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Tesla CyberTruck Launch Event - did you even know?

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I saw one in the shopping center parking lot near my home this weekend. Looks like a CyberTruck but it may not be?
 

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Didn’t know. Didn’t care. Would never knowingly buy anything that would put more money in Musk’s account. Also would never buy anything that freaking ugly. Sheesh!
 

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I saw one in the shopping center parking lot near my home this weekend. Looks like a CyberTruck but it may not be?

Yup, that's the one. Originally, these would cost about $45,000 for a mid level Cyber Truck but it looks like it's now $85,000. It does qualify for a $7,500 tax credit and probably some other incentives.

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Didn’t know. Didn’t care. Would never knowingly buy anything that would put more money in Musk’s account. Also would never buy anything that freaking ugly. Sheesh!

I think these will catch on for a while. Kind of like the Hummers did when they first came out. Then, after a decade, maybe sooner, there will be something way better and no one will want a Cyber Truck.

Bill
 

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I was unaware. But I also think that Elon Musk is basically a Bond villain at this point. And that vehicle screams post-apocalyptic to me.


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"Musk has said all along that it's designed to be your go-to vehicle for the End of the World. "Sometimes you get these late-civilization vibes," he explained at the launch. "The apocalypse could come along at any moment, and here at Tesla we have the finest in apocalypse technology."
 

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If the apocalypse happens how are you going to charge it?
 

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If the apocalypse happens how are you going to charge it?
Well, if you're a prepper you charge it from your whole home large solar array of course! :cool: Seriously though, there are quite a few Tesla owners especially out on the west coast that have large solar arrays on their roofs that can charge their vehicle and power their house entirely from solar power. It's rare to be sure - but it's out there none-the-less.
 

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Well, if you're a prepper you charge it from your whole home large solar array of course! :cool: Seriously though, there are quite a few Tesla owners especially out on the west coast that have large solar arrays on their roofs that can charge their vehicle and power their house entirely from solar power. It's rare to be sure - but it's out there none-the-less.

In areas where electric rates top $0.50/Kwh, there's a great deal of overlap between "paranoid prepper" and "smart personal-finance choices."
 

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I saw one in the shopping center parking lot near my home this weekend. Looks like a CyberTruck but it may not be?
Yes - that's a Release Candidate CT - hence the RC on the side - i.e. it's not a production vehicle with a VIN.
 

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Well, if you're a prepper you charge it from your whole home large solar array of course! :cool: Seriously though, there are quite a few Tesla owners especially out on the west coast that have large solar arrays on their roofs that can charge their vehicle and power their house entirely from solar power. It's rare to be sure - but it's out there none-the-less.
If your electrical bill is $800-1200 a month, the math works out to have install sufficient solar panels to handle the full electrical load
As tax credits, sellbacks to the Utility company, and other incentives have evolved over time, the time to payback for the cost of the installation has changed
The use of a home battery system is now needed to sell back electricity to the utility company
The amount of electricity generated via solar exceeds the amount needed by the utility company at certain times of the day
The battery stores excess electricity and sells it back to the utility as needed
The additional cost has changed the math of payback on solar installs
It is a moving target according to my solar contacts
 

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The Cybertruck launch was well reported on the local news here in Silicon Valley. I have driven a pickup for many years, but cant stand the way this new model looks. Definity not on my list for possible future purchase.
 

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Well, if you're a prepper

I think an ev isn't on any prepper's list. More like a Jeep with a faraday bag for the hide a key and some extra gas, lol.

Bill
 

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How China Built Its "Tesla Killer"​

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/business/byd-china-electric-vehicle.html



"The leading Chinese electric vehicle company BYD, with origins as a battery maker, has posted two years of million-car growth in sales.

The company passed Tesla in worldwide sales of fully electric cars late last year. BYD is building assembly lines in Brazil, Hungary, Thailand and Uzbekistan and preparing to do so in Indonesia and Mexico. It is rapidly expanding exports to Europe. And the company is on the cusp of passing Volkswagen Group, which includes Audi, as the market leader in China.

BYD’s sales, over 80 percent of them in China, have grown by about a million cars in each of the past two years. The last automaker to accomplish that in even one year in the American market was General Motors — and that was in 1946, after G.M. had suspended passenger car sales during the four preceding years because of World War II.

“BYD’s growth is unlike anything the industry has seen in many decades,” said Matt Anderson, curator of transportation at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich.

Based in Shenzhen, the hub of China’s electronics industry, BYD has shown how Chinese carmakers can tap the country’s dominance of electrical products. No company has benefited as much from China’s embrace of battery-electric cars and plug-in gasoline-electric cars. These vehicles together make up 40 percent of China’s car market, the world’s largest, and are expected to be more than half next year. Like most Chinese automakers, BYD doesn’t sell its cars in America because Trump-era tariffs remain in place, but BYD does sell buses in the United States.

"they will pretty much demolish most other companies in the world,”

China has built enough factories to make more than twice as many cars as its market can buy. That has led to a price war in China, particularly between BYD and Tesla, with discounting that has inflicted heavy losses. One of BYD’s newest models, the subcompact Seagull, starts at less than $11,000.

BYD had 4,000 engineers working on assisted driving, a limited form of autonomous technology that works mainly on highways and large roads, and would invest $14 billion in the technology.

BYD has a lingering advantage over Tesla: Mr. Wang’s decision by 2011 to develop plug-in hybrid cars, which account for nearly half of BYD’s sales."
 
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I'm waiting for the Tesla Food-Truck.
I'd like to see what cuisine they serve.
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I miss the days when a truck was a utilitarian vehicle capable of doing work. Lately they’ve become a jacked up futuristic road warrior looking thing, but capable of less real work than previous models. Makes no sense to me.

The Tesla truck does not speak to me in that vein, and in no way seems practical. And as @PamMo says, it’s ugly as hell.

Didn’t know about the launch event, and wouldn’t have watched anyway. Just not my thing, I’m afraid.

Dave
 

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I have seen a few cyber trucks on the road. Today we went to the Silicon Valley Auto show and I got check one out, and confirmed i still don't care for the way the cyber truck looks.
 

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I have seen a few cyber trucks on the road. Today we went to the Silicon Valley Auto show and I got check one out, and confirmed i still don't care for the way the cyber truck looks.
Only seen one ourselves. I suspect it was a test drive as they pulled into a parking lot and switched drivers. There is also a Tesla dealer just down the street from where it was.
 

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