Tesla’s Cybertruck just made its grand debut at Mardi Gras 2025, and, well… it didn’t go great. Watch the Video: The Crowd Was Not Having It. A group of Cybertrucks rolled through the Orpheus Parade, a generally tame, family-friendly event known for marching bands, fabulous floats, and an all-around good time. But when the small […]
it’s the weight and the motor. they weigh more than any other light duty truck on the market by a wide margin and the motor lacks the torque to make up the difference. to increase the torque you would need to make the vehicle more of a fire hazard than it already is.
all of this constitutes an extremely core design flaw which is that no one asked “what is a truck?” when they designed their truck. they never asked what the purpose of the vehicle should be, instead choosing to design a device for a paranoid ketamine addicted indoor boy who wouldn’t be capable of surviving the apocalypse he envisioned the truck for without someone else heating his canned baked beans for him
If President Musk and VP Trump manage to actually destroy the country, I hope I live long enough to laugh at how quickly every last Cybertruck becomes an unusable hunk of stainless steel rotting away wherever it gasped its final breath.
It’s crazy, because the F150 lightning and the comparable offerings from GM and Toyota and so on are, from what I’ve seen and read, legitimately solid trucks even if you outright ignore the electric propulsion. But eel-on-musk had a “better” idea.
exactly! if you want what the cybertruck is offering, the hummer ev is better in every regard. if you want a truck for truck stuff, the ford, toyota, and rivian are all very capable, arguably more capable than ice f-150s and their ilk.
the only reason for someone not to cancel their cybertruck order is because they like that it’s their fascist propaganda wagon
Yup. You can still look like a tool, but you don’t have to look like a tessellated tool (I kid)