Lawler, Richard (6 de enero de 2019). «Elon Musk talks up Tesla's 'Cyberpunk truck,' and 400-mile range EVs». Engadget. Consultado el 28 de julio de 2019. «The "Cyberpunk truck" … being designed to "meet or exceed an F-150 ‒ if the F-150 can do it then a Tesla Truck should be able to do it." … that if "you're driving it down the road, it will look like it came out of a sci-fi movie" and called it "the coolest car I've ever seen."».
Juurikas, Jaan (5 de diciembre de 2023). «Cybertruck Deep Dive by EV Universe — everything you need to know about the Tesla Cybertruck». En EVUniverse, ed. EVUniverse(en inglés). Consultado el 11 de diciembre de 2023. «Rear axle steering goes up to 10° in the opposite direction of the front wheels, at low speeds <45 mph (72 km/h). Between 40 and 50 mph is the ‘transition point’ where the rear wheels turn in phase with the front wheels to give added stability when for example doing lane changes.»
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Santos, Jerome (4 de marzo de 2019). «Tesla Blade Runner: Everything We Know About Elon Musk's 6-Seater Pickup Truck». International Business Times. Consultado el 19 de marzo de 2019. «pickup truck … dual motor all-wheel drive, … outlet for up to 240-volts normally used for heavy-duty tools and can tow up to 300,000 pounds. … Tesla pickup truck will look like a proper truck, a design barely seen in electric vehicles so far. … will have a "cyberpunk, Blade Runner-like" look, … a futuristic design.»
Musk, Elon (29 de mayo de 2019). Episode 200: My Elon Musk Interview(51:02). Ride the Lightning. Entrevista con Ryan McCaffrey. Tesla Headquarters, Palo Alto, California. «we don't want it to be really expensive, … it's got to start at less than $50,000 dollars, it's got to be like $49,000 dollars starting price,
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… ideally less … it has got to be something that is affordable … you've got to be able to get a really great truck for $49,000, or less, … it's going to have incredible functionality, from a load-carrying standpoint, look amazing, … but it won't look like a normal truck … it's going to look pretty sci-fi, … not going to be for everyone, if somebody just wants to have a truck that looks like trucks have looked for the former twenty years, thirty or forty years, then this truck probably isn't for them, going to be a truck that is more capable than other trucks … it'll be a better truck than an equivalent … better truck than an F-150 in terms of truck-like functionality, be better sports car than a standard 911 … [the teaser image] is the front … like a Bladerunner truck».
Pérez, Jeff (5 de enero de 2023). «15 Best Selling Trucks Of 2022». motor1(en inglés). Estados Unidos: motor1. Consultado el 9 de diciembre de 2023. «Best-Selling Trucks Of 2022 Ford F-Series: 653,957 Chevrolet Silverado: 523,249 Ram Pickups: 468,344 GMC Sierra: 241,522 Toyota Tacoma: 237,323 Toyota Tundra: 104,246 Chevrolet Colorado: 89,197 Jeep Gladiator: 77,855 Nissan Frontier: 76,183 Ford Maverick: 74,370 Ford Ranger: 57,005 Honda Ridgeline: 42,762 Hyundai Santa Cruz: 36,480 GMC Canyon: 27,819 Rivian R1T: 20,332 Nissan Titan: 15,063 GMC Hummer EV: 854 Lordstown Endurance: >50».
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Reynolds, Kim (22 de enero de 2019). Motor Trend, ed. «How Tesla's Cybertruck Turns Auto Manufacturing and Engineering Upside-Down». Archivado desde el original el 22 de enero de 2019. «The plusses for a folded stainless steel, origami truck are compelling: no paint shop and no expensive tooling. No Godzilla-scale stamping machines stomping it with multiple strikes. groove the steel where it's supposed to fold (avoiding cracks) and bend it on simple, cheap machines».
Ireson, Nelson (22 de enero de 2019). Motor Trend, ed. «Is the Tesla Cybertruck *Really* Bulletproof?». Consultado el 27 de enero de 2019. «'If fully hardened, 3mm of 301 stainless is more than adequate to stop any 9mm Luger round I can think of...' said Iain Harrison, editor-in-chief of Recoil as well as a competitive shooter and former British Army captain. ... Elon Musk says the laminated windshield, which appears to be completely flat, will stop a 9mm round, as well. We tested its strength by dropping weighed metal spheres from various hights. It didn't break.»
Reynolds, Kim (22 de noviembre de 2019). «How Tesla's Cybertruck Turns Auto Manufacturing and Engineering Upside-Down». Motor Trend. Archivado desde el original el 22 de noviembre de 2019. «The plusses for a folded stainless steel, origami truck are compelling: no paint shop and no expensive tooling. No Godzilla-scale stamping machines stomping it with multiple strikes. groove the steel where it's supposed to fold (avoiding cracks) and bend it on simple, cheap machines».
