• sfled@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    I’ll never understand why the design of this thing so unlike all of the other vehicles in the Tesla lineup. It’s soooo fugly.

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      23 hours ago

      All of his companies have people whose job it is to distract Elon musk when he tries to get involved. Tesla’s must have been on vacation or something.

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      22 hours ago

      The other cars are mild steel shells on alloy subframes. They mild steel is easy to press into shape

      Cybertruck is stainless steel, it is much harder than mild steel and doesn’t bend easily, so they made it out of flat panels

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        21 hours ago

        Yet DeLorean Motor Company figured out how to do it 40 years ago, and designed a much cooler looking vehicle with it…