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Electric cars?

Would you buy an electric car?

  • Already own one

    Votes: 10 5.1%

  • Yes - would definitely buy

    Votes: 43 21.9%

  • Yes - preferred over petrol car if price/power/convenience similar

    Votes: 78 39.8%

  • Maybe - preference for neither, only concerned with costs etc

    Votes: 37 18.9%

  • No - prefer petrol car even if electric car has same price, power and convenience

    Votes: 24 12.2%

  • No - would never buy one

    Votes: 14 7.1%
  • Total voters
    196
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Humid said:
Storage for anti theft
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The entire tray is covered by a roller door type door that they are nick naming 'The Vault"

Roof racks
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This is just the Demo proto type, Just like all the other Tesla's I am sure the production model will accommodate roof racks etc.

No fork lift side access
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Is that a requirement for most trades?

I am sure you could just load from the rear if necessary, but again who know what features the production models will have, they have time to think about it.

I’m pretty sure dual cabs were invented for child seats otherwise supervisors can’t take their kids anywhere after hours
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Again, I am sure there will be other variants than just the dual cab.
 
For those concerned about lockable storage.

Watch this video at the 25 second mark, and see the roll down tray cover.

 
Value Collector said:
For those concerned about lockable storage.

Watch this video at the 25 second mark, and see the roll down tray cover.

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Have you ever seen a tradies Ute where there isn’t anything protruding from the tray?
The fact that it tapers to the rear means anything large won’t be accessible
Supervisor car at best
To get people in your position excited about cars is their greatest asset
Credits to them
 
Humid said:
Have you ever seen a tradies Ute where there isn’t anything protruding from the tray?
The fact that it tapers to the rear means anything large won’t be accessible
Supervisor car at best
To get people in your position excited about cars is their greatest asset
Credits to them
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As I said production models could come in many variants, and I doubt this is their last pick up truck, this is the one that is designed to blow people away and get people talking, it would be super easy to create different shapes in the future.
 
Humid said:
Storage for anti theft
Roof racks
No fork lift side access
I’m pretty sure dual cabs were invented for child seats otherwise supervisors can’t take their kids anywhere after hours
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All of these and more.
Its a stupid setup from a tradies point of view.
 
Value Collector said:
The entire tray is covered by a roller door type door that they are nick naming 'The Vault"



This is just the Demo proto type, Just like all the other Tesla's I am sure the production model will accommodate roof racks etc.



Is that a requirement for most trades?

I am sure you could just load from the rear if necessary, but again who know what features the production models will have, they have time to think about it.



Again, I am sure there will be other variants than just the dual cab.
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They are way off with the design.
 
If i may add:
In the US or in Europe, all the Australian style tradie ute can not exist as your tray would be emptied as you stop at a red light so you need a cover, then honestly, tesla does not target tradies but silicon valley eco warriors
Especially in the US, F150 and similar utes can carry a miniature house or a small shipping container.this is not the market..
I genuinely think it is perfect marketing and perfect match for the target audience
 
qldfrog said:
If i may add:
In the US or in Europe, all the Australian style tradie ute can not exist as your tray would be emptied as you stop at a red light so you need a cover, then honestly, tesla does not target tradies but silicon valley eco warriors
Especially in the US, F150 and similar utes can carry a miniature house or a small shipping container.this is not the market..
I genuinely think it is perfect marketing and perfect match for the target audience
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Actually not the breaking glass..that is not great marketing..
 
qldfrog said:
In the US or in Europe, all the Australian style tradie ute can not exist as your tray would be emptied as you stop at a red light so you need a cover, then honestly, tesla does not target tradies but silicon valley eco warriors
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For "real" trades work either a flat tray (cab / chassis) with or without a canopy depending on the nature of the work or a van. If the former isn't an option due to theft risk then that leaves the latter.

A ute as such is as others have said a supervisor's car as it's not overly useful for carting serious amounts of any material or a complete set of tools and equipment, ladders and so on. Even simply having a dual cab with a flat tray greatly reduces usefulness since it necessitates a smaller tray. Works fine though for the boss just dropping off the occasional item to site and otherwise just using it for passenger transport. FWIW I've been a trades work supervisor in a previous job.

As you say though, they're not targeting actual tradies with this and it's good marketing yes. Much like the average SUV marketing hypes up the "offroad" stuff even though the average buyer will never, ever take the car anywhere that a 2WD hatch couldn't safely go.:2twocents
 
Value Collector said:
Time will tell I guess, but as I said they can easily tinker with design, I don’t think anything you have mentioned is a death blow to the project.
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I don't think tradies are the market for this. Plenty of males that would be excited to own one.
 
Will be interesting to see how that roller door tray cover will go after a few months of the Aussie outback red dust.
 
Not a fan of Mr Musk's Fantasy Tonka Truck - I have a five year old grand nephew who does better car designs - but THIS SITE does have some useful info about real EVs available now or coming to the Australian market. The Mercs look nice but one or two of my spec stock "investments" would need to payoff.
 
SirRumpole said:
Going to trade in your rather bland Model 3 for a Cyber truck VC ?

:D
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Mrs VC said no.

I actually love the model 3, so I wouldn’t want to get rid of it, but I was going to order the Cyber truck and have both, But Mrs VC doesn’t like the idea of a second car, I trained her to well, she is very frugal.
 
Value Collector said:
Mrs VC said no.

I actually love the model 3, so I wouldn’t want to get rid of it, but I was going to order the Cyber truck and have both, But Mrs VC doesn’t like the idea of a second car, I trained her to well, she is very frugal.
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I will definitely test drive one as soon as it’s possible.
 
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