Eeeek.. This kind of sucks. I hope there's something obvious going on there that we don't know about/can't see.

 

Please someone do this to an F-150 for the lulz.


edit - Cybertruck has 2831 liters of bed space or 100 cubic feet that is way more than any F-150 except maybe a bare bones work truck. Couldn't find volume for those.

 

That's not a production CT. It's an RC

 

Only Tesla is not allowed to get stuck because of tires. Obviously.

 

I’ve said this since it officially came out but I am really surprised how
many people hate it. This is just my FB feed. These sources are neither here nor there.

 

"only a complete redesign can fix" is right up there with the infamous "Tesla shares are going to zero" by Marc Faber in 2016.

 

Oh yeah I don’t necessarily believe it at all.

I’m still just surprised how many people are crapping on the CT, I really am.

 

You shouldn't be. Every single thing Tesla does is highly criticized that is not any exaggeration. Every Tesla model was predicted to be a flop. S will never happen, 3 can't scale, no one will want the Y. Realize this is not honest journalism it is rage bait articles combined with the desperate need for Tesla to fail. Make no mistake, legacy auto HATES Tesla they want to keep doing what they've always done. Call it sunk cost fallacy or design paralysis (keep iterating on the same thing instead of a clean sheet) or whatever, it is very difficult for established companies to change course. Few have actually done it see Blackberry, Nokia, Kodak, Polaroid, Blockbuster.

 

True, believe me I get it about fake news even if we are on different sides on certain things lol.... But mostly my FB feed is neutral to positive about Teslas, and you saw that screenshot of the doom and gloom. That's basically all it's been.

I can't also not think, "this is just a vehicle..... What is the big deal?" Let it come out, it will sell more than numbers can count. Life will go on?

 

Nothing can change that it's the ugliest damn truck ever built.

 

LOL I like it. I wouldn’t be buying it over a Sierra Denali or loaded out F-150 but yeah.

 

Cybertruck is the only serious EV work vehicle.

 

So if this is a serious work truck where is the 8ft bed option and ability to accept industry standard boxes, racks, lights and fluid tanks?

 

So this highlights the danger of uncritically taking things at face value. The Cybertruck does not have 2831 liters of load volume. That's 100 cubic feet.

Tesla itself says it's 67 cubic feet, and that's only if you were to load up the entire load area under the tonneau. So Carwow is off by the small matter of 1000 liters. And that 67 cubic feet almost certainly includes the frunk.

Plus, if we're willing to take load under the entire tonneau as the loadspace then you have to accept that there are hundreds of readily available camper shells for something like mine that quickly, easily and cheaply get you more loadspace than the Cybertruck including the space under the tonneau - because you don't lose half the space above the bed like you do in Cybertruck because of its gradient.

You also have to factor in the non vertical sides on the Cybertruck bed and the much larger frunk on something like my Lightning (it's twice as big as Cybertruck), never mind the significantly greater interior volume. Because work sometimes involves people.

 

It's okay to have more options no reason to feel threatened.