Is the Cyber Truck a Flop?

[oosik]

I'm still waiting to see a Tesla CT on the road. Just a month ago - I saw one of their cars. I was not impressed.

 

[JasperFrank]

We have about three in the Eugene Oregon area. Two of them are wrapped. The naked one just looks frugly, like there is a thin coating of slime/discoloration on it all the time. It doesn't look at all like the ones on Youtube. I think everyone seen on Youtube was polished just before the shoot. I kept trying to get a quarter angle photo, that looked good, of the naked one, but the photos don't show what your eye can see. You have to see one in person that has not been polished that day, to understand just how badly these "present."

 

[JeepHead]

The town I work in has several of the Tesla trucks. They're just as fugly as all the rest of the Tesla's are.. I personally see no benefit to an EV unless you're powering it from solar or wind. Even then, I don't feel we have enough knowledge about the future consequences with landfills full of discarded batteries. To each their own is my view though so I couldn't give a rats behind what others choose to buy and own....

 

[oosik]

So....... JasperFrank - the stainless body doesn't stay so bright and shiny all the time. Boy - that would be a downer. Pay a fortune and drive a EV that looks like a slime bucket. Just my idea of fun - not.

 

[jmc]

So....... JasperFrank - the stainless body doesn't stay so bright and shiny all the time. Boy - that would be a downer. Pay a fortune and drive a EV that looks like a slime bucket. Just my idea of fun - not.

I worked a lot with stainless steel in the medical device business. It's rare to corrode most alloys, unless you leave it submerged in a chlorine solution and forget about it.

Lately, I've noticed surface deterioration on SS kitchen appliances, grill housings, and kitchen utensils. Wonder if the trendy SS applications have stimulated the use of an economy grade more accurately called Not-Quite-Stainless-Steel?

It could also be that manufacturers don't bother to passivate the SS, a last step of an acid bath that dissolves surface contaminates without attacking the SS.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

I'm still waiting to see a Tesla CT on the road. Just a month ago - I saw one of their cars. I was not impressed.

You should ride in one. The Full self driving is amazing. I have had mine drive me home, 90 miles. Changing lanes on interstate, taking exit ramps, stopping at traffic lights. Almost all the way. The last two miles are dirt road, so I take over.

 

[mikester]

Not everyone needs or even wants a 1 ton dually pickup with an 8' bed. Your comments could easily extend to any sort of sports car too.
Just because a vehicle doesn't appeal to you personally doesn't make it useless.

Those pretend trucks are about as useless as their poser owners.

what you drove to Sears in the 1980's
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a real 1980's work truck
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modern soccer mom costcomobile
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modern soccer dad costcomobile

Modern SUV's are just gas guzzling soccer mom cross between the 1980 Dodge Caravan and a 4x4 truck.

Modern short bed quad cabs are just a caricature of an SUV with a pretend box on back that lets soccer dad owners buy an SUV without the crappy fuel economy sin taxes and gives business owners higher income tax write off exemptions and a place to hang their pretend testicles.

average 2020's truck owner

I dare you to go to any Costco and find me a truck that has never been more than a glorified grocery getter.

BTW if you have trouble driving and parking a truck with an 8 foot bed you should hand in your man card and buy a self driving Tesla. Then you can post selfie videos on social media while "driving" to costco.

 

[ning]

I dare you to go to any Costco and find me a truck that has never been more than a glorified grocery getter.

That would've been my truck last week; on the rare occasion I go to Costco (my wife usually goes, in her station wagon crossover, as it's on the way home from her work in the next town over, but I had a doctor's appointment) I usually take the little car (Mazda 3) but this time my truck was low on diesel and I had three 5 gallon cans to fill as well.... plus a bunch of chicken feed to get. Buying 45 gallons of diesel made the 100-mile round-trip cheaper to do in the truck vs the 30mpg car because of the diesel price difference, and the Mazda 3 would've screamed if I tried to put twelve 50-pound bags of feed in it.

 

[KennyG]

I worked a lot with stainless steel in the medical device business. It's rare to corrode most alloys, unless you leave it submerged in a chlorine solution and forget about it.

Lately, I've noticed surface deterioration on SS kitchen appliances, grill housings, and kitchen utensils. Wonder if the trendy SS applications have stimulated the use of an economy grade more accurately called Not-Quite-Stainless-Steel?

It could also be that manufacturers don't bother to passivate the SS, a last step of an acid bath that dissolves surface contaminates without attacking the SS.

There are a lot of different grades and processes for stainless, most notably 304 and 316. Some are more corrosion resistant than others, some are magnetic, some are not. Allegedly the CT is a proprietary 301 alloy which I know nothing about.

 

[DarkBlack]

There are a lot of different grades and processes for stainless, most notably 304 and 316. Some are more corrosion resistant than others, some are magnetic, some are not. Allegedly the CT is a proprietary 301 alloy which I know nothing about.

Yes. They’re all at least moderately magnetic after being cold worked.
The 300 series like 304 and 316, can be brought back to a non magnetic state by proper annealing, as a final step. The 300 series is more corrosion resistant at normal temperatures.
The 400 series like 409 is always magnetic, but has advantages in high temperature applications like vehicle exhaust systems, high temperature ovens, etc