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New Tesla pickup truck

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
edited November 2019 in General Discussion
Would you go buy this if you were in the market place? I would not.

serf

https://www.rvtravel.com/tesla-truck921-b/

Today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter that the long-anticipated pickup truck will be unveiled on November 21 near the SpaceX rocket factory in the port of Los Angeles. ?It?s gonna be awesome, it?s gonna be amazing. This will be heart-stopping. It stops my heart. It?s going to look like it came off a movie set.? Musk said recently.

Little is known about the truck now, but Musk once described it as a massive 6-seater with an option for anywhere between 400 and 500 miles of range, packing a monstrous 300,000 pound towing capacity (that is not a misprint). For the non-mathematicians in the crowd, that?s 150 tons!
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm just glad that I can help rich Tesla owners ride in style, thanks to the $7,500 federal tax rebate which I offset with my higher taxes.

    Neal
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  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,938 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2019
    In the aerospace industry this is what we call a ?paper airplane?

    If it exists its only on paper.

    There is no way any thing capable of getting 300,000 lbs moving at highway speeds surrounded by other highways drivers could safely stop in an emergency or even hard braking.
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would not buy anything from Tesla.
    RLTW

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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Heck, they can't meet production goals on their more popular models. Introduce yet another type? Madness.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rocky Raab wrote:
    Heck, they can't meet production goals on their more popular models. Introduce yet another type? Madness.

    He is Government subsidized.

    But what about the FIT credit? This is the (up to) $7,500 per car that a buyer can deduct from his or her annual U.S. federal tax liability, assuming the person has any such liabilities. If the car is leased, the leasing company collects the $7,500 and lowers the payment to the lessee with a corresponding amount over the lease term.

    Obviously, Tesla itself doesn't see this $7,500 per car directly. The money is paid to the buyer of the car -- not the seller, Tesla. But that's just semantics as far as Tesla's actual economics are concerned. The car becomes $7,500 less expensive to buy, benefiting Tesla just as much as if Tesla itself had received the $7,500 benefit from the U.S. government.

    It makes no difference to Tesla whether it collects the money, or whether the buyer collects it. The net result is the same: The car costs $7,500 less than it otherwise would. It's a subsidy, and Tesla is the de-facto beneficiary.
    RLTW

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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,527 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Might tow 300,000 ounces
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  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Electric motor powered trucks have been doing the heavy work in this country for decades. A smaller version powered with a battery instead of diesel generators would have many practical applications. A four wheel drive electric truck would be of good use on location, cargo depots, mining operations, industrial complexes etc. It would even be useful on a farming operation with chores that it had range and charge time for. A one ton 4x4 that didn't have issues with cold starting, doesn't need tuned up, no rebuilding the upper part of the motor, no overheating, not freezing, yep, that could be useful.

    Someone will market one that will be put to use. We know electric vehicle power storage isn't developed enough to handle long range work or prolonged run times. But it is developed enough to do a lot of work and be used in a lot of applications currently done with fuel powered vehicles.
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  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    SCOUT5 wrote:
    Electric motor powered trucks have been doing the heavy work in this country for decades. A smaller version powered with a battery instead of diesel generators would have many practical applications. A four wheel drive electric truck would be of good use on location, cargo depots, mining operations, industrial complexes etc. It would even be useful on a farming operation with chores that it had range and charge time for. A one ton 4x4 that didn't have issues with cold starting, doesn't need tuned up, no rebuilding the upper part of the motor, no overheating, not freezing, yep, that could be useful.

    Someone will market one that will be put to use. We know electric vehicle power storage isn't developed enough to handle long range work or prolonged run times. But it is developed enough to do a lot of work and be used in a lot of applications currently done with fuel powered vehicles.

    Until better battery technology comes on line it will be a status/fashion statement for trucker types and in cold weather the range/work decreases considerably.

    serf
    https://apnews.com/04029bd1e0a94cd59ff9540a398c12d1

    It?s definitely an issue,? he said. ?If you want to go somewhere far in the cold, you?re going to be using more power.?

    Range would be reduced further by extreme cold in northern states, he said.
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