Worse… aluminum is not malleable like steel. A (rather destructive) youtuber found that simply trying to do a kinetic recovery is enough to rip the frame off at the hitch mount. Not the hitch mount. The frame behind it. A good pothole hitting your trailer’s wheels can rip the frame off.
The same youtuber then showed how a truck with a steel frame will not rip apart by getting bumped, by dropping an F150 10ft onto a rock ledge on its hitch 100 times in a row doesn’t rip the frame off. It bends the frame eventually, but it doesn’t rip it apart.
Reminds me of bicycles. If you are building a “touring” bike – something you want to use for multi-day rides while carrying shit – you always go steel. “Steel is real.” You’re much more likely to bend something that you can literally hammer or bend it back into “good enough to keep going” working order, whereas if you have aluminum or, god forbid, carbon fiber, you crack your frame and your ride is over.
Watched the video, pretty fun. It really shows that the Cybertruck was designed around Musk’s current paranoid obsessive personality.
It is critically flawed in almost every way except two: 1) it’s fast as hell. And 2) IT TOOK A C4 CHARGE WITH A MINOR DENT! LOL
Nevertheless, in terms of use-case analysis, it’s a sloppily designed truck. And while I have to admit the C4 thing was impressive, if we are thinking about it as some sort of quasi-military vehicle, then, while the C4 thing might be valuable, all of the other critical failures make it worthless and dangerous for that application.
Basically it didn’t try to be a good truck because they tried to make it withstand gunfire and C4. And it’s not good as a quasi-military vehicle because they tried to make it also a regular truck.
Worse… aluminum is not malleable like steel. A (rather destructive) youtuber found that simply trying to do a kinetic recovery is enough to rip the frame off at the hitch mount. Not the hitch mount. The frame behind it. A good pothole hitting your trailer’s wheels can rip the frame off.
The same youtuber then showed how a truck with a steel frame will not rip apart by getting bumped, by dropping an F150 10ft onto a rock ledge on its hitch 100 times in a row doesn’t rip the frame off. It bends the frame eventually, but it doesn’t rip it apart.
Reminds me of bicycles. If you are building a “touring” bike – something you want to use for multi-day rides while carrying shit – you always go steel. “Steel is real.” You’re much more likely to bend something that you can literally hammer or bend it back into “good enough to keep going” working order, whereas if you have aluminum or, god forbid, carbon fiber, you crack your frame and your ride is over.
Watched the video, pretty fun. It really shows that the Cybertruck was designed around Musk’s current paranoid obsessive personality.
It is critically flawed in almost every way except two: 1) it’s fast as hell. And 2) IT TOOK A C4 CHARGE WITH A MINOR DENT! LOL
Nevertheless, in terms of use-case analysis, it’s a sloppily designed truck. And while I have to admit the C4 thing was impressive, if we are thinking about it as some sort of quasi-military vehicle, then, while the C4 thing might be valuable, all of the other critical failures make it worthless and dangerous for that application.
Basically it didn’t try to be a good truck because they tried to make it withstand gunfire and C4. And it’s not good as a quasi-military vehicle because they tried to make it also a regular truck.