. You should be able to power one unit from a buddy unit. The wheels should be replaceable with rubber tracks and a rear propellor pod should be optional in the amphibious version. Who cares what it looks like.

Don't forget about the ability to run on railway tracks too.

 

[Shadow121]

Don't forget about the ability to run on railway tracks too.

Be handy crossing the channel tunnel, if ya missed the train.

 

[GuyBoden]

"Tesla wrote a paper titled "New Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-Dispersive Energy Through Natural Media" providing a technical description of his charged particle beam weapon, and sent copies to allied countries including the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, the U.S.S.R"

"Tesla's original New York Times article had led to a number of parallel claims and interest by several governments, but nothing had come of it. Britain had asked scientists to look into it, but there was no sign of any practical system. Some of those scientists began looking into methods of detecting and locating aircraft by reflected radio signals. The technology later came to be called radar."

 

[gbb]

Can't really see it getting acceptance and sales based on its looks alone. The 150k orders it apparently has( I only skimmed over the details) are probably, for the greater part, from people who have so much money the cost is irrelevant and its brought purely for the collector, interest value.

 

[CXRAndy]

Can't really see it getting acceptance and sales based on its looks alone. The 150k orders it apparently has( I only skimmed over the details) are probably, for the greater part, from people who have so much money the cost is irrelevant and its brought purely for the collector, interest value.

I think pre orders are now over a million.

Id have to see one in the flesh, assess it's practical capability.

If it was functional, I would consider it. I doubt they will ever come to the UK in official supply, so would be private import. This raises the question of passing the SVA testing, I'm not familiar with the regulations regarding the angular body passing passenger impact regulations.

 

[Drago]

Apparently they're clad with a special grade of stainless steel that manages to rust in the rain. Only Elon...