Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they ‘hated’ it::“They were like, ‘You can’t be serious.’ They didn’t want to have anything to do with it,” Franz von Holzhausen said, according to Walter Isaacson.

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    1 year ago

    There’s no way in hell this shit doesn’t completely flop, right? Like, who in their right mind would buy this garbage aside from techbros riding Elon’s pole?

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      1 year ago

      There’s a ton of goobers that want it, but very few are actually going to be able to afford it. It’s going to be 80k plus

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      1 year ago

      If it weren’t for Musk standing to make a profit from it and Tesla’s history of questionable design decisions and quality issues, I’d potentially be interested in one. I like how it looks (although my aesthetic choices are certainly not everyone’s cup of tea,) and the specs are pretty impressive if they manage to deliver on them.

      There’s a lot of hunger out there for more EV trucks, musk fanboys will gobble up anything he is involved in, and lots of people make questionable vehicle purchases, I think it will sadly sell just fine.

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      1 year ago

      There are plenty of people not in their right minds who have the money (or access to financing) and questionable taste to go buy the thing as soon as it’s available.

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      It will be a moderate success, I suspect. Owing more to the massive demand for electric vehicles than the cyber truck’s particular design.

      No chance it will outsell the f150 lightning, except possibly if Ford can’t build enough to meet demand.