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Tesla Cybertruck deliveries halted amid problem with giant windshield wiper

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What happened to the corrosion problems? Did that end up being some badly applied anti-corrosion coating at the factory or is it an on going problem?

When you make something from stainless steel, you should be choosing the correct SS grade for your application given the environmental constraints. I don’t know of any industrial SS application that relies on anti-corrosion coating (presumably consumable) instead of the actual formulation of the specific alloy.

(I am not insinuating that Tesla did not do this, as I have no clue and I am not up to date on all things Cybertruck.)

Except, coating are literally the standard for all modern vehicles.

Chances are your vehicle’s panels are standard steel with a layer of paint and clear coat. That clear coat layer is extremely resilient and largely sufficient for protecting the underlying surface.

I don’t see what typical cars’ coating has to do with this. I am specifically talking about when you are already using SS.

> I don’t know of any industrial SS application that relies on anti-corrosion coating (presumably consumable) instead of the actual formulation of the specific alloy.

Oil and gas, marine, pharma, and chemical processing in general. Those are just the ones I’m familiar with. Coated SS is a cheaper alternative to titanium when they can get away with it.

Did Tesla then chose a cheap alloy and cut the corners on coating?

Some 'influencer' in São Paulo just bought one. First cybertruck in Brazil as I understand. Looking forward to the discombobulation saga on that one. He lives in a poor region of the city as well, has hired security for the truck. I kid you not.

Should be easy to find if stolen then

Yeah, finding stolen property is not the bottleneck in upholding the rule of the law in Brazil

I don’t have the money to buy these things. But it’s amazing to me that anyone would, regardless of their wealth.

It’s one of those things like gamma ray bursts or dark matter, that you have to agree exists but seems to defy reason.

Musk has a reputation for innovation (although he personally is not the one doing much innovation) but not integrity, reliability, or quality. Many stories are being told by unhappy customers.

Stop buying his shit, already.

The article is, perhaps unsurprisingly, rife with logical fallacies and incorrect deductions. It simultaneously blames the architecture/design, the motor, the software, and God only knows what else for the issue.

We can't be reading the same article.

Your “perhaps unsurprisingly” itself seems to be an ad hominem fallacy, if you are keen for writing to avoid them.

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