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Discussion in 'Electric Vehicles (EVs)' started by khaki2020offroad, Jan 29, 2021.

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  1. Apr 9, 2022 at 7:41 AM
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    Y’all are too much. Im laughing pretty good here.

    As for the cyber truck - id not buy it in its current form look either and id probably not be able to afford the damn thing.
    However, I love watching movies that are set in the future and seeing vehicles the creators come up with - usually modified front ends of current models just due to cost.

    The cyber truck looks like a vehicle from a movie set in the future, and hopefully just a concept and not the real thing.

    https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/a1887416/all-robocops-rides/

    https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/f...wcm/249c370f-4327-4b6b-beb2-8276a5babc1e/amp/

    I also agree the source of materials for the batteries is a problem if not addressed. Earlier I mentioned “triple bottom line”.

    people should not be moved or exploited for raw materials.
     
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  2. Apr 9, 2022 at 7:42 AM
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    Cyber Truck looks like the BEV equivalent of a brodozer, but you can't roll coal. The best the owner could do is put a decal of a coal fire power plant on their back window. Or is that the GMC Hummer? Both of those trucks look the same to me.

    I think I'd rather roll coal either way.
     
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  3. Apr 9, 2022 at 7:51 AM
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    yep, used to live in Pittsburgh and drove through VW many times.
     
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    You can still roll coal in an EV…

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    I am from Southwestern PA, have family in WV who grew up in the coal industry. West Virginny, the prettiest place closest to Hell…
     
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    Back when car makers made bad ass shit. That’s still bad ass 50 years later.
     
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  9. Apr 9, 2022 at 9:26 AM
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    Beautiful. But could it turn?

    The first VW rabbit could beat a mustang of the same year around the track.
     
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    Congrats on getting out.
     
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    Used to live in SW PA too.
     
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    Had a ‘71 and ‘72 years ago definitely bad ass, but I am over it. Have no desire to get another.
     
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    I have a reservation. :p I'll likely not pick it up until the Taco dies though.
     
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    Tbh? Some younguns were making vroom vroom noises in their civic trying to go fast and I didn't even bother kicking on the ICE and still smoked them. In silence.

    'Three turning, four burning' is my motto.
     
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    Bruh. That's coal.

    Most lithium is done via brine salts.
     
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    I’m well aware of what it is. My point was is that he’s posting (from a device sourced via rare earth mine) about the impact of mining while simultaneously taking zero issue with how we obtain other resources, or the impact of obtaining those resources.
     
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    No, that's dumb.
    I think people will be pointing and laughing at people driving Cyber Trucks. The styling looks like it wants to be a Lamborghini Countach, and it's clad in stainless steel. Are 80's supper cars, and elevators that cool, and is that what pick up buyers want in a truck. Tesla did have enough sense to put real bumpers on the cyber truck, I'll give them credit for that.
    Hondas are supposed to be seen and not heard.
     
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    I took your post as: Mountain top removal to fuel coal fired plants providing electricity to charge EVs. (there is no free lunch, sort of thing)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coal-fired_power_stations_in_the_United_States
     
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    No way! Just think you could do rainbow colors, betcha that would piss off the coal rollin’ mouth breathing rednecks even more!

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    Wedge styling has been around for a very longtime. It is a nod to futurist artist Syd Mead. Do like that aspect of the Cyber Truck, though it took the wedge design a bit too literal, needs to be more stylized.

    https://hiconsumption.com/best-wedge-car-designs/

    https://sydmead.com/

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    The only wedge I care about.
     
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