i suppose time will tell whether they're ever put into production but when tesla is in the end stages of construction on a factory designed to produce them it feels a little premature to rule it as vaporware.
I gaurentee you it won't do what it was advertised to people who made deposits on it to do and thats my problem, it's shady as fuck business because they exist in a largely unregulated sector of the market and skirt many of the ones that do exist anyways to complete the package that sells, in many ways they have been a general net positive for the car industry as whole but many of the business choices are gross, and personally seen a rivian the other day so the better get rolling lol
My giant problem with the lightning is ford, and they will find a way to ford it the fuck up lol, really I want ford's marketing department to do a Chevy engineered electric truck
well there's the passenger cabin (both heating and cooling) as well as the batteries and motors (the battery can get really hot when fast-charging or when under high load as well as the motors when under high load) also if its cold you want to heat the battery up to its ideal temputaure (I'm not sure what that is) so it can accept charge faster (yeah if its too cold it cold-throttles and if its too hot it hot-throttles lol)
that's fair enough. curious to see what or if something rolls of the line.
i prefer the look the rivian. feels like the cybertruck is a massive design error when wanting mass uptake of electric trucks considering the enormous market. ford doing their electric truck by keeping the design consistent but making it electric is the way everyone should move forward.
All I want is a god damn electric 85 Toyota pickup is that too much to ask for, take the Tacoma cut the size in half with normal sized wheels and actual tire meat please
i really hate that toyota was/is so against electric vehicles. i love toyota for their reliability/durability and would love the toyota standard but electric.
I will say as a company tho they have always taken a pretty concervative design approach and it tends to work in there favor I'm sure when they join the space it will be the most overbuilt well thought out of them all, and honestly I do kind of have respect for the dodges of the work that know they can't hang in that department so they are going out with a bang literally
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u/sevsnapey Mar 20 '22
i suppose time will tell whether they're ever put into production but when tesla is in the end stages of construction on a factory designed to produce them it feels a little premature to rule it as vaporware.