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The reactions of the designers remind me of the way some ICE mechanics react to electric vehicles. They are angry that their "expert" knowledge is being made irrelevant, and will advocate a return to dogma. Their motivation is ultimately self preservation. The more I think about it, the more I...

I'm looking for information about wrapping stainless steel, not finding much. In the meantime, I'll make some guesses. I do not claim to be any kind of expert. If you put a sticker on it, and then five years later remove the sticker, the area under the sticker will be LESS weathered than the...

Corrosion, at least on the stainless steel portions, will be a non-issue. Have you seem this? Tesla says they are using 3mm of cold-rolled stainless. 3mm is slightly thicker than 12 gauge. It's almost an eighth inch thick.

Pitting corrosion is something we will definitely see, especially where road salt is used. But it is mostly cosmetic damage, and it will take decades for the pits to be larger than pin-pricks. In salt mines they use all kinds of corrosion inhibitors on their trucks and still they never last two...

I don't know about that, we'll see what accessories are available when the thing actually hits the road.

I have been laughing at the springs on those four door shortbeds for at least a decade.... Having said all that, here's some further thoughts after a month's reflection. Things I like about cybertruck. Acceleration, been a long time since I rock and rolled. Don't forget the Frunk. It's gonna...

I'm with Luke oe hundred percent. Below is a copy of my comments from Dec 7. Automatic tonneau bed cover retracting and deploying I don't want anything to do with the back seats. After giving a few friends and relatives a joyride I will almost definitely rip them out and build something useful...

Do It Yourself! Magnetic Cybertruck. Click Here for YouTube video that I could not imbed.

Titanium, in most of it's alloys, is about the same hardness as carbon steel. It gets it's name and reputation from a lot of other things. Chemical resistance, almost as light as aluminum, biological compatibility, temperature resistance (hot and cold), can be bent repeatedly... The best...

If you need something like a ladder rack, the easiest way to do it is going to be..... weld it directly to the body. There's no paint. I do believe that a lot of mods are going to be done that way. Just stick it on and weld the gap.

I'll say it again. This is not going to be like anything that came before. You are comparing aluminum at 0.032 inch and work hardened stainless that is 0.11 inch. It looks like a piece of of angle iron flew right through that aluminum. The same piece of angle iron flying at the same speed...

The two square tubes are 2-1/4 and 2-1/2 inches. Regular steel, not stainless. The smaller tube is said to be 30 percent stronger at the same weight. I looked up DOT-111, and railroad tank cars are a minimum thickness of 7/16'th inch or 11.1mm. And I found an interesting stainless steel fact. It...

This is not going to be like anything that came before. When they say "exoskeleton" it sounds like the body is very, very structural. Even a small deformation in one panel will pull other panels out of alignment. Then add the folded origami construction, and we're starting to get weird. It's...

Enjoy the "extreme travel suspension" here.

Tank Turn will smoke your tires instantly on pavement. I doubt it works at all without the slippery mud. You know, even on tanks it doesn't work all that well, and on pavement tears up the tank's treads and the road. It needs the mud. You need a vehicle that is square, where the wheelbase length...

Pickup trucks today are very front-heavy, with engine and passengers towards the front., Rear-Wheel-Drive pickups quickly get squirrely in slippery conditions unless the bed is loaded. I looked around and did not see a lot of discussion about exactly why this is. I suppose it's to leave more...

There MUST be a way to open the vault from the inside, with no power, for the same reason car trunks today need to have an emergency release inside. To stop people becoming trapped inside. The government will not allow it otherwise. Furthermore, I am wondering exactly what the rule makers will...

There are plenty of grades of stainless that can be stamped. It could easily be that they use one of them for the inside. Regular steel would need to be painted, wouldn't it? There's also the problem of dissimilar metals producing galvanic corrosion. Did they say the exoskeleton is THREE...

OOPS So a 50 kg array of ultracapacitors could potentially input or output 650 kW of burst power, though, at 0.18 kWh, this would last just a second or so..

Supercapacitors are far superior than lithium batteries in reliability, longevity, and safety. They will barely need a management system. The only thing they don't do better is hold the charge. It's all there in the BatteryUniversity article. I was extremely surprised when they said 30 days to...