Diesel pickups are for chumps

[Martinjmpr]

Given that the bulk of the capital expenditures are overwith, I see no reason why they wouldn't continue to make a profit.

Hell, they're outselling BMW and Mercedes.


Man, I want one of those Electric Urals. Without the crap Russian power plant, I bet they'd actually run well. One in OD Green or Coyote Brown would be fun.

And with a sidecar to carry the batteries it would likely have decent range. I think most electric motorcycles are limited to around 125 miles now and then it's 4+ hours on the charger.

[Justin]

125 is about the top end of range for electric motorcycles. Most of them are more like 50-70, which would seem to put them in the toy category. The Ural prototype has a range of 108 miles, and that's using components that Zero developed in 2016. If they could get the range of a commercial Ural up to around 125-150, I think that would be pretty useful, especially with the addition of the sidecar.

Currently Zero seems to be at or near the top of the game when it comes to electric motorcycles:
https://www.zeromotorcycles.com/

They make some good looking products, that's for sure.

[Justin]

The unpaid supplier thing was something that happened in the depths of the development hell of the Model 3. There's been no word on it at all since earlier this year around June/July, iirc.

I think it boiled down to something like one or two suppliers being asked to return money on stuff they hadn't yet supplied.

Nothing since then on it, and the lack of news about unhappy Tesla suppliers would seem to indicate that it's no longer a problem.

[Jer]

The unpaid supplier thing was something that happened in the depths of the development hell of the Model 3. There's been no word on it at all since earlier this year around June/July, iirc.

I think it boiled down to something like one or two suppliers being asked to return money on stuff they hadn't yet supplied.

Nothing since then on it, and the lack of news about unhappy Tesla suppliers would seem to indicate that it's no longer a problem.

So just more people looking for reasons to hate Tesla where fewer and fewer exist. We're in reruns already. Got it. lol

[Justin]

Inside EVs has posted up a super early analysis of possible performance specs of the Tesla Pickup based on what little is known about it.

If their analysis is anywhere close to right, this thing is going to be a monster.

https://insideevs.com/tesla-pickup-truck-specs-modeled/

[ChickNorris]

Um, monster + truck.

Heehee

[68Charger]

Finally found an electric hybrid I could be interested in:




The "making of" video:

[ChickNorris]

Double Yay!


Because building it could be as fun as playing with it.

[Gman]

[Justin]

Rivian Motors is now demoing an electric pickup, and they've released the specs for it as well.

The design looks super promising, but getting to production will be a challenge. I also think that their estimated price point is super optimisitc.

That said, the 180 kWh battery pack is almost twice as big as the biggest one currently available on the market.

https://insideevs.com/rivian-r1t-ele...k-world-debut/