• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      38·
      3 months ago

      I looks like there was fire, but it doesn’t look like it came from where the battery is. The battery runs from front to back on the bottom of the vehicle. This looks like the fire was only at the front. So perhaps whatever was impacted caught on fire but the battery never ignited perhaps?

      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        8·
        2 months ago

        It’s impossible to tell from a single photo, but it looks like the fire was possibly localized to the wheel-well. I can’t think of anything that might ignite in there, though.

      • expatriado@lemmy.world
        52·
        3 months ago

        the battery can provide the energy to start a fire somewhere else in the vehicle via short circuit connection

        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          3 months ago

          The High Voltage battery has a pyrofuse that blows to isolate the battery in case of a crash.

          Theoretically I guess the 12V system could short circuit, just like any other vehicle. Except there can’t be any gasoline spilled for a short to ignite.

          • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
            6·
            2 months ago

            Theoretically I guess the 12V system could short circuit, just like any other vehicle. Except there can’t be any gasoline spilled for a short to ignite.

            And modern Tesla vehicles, like the Cybertruck don’t use a standard car lead acid car battery (which would have 48Ah or so). Instead they use a 16v small lithium battery (which has only 6.9Ah). Further, this battery system has short protection built into it with an auto resetting breaker.

            So this battery, with its significantly less energy stored, has less chance of fire from a short than a standard car battery.

  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
    53·
    2 months ago

    I’ve seen two in person (possible, same one just twice). It was bigger and dumber looking than I thought it would be. The style contrasts with literally everything around it. In every possible way, it looks unfinished in a way no video or photo ever conveyed.

      • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I hate the taillights, they just look out of place makes them hard to spot somehow. theres this black one that I see pretty often on my commute and that thing seems like a safety violation on a dark morning

  • abracaDavid@lemmy.today
    341·
    2 months ago

    I’ve finally started seeing some in my city over the last week or so. They are just so goddamn big and awkward looking. They really look like someone put dumpster on wheels. I honestly find them pretty jarring to see out on the road.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 months ago

    Reminds me, it’s my first day back teaching classes and the usual cyber truck I see on the commute is gone. Students and I used to make fun of it before class, I wonder what happened to it…

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    29·
    2 months ago

    Tow driver: Damn this thing looks like it went through the Iraq war.

    Owner: I’ve had it for three weeks.

  • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    28·
    2 months ago

    (Salesman) You can fit so many fingers in this here trunk! bangs metal

    metal dents as if it were one of those disposable aluminum cooking pans you get at thanksgiving at the grocery store if you don’t have generational wealth

  • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
    27·
    2 months ago

    Just saw one of these for the first time this past weekend on a road trip to Chicago. It was so much bigger and somehow even more shitty-looking than I expected.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
    24·
    2 months ago

    That’s in pretty decent shape, actually. The metal is usually more rusted, especially if they tried to wash it in a car wash.

  • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
    274·
    3 months ago

    I hate this truck as much as the next guy but, isn’t this what any and every car looks like after a fire?

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      293·
      3 months ago

      It’s… 1 year old. You don’t often find so many reports, news stories, and images of a brand-new $80,000+ vehicle deteriorated or self-immolated a single year later.

      • deranger@sh.itjust.works
        211·
        3 months ago

        I try not to go to Reddit so much, but the CyberStuck sub is pretty good and not replicated elsewhere. There are so many problems with these vehicles it’s astonishing. They aren’t nearly as capable as they were touted to be, either.

      • ch00f@lemmy.world
        179·
        3 months ago

        EVs tend to look like this after a battery fire, and the Cybertruck is easily the most hated vehicle ever made. I wouldn’t assume that this one caught itself on fire.

        • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          Is there a reason the car looks like it’s giving up its physical body and becoming a spectral?

          • ch00f@lemmy.world
            5·
            2 months ago

            Water. Best way to put out an EV fire is to keep dousing it with water until it cools down enough to not be on fire.

        • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
          54·
          3 months ago

          I’m sorry, are you suggesting that people are spending 6 figures purchasing, then destroying these vehicles… as a meme??

          • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
            161·
            3 months ago

            Continue to stay away from youtube. It’s a dark place.

              • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
                12·
                2 months ago

                I figure if you’re not aware of the stupid “pranks” influencers are pulling on youtube, you just don’t visit, and that’s probably in your best interest.

          • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            81·
            3 months ago

            No but could be a fire unrelated to the trucks electronics, or one that was well contained either by design or more likely a lucky accident

            But yes I’ve also seen videos of people shooting at cybertrucks so who tf knows maybe???

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        3 months ago

        You also don’t have a ton of idiots doing stupid things to make their vehicle have issues intentionally usually either.

        There are hundreds, if not thousands, of YouTube videos of people purposely putting the vehicle in extreme situations and situations it wasn’t intended for. Not to mention the ones just doing it because “Fuck Elon”, after paying $100k for the vehicle, because they’ll get the money back from YouTube ads on videos milking it as much as possible.

        I’m not saying all the videos are that, many are legitimate reviews and tests. But a lot are also purposely trying to damage it.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
    19·
    2 months ago

    I saw one for the first time last week. It had like a weird brownish tint to it, I’m not sure if that was the lighting or metal discoloration or what but they are ugly AF in person.

    • Zron@lemmy.world
      15·
      2 months ago

      I love around Chicago.

      Can’t wait to see what all the salt on the streets does to these things over the winter.

      • Etterra@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Likewise but I have yet to see one of these rust buggies in the wild. The rust will be absolutely hilarious though. I wonder how the wheel assemblies will handle the salt.

        • Zron@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          Considering how thin the control arms are for such a heavy vehicle, I think we’re gonna see a lot of 3 wheeled cyber trucks in the next 6 months.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      I see like 10 a day. I work in an enclave city for the uberrich where the average new home being built costs what I make in a century (and I make pretty good money money), so we’ve got lots of them.

      I’ve seen a bunch getting paint jobs. The matte black ones look like what scifi Nazi gestapo would drive, but all of the paint jobs look better than the bare metal. There’s a brushed-gunmetal one that I think is a pretty attractive compared to the rest. The vehicle is still ugly, but it’s less-ugly with a good paint job.