Tesla Cybertruck

Dadoffourgirls wrote:

Reisender wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:
I think it's pretty obvious we're looking at what amounts to an El Camino or Ranchero, not a real pickup. Many people use their pickups as strictly grocery getters or transportation, not hauling anything much at all.

I don’t see a “real pickup” as having anywhere near the facility as the cybertruck is projected to have with the exception of a “real pickup” being able to tow a fifth wheel or if you need a long box. But different people need pickups to do different things so there will be a market for the old stuff for a while yet. Fifth wheels are not near as common as they used to be with their biggest audience still being old boomers. That market will continually decline over the next ten years.

Just like the 2004 and 2005 Envoy XUV!

Also, I am scheduling the installation of a super charger between the hay and wheat fields, and the barns. Would hate to run out of energy when towing 12k of wagons.

I don’t follow. Why would one install a Supercharger at home.

Reisender wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:
I think it's pretty obvious we're looking at what amounts to an El Camino or Ranchero, not a real pickup. Many people use their pickups as strictly grocery getters or transportation, not hauling anything much at all.

I don’t see a “real pickup” as having anywhere near the facility as the cybertruck is projected to have with the exception of a “real pickup” being able to tow a fifth wheel or if you need a long box. But different people need pickups to do different things so there will be a market for the old stuff for a while yet. Fifth wheels are not near as common as they used to be with their biggest audience still being old boomers. That market will continually decline over the next ten years.

Just like the 2004 and 2005 Envoy XUV!

Also, I am scheduling the installation of a super charger between the hay and wheat fields, and the barns. Would hate to run out of energy when towing 12k of wagons.

fj12ryder wrote:
I think it's pretty obvious we're looking at what amounts to an El Camino or Ranchero, not a real pickup. Many people use their pickups as strictly grocery getters or transportation, not hauling anything much at all.

I don’t see a “real pickup” as having anywhere near the facility as the cybertruck is projected to have with the exception of a “real pickup” being able to tow a fifth wheel or if you need a long box. But different people need pickups to do different things so there will be a market for the old stuff for a while yet. Fifth wheels are not near as common as they used to be with their biggest audience still being old boomers. That market will continually decline over the next ten years.

I think it's pretty obvious we're looking at what amounts to an El Camino or Ranchero, not a real pickup. Many people use their pickups as strictly grocery getters or transportation, not hauling anything much at all.

p220sigman wrote:
Might be wrong, but I think the Ridgeline still has an in-bed box.

The 2020 has a conventional bed with a gap between cab and bed just like other pickups.

Might be wrong, but I think the Ridgeline still has an in-bed box.

tomman58 wrote:

wilber1 wrote:

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:

wilber1 wrote:
I access my pickup bed from the side a lot more than I do from the tailgate. I'm always lifting stuff in and out over the side and have a couple of fold flat step stools tucked in either side of the bed box to make the job easier. Always having to open the tailgate and crawl up to get things out of the front of the bed would be a real PITA. Aerodynamic maybe but not very practical.

With so many gadgets, maybe you can ask to customize to have the pick up bed slide out on voice command.;)

So that gets you high enough to reach over the side but how long will your arms need to be to reach the bottom of the bed when you get there?

I have an aluminum bed box behind the cab. If I need anything from it, I just whip out one of my folding stools and I can reach right down into the bottom of it from over the side, with the Tesla you will have to open the tailgate and climb over whatever else you have back there just to access the bed box.

Doesn't Honda have already a box that is "similar" to the cyber truck.

The early ones did, now they have conventional beds. Is there a message there?

wilber1 wrote:

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:

wilber1 wrote:
I access my pickup bed from the side a lot more than I do from the tailgate. I'm always lifting stuff in and out over the side and have a couple of fold flat step stools tucked in either side of the bed box to make the job easier. Always having to open the tailgate and crawl up to get things out of the front of the bed would be a real PITA. Aerodynamic maybe but not very practical.

With so many gadgets, maybe you can ask to customize to have the pick up bed slide out on voice command.;)

So that gets you high enough to reach over the side but how long will your arms need to be to reach the bottom of the bed when you get there?

I have an aluminum bed box behind the cab. If I need anything from it, I just whip out one of my folding stools and I can reach right down into the bottom of it from over the side, with the Tesla you will have to open the tailgate and climb over whatever else you have back there just to access the bed box.

Doesn't Honda have already a box that is "similar" to the cyber truck.

I also notice the Cybertruck has a unit body which means it will need to be incredibly stiff to avoid wrinkling the body work when people inevitably overload it. Early Honda Ridgeline. Pickups are body on frame with a gap between the cab and bed so they can flex without damaging anything when that happens.

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:

wilber1 wrote:
I access my pickup bed from the side a lot more than I do from the tailgate. I'm always lifting stuff in and out over the side and have a couple of fold flat step stools tucked in either side of the bed box to make the job easier. Always having to open the tailgate and crawl up to get things out of the front of the bed would be a real PITA. Aerodynamic maybe but not very practical.

With so many gadgets, maybe you can ask to customize to have the pick up bed slide out on voice command.;)

So that gets you high enough to reach over the side but how long will your arms need to be to reach the bottom of the bed when you get there?

I have an aluminum bed box behind the cab. If I need anything from it, I just whip out one of my folding stools and I can reach right down into the bottom of it from over the side, with the Tesla you will have to open the tailgate and climb over whatever else you have back there just to access the bed box.