Perkins, Chris (19 de octubre de 2023). «Musk Says Tesla "Dug Its Grave" With Cybertruck». En Road and Track, ed. Road and Track(en inglés). Estados Unidos. Consultado el 11 de diciembre de 2023. «Musk said that Tesla has 1 million reservations for the Cybertruck and it has the capacity to build 125,000 a year in 2024, with the possibility to double that in 2025.»
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Ollie (24 de noviembre de 2019). «What is Cybertruck Exoskeleton?». Teslas Motors Club (forum post). «All modern cars except most pickup trucks have a frameless exoskeleton, AKA monocoque or unibody.»
Fox, Eva (18 de mayo de 2023). «Tesla Will Switch to 48V Low-Voltage System in Cars to Significantly Reduce Use of Copper». En Tesmanian, ed. Tesmanian(en inglés). Consultado el 22 de diciembre de 2023. «Each Tesla car uses tens of kilograms of copper. In some models, they weigh as much as 82 kilograms. The Tesla Model S, for example, uses a mile of copper just to connect the battery to all the electronics.Tesla has set a goal of producing 20 million cars per year. According to miningcom, the company will need 1,820,000 tons of copper to reach that goal, about 9 percent of global production in 2022. Based on Musk's prediction of reducing to a quarter of today's copper consumption, the company could save more than 1.3 million tons in annual production of 20 million electric cars, or more than $10 billion in today's prices.»
Kara, Swisher (5 de enero de 2018). «Elon Musk: The Recode interview». Recode. «personally most excited about the pickup truck. … futuristic-like cyberpunk, "Blade Runner" pickup truck. … don't know if a lot of people will buy this pickup truck or not, but I don’t care. … We wanna get gasoline, diesel pickup trucks off the road. … it's the thing that I am personally most fired up about».
Reynolds, Kim (22 de enero de 2019). Motor Trend, ed. «How Tesla's Cybertruck Turns Auto Manufacturing and Engineering Upside-Down». Archivado desde el original el 22 de enero de 2019. «The plusses for a folded stainless steel, origami truck are compelling: no paint shop and no expensive tooling. No Godzilla-scale stamping machines stomping it with multiple strikes. groove the steel where it's supposed to fold (avoiding cracks) and bend it on simple, cheap machines».
Reynolds, Kim (22 de noviembre de 2019). «How Tesla's Cybertruck Turns Auto Manufacturing and Engineering Upside-Down». Motor Trend. Archivado desde el original el 22 de noviembre de 2019. «The plusses for a folded stainless steel, origami truck are compelling: no paint shop and no expensive tooling. No Godzilla-scale stamping machines stomping it with multiple strikes. groove the steel where it's supposed to fold (avoiding cracks) and bend it on simple, cheap machines».
Musk, Elon (13 de julio de 2013). Tesla, ed. 2013 Teslive Event. San José (California). «I am quite keen on building a truck … air suspension that dynamically adjusts the load and keeps the angle of the truck correct … was driving a Ford F-250 down the 405… it was resonating».
Musk, Elon (16 de enero de 2014). «When will you be able to afford a Tesla?». CNN (YouTube). Escena en 2:08. «Yeah, we'd like to produce an electric pickup truck; we're not really thinking much about that, but that is part of our long-term plans. Would imagine that is probably something like 4‒5 years.»
Musk, Elon. Tesla, Inc., ed. Tesla Semi & Roadster Unveil. Youtube. «For interests sake we created a pickup truck version of the Tesla Semi. It's a pickup truck that can carry a pickup truck. By the way, you can legally drive that—it shouldn't be legal, but…—you'll be able to legally drive that with a normal driver's license. It's kind of wrong, but I like it.»
Musk, Elon (5 de enero de 2019). «Elon Musk's Complete interview at Air Force Space Pitch Day». Space Pitch Day. Entrevista con John F. Thompson (San Francisco). Consultado el 12 de enero de 2019. «We're going to come out with the Tesla pickup truck which we call the Cybertruck. I mean, it looks like an Armoured Personnel Carrier from the future. Yeah, it won't look like a normal truck and people might not like it. I like it! It's going to look like it came from a movie set when it goes down the road; …what is that thing? It's literally bullet proof. If I can elaborate on that: a lot of times people try to make products that they think others would love, but they don't love them, themselves; if you don't love the product, you should not expect that others will. … Know your own heart, and if it's compelling to you, it will be compelling to others.»
Musk, Elon (11 de junio de 2019). Tesla Annual Shareholders Meeting. «[Musk] a car that can go in the water basically? [Questioner] On, or under, or both, the water? [Musk] It's funny you should mention that … if you make it a big bigger then you can actually have a submarine car. It's like technically possible. I think the market for this will be small; small but enthusiastic. So… we do actually have a design for a submarine car.»
