Pathetic.
If you look at the construction of a Ford F150 for example you will see that the body adds zero structural strength to the chassis. The cab and deck are separate parts that are mounted to the chassis on rubber bushings, so they are floating and only held down loosely by bolts going through the bushings. If the frame rusts out the truck can 'break its back' in an alarming manner. The aluminum panels don't add much strength to the body either.
Congratulations on describing 'body on frame' construction in response to a post where I also described it.
The Cybertruck is completely different. Those thick stainless steel panels are rigidly attached to the frame to provide significant strength in the skin, certainly more than a Prius with its eggshell-thin steel panels that rely on their curved shape to avoid buckling.
Is it? And are those panels attached that rigidly? The rollover pictures don't show that.
The pictures of the body in the white doesn't either.
How is it providing 'significant strength' in the skin? It doesn't appear to have been welded on, nor are there sufficient attachment points for bolts to be supplying it meaningfully. The extra strength would only be when force is applied in directions that push the panels in the same direction as the attachment points support it. That isn't nothing, but it isn't going to increase the survivability of the vehicle panels. Those expensive, expensive and difficult to replace panels. It would
also interfere in the the crumple zones working as intended. Old cars were like this; the vehicle often survived crashes that the occupants did not. It's like there are
good reasons that panels got thinner.
The objection that the panels on vehicles like the Prius are doing their job as intended and not doing a different job is nonsense. The panels protect from things like salt and water, while providing the aerodynamic profile desired. And, let's face it, in many cases looks are above that last bit. They don't
need to be thick and being thick doesn't tend to help with anything really important in their designs.
The Cybertruck panels don't appear to be doing that either, but are also heavy and large and hard to replace.
You may argue that this construction makes the body harder to repair,
That's just trivially true, not really an 'argument'. It's an observation.
but it's probably not going to need repair like a soft aluminum truck body or car with steel so thin that you can dent it just by leaning on it too hard.
Absolute bullocks. You don't need an expensive fix for that kind of dent on normally constructed vehicles. Dent pullers are dirt cheap. More importantly, it
is going to
need repair. The times it needs it, which is going to be almost as much as any other vehicle apart from panel rust, it's going to be so expensive that they'll more often be written off.
I mean, that's great for me if electric motors can be had cheaper to convert my Silverado if the engine goes, but that's not so great for the Cybertruck's stated goal of being way more tough than existing options.
But hey, don't let that stop us from 'interpreting' Musk's description of the Cybertruck's construction as something we can then accuse of being lame and stupid. Is this a truck are talking about, or a straw man?
I'm not going to let your weird spin stop me from critically examining the claims and the design. There is just no way to shut off the training that makes me anticipate what problems warranty is going to bring to me to try to address, even if that hasn't been my job for a couple years now.
Especially because 'well I can lean on my truck without ruining the panels' is so extraordinarily weak. You can do that with most trucks. This isn't the cope you were looking for.
I'll again say that people aren't
wrong to want Tesla's, even specifically the Cybertruck, or be dissatisfied with them. However, there are major problems and evidence that goes against the company's many claims. Skeptics aren't going to stop just because the panels are thick.
