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So they took one of the 4-door frames, bolted a little tail on it and slapped some refrigerator panels on it. Cool. This is the greatest automotive victory in the history of the world.
Also it's not like we've been building "ultra-hard" cars for decades before figuring out that it's actually a terrible idea.
But leaning from the mistakes of the past was never in his playbook.
Not sure if thats what you meant, but yeah, cars used to be made "stronger", until it was realised that they are more fatal that way. Theres a reason most modern cars crumble up quickly in an accident, and that is because the crumbling absorbs energy from the impact, helping the vehicle slow down and stop without damaging the passenger. If the car didnt crumble, the energy has to go somewhere else - this could go to the passenger, flinging them through their window.
And like an old refrigerator, you could get stuck and die if you go inside one.
Arnt refrigerators panels more robust too.
Lots of things are more robust:
... many of the body/trim panels... are glued onto the frame.
Not even fasteners of some kind.
Just glue.
Glue which keeps failing so often that basically all cybertrucks have been recalled because ... the body / trim panels will fly off on the highway, like an uncovered/unsecured truck load.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2025/03/23/tesla-recalls-nearly-every-cybertruck-citing-loose-metal-panel-issues/
Nothing wrong with the -right- adhesive being used. The problem isn't "glue", it's incompetence.
I don't know enough about specific kinds of epoxy/glues... but has anything actually been reported as to... is it just the wrong kind of glue? applied improperly? combination of both, and/or other errors?
Given that it affects ... basically every cybertruck produced, im guessing its not just one guy or one shift that's incompetent, and more likely a fundamental manufacturing process/materials problem, management or c suite incompetence.
Its been known since before the thing shipped that the wrong glue was used.
There are automotive adhesives, meant for the exact use case the cybertruck needs, that Tesla chose not to use.
Instead,, they chose to use a cheaper adhesive that is well documented as not being able to be heat cycled in the way a vehicle gets, and the glue has rapidly degraded as it has been exposed to rapid and constant heating and cooling.
I'd wager a combination of both. Cheaped out on the adhesive and screwed up the application instructions. Probably cheaped out again by cutting the time/temp of the postcure.
Glue and steel? I think not
You better let every other car company in existence in on your secret then because all of them from BYD to Ferrari are doing it.
Don't they also use fasteners though? Pretty sure the adhesive is just there to strengthen
If you think about it, it is kind of hysterical. Like, you can sell conservatives literal dog shit as long as they think it's going to somehow "own the libs".