OT: seen a cybertruck on the road?

[goonster]

Originally Posted by dddd

The Thing was designed as an ice-breaker

You've made this claim before, but it's not true. The facts don't support it.

It may have served that purpose for you, but VW didn't plan it that way.

Outward similarities are superficial and incidental.

[fourflys]

right, the Thing was just a little bit more civilized Kublewagon.. fairly certain there were still some toolings in the Wolfsburg factory lying around and it was taken advantage to have another model.. I encourage anyone to read a bit about the history of VW, both pre- and post-WWII.. it's super interesting (I did a paper on it at one point)..

Originally Posted by goonster

You've made this claim before, but it's not true. The facts don't support it.

It may have served that purpose for you, but VW didn't plan it that way.

Outward similarities are superficial and incidental.

[Ozz]

Originally Posted by jmt3

not sure what it weighs. My friend has a rivian rt-1 with less than 20,000 miles on it and the tires are shot due to rapid acceleration and heavy braking. only $2400 to replace them.

fify

[PQJ]

I have seen a bunch of Cybertrucks here in Atlanta. I must give the vehicle designers credit - with each new Cybertruck spotted, it gets uglier.

[Nevets]

Within a few hours of reading this post I saw not only a white one but a pink one too !, also later in the day a dark/olive green one....maybe San Diego is leading the way with cybertrucks per capita....

[dddd]

Originally Posted by JMT3

Not sure what it weighs. My friend has a Rivian RT-1 with less than 20,000 miles on it and the tires are shot due to power and weight. Only $2400 to replace them.

Well, same thing happened to the tires on my neighbor's Mustang, so I'm thinking it's not just the power and weight but how and how often the prodigious power is applied(?).

[dddd]

Originally Posted by goonster

You've made this claim before, but it's not true. The facts don't support it.

It may have served that purpose for you, but VW didn't plan it that way.

Outward similarities are superficial and incidental.

How to explain why The Thing only finally appeared stateside those exact months before the arrival of the Rabbit platform?

And how to explain the almost otherwise-inexplainable "weird" CT's styling collage?
Mark my words, future Tesla "pickup" trucks will soon become at least somewhat rounder, with painted finished like all other passenger vehicles. And it won't take all of the years that it took for the rabbit to morph into the much-smoother Golf (that transformation merely followed auto industry trends).

Big business tends to leave little to chance.
Elon and The Donald definitely aren't quite the unilateral automatons that they pretend to be.

[saab2000]

Meanwhile, I’ve used 217 kWh in the past 31 days for a (home) charging cost of $26.

[MikeD]

Originally Posted by saab2000

Meanwhile, I’ve used 217 kWh in the past 31 days for a (home) charging cost of $26.

It would cost me at $76 - $96 to do that if I didn't have solar.

[dgauthier]

Originally Posted by Ozz

fify

Originally Posted by dddd

Well, same thing happened to the tires on my neighbor's Mustang, so I'm thinking it's not just the power and weight but how and how often the prodigious power is applied(?).

Bingo!

[dgauthier]

Originally Posted by saab2000

Meanwhile, I’ve used 217 kWh in the past 31 days for a (home) charging cost of $26.

What's that in terms of miles, about 800?

[saab2000]

Originally Posted by MikeD

It would cost me at $76 - $96 to do that if I didn't have solar.

Wow! Where do you live? I'd love to have solar but live in a townhouse where the whole community would have to get on board with it. I don't see that happening.

Do you have a home storage battery as well?

[saab2000]

Originally Posted by dgauthier

What's that in terms of miles, about 800?

Honestly, I don't know but that's probably in the ballpark. It's been a pretty quiet month of driving. A normal monthly use case would be $30-$40.

Also, I'm not in denial that I spent tens of thousands to save dozens of dollars per month. The financial payback on my Model Y is likely many, many years. Unfortunately, I bought at peak Tesla prices.

[MikeD]

Originally Posted by saab2000

Wow! Where do you live? I'd love to have solar but live in a townhouse where the whole community would have to get on board with it. I don't see that happening.

Do you have a home storage battery as well?

SF Bay Area. Probably the most expensive electric power rates in the US.

No storage battery. I don't get many power outages.

[trener1]

I had never seen one, the this past weekend I saw 2 in the same day, first a silver one then a black one