Electric Vehicles?

[j_garcia]

I think the exposed front tire will be an issue. There seems to be a lot of activity around cheap pickups, I guess because they are cheaper to build. With it being that small, not sure how well it will really sell. The Slate and the new Ford are shooting to have a model in this price range as well. The low range Slate will be $27k and Ford is shooting for around $30k as well. It feels like that market will get saturated quickly.

 

[ryanosaur]

Side note. Canoo was targeting that price range for their truck… prior to shuttering operations.
As was Tesla teasing the cybertruck would be in that price range, when it was introduced, at least.

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

Side note. Canoo was targeting that price range for their truck… prior to shuttering operations.
As was Tesla teasing the cybertruck would be in that price range, when it was introduced, at least.

I still can’t believe Tesla any cybertrucks. At all….

 

[j_garcia]

Toyota is talking about a small EV pickup as well, but at this point, it is whoever gets it to market first. That won't be Tesla. The Cybertruck is a disaster for them and they said they won't be able to deliver the low cost version at that price point.

 

[lovinthehd]

I think the exposed front tire will be an issue. There seems to be a lot of activity around cheap pickups, I guess because they are cheaper to build. With it being that small, not sure how well it will really sell. The Slate and the new Ford are shooting to have a model in this price range as well. The low range Slate will be $27k and Ford is shooting for around $30k as well. It feels like that market will get saturated quickly.

That was what caught my eye in their thumbnail, but not sure why an issue, what are you thinking?

We'll see who actually gets what to market when and at what price....Tesla sure hasn't ever met pricing "promises".

 

[j_garcia]

That was what caught my eye in their thumbnail, but not sure why an issue, what are you thinking?

We'll see who actually gets what to market when and at what price....Tesla sure hasn't ever met pricing "promises".

If you hit something, like a center divide, it will climb it and flip over. Looked it up and even Jeeps are required to have a full width bumper in Ca. so they'll have to do something to sell it here. Looks like they can take them off for off-roading, but not on road.

 

[lovinthehd]

If you hit something, like a center divide, it will climb it and flip over. Looked it up and even Jeeps are required to have a full width bumper in Ca. so they'll have to do something to sell it here. Looks like they can take them off for off-roading, but not on road.

Hadn't thought about that....but on my bikes have done that climb the side of the hill thing like that a few times . A good bumper might do it, and could probably even look good doing it. I wonder how much of a standard that is when they've talked about passing the standards they have....

 

[lovinthehd]

FWIW this popped up today