Also it’s stainless steel, not scratchless steel. Anyone who’s scrubbed a stainless steel pan knows they scratch up quickly.

Perfect panel alignment is more than one can expect from a Tesla direct from the factory

And the "bare stainless steel body panels" isn't a new thing on a production car.

Unsurprisingly they had a ton of issues with it back then too.

otherwise every panel will become discolored over time.

Yeah I don't care about that. My issue with my current truck is many of the places (50?) where I've scratched the paint off, and cleaned/re-painted it as soon as I could, have started to rust - which is probably going to result in the car being sold for scrap metal even though it's still perfectly drivable. Eventually that rust is going to become more than just a cosmetic problem and the car definitely isn't worth the time required to fix it properly (cut out the rust and put new sheet metal in it's place).

I won't be buying a cybertruck... but I definitely would prefer stainless steel over mild steel body panels. I'd like aluminium even better (stainless steel does still rust, just not as easily).

Absolutely. You can easily create electricity on a remote mountain. Creating gasoline... that's not really possible. You have to pay a fortune for someone to deliver it (or worse, go get it yourself). You can't get gasoline delivered in bulk either - common ethanol blended gasoline can spoil in just two months and wherever you're buying it from might have already stored it for a month or more.

Gas prices in back country areas are often double or quadruple what people pay in the city and living there also means driving a lot more per week. Electricity on the other hand is practically free if you produce it yourself (small scale hydro for example can cost a couple thousand dollars for reliable continuous power and if you're in the mountains then you probably have that option).