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Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Pickup Truck Coming 'After Model Y' (electrek.co)
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that a Tesla pickup truck is coming "right after Model Y." He said that he already has "the core design/engineering elements" in his mind and wants to bring it to market right after Model Y. Musk later added that the Tesla pickup will be "similar in size" or "slightly bigger" than a Ford F150 "to account for a really gamechanging (I think) feature I'd like to add." Electrek reports: Musk had previously confirmed that Model Y, a small SUV or crossover built on the Model 3 platform, would be Tesla's priority once Model 3 production is ramped up. That's why it was surprising for Tesla to unveil the next generation Roadster at the Tesla Semi event since the vehicle was expected to come out after Model Y, which has yet to be unveiled. At the same event, Musk also released the first image of a Tesla electric pickup truck, but some people still think it's a joke. He claimed that it was a smaller version of Tesla Semi and "a pickup truck that can carry a pickup truck." While it sounded like a joke, Musk had previously mentioned his intention to leverage work on the Tesla Semi to create a Tesla pickup truck.
Is worse than Hitler.
Never mind that Elon probably did 0 market research here and is going against all empirical evidence; make an announcement, and sell more stock!
They need to meet production goals for the model 3 before they can move on to other things, really.
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Can we wait on the Tesla news until it's less than 2 years out?
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must say this is becoming ridiculous. that musk, who has a record of under delivering, thinks about doing something is not tech news, i my opinion. but it is obviously /.'s.
We'll have Tesla models S 3 X Y...
That's now 5 generations out that he's hyping up. They don't have any meaningful production of the Model 3 yet, then there's the Roadster, the Semi, the Model Y and then the pickup. I'll be shocked (pun intended) if Tesla is still around to produce a Model Y or a pickup.
Hey Elon, you can sell your horribly overpriced snake oil to the gullible "app" crowd but it's not going to work on TRUCK people. We're far too suspicious of your motives and rightly so. Pickup trucks are about American steel and brawn, tugging a boat and your gun rack into the woods. Electric simply has no place, outside of a super-niche toy for .... Whom exactly? The people who have the $ to drop on a Tesla (rich liberals and techie wimps) likely aren't driving a truck in the first place.
How much work do you need, slap a truck body on the power cell body and your done...
Price it under $30,000 so people who are considering (or already own) a pickup truck will actually look at this.
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All these new products are just ways to get people to pre-order.
Pre-orders are interest free loans which they need to counter the massive Model 3 cash burn. If Model 3 does not get on track, many of these new products won't see the light of day. I have no doubt Tesla will continue to exist as a battery company. But as far as vehicles are concerned, other manufacturers are nipping at their heels and they don't have cash flow or production issues.
Because he doesn’t allow you to post affiliate links to Teslas, creimer?
They need to keep their design team working on new things. The design of the Model 3 is done. Sure, their designers will be doing some tweaks, but they need to be doing interesting stuff, or they'll move on to other companies where they can.
You can't run a successful company for the long term by focusing exclusively on the current product, even when the survival of the company depends on the success of the current product. You have to keep the product pipeline running.
Jew baby foreskins for the leather seats?
Or are those going away in the tax bill?
Since then, a company called Bollinger has come up with an all electric SUV (that is really reminiscent of old Land Rovers or maybe a LEGO version of a Jeep). Jalopnik had a good article on it with a focus on the "front trunk" Something like that in a pickup truck could very well be a game changer and since Bollinger isn't nearly as well known as Tesla, Elon's outfit could easily garner credit for the invention in the public perception.
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Capable of laying down some serious rubber and just making Bobbie Sue all sorts of hot and bothered. Composite gun rack. Solar powered fridge for the long necks.
What other stereotypes did I miss...
Your range can get cut almost in half and you are usually going a long distance.... these are for people that want to run around town with a cover on the bed.
love is just extroverted narcissism
Elon my man, I want a gaddamed Jeep equivalent.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
you can do things in any order you want. Oh, that's right, you're irrelevant. I forgot.
In that case, please enjoy criticizing relevant people on the internet.
How many trillion $ did we spend on the gulf wars?
So you only hate certain subsidies.
Sounds good, now I can load a whole load of extra loaded batteries in the loadbay....
If it's around 80K and can go 300 miles with a full load it would probably be worth it; at least for Los Angeles. Not for people that live in the boonies and commute 600 miles in a truck everyday.
The killer feature:
Automated swapable beds?
Completely swapable top vehicle on a battery frame? So get a dually, double cab, SUV, or standard truck. The SUV would be of interest to people that toe trailers.
Swapable batteries?
Can't wait to see his stocks fall.
300-500 miles isn't anemic range
To add that, most electrical vehicles are usually plugged-in parked, meaning that this ranges applies whenever you start driving.
Batteries can be swapped faster than 60 gallon diesel tanks can be filled, nobody has done it in a widespread system yet but that doesn't make it infeasible.
Actually several companies have attempted at several level of deployment (including Tesla, Renault, etc.) but eventually drop the scheme simply due to lack of interest.
Most EV are usually charged while staying parked (in home charged during the night, chargers in public parkings during the day), and on a long trip you need to make regular breaks every few hours, so you might as well leave the car plugged in while you go pee, have a coffee, etc.
As such, battery swaping, though a nice technology, doesn't actually answer any real-world need in most use cases.
(It is useful, though, on racing vehicle, being very quick. The few experiment in racing EV I've read about all relied on quick-swapping battery to dramatically reduce pit stop time).
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And I bet the semi truck models will be named model
- model H
- model Zero
- model T
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A bigger vehicle like a truck mean more room, and thus more battery.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of them came in "200kWh battery" variations.
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Where I used to work, most of the vehicles in our parking lot were shiny, never scratched, washed every weekend big pickups with large displacement engines.
The question prospective purchasers are likely to ask is, "Will the Tesla pickups enlarge your pxxxx as much?"
Does it roll coal?
This is a cool idea, but need to see reviews first.
You know, I sympathize with your point, but I don't think it's possible to lower the value of a /. discussion of anything involving Elon Musk. To much techbro penis-envy in the room!
I hope they get built in the Southeast. First, the area is anti-union and that seems to be something Tesla doesn't want to deal with. Second, the cost of land and labor is so much cheaper than out west. Third, trucks are popular in the region. Fourth, you'll be giving folks good jobs that they might just support politically in states that traditionally don't support greener things. Fifth, it'd help build up infrastructure in states that are likely ignored.
Seems like a net win across the board to me.