Canadian Politics Today

I saw a couple of updates on the cybertruck.

1. Tesla now says that the entry level vehicle ($40k) will slip about a year in schedule, but the high end vehicle (3 motor) will move forward about a year. You can take this how you want. Did they hide this fact and only reveal it a couple of weeks after the product announcement, or did they get market feedback on what was the more important vehicle to focus on. My impression of the pickup market is that the mid-tier is where the big business is. I see far more F-150s than Rangers of F-350 SuperDuty (same for the other manufactures). There was no update on their 2 motor model which one might call the mid-tier.

2. I learned another reason for the body styling. The body is stamped out of a single sheet of stainless steel. While this results in improved reliability (other trucks have a half dozen or more body panels), the downside would be if you ever had to replace it. The big difference however is it allows for both lower manufacturing cost, and significant weight reduction. There are however more constraints in design when you manufacture from a single body panel, instead of many that are interconnected.