“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/
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.