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There's quite a few cars that use aluminum for the hood and trunk and have for quite awhile now. I saw it when I worked in autobody 20 years ago even. Then again, you worked at Chrysler and they're usually a good 10 years behind.
My s2k has an alu hood and the nsx and insight are largely alu. Both are getting to 20 years now and were made in the same factory.There's quite a few cars that use aluminum for the hood and trunk and have for quite awhile now. I saw it when I worked in autobody 20 years ago even. Then again, you worked at Chrysler and they're usually a good 10 years behind.
As far as Tesla using thinner stainless, I read that they were actually considering going with thicker panels at some point during design.
Which makes me wonder... why in the fuck do you need hardened SS sheets? Are they seriously expecting this to be a heavy duty zombie apocalypse truck? I mean if you think EV you think weight savings, but now we go around and have heavy steel panels, armored glass windows, not to mention the battery weight which isn't something you can reduce mind you.
One doesnt injection mold stainless steel. At all.
Yeah, sometimes wikipedia is just wrong. Die casting is injection molding like base jumping is skydiving.
When it comes to market, that comparison is valid. MSRP is MSRP. Expensive compressors and unavailable battery back/zero emission generators are expensive. If you need either of those the cybertruck is already pushing ahead further in value than any other comparable truck.
And yet none of them have announced what their ranges will be while loaded or hauling.
If it's anything like my gas machine it will be bad.
Range estimates as above.
Very interesting thank you and I'd say a pretty good estimate you have there. But LOL at weight sheckels, California sounds like a terrible place to live (what, 60% taxes after all the thousand cuts are added up?) unless you are sucking off the govt teat.
Fair call. So maybe 150-200 miles fully loaded.
So testing and publishing data with the cybertruck towing 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of its capacity is asking too much of Tesla (and others)? Let's be honest, the information has been collected, it just puts a serious damper on the appeal of an electric truck when it loses 50%+ of its range when towing half its rated capacity.
My F150 is fairly unicorn wrt luxobarge model yet retaining the heavy duty payload package and max tow. It still says anything over 5,000lbs requires a weight distributing hitch in the user manual. People need to remember that all the people and crap in the cab and bed, the weight of your hitch, the tongue weight of bumper pull or pin weight for 5'er all detract from the payload figure on the sticker in the driver's door jamb. Luxobarge models lose more vs the advertisements because some of the options are very heavy and they too detract from payload. The highest advertised payload at least in F150-verse is a regular or extended cab long wheelbase 8' bed truck with 3.5l turbo engine and the heavy duty payload package, max tow, no other options at all. you know, the body in white contractor special (except turbo motor instead of 3.3l v6 or 5.0 v8.)