Tesla Cybertruck

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

On 04/04/2024 at 03:25, virtorio said:

Bah, brakes and airbags are overrated anyway

Musk will probably:

1) Lash out and call the owner/driver a slur about predatory actions towards kids

2) Try to claim that the word doesn't mean that

3) Deny all responsibility of saying the word

4) Settle out of court

[adrynalyne]

On 19/04/2024 at 10:29, Dick Montage said:

Musk will probably:

1) Lash out and call the owner/driver a slur about predatory actions towards kids

2) Try to claim that the word doesn't mean that

3) Deny all responsibility of saying the word

4) Settle out of court

They might have done the right thing this time.

 

Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal cover

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-recalls-all-3878-cybertrucks-over-faulty-accelerator-pedal-cover/

 

 

[Xenon]

Tesla Cybertruck No Match For Car Wash

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-cybertruck-no-match-for-car-wash-1851417011

"After just a couple of months and a few thousand miles of ownership, Tik Tok user @captian.ad’s Tesla Cybertruck was effectively a several-thousand-pound paperweight for several hours. After taking his truck to the beach and stopping off at a car wash to clean it up, he parked the truck in his garage, where it decided to just stop working for a while. The screen, which runs all functions of the truck, went black, and wouldn’t respond at all, even after performing the factory prescribed reboot procedure. Not great."

The good news is he got the truck running again after a 5 HOUR reboot.

 

Some things you should know about cybertruck and car washes. 

1. There is a car wash mode you MUST put the vehicle in before a car wash. (The guy in the story did)

2, Never EVER give your cybertruck a car wash in direct sunlight. No Joke. For real. Its in the manual. Does anyone know why? Is it a gremlins thing?

 

Moral of the story. Don't buy one or never wash it. Ever. 

Or better yet, wait till version 2. 

 

 

 

[+primortal Subscriber²]

Rivets, the other duct tape 🤣

 

[adrynalyne]

On 20/04/2024 at 15:28, primortal said:

Rivets, the other duct tape 🤣

 

Not sure it’s a bad solution but damn it’s unsightly. 

[+virtorio MVC]

On 21/04/2024 at 11:16, adrynalyne said:

Not sure it’s a bad solution but damn it’s unsightly. 

It still maybe the least unsightly thing on the Cybertruck.

[+Good Bot, Bad Bot Subscriber¹]

On 20/04/2024 at 13:17, Xenon said:

Tesla Cybertruck No Match For Car Wash

Wait... One can't put their $60,000+ (starting) truck thru a car wash? Is this serious?

My real question is why is this thread 17 pages long? Does anyone here even own a Cybertruck?

[adrynalyne]

On 20/04/2024 at 21:11, Good Bot, Bad Bot said:

Wait... One can't put their $60,000+ (starting) truck thru a car wash? Is this serious?

My real question is why is this thread 17 pages long? Does anyone here even own a Cybertruck?

A fair amount of the posts were people making excuses for it. Now it’s devolved to a collection of posts crapping on it, just so @DocM can feast on all the crow. 

[Xenon]

On 21/04/2024 at 00:11, Good Bot, Bad Bot said:

Wait... One can't put their $60,000+ (starting) truck thru a car wash? Is this serious?

You can but you take a risk. 

Here are the instructions for cleaning a tesla. Its complicated. 

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/cybertruck/en_us/GUID-65384C1F-86F2-44E8-A8BC-8A12E7E00A40.html

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

On 21/04/2024 at 05:11, Good Bot, Bad Bot said:

Does anyone here even own a Cybertruck?

No, but DocM would gladly let Elon park one in his garage, if you take my meaning

[Steven P. Administrators]

A short story:

[gft77]

You know Steven, Elon wants that $50+ Billion bonus so badly that he'll be claiming that the CyberTruck rust and gas peddle issues aren't problems, but actual features.

[DocM]

On 19/04/2024 at 09:45, primortal said:

 

 

The rubber cover was sliding off the pedal, someone got some on the pedal face, so the recall consisted of cleaning then putting a rivet in it. 5 minutes. 

 

Tesla q1 production was affected by the Red Sea shipping problem, having two vehicles in changeover (models 3 and y), and some ecoterrorist decided to set the power station at the Berlin factory on fire. 

