Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 04:30:02 +0000
Rivian has not even begun building pre-production versions of its RiT electric truck and R1S electric SUV, but it raised almost $3 billion in 2019, capped by its most recent funding round that added $1.3 billion to the company’s coffers. This latest round was led by T. Rowe Price, which is also a major investor in Tesla
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 07:58:46 +0000
Freight Waves has announced its pick for FreightTech 25, which “highlights the most innovative and disruptive companies across the freight industry.” Tesla, of course, made the list. The freight industry is just another one of the industries that Tesla is disrupting
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 04:47:25 +0000
In a filing with the California Air Resources Board, Tesla claims its Cybertruck should be classified as a Class B medium-duty pickup truck.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 15:45:13 +0000
A new survey by Autolist reveals some surprising findings about electric pickup trucks. One thing is for sure: the Tesla CyberTruck has certainly set tongues wagging. Love it or hate it, it’s a game changer.
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 01:49:15 +0000
WheelsJoint has published a comparison between the Tesla Cybertruck and the RAM 1500. The article covered several categories, and Cybertruck pretty much had a better rating in almost all of them. This shows that Tesla brought a beast into the truck market that could definitely give RAM a run for its money. Let’s have a quick look at some of the categories that WheelsJoint went over
Credit to Author: Court Nederveld| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 04:30:32 +0000
A few days have passed since the reveal of Tesla’s Cybertruck. I’ll admit to being one of those who thought Musk was playing a joke when the Cybertruck first rolled onto the stage. But in a few minutes I realized this was really it. It wasn’t a movie prop, this was the newest addition to the Tesla lineup of electric vehicles. The sledgehammer stunt was pretty cool, and then the window break fail (first iteration) made me wonder again if this was just a setup for the real vehicle. When the show was over, I truly didn’t know what to think
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 06:25:57 +0000
I’m not sure all of these awards actually exist. It’s possible some of them (ahem, #9) should have never been imagined. Nonetheless, this is what some Thanksgiving-night brain juice has dreamt up about the Tesla Cybertruck after reading about the Tesla Model 3 winning Car of the Year in Denmark
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 04:20:56 +0000
The recent excellent article by my colleague Jennifer Sensiba about the advantages of a body-on-frame architecture for trucks created a heated discussion. The versatility of a body-, or better, structure-on-frame architecture for the hundreds of different special purpose applications of professional vehicles is beyond dispute. The cost advantage of building one-off structures on such a platform are huge
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 18:30:47 +0000
A comparison between the Tesla Model S, Tesla Cybertruck, and Porsche Taycan was created in an infographic shared by Twitter user Serious Callers Only. The comparison shows the difference not just in price range for these three electric vehicles, but also range and acceleration. It shows that the Cybertruck is the lowest priced of the three. That is despite its enormous size and range
Credit to Author: Rahul Sonnad| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:10:44 +0000
Prior to its new “Pickup Truck” unveil on Thursday night, Tesla had built up an impressive amount of anticipation across Tesla fanatics and the car industry alike. Speculation was rampant. Actual knowledge of the truck’s details, however, was bone dry