Diesel pickups are for chumps

[Gman]

Haven't seen this thread for a while. Regarding Tesla's profit, let's see if they can do it 2 quarters in a row. There were a number of reports of suppliers going unpaid prior to the end of the last quarter.

[Justin]

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.

[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.

[Jer]

Haven't seen this thread for a while. Regarding Tesla's profit, let's see if they can do it 2 quarters in a row. There were a number of reports of suppliers going unpaid prior to the end of the last quarter.

Do you have details, links or citations for these numerous reports? Nobody making these claims seems to have any details or even names. They claim that supplier bankruptcies are a sure-fire sign that Tesla isn't paying up. Or... it could just be mismanaged companies. lol Tesla has enough on their plate running their own company w/o having to make sure each of it's supplier companies can also manage themselves properly.

[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: