<story><title>Something Changed at Tesla</title><url>https://jalopnik.com/something-changed-at-tesla-1840068128/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Microft</author><text>The design is a statement, it&amp;#x27;s even a declaration of war.&lt;p&gt;I think they are targeting people who do not care for environmental issues and who still think that electric vehicles are something for beaus and weaklings. If these people can&amp;#x27;t be convinced to transition to EVs for ecological reasons, just give them another reason. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter &lt;i&gt;why &lt;/i&gt;they drive EVs, just &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; they do. (Well, and to give other car companies a kick in the butt in this market segment).&lt;p&gt;It is a design you can&amp;#x27;t ignore, it looks metal af and &lt;i&gt;no matter&lt;/i&gt; what your pickup currently looks like, it will appear &lt;i&gt;wimpy&lt;/i&gt; next to it.&lt;p&gt;Also observe that it no longer sports a Tesla logo. The teaser image [0] that Musk posted before still had one. There is none on the inside either, as far as I could tell, so maybe they are moving the Cybertruck away from the Tesla brand. The presentation was on SpaceX&amp;#x27; premises as well, if I remember correctly. (Compare that to Zuckerberg who thinks that Facebook isn&amp;#x27;t credited enough for the success of its daughter platforms WhatsApp and Instagram and is moving them &lt;i&gt;closer&lt;/i&gt; to the (imo) toxic brand of Facebook).&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;elonmusk&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1106714774694297601&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;elonmusk&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1106714774694297601&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jv22222</author><text>Just thinking out loud:&lt;p&gt;I wonder if people are underestimating how much the design was driven by the fact it was fun to make something that looked like it was from Blade Runner.&lt;p&gt;Maybe the whole thing started out as “Let’s make something shit cool like a blade runner cop car” and then the idea that it would bring down production costs, look different, etc, developed after they designed something that they really liked.&lt;p&gt;Elon seems to be quite motivated by having fun, one of the things I like about him.</text></comment>
<story><title>Something Changed at Tesla</title><url>https://jalopnik.com/something-changed-at-tesla-1840068128/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Microft</author><text>The design is a statement, it&amp;#x27;s even a declaration of war.&lt;p&gt;I think they are targeting people who do not care for environmental issues and who still think that electric vehicles are something for beaus and weaklings. If these people can&amp;#x27;t be convinced to transition to EVs for ecological reasons, just give them another reason. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter &lt;i&gt;why &lt;/i&gt;they drive EVs, just &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; they do. (Well, and to give other car companies a kick in the butt in this market segment).&lt;p&gt;It is a design you can&amp;#x27;t ignore, it looks metal af and &lt;i&gt;no matter&lt;/i&gt; what your pickup currently looks like, it will appear &lt;i&gt;wimpy&lt;/i&gt; next to it.&lt;p&gt;Also observe that it no longer sports a Tesla logo. The teaser image [0] that Musk posted before still had one. There is none on the inside either, as far as I could tell, so maybe they are moving the Cybertruck away from the Tesla brand. The presentation was on SpaceX&amp;#x27; premises as well, if I remember correctly. (Compare that to Zuckerberg who thinks that Facebook isn&amp;#x27;t credited enough for the success of its daughter platforms WhatsApp and Instagram and is moving them &lt;i&gt;closer&lt;/i&gt; to the (imo) toxic brand of Facebook).&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;elonmusk&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1106714774694297601&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;elonmusk&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1106714774694297601&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tobib</author><text>&amp;gt; I think they are targeting people who do not care for environmental issues and who still think that electric vehicles are something for beaus and weaklings. If they can&amp;#x27;t be convinced to transition to EVs for ecological reasons, give them another reason because it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter why they drive EVs, just that they do&lt;p&gt;This actually opened my eyes, I haven&amp;#x27;t thought about it that way</text></comment>