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Originally Posted by oldtamiyaphile
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. |
Saves 1000 pounds really? And thick steel panels and bullet proof glass probably saves more compared to the aluminum modern F150. This is the fairy stuff I'm talking about, along with suddenly a 200% improvement in battery weight. There is no way the Cybertruck is going to weight less than a long Range Model X and it's lightweight unibody aluminum construction while it's going to need twice the battery to get 500 miles of range. So you have a Model X with twice the battery, steel instead of aluminum, big LT mud tires instead of highway radials, bullet proof glass, worse Cd, more frontal aera, things like sliding ramps strong enough to hold an atv and rider, have the ability to carry 3500 pounds, but weigh about 5200 pounds? Oh and BTW its 1/2 the price. If all that is possible they are raping people on the Model X.
It will start at 6200 pounds for the standard range 2wd and be over 7000 pounds for the 3 motor 4wd. Mark my words.