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Tesla is facing issues with the bare metal construction of the Cybertruck, which Elon Musk warned was as tricky to do as making Lego bricks

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah heat that mf up on a sunny day vs a cold day lol what an idiot.

It's not like "accuracies" doesn't add up either ha ha what a genius.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Usually car makers solve the expansion and contraction using glue, curves, and trim to deal with expansion and contraction.

The cybertruck has no curves and not much trim, the glue would have to be very flexible, which would lead to separation.

I am going to bet that we will see cybertruck with panels flying off or flapping at highway speeds not long after release.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh yes, I'm all with you here, either make a frame and stick the "panels" to it individually (probably good if you make a cheap tank vehicle or something IDK) or make a chassis that take the deformation forces and distribute them as evenly as possible.

My bet is they have him as a stupid publicity monkey drawing attention to Tesla, cybortryck etc (I mean all publicity is good right?) and away from bad things like Tesla didnt self drive end 2019(?) and still doesn't, child labour, ... etc