The ever-ambitious Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to lay out what may be included in a future 2019 Chevrolet Silverado and 2019 GMC Sierra rival. Or Colorado/Canyon rival. Not only did Musk explain what a Tesla pickup truck will include, but he asked his social media followers what they’d like to see included.
The CEO specifically mentioned “dual motor all-wheel drive [with] crazy torque [and] a suspension that dynamically adjusts for load.” “Those will be standard,” he tweeted.
He clarified the suspension will also be manually adjustable to make unloading easier.
If we’re to believe Musk, the truck will have a six-seater cabin, and with more space over a passenger car, more batteries will give the pickup a 500-mile estimated range. Added batteries may also allow the truck to prove useful at the jobsite as a power source, too.
“[The] pickup truck will have power outlets allowing use of heavy duty 240V, high power tools in field all day. No generator needed,” Musk added.
General Motors has laid out plans for 20 electric cars by 2023, though it’s unclear how many will arrive in the United States. We also don’t know if any plans for an electric truck exist. Rival Ford plans to introduce an F-150 Hybrid early next decade.
Aside from Tesla, a handful of other startup companies hope to take advantage of the fiery pickup market by being first with a battery-electric pickup. They include Bison and Workhorse.
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And Twitter responded with where is my 3?
Elon is just deflecting again as he did not meet his goal of 5000 cars this week till past his dead line. The quality is also in question as cars were being assembled in a fancy tent not the plant.
Now Tesla is asking resale buyers for $2500 more on top of the $1000 they paid down to get cars with still no ETA.
So now he touts a truck he has no capacity to capital to build. What is the point other than deflection.
Where is the sports car? When will the fast aging S be replaced? Porsche is coming fast and will decimate many S sales just because it is new, big image and competitive.
For now this truck idea is a far off dream of a company that is slipping fast with the lack of capacity and ability to do production work.
I get that you know a lot about vehicles. Sure, Tesla misses deadlines, but they always deliver on their actions. Again, we all know they miss deadlines at times. But Tesla, is the first American All-Electric car brand, yet we’re bashing them? Every other automaker in the US outsources their assembly and risks losing out on profit margins due to tariffs. The tweet questioning Twitter about the truck wasn’t intended for deflecting. It’s to gain an audience and become aware of the daily needs of that audience. Sure, they don’t have the capability to build the truck right now, but do you see GM or Ford asking buyers what they want out of their next generation vehicles..? Or do you see them struggling to grasp the reality of what their buyers ACTUALLY want? I’d say the latter. The Model 3 ramp up will be crazy this month, and I can’t wait for you to revisit this comment, and apologize for your lack of faith.
Might not be American brand for long. Tesla is opening a factory in China. The UAW better back off or Tesla might just move everything overseas.
Tesla always misses deadlines.
Musk over promises and under delivers too. The 3 is more expensive than promised and not just days, weeks or months behind but years.
Not being critical of Tesla just holding them to the standard of any automotive brand.
The other brands out source some parts to increase profits. They are well versed in production and know and adjust to the market conditions.
GM, Ford and every other mfg spend enormous amounts of money asking their customers what they want or do great studies on what they want. I have been part of this as have friends of mine. They do not use Twitter. They often use clinics and even with one friend made them part of a group that was flown to various cities for clinics on future models and product.
At this point Tesla has failed. If any other mfg made promises like this and failed to deliver on cars years behind while asking for another $2500 they would be crucified by the media and public.
Tesla with even special dispensation is still in a decline and as the other brands move in they will struggle to survive.
The reality is Musk is a guy with big ideas but often has to lie and deflect from the truth. He has gotten away with it to this point but time is running out.
If you expect me to change my view and apologize it will be a cold day in hell.
I hold all automakers here to the same standard and if GM had taken my money and not delivered my car in 3 years then asked me for more money. Well to be honest it would never had gotten past 6 months till I got mr money one way or another.
If I was foolish like some to have ordered a 3 I would want my money plus interest lost.
Tic tic tic. That is the sound of time running out for Musk. Once you get behind as he has it only compounds the trouble.
If Musk had been smart he would have made Tesla a Tech company designing systems and sell the systems to the MFGs that can not afford development of these systems then farm out production to companies that know how to produce.
Tesla could have been the Intel of the auto market.
Even Apple does development but leaves production to others and it is one of th3 most viable companies we have ever seen.
“If I was foolish like some to have ordered a 3 I would want my money plus interest lost.” Many 3 owners have found ways to make the vehicle profitable…If you produced one of the early model 3 youtube videos, it stood a good chance of going viral and make someone far more money than two years of non-guaranteed interest on $1000…
The odds of getting a 3 and making money on Youtube are about as good as a lottery ticket. Fools bet.
You want an EV and make money buy a Bolt get it today and put the additional $15k you saved over the 3 in your investments in the fast rising market
I have done very well with my investments.
Tesla, what we want is simple. Chevy, Dodge and Ford V8 powered pickup trucks. fairly simple right? We want Mustangs, camaros, challengers, chargers, F150s, Silverados, Rams, Ford Falcon’s from australia, GM Commodores, GM HSV vehicles, Rangers, Broncos, Tahoes, Suburbans, Colorados, GMC Sierras, GMC Yukons, Canyons, you know, things like that. The New Ford EVOS is promising, hopefully GM will bring out the FNR-X, and things like that. Basically anything NOT tesla.
The PT Barnum of the 21’st century at it again! Perhaps he should concentrate on just getting his current product to market and keep his company from going under.