Mike66Chryslers
Senior Member
The air suspension has a kneeling mode to make it easier to load things in the box.
Tesla launches new truck, things don't go too well
- Thread starter 69 300 vert
- Start date
Dylan Galvin
Active Member
Yup. Squats in the rear for loading, and the whole truck basically lays down for performance driving according to Musk.
barnfind
Old Man with a Hat
Neat option on the tailgate, otherwise
luigi164
Active Member
Besides it's ugly, I wonder: why the bullitproof glas ?????? for what? Protecting the bad guys from getting shot or something ??? 
stubs300
Senior Member
Somebody wasted a lot of money going to auto design school!
Maybe Musk thinks the current commies will take over and the common people will need it.
Mike66Chryslers
Senior Member
Believe it or not, this truck and the Tesla Roadster were both designed by the same person, Franz von Holzhausen. He was the guy who threw the metal ball at the windows of the truck during the presentation.
Ok, that is kinda cool!!
stubs300
Senior Member
He must've been smokin tons of cheeba the day he drew that!
Fast Eddie B
Well-Known Member
Maybe more a sport Ute than a pick up. It will look good beside my X. And I already have a charging station.
patrick66
Old Man with a Hat
A Pontiac Aztec is downright stylish compared to this. A Honda Ridgeline is an exceptionaly HD pickup in comparison! Of course, we now have a wonderful national infrastructure of clean and plentiful charging stations nationwide where...say what? We...don't...have those yet? Ah, ****, wake me up when we get that in place, so these electric trucklets can be practical!
Hyper_pak
Member
Is it just me or does elon musk look like a Bond Villan? That guy scares me.
Villain? Well he does build cars that catch fire and the autonomous one's have mowed down pedestrians and caused several fatal crashes. To suggest he is a villain suggests he intends to cause harm. More likely he is a huckster using the motoring public as guinea pigs hoping to make money once his cars are perfected. I suspect the major pending lawsuits on his defective cars might soon bring this experimental phase to its conclusion.
Dave
Not a national one, but Minnesota is using the VW settlement money ($47M for MN) and half of that is going towards a statewide charging station network that will total 2400 miles of range (something like that) which the article I read said was the maximum allowed?
Will make for a great road trip in a Chevy Volt, lets see, 8 hours of charging to get 60 miles before a recharge is needed. That works out to something like 320 hours plus drive time to travel the 2400 miles. Horse might be faster but feel good Earth Firsters would complain about all that organic discharge. I guess they could collect it to feed their pot plants. Our idiot governor in Oregon signed off on a charging station every 40 miles on the interstate so it would be possible to drive an electric car all the way from the Washington border to the People's Republic of California.
Dave
Similar threads
