But How...?

[Diehard]

Directly behind the back seat:

Unrelated to the thread subject: It was interesting to see the Yoke use on U-turns and L/R turns. Also the passenger saying that how well it handled the road bumps makes it so much harder to wait.

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[CWiley]

Unrelated to the thread subject: It was interesting to see the Yoke use on U-turns and L/R turns. Also the passenger saying that how well it handled the road bumps makes it so much harder to wait.

No totally related...Listen closer. The passenger asks where does the cover go, and the driver replies "directly behind you."

The subject is the pass through, HOW? Where the cover goes to create a pass through is directly related to the pass through. Listen closer...

 

[Diehard]

No totally related...Listen closer. The passenger asks where does the cover go, and the driver replies "directly behind you."

The subject is the pass through, HOW? Where the cover goes to create a pass through is directly related to the pass through. Listen closer...

I did hear that. Your post was great and relevant. I was referring to my own comment.

 

[CWiley]

I did hear that. Your post was great and relevant. I was referring to my own comment.

Oh, My bad...I misunderstood. Thank you!

 

[Dids]

What do you guys think are the chances pass through is standard or an option only on Tri-motor?

I really want it bad but I doubt that I will fork over the additional $20K for it.

I don't think a mid gate has a good chance of being on any model.... maybe a roll down window but then on all of them...

 

[TheLastStarfighter]

What do you guys think are the chances pass through is standard or an option only on Tri-motor?

I really want it bad but I doubt that I will fork over the additional $20K for it.

No chance. The majority of the design will be the exact same for every model, especially the basic structure.

 

[TheLastStarfighter]

One thing about a pass through...

It would necessitate that there be open seams in the bed where the passage folds. So if you were to carry a load of sand for instance it would end up getting all up in those seams. Which would then necessitate a way to clean that out.

I'm not intending to carry a load of sand though. If I were, I would add some liner of some sort to keep the sand out of those seams. But from an engineering perspective, this is one of the little details that would have to be thought out and planned for.

Good point. You're hired for Tesla QA.

 

[TheLastStarfighter]

There is also a video of the test rides where one of the passengers ask where does the cover go and the driver replies its right there behind you...Meaning behind the seat he was sitting in. The the video kinda flashes a quick view of the referenced area. The cover was on the floor behind the seat, not under the floor. (the passenger was in the back seat)

Of course this was the prototype things could change.

Yeah, I wish I could find the engineering sketch I saw months ago. It was cool...

 

[TheLastStarfighter]

During rides the driver says it rolls up under the back seat.... I don't believe he meant literally rolls up into a roll or literally under the seat.
My personal favorite totally unsupported belief is that it rolls as a flat panel under the bed remaining a flat panel. By my guess distances it appears to me that sufficient room exists to pull the cover to the point of the under bed storage.... this would mean the trailing edge stops just below the rear window, this is important to prevent foreign object intrusion into the gap between the bed head and the cab. When the cover is closed a cover would need to be held in the gap.
Additionally a flat configuration allows a simple cable loop to pull open and PULL close the cover with the cable running from the rear of the cover down through the bed wall just inside the tailgate. The pull open cable is of course attached to the front of the cover and it's path is the cover track.
The rapid smooth operation of the cover sure makes it look like the cover is not pushed close, but Tesla engineers are amazing and they could do something amazing.
Before you say but that means the bottom of the bed is not attached to the frame! The frame is at the sides of the bed!

It literally does roll up into a roll behind the back seat, under the bed. Like a Cyber-Jellyroll.

 

[CWiley]

Im with @Newton , i dont think this is going to happen, and Im totally alright with that and actually prefer it to be honest. One less moving part/seal to worry about, and i feel that the use cases are extremely limited. I plan on keeping this vehicle a very long time, so i dont want to have to worry about this down the road.

I agree, less parts less problems...!

 

[Cyberman]

I think this is good enough for me too. The possibility to grab something in the back through the window and it being a big enough opening to be able to crawl through either way in case of an emergency.

OK, I'm going to come out and say it. You wanna be able to grab a beer from the cooler in the vault. What the problem is?

 

[Crissa]

In the two videos, there's no space between the back of the vault and the back seat for a roll to be. It has to be somewhere.

And there are already seams in the bed. A bunch of them. There's storage behind the axle and aides.

-Crissa

 

[TheLastStarfighter]

In the two videos, there's no space between the back of the vault and the back seat for a roll to be. It has to be somewhere.

And there are already seams in the bed. A bunch of them. There's storage behind the axle and aides.

-Crissa

It is below the vault, behind the seat. The truck bed is higher than the passenger floor. Draw a line between the rear passenger's feet and the rear wheel. In this space will find the Cyber-Jellyroll.

 

[Luke42]

The last truck with a folding mitigate was the Chevy Avalanche, and it worked like this:

However, that thing's integrated tonneau cover worked quite differently. Compared to the roll-top tonneau cover on CT prototype, one might say the Avalanche's cover didn't work at all.

Tesla would probably do it differently. But this is an answer to the question of how this would work.

P.S. Here's the story of why the Avalanche was discontinued:
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2019/03/the-inside-scoop-on-why-gm-discontinued-the-chevy-avalanche/

 

[Dids]

OK, I'm going to come out and say it. You wanna be able to grab a beer from the cooler in the vault. What the problem is?

The problem is... the cooler is in the frunk.