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Originally Posted by Hersbird
No it won't, and there are F150s available with 3270 pounds of payload. I'll bet the GVWR on the Cybertruck is at least 9000 pounds, I actually believe thy will just go straight to 10,000 pounds and not mess around. I bet any 4wd outweighs my 2001 3/4 ton 4x4 Suburban that has Cybertruck type payload numbers.
I'm all for making the Cybertruck but just don't get all the fairyland beliefs surrounding it.
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What current truck owners don't understand is efficiency
Going from a floppy ladder frame to a unibody saves 1/2 ton of weight while being much, much stronger. American pickup payloads are laughed at in the rest of the world. An exoskeleton/ space frame is stronger still. When you have a fundamentally strong design, you can use lighter materials.
A truss bridge like this has a weight capacity of ~200tons:
Remove all the structure, leaving just the deck in place, and that's your typical pick up. ~10 tons capacity. Restoring the bridges capacity to 200 tons using just the deck girders would make the bridge extremely heavy.