Cybertruck firewall stamping (bad news)

[Burnt Toast]

Hey guys, bad news, but these pictures of the Cybertruck body have emerged, including the front firewall. Like the updated S and X, there is only one steering column throughput whole.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1680823049300615169

They could engineer a new stamp for RHD markets, but they didn't bother with the updated S and X, and the original S, X and the 3 and Y had holes on both sides of the firewall from inception.

This is not good news, and extremely disappointing. Robyn Denholm, the chairman of the board of Tesla and an Australian, knows the importance of utes in Australian, and this makes me think more and more that she was just parachuted in there as a paid sycophant to satisfy the SEC. Very disappointing.

 

[paulp]

Hey guys, bad news, but these pictures of the Cybertruck body have emerged, including the front firewall. Like the updated S and X, there is only one steering column throughput whole.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1680823049300615169

They could engineer a new stamp for RHD markets, but they didn't bother with the updated S and X, and the original S, X and the 3 and Y had holes on both sides of the firewall from inception.

This is not good news, and extremely disappointing. Robyn Denholm, the chairman of the board of Tesla and an Australian, knows the importance of utes in Australian, and this makes me think more and more that she was just parachuted in there as a paid sycophant to satisfy the SEC. Very disappointing.

Robyn Denholm should be making decisions in the interests of her employer, not her country of birth. Clearly many in her country of birth may not like the decisions she is forced to make, and I’m sure they are not made lightly

 

[Nevyn72]

They've realistically have a few years of production backlog to address in their home market before they will even consider export markets. That's plenty of time to engineer a required alternate firewall panel to fit the, by then, V2.1 or V3.0 Cybertruck being produced by then.

 

[Burnt Toast]

Robyn Denholm should be making decisions in the interests of her employer, not her country of birth. Clearly many in her country of birth may not like the decisions she is forced to make, and I’m sure they are not made lightly

Accountant's decisions are not always good business decisions.

 

[Burnt Toast]

They've realistically have a few years of production backlog to address in their home market before they will even consider export markets. That's plenty of time to engineer a required alternate firewall panel to fit the, by then, V2.1 or V3.0 Cybertruck being produced by then.

The fact that they didn't engineer it with dual controls from the outset does not bode well, given Tesla's history. Other full size trucks are not made natively in RHD either.

 

[Vostok]

Hey guys, bad news, but these pictures of the Cybertruck body have emerged, including the front firewall. Like the updated S and X, there is only one steering column throughput whole.

This is old news. I read about this months ago, either on Electrek or TheDriven, I can’t recall which.

Cybertruck ain‘t coming to Oz.

 

[OzTzlaBloke]

Its too wrong of a design to be a good 4WD offroad machine anyway

Maybe there'd be a market for ute hauling type owners and/or people after tow capacity

But as pointed out above the number of deposits on this thing is just huge in the LHD global regions and there is years worth of churn to approach fractions of those even knowing some owners will pull out

Meanwhile the Model 2 is very very likely to go ballistic by the millions which will even further stretch the manufacturing further despite mexico et al being added in

 

[cafz]

This is not good news, and extremely disappointing. Robyn Denholm, the chairman of the board of Tesla and an Australian, knows the importance of utes in Australian, and this makes me think more and more that she was just parachuted in there as a paid sycophant to satisfy the SEC. Very disappointing.

It's not really the chair's role to second-guess the executives on operational issues like that.

 

[Onshore]

This is not good news, and extremely disappointing. Robyn Denholm, the chairman of the board of Tesla and an Australian, knows the importance of utes in Australian, and this makes me think more and more that she was just parachuted in there as a paid sycophant to satisfy the SEC.

That is a really patronising remark. She's an extremely proficient and experienced businesswoman.

 

[Hairyman]

It may or may not be worth pointing out that some design issues would make having a Cybertruck in Australia a bit awkward.

The truck is 5.88 meters long. A standard Australian parking space is 5.4 meters long. A lot will stick out into the traffic flow if parked at right angles to the kerb and it will take up more than one space parked parallel.

The Toyota Land Cruiser is just under 5 metres.

Clearly there are good sized trucks running around out there, but none that you would want to have for doing more general tasks like the daily run around.

There are some similar sized utes from other makers on the road in Australia, but they haven’t taken off the way large utes have in the US/Canada. I think because they aren’t practical for Australian road design.

None of this excuses a poor choice of manufacturing for the model S. Something that is likely to cost Tesla sales in the UK and Japan where you can get the car, but need a blessed stick to manage tickets and swipe cards, let alone be on the wrong side of the car to see to overtake.

 

[OzTzlaBloke]

It may or may not be worth pointing out that some design issues

Exactly. I CBS'ed typing it all. It would be an awful offroad vehicle for expeditions / comps / etc.

Other roles like I mentioned above maybe but certainly cumbersome in general use as you point out

Theres more but its not worth the typing lol

 

[Vostok]

It's not really the chair's role to second-guess the executives on operational issues like that.

Exactly. If anyone thinks that a Board runs the company they need a lesson in corporate governance. Any CEO worth their salt would resign if their Board did not let them do the job they were hired to do - which is to run the company.

 

[Burnt Toast]

That is a really patronising remark. She's an extremely proficient and experienced businesswoman.

She was senior executive at Telstra. Have you ever dealt with Telstra? It's a disaster of a company, that trades solely on having the best mobile infrastructure. I would question the effectiveness of any executive of that company (and Australia Post). Without a doubt the two worst major companies in Australia.

 

[Vostok]

having the best mobile infrastructure

That achievement would seem to contradict your conclusion.

My CV is nowhere near as impressive as Robyn Denholm’s. I’m not even in the same universe. How about you?

 

[PC__LoadLetter]

The S & X are tiny volume vehicles that they may as well phase out. The Cybertruck is a mass-market vehicle that I'm sure will be sorted out in due course.