Elon Musk says ‘we dug our own grave’ with the Cybertruck as he warns Tesla faces enormous production challenges::Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the Cybertruck’s unique design means the company faces immense challenges in scaling production.
“We”
When things go right, it’s “I”. When things go wrong, it’s “We”. These are Musk’s situationally preferred pronouns.
No different than Trump
I mean, with Trump it’s more like ‘They’.
Yeah, Trump won’t accept any blame for anything, even when it’s obvious to anyone with a functioning nervous system.
I mean it’s capitalism in general usually. When the company is profiting, it’s due to the CEO. When the company is failing, it’s the fault of the company as a whole
When it fails it’s because of the economy, please bail us out.
Same narcissistic behavior. These are the narc pronouns
I’d dare to say no different than any of those guys in charge
Pretty standard for a rich boi
Exactly. Who has the one promoting it? It was you, Elon.
He’s very likely the one who pushed the engineers to try to make it work in the first place. They probably tried to warn him of the challenges it was going to face at every step, and he just used the power of arrogance, bullying, & positive-thinking to ignore it and just go full steam ahead with it. He would’ve just fired anybody that directly challenged him on it and told him what an idiot he is.
Must be the royal we.
Credit for innovation: capitalism. Credit for failures: socialism.
Wasn’t he the one who made a bunch of ridiculous demands? This car seems like it was designed by Homer Simpson.
In my head it was Elon who sketched the truck and told everyone “make that exactly how I drew it”
No way this thing is soft and yielding like a nerf ball
At least it’ll be more powerful than a gorilla.
That’s weird, I could have sworn he said that they nearly had all the issues sorted out and that it was coming next month… Trying to remember when he said that… 2021?
Bruh that delay was because of the PLANDEMIC!!111!!
/s
“When you’ve got a product with a lot of new technology or any brand new vehicle program, especially one that is as different and advanced as the Cybertruck, you will have problems proportionate to how many new things you’re trying to solve at scale,” he added.
does it have new technology? i thought it was just like, shockingly ugly?
It took a lot of work to make windows that shatter so easily.
First you have to mass produce a lot of cannon balls, hire people and train them to throw the cannon ball perfectly so the broken window looks perfect.
How else are you going to get it on a shirt if it doesn’t look perfect?
Gee… telling the engineers to getting precision to below 10 microns would cause production challenges.
I’ve been doing PCB-board design recently. Here’s the manufactuering specs: https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/dkred
So that’s 0.13mm tolerances to my printed-circuit board. Or 130 microns.
Current leading theory is that Elon Musk is such an ignorant dumbass that he doesn’t know the difference between mils and microns, despite running a car company / manufacturing firm. Give that a thought. Even then, 10-mils tolerance is near this PCB design, an object that’s only a few inches in size. Cars are much larger and normally should be built to much wider tolerances than a fucking PCB board.
If he said <10 mils, I’d might have bought the explanation that Elon actually meant millimetres. Micron is a very specific metric-based unit which to Elon might have been trying to use like a buzzword.
The moral of the story is don’t say stupid engineering stuff if you don’t want engineers to laugh at you.
And 10 microns at what temperature? Because on something the size of a car, made of mixed materials, thermal expansion of less than a degree is going to blow that figure.
They couldn’t apply paint to a tolerance of 10microns.
It’s almost like Elon Musk is a complete fucking moron and not an Engineer. The wanker has never actually designed a thing in his life. He just tells other people to design something, or buys an existing company, then struts around like he thinks he’s the smartest thing around.
He was fired for being incompetent. Only got rich because rich daddy and because he got lucky with stocks
Lmao “if Lego and soda cans can do this, so can we.” At least he found materials similar to his existing vehicle build quality
Hey, don’t disrespect Lego like that
“At this point I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth.”
What an idiot
Flashbacks to Steve Jobs and the NeXT Cube.
I have what are basically toy 3d printers capable of 1 micron precision…
Cool. Build 10 pieces and fit them together with sub 10 micron precision.
Ok, and once that’s done with the high level of repeatability and quality I’ve done it a thousand times, then what?
Which printer is giving you 1 micron precision?
The problem isn’t that it can’t be done. The problem is that it is unnecessary and very expensive.
You’d think the guy claiming to “know more about manufacturing than anyone else on Earth” would have anticipated such issues at the start of the design process.
Good. Jump in.
Weird, Ford and Rivian both seem to be able to make an EV pickup truck.
And GM, the epitome of “slow and bloated legacy dinosaur”, who in the time since Tesla announced the cYbErTrUcK, managed to design AND RELEASE a truck before Tesla even had prototypes. At this rate, I think they’ll technically have 3 different trucks out before a single cYbErTrUcK is sold.
The automotive giants always could have outpaced Tesla, they just didn’t want to because until it was viable with enough consumer interest (and competition), it was cheaper to only produce fossil fuel vehicles (and lobby against electric vehicles at every turn)
. Cybertruck.The real story is that a million people have reserved this thing.
Given that I had dumbass coworkers at work who gleefully dropped $500 to “reserve” one of each trim, despite not even being able to even afford the cheapest trim (which will never even come close to existing with the listed price+specs), I’m not betting that it’s probably 1/4 of that, and about 1/4 of those will ever actually translate to purchases.
Wait, that’s a real thing? I thought it was just a marketing stunt!
Tesla semi is a failure videos existed 2 years ago. Funny it took elon this long to admit it.
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There is exactly one reason I cancelled my tesla you stupid Muskrat.
*invents stupid and logicitally impossible truck.
*Production challenges
Need a shovel?
Elon has a habit of doing this
