As it turns out, Cybertruck owners and doomsday preppers have a large overlap in that they both spend large amounts of money on things that probably won't actually work, should they get into a situation where they would really need them.
As Mike Tyson said, "Etheryone has a plan until they get punched in the faths".
Given the current state of battery technology most of these will probably be off the roads within five to ten years, either due to replacement batteries being too expensive for the secondhand market (why you don't see older examples of the Nissan Leaf around anymore) or vehicles appearing that have better range for value once the current development plateau has been surpassed. There's going to be a point where Tesla just stops pushing OTA updates to them too, since you can only support old hardware for so long before the cost of software development outweighs the benefits of keeping those outdated models current.
Tesla Model Y overtakes Toyota Corolla as world's best-selling car
For the first time in history an electric vehicle has been named as the world's best-selling car, dethroning the Corolla.www.drive.com.au
That's fine
If I live long enough, I'd love to see figures of how many remain on the roads as used cars(Probably the same as many iPhone 4 are still being used).
...and I don't mean in a dystopian era where the 2000SUX is the car of choice.
There are currently 10+ year old Model Ses roaming around without any serious problems reported as far as I know. Battery degredation doesn't even seem to be that bad. As long as the current owners take care of whatever required maintenance - which they won't because anybody who guys a $50k or less car doesn't give a crap about that - the cars could easily be driving for ten more years.
The Leaf can't really be used as a fair example of the 2nd hand market for EVs; the early models (that are just reaching 10 years old) had major issues with cooling that has meant the battery life was drastically reduced from what it was expected to be when brand new. Tesla appears to have handled their battery tech much better than Nissan did in the early days, to the point where on the Model S the electric motor wears out more quickly than the batteries do.
There are quite a few clueless types who have been crowing about doing "truck stuff" with them, when said stuff was basically moving slightly more goods than you could fit in the trunk of a large car. But a large car could also tow a decent sized trailer and handle at least a moderate amount of heavy use if need be, and I really don't have confidence that a Cybertruck could handle even that. Plenty of vehicles were created primarily to be toys for rich people, and they aren't going to literally snap in half if used in the manner their vehicle segment is designed for.
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. It was labelled as a van for a reason, but carrying water is his idea of truck stuff?
