“In August, Musk was still concerned, sending an all-hands email to Tesla telling his workers that "[a]ll parts for this vehicle, whether internal or from suppliers, need to be designed and built to sub 10 micron accuracy. That means all part dimensions need to be to the third decimal place in millimeters and tolerances need to be specified in single digit microns. If LEGO and soda cans, which are very low cost, can do this, so can we."
Musk isn’t a fucking engineer.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/10/elon-musk-talks-tesla-we-dug-our-own-grave-with-the-cybertruck/
This is just moronic. It won’t fix a flawed engineering design, it will just make it worse. The CyberTruck is doomed to be a white elephant.
Musk thinks that flex in vehicles is a problem — it isn’t if designed in.
Oh, yeah, and they leak.
Agree on all counts. All of Tesla’s vehicle designs have aged poorly. The model 3 looks like a golf cart next to a MachE.
You can see all the corners Tesla cut — from the cheesy brake lights to the weak body styling.
As for the CyberTruck, they won’t even give a price now saying it is “in flux” — yeah, 10 microns will push price to 100K or more.
This vehicle can never be made profitable.
@feloneouscat It was a polarising design in 2019. If it was released then, it would have had some kind of effect.
The aesthetic design has aged badly, and it isn't even in owner's hands yet. The picture painted of its engineering is worse. So I'm confident that the majority of potential owners' enthusiasm for that vehicle has, shall we say, wavered.
The oddly sideways good news in that piece is that the Hummer EV is also facing setbacks. To me, that is another mammoth engineering catastrophe.