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Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants (www.vice.com)
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[–] 23 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

I know i would get made fun of for this but a good price is a good price. I would pay $15,000 for one. I think most people would.

Edit 2 min later - I thought better of it. No i still wouldn't want it. I wouldn't trust Tesla not to hack it at some point and take it over.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You could rip the batteries out of them and use them for a solar setup. The rest could be sold for scrap.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Probably an unpopular opinion, but I'd love to take that as a project vehicle.

    Batteries for home setup (on TOU plan, so it'd be nice to charge when rates are low and discharge when high).
    Then slap an combustion engine in there that just acts as a power plant for the electric motors. It'd probably be biting off more than I can chew, but it sounds like a hell of a learning opportunity and tickles my engineering/tinker brain's fancy.

    Of course, after blowing something up, I'd probably focus on dissecting the drive train and using them motors for something else. I'm suddenly curious what the suspension set up is like. If they've got some crazy high tech mag-ride system, I'll bet that could be repurposed for another vehicle (pending Tesla proprietary protocols for connecting to ECU).

    But now I'm rambling. The thoughts of what I could do with those parts though.

    Ninjaedit: just took a look as some of the pondering above. I forgot how silly the interiors look, so def wouldn't bother with attempting it as a project car.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I would totally take one for 15k (only if its used, never from tesla itself) take the batteries out, sell those and put the frame on a truck and drive it out to an event or protest and let people smash whats left. Let people rent a sledge hammer for a bit and vent, would be a fun and very public statement. Once thats done sell it as scrap. The batteries should alone should cover the next one.

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