On the other hand,

In spite of a clickbait article by Reuters claiming the Tesla inexpensive vehicle was canceled, Tesla announced during the earnings report that it it actually been accelerated and will be produced in early 2025 or even late 2024. Reuters gets egg on their face.

Tesla stock went up 12% after the earnings report, and is up again today in spite of the General market going way down.

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Cybertruck production update 

Tessa hit a production rate of  1,000 per week in April

Fred Lambert over at Electrek is usually quick to jump on them,

https://electrek.co/2024/04/24/tesla-gives-update-cybertruck-1000-week/

 

Quote

 

Tesla gives update on Cybertruck, 1,000 in a week

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Electrek’s Take

This is good news. 1,000 in a week is about where we expected Tesla to be by the end of Q1. Instead, it was achieved early in Q2, which is not bad.

Now, Tesla should be able to maintain that in the coming weeks and move for another push up later this quarter. It’s likely that Tesla exits Q2 at 2,000 Cybertrucks per week, which would be a 100,000 trucks per year.

At that rate, Tesla should be at the planned volume production of 250,000 trucks per year early next year, which is about what the company guided.

 

 

 

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Utter cuck simp twaddle!

[DocM]

On 22/04/2024 at 09:29, gft77 said:

 

 

* Musk was Tesla's funder. The original owners were incapable of ramping production to make the company successful. Must took over and now it's worth $500+ billion. 

* Musk has always given credit to Tom Mueller and SpaceX President Gwynne  Shotwell - who runs the business side of SpaceX. He always tries to hire the best. That said, he is the lead engineer and makes the decisions. He's also held his own in online discussions with the National Academy of Sciences.

What's that you say? No engineering degree? He has a physics degree, and auto/space engineering is largely applied physics.

Here is what an engineer says about Musk not having an engineering degree. This guy advises everyone from the auto industry (worldwide) to the Department of Defense.

NSFW - LANGUAGE

 

Also, Musk was elected to the National Academy of Engineering by members.

Part of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. You can't apply to get in, they invite you.

https://www.nae.edu/271501/Mr-Elon-R-Musk

* Never invented anything 

23+ patents in 8 different areas.

 

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

He's not gonna take you to prom, get over it!

[+primortal Subscriber²]

On 25/04/2024 at 14:55, DocM said:

23+ patents in 8 different areas.

Most of those patents are duplicates because the same patent has been patented in different countries.

A good breakdown of the patents, https://insights.greyb.com/elon-musk-patents/#:~:text=Elon Musk’s portfolio has 23 patents that belong,to vehicle design%2C autonomous vehicles%2C location-based search%2C etc.

Also, he wasn't the only person listed on the patents in the US , https://patents.justia.com/inventor/elon-musk it's shared with others.

[adrynalyne]

On 25/04/2024 at 11:55, DocM said:

23+ patents in 8 different areas.

Please provide a source so we can see them.

[gft77]

The Myth of Elon Musk: Busted

 

 

[FloatingFatMan]

On 25/04/2024 at 17:45, DocM said:

In spite of a clickbait article by Reuters claiming the Tesla inexpensive vehicle was canceled, Tesla announced during the earnings report that it it actually been accelerated and will be produced in early 2025 or even late 2024. Reuters gets egg on their face.

Since when has Musk, or Tesla (or SpaceX for that matter), EVER kept to an oft promised launch date? EVER?

[FloatingFatMan]

On 25/04/2024 at 19:55, DocM said:

What's that you say? No engineering degree? He has a physics degree, and auto/space engineering is largely applied physics.

He has a BATCHELOR's degree, which isn't exactly hard to get.  It's just about the lowest rank of degree you can get.  

 

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[Xenon]

Cybertruck Owner Breaks His Finger Trying to Show Vehicle Is Safe

 

The idiot did it with a stick and it broke the stick. So he decided to do it with his finger.... and guess what happened! 

[FloatingFatMan]

On 07/05/2024 at 17:54, Xenon said:

Cybertruck Owner Breaks His Finger Trying to Show Vehicle Is Safe

The idiot did it with a stick and it broke the stick. So he decided to do it with his finger.... and guess what happened! 

 

He's lucky it wasn't chopped off...

[adrynalyne]

On 07/05/2024 at 14:12, FloatingFatMan said:

 

He's lucky it wasn't chopped off...

They had a software update to prevent that. This is post-software update. 😂