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Tesla Planning an Electric Pickup Truck, Says Elon Musk
cartechboy writes "Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk says the company will make an electric pickup truck to compete with America's best-selling Ford F-Series pickups. Musk made the comment yesterday at the end of an interview at a tech conference in New York. Surrounded by questioners, Musk was asked if Tesla would ever make commercial fleet trucks (like for UPS or Fed Ex) and he responded that a consumer truck would be the company's best answer, because America's pickup truck sales numbers don't lie — that's what buyers want, and if Tesla wants to replace the most gasoline miles possible, that's what they should build. Musk said it will be about five years before the company builds its pickup however, giving it time to focus on another hurdle: breaking into the pickup market. Texas is where trucks rule, and Texas, as we know, is the Bermuda Triangle for Tesla." That also gives me five years to save up for one, and (just maybe) five years for Ford, et al to jump in, too.
I'll have to start buying insurance for the packages I ship by UPS/FedEx ground. I can imagine waking up one day to check my tracking and finding a "Your package has been destroyed in a roadside fire incident".
What? You think delivery trucks just sit there?
They unload and move. Time is money.
I bet you were born to rich parents and never had to work shit jobs. The things you say reveal your history. Like an actor who doesn't know how to use a shovel.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
I guess I'm just tired of seeing thinly-velied advertisements for Tesla's stock on /. At least the pink-sheet stock emails I received in the 90's had some interesting stories behind them, and even when they didn't I could route them to my junk folder instead of having to see them on the front page of /.