Tesla Cybertruck

"Cancelled Tesla Cybertruck orders to be refunded in Australia

Two months after the Cybertruck was wiped from Tesla’s Australian website, the company has confirmed customers who placed an order can apply for a refund of their deposit."

21 July 2022" https://www.drive.com.au/news/tesla-cybertruck-orders-refunded-australia/?utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=smh.com.au&utm_content=article_2&utm_medium=partner

The design of the cybertruck is as if it were intentionally intended to kill any pedestrian it hit. I have always suspected it wouldn't get approval in the EU and other countries that care about pedestrians, unlike the US. I suspect this issue is why it won't be sold elsewhere.

"Meanwhile, Tesla CEO Elon Musk today announced the Cybertruck will enter production next year and turn up on US roads mid-way through 2023, although only North American customers will be able to place an order for the all-electric pick-up."

Allowing for the usual Musksh​it, that means it might make it onto US roads in 2028.

New charge port location unveiled. It’s basically part of the wheel arch. The article questions if this is a good place on a working truck as it could be more prone to damage.

I thought this thread would have been on fire the last couple of days, is the cybertruck definitely not coming to Ireland?

Anybody still have a deposit down?

be interesting to see how sales go, if the public will over look the rather immature designs, but the american market is a strange one....

sharp panels probably wouldnt end well in a collision....

...i just cant see it being successful, but weird things do happen, their cars are stunning, some great innovation happening in their factories tbf....

Yeah I have, you can look up crash tests for those, an F150, Silverado or RAM 1500 would be the equivalents. Their back axles certainly did not snap during those tests.

To be fair Tesla's usually have very good safety ratings, I have no doubt they could have built an excellent pickup truck if only they hadn't proceeded with such a ludicrous design.

Well for lorries you need a special license first of all, they have a plethora of safety systems designed to prevent such accidents, they tend not to be driving through urban areas as much where they are more likely to encounter pedestrians and they substantially larger, noiser and slower than the CT.

You are right though, a large chunk of the CyberTrucks problems are also shared by other large pickups and SUVs. Huge front hood heights means a pedestrian is more likely to receive a fatal impact to the upper torso. It's the reason there's an ever increasing number of pedestrian fatalities in the US.

What makes the CyberTruck standout to me, is not just it's size and design making it so dangerous to pedestrians, it's the apparent disregard for the safety of those driving it too. When you pair that with Elon Musk's personality and involvement in this particular project, you get the feeling of a vanity project that was pushed presumably over the objections of engineers who knew of it's flawed design.

They're offering reservation holders $1000 to purchase a different Tesla vehicle.

They had 2 million "reservations", which I would presume we're majority RWD and the regular AWD. Now they're at least $20k more expensive, with less range and the RWD won't be delivered until 2025.

Even if not a single reservation holder switched it would take nearly 8 years at their current predicted production rate to meet those.

It's an awful ugly ******* vehicle.

Nope. Its an N1 classified vehicle, perfectly legal for a commercial EV to be up to 4250kg GVWR on a b licence.

As put on the NDLS website , "Alternatively fuelled vehicles with a MAM1 exceeding 3,500 kg. but not exceeding 4,250 kg. for the transport of goods operating without a trailer by holders of a category B driving licence which was issued at least two years before"

https://www.ndls.ie/about/licence-categories-and-codes.html#licence-categories

Yikes