Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Well, my Polarizing Tesla Pick Up got a mention on Inside EVs!

So after seeing lots of concepts for Tesla pick up trucks featured in articles I felt I needed to get something out there that I felt was more in line with what Elon described. While I don't believe it will look like this or may even be wilder, I did put on my sci-fi truck driven off a movie set for a weekend and came up with this. Following Elon's verbal descriptions from various on-line conversations I compelled this check list that lots of people must have missed:
1. "It will NOT follow conventional form factor"
2. "It looks like something driven off a sci-fi movie set"
3. "Many people may not like it, but I do, and worse case if not many buy it, we'll make a normal truck.. that's EASY."
4. "Will be as good a truck or better than an F-150, and a better sports car than a base 911"
5. "doing this will be hard... very hard" (I only spent a few days, so please be gentle :P )

I posted this on a few Facebook car design groups and the Tesla World Wide owners group... the results were very polarizing. While it got a lot of likes, those who didn't where vocal, but most of them were expecting a clone of an F-150.... not going to happen guys! This morning I was sent this article from INSIDE EVs. And haters are just as vocal, I just feel I'm doing my part to warm people up to expect something different. After all, if we kept doing the same ole same ole, we wouldn't have Tesla.


 Did this one quickly after a few "it's not rugged enough" comments:
 a packaging comparison to show the bigger bed etc..

Flame on!