I’m interested that you named one, which was *shape, not form factor. That’s marketing bullshit. Nothing new there, cars have changed shape every year for the last hundred years
I wrote the truck was the first to introduce the form factor of being electric and made a reference to its material being similar to the Delorean. I didn’t name the shape at all.
I will say of its shape though, it’s certainly novel and not something the industry has produced previously. Bringing the last century of car design into this conversation is disingenuous as the topic is a pick up truck. Also your point is incorrect. If you blur your eyes and see the same silhouette of two cars manufactured a year apart, it’s not changing. Decade by decade? Absolutely. Year by year? Not so much. Even across manufacturers, each year cars of the same class look the same.
Now if you did the same with a Ram, F150, Sierra, Silverado, and whatever the others are called, you get basically the same design. Though even with the same number of wheels - that pointy triangular one would stick out like a sore thumb.
Regarding categories, well, Tesla did announce the first electric pick up truck. At least for the American market of comically large vehicles. The manufacturing method is noteworthy. The triple motors are noteworthy, even now. The initial presentation of being mirrorless was noteworthy. The shatter proof glass was noteworthy, if only for a moment. Highest payload capacity. Highest ‘horsepower’. Highest torque.
There’s loads of things Tesla claimed the truck could or would do on release that put it ahead of the non existent competition. Unfortunately for them they took too long, they didn’t deliver on most of their promises, and now they’ve recalled all the trucks they made because of some bad glue.
Oh well. A bad company made a bad product. Some people bought it, and more will buy it still. I guess that’s capitalism.
I’m interested that you named one, which was *shape, not form factor. That’s marketing bullshit. Nothing new there, cars have changed shape every year for the last hundred years
What other categories do you mean?
I wrote the truck was the first to introduce the form factor of being electric and made a reference to its material being similar to the Delorean. I didn’t name the shape at all.
I will say of its shape though, it’s certainly novel and not something the industry has produced previously. Bringing the last century of car design into this conversation is disingenuous as the topic is a pick up truck. Also your point is incorrect. If you blur your eyes and see the same silhouette of two cars manufactured a year apart, it’s not changing. Decade by decade? Absolutely. Year by year? Not so much. Even across manufacturers, each year cars of the same class look the same.
Now if you did the same with a Ram, F150, Sierra, Silverado, and whatever the others are called, you get basically the same design. Though even with the same number of wheels - that pointy triangular one would stick out like a sore thumb.
Regarding categories, well, Tesla did announce the first electric pick up truck. At least for the American market of comically large vehicles. The manufacturing method is noteworthy. The triple motors are noteworthy, even now. The initial presentation of being mirrorless was noteworthy. The shatter proof glass was noteworthy, if only for a moment. Highest payload capacity. Highest ‘horsepower’. Highest torque.
There’s loads of things Tesla claimed the truck could or would do on release that put it ahead of the non existent competition. Unfortunately for them they took too long, they didn’t deliver on most of their promises, and now they’ve recalled all the trucks they made because of some bad glue.
Oh well. A bad company made a bad product. Some people bought it, and more will buy it still. I guess that’s capitalism.