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points by hn_submit 1 day ago | 0 comments

Why isn't Tesla responding to queries as to whether production will cease completely? Are they ignoring bad news and bad rap? Childish of them.

Tesla could simply come up with a more conventional looking EV pick-up truck of course.

[–] alt227 1 day ago

The Ford F150 lightning was killed because of low demand and loosing the company money. That looked just like all the other F150s and that didnt help it. I dont see you criticising them them.

[–] hn_submit 1 day ago

I don't see a reason why there isn't a market for a EV pickup truck. Maybe the American public simply isn't ready for it. Or the Lighting may have been too expensive compared to its ICE counterpart.

But the CyberTruck is just one man's doodle-after-an-acid-trip kind of design.

[–] alt227 1 day ago

Yeah I agree, someone will crack the EV truck market eventually.

Ford failed due to massive production costs which they assumed would go down as the tech got better. They bet wrong, and ended up loosing tens of thousands per unit.

Battery tech needs to get better and cheaper for it to work properly.