The CyberPickup might actually be very functional. Not easy to tell because it is visually incomparable.
There are a lot of opportunities for the truck that electrification will open up. Torque will be enormous. It will be batshit crazy fast compared to contemporary PUs. It will have all the cool bells and whistles that are still lacking in other makes. It may evan be a better off road machine with better weigh distribution and torque control. On the hauling side I see a lot of pretty PUs pulling trailers to haul the goods, since there is a big cab and a small bed. So that idea is already a success in the real world. Personally, I find the appearance off putting, but I could get over it if it functions well. (After all I have a love affair with the early model Scion xBs.) It is a curious thing how Americans buy autos that are really for more expensive and rich in gew-gaws than seems reasonable. They would rather drive a $40K car with a 7 year mortgage on it than retire with the funds to avoid penury. On that basis, I am sure a decent number of first adopters are out there willing to try it out. And if it works well, it will sell enough to get another better interaction. I am grateful that Musk is willing to have a whack at new things. On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 1:38 PM Lee Hart via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > EVDL Administrator via EV wrote: > > I suspect that the typical truck buyer probably WILL want > > something that looks more like the traditional pickup, which as you > > say, hasn't really changed much in 70+ years. > > That's my guess as well. It looks more like a sports car styled to look > like a pickup, rather than a real truck. It reminds me of the old Chevy > El Camino or Ford El Ranchero (cars with a small pickup bed in the back). > > Tesla may find a market for it; but it probably won't be the sort of > people that buy normal pickup trucks. > > In a way, it might be a missed opportunity. The automaker pickups have > also strayed away from the traditional "work truck" pickup, in favor of > luxury 4-passenger car-like vehicles that happen to have a small bed in > back. Most of them can't carry a 4x8 sheet of plywood, either. > > Lee > > -- > ICEs have the same problem as lightbulbs. Why innovate and make > better ones when the current ones burn out often enough to keep > you in business? -- Hunter Cressall > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 901-2805 Cell and Text (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Tablet, Google Phone and Text -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20191124/f540be8c/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
