My 0.2 cents worth. I see evidence of a desire to evoke some military design
concepts here. (It worked for the Humvee/Hummer.) The angular surfaces on
military aircraft help to reduce the radar profile. The Cybertruck seems to be
Tesla’s first attempt at making vehicles invisible to police radar. However,
stainless steel may be the wrong material. Stealth aircraft use a lot of
exotics and special coatings to achieve radar invisibility. The Cybertruck
probably won’t disappear from radar.
Here are a couple of other observations that I found interesting. First a
Twitter thread: pic.twitter.com/o0SuqutoG5 <https://t.co/o0SuqutoG5>
And second, a take on the truck’s appearance:
https://www.businessinsider.com/blade-runners-syd-mead-says-cybertruck-exceeds-expectations-2019-11
<https://www.businessinsider.com/blade-runners-syd-mead-says-cybertruck-exceeds-expectations-2019-11>
Jack Goodwin
On Nov 23, 2019, at 8:14 AM, W.R. German (Redacted sender "ncsprach" for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Guys,
You’re missing the point (and you didn’t click on my link). Every boy ages
4-11 is going to be nagging his parents to get one, so that he can be the
coolest kid at school when his parents pick him up in the afternoon to go
home. When I was little, I used to play with Tonka trucks.
MIt freundlichen Grüßen/Kind regards,
Robert German
Tesla referral code: Robert85963
Sent from my iPad
On 22. Nov 2019, at 17:44, Mark Bishop <mcbishop111@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You'all,
For years, I thought the ugliest vehicle ever made was the Pontiac Aztec.
Well, not any more! Franz Von Holzhausen must have been on vacation!
However, the performance at that price is really good.
Mark Bishop
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 3:57 PM Susan Goodwin <blueskies1856@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:blueskies1856@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
It's not me, altho it has some plusses going for it, but some folks will be
interested. Like The Matrix, Bladerunner & MadMax people. Humvee owners,
possibly. Gangsta's that want to shoot up rival gangsta's & bad boys who
want to rob banks. And the ones that just want different, as in very. It's
definitely not a Tesla look-a-like or a pickup look-a-like, so it will be a
no-go for some, but Elon's out there (in space most of the time), so I don't
think he's too worried. He mentioned awhile back that after this
Bladerunner-type he would then create a more normal/regular pickup, so we'll
see.
I wouldn't mind driving one tho, on a race track!
Susan
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 12:57 PM Eric Cardwell <ecardwell@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:ecardwell@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
It's growing on me, at first I was like, this is ridiculous but the more i
think about it the more its not THAT strange, there are still a lot of
questions though.
But a 100Kwh pack for base model $39k!! Elon is managing to do something
with battery prices!
https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck ;<https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTZ84U-K_5k ;
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTZ84U-K_5k>
Oh, and on stage demo's don't always work out!!
