Gurgel Itaipu (1975) and Tesla Cybertruck (2019)

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17 points·mococa··8 comments

During the press, the stage actor was hitting the tesla truck with the sledge hammer lighter(wind up bigger for show to make it seem harder).

He was also hitting the standard truck door or on a angle with edge of sledge hammer.

Where as he hit the tesla truck flat on with lower force...

Understand the single body design from a manufacturing and structure standpoint.

But vehicles get in accidents, get bumps. Now what's the cost of replacing the whole body due to damage vs a fender on a standard vehicle.

And what if my truck load damaged the bed, now gotta get a new body?

Are the just going to weld me back together?

Another comparison: 43 yo brazilian Gurgel Formigão vs Tesla Cybertruck (text in Portuguese):

Someone on youtube called it the child or the Hummer H1 and Citicar.

Jalopnik did a good comparison and found a more similar looking model (scroll down): https://jalopnik.com/a-deep-look-at-the-design-of-tesla-s-cy...

Gurgel was a visionary, he was beyond his time. João Augusto Amaral Gurgel, https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Augusto_Amaral_Gurge....

One is intended for ease of assembly. The other other to look cool parading around Black Rock.

The takeaway is... Moore's law doesn't seem to apply to vehicle polygon counts?

I'll more interested in the bike