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If you think nobody wanted to townrith the Cybertruck, you didn’t read any of my posts on this board. The reveal specs were a match for my towing-needs, the delivery specs were not a match for my towing-needs. As such, having a 2022 Model Y in my driveway along with a 14 year old hybrid pickup...

Gaffes like this are why professionals rehearse before they present.

The electric motor in my GMC Sierra Hybrid is a huge improvement it comes to when maneuvering a trailer and hitching up. Applying force smoothly is good for trailers, and electric motors are often very good at that.

I currently tow with a hybrid pickup truck. I can’t wait to replace it with an electric pickup truck. The reveal stats for the Cybertruck were a decent fit for my task, but the delivery stats are a huge miss for my purposes (6000lb trailer, 200-mile travel-legs with trailer attached). The...

In Europe, yes. In the USA, 55-60 is the speed I tow at - but that limit is set by my feel for what I’m towing. Above 60mph, things usually don’t feel right so I back off. But some people tow at much higher speeds. Sometimes it’s because they have better equipment than I do, sometimes it’s...

Towing my camper is my peak-demand use-case for my truck as well. Mine is 6000lbs and has the aerodynamics of a garden shed (likely more important than the weight). My requirement is to be able to travel 200-mile legs with the camper, which likely means a 500-600 mile range without the camper...

That's what Tesla is selling, but it's not what I'm buying. I'm a suburban dad who wants to tow his camper, run to Home Depot, get groceries, and transport children. I don't want either a supercar, or an electric brodozer. I spent years following the wrong truck.

I work in product design, and I'm familiar with making products fit into other products. Making that work is actual work. What you're missing is that having a business sitting around not selling anything is how you lose money. It's anti-profitable behavior. The question is why Cyberlandr...

I have my product development hat on. If Cyberlandr wants to build a business selling campers, they should build a business selling campers. They don't have to wait for the Cybertruck to be released to build their business.

There are several orders of magnitude more GMC Sierras on the road with tonneau covers installed than Cybertrucks. There is a couple of orders of mangnitude more Rivian R1Ts.with factory integrated roll-up tonneau covers out there than there are Cybertrucks. The total addressable market for a...

My truck came with a tonneau from the factory.

They could be building lots of designs on different sizes and shapes for different vehicles. Some engineering organizations do this, and being a "design factory" specializing in a certain class of prodict is a posture that can work really well in some circumstances. For instance, I have a...

Elon Musk says a lot of things. For instance, FSD doesn't really work yet.

A dongle off the charging port would work for my mission. I could have used that for packup power with my Model Y when a derecho took out our power for 3.5 days. A dongle would be acceptable for my mission with the Cybertruck. I could handle 110V in the frunk and the cabin, and a dongle for...

Depends on why you're buying the truck. If you're looking for general transportation with a badass look, then your reasoning applies. If you have a for a specific mission for the vehicle in mind, then the features matter. The TFLTruck tow-off with the Silverado EV and the F150 shows that the...

I intend to use my EV pickup as an RV support vehicle for my travel trailer. Many RVs require 240V power in the form of a NEMA 14-50 outlet, though smaller outlets (including the 120V TT-30 outlet) can often work in its place (with some off-grid-style load-management). Another application for...

It's been a year, and the object visualization hasn't gotten better. For instance, it was sure I'd crashed into a trashcan while parking this evening, which means it misplaced the trashcan by at least 6 feed. I'm used to ignoring the "OMFG STOP!" chime now, which isn't a good thing. I just...

The pricing on that camper explains why nobody puts car engines or car batteries for extended range.

It is possible to increase drag via the taper at the back. For instance, the R-Pod campers got this just-wrong and they have a stall-strip installed as a hacky way fix their aerodynamics. I agree that tapering the back is a good idea, I just need to point out that the implementation details...

Ouch, that one slices both ways. F150 Lightning.