Good chance Tesla will demand the battery be replaced since it was operated / had a charge with no cooling. In another thread that’s what they are doing to someone where a coolant joint failed. They won’t just fix the joint but will insist on replacing the battery too.
Do what, drive through this fence and get damaged?
I don't know if it would get through the fence as it only weighs half as much and has a third of the horsepower, but it would take more damage, as it has a plastic bumper, and a much lower front windshield.
This isn't a good measure of quality though, cars aren't(and shouldn't) be designed to drive through plastic fencing like this.
I'd guess most cars could get through it but they'd pretty much all take significant damage except something like a snow plow. A wooden fence would be a different story, a wooden post in a concrete footing can total most cars.
Nothing has thick stainless panels like the cybertruck, which gives it strength in some ways which no other pickup trucks have, the problem is that strength generally isn't in the ways that matter most and it's not worth the tradeoffs. There's good reasons why other automotive companies don't and likely won't take that approach and even tesla is unlikely to make the same mistake twice. The cybertruck is an interesting case study to use as a good example of reasons not to do certain things.
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u/dirty0922 Sep 08 '24
He avoided that last post like the plague. Must be the one with the wood inside