[ref https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-pickup-truck-release-date-elon-musk-cybertruck/ Elon Musk’s Tesla ‘Cyberpunk’ Pickup Truck gets official unveiling date According to the CEO, the upcoming vehicle ... https://www.teslarati.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/tesla-pickup-truck-1a-1000x600.jpg ... would be released on November 21, 2019 at the SpaceX rocket factory in Hawthorne-CA (los-angeles) ... https://twitter.com/kimbal/status/1192116074088669187
http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-40-250-50-300-70k-500mi-Tesla-pu-e-truck-150-k-orders-v-tp4695737.html EVLN: $40:250,50:300,70k:500mi Tesla pu e-truck> 150+k orders (v) EVLN: $40,50,70k Tesla pu e-truck> 150+k pre-orders r:250,300, Elon Musk says Tesla has received 146,000 orders for its Cybertruck ... 2019/11/23 ... critical of the truck’s extreme style ... others speculated that the design could be a primary selling point ... some view Tesla's truck as a niche product ... (% Critics poo-poo, what they will never understand %) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj-yB9C7v6s https://www.google.com/search?q=gm+electric+truck https://www.google.com/search?q=ford+electric+truck https://www.google.com/search?q=nissan+electric+truck https://www.reviewonline.com/news/local-news/2019/11/gm-lordstown-plant-sold/ GM Lordstown plant sold (to lordstownmotors.com,Workhorse) NOV 8, 2019 https://lordstownmotors.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/LMC_Truck01-e1567543908727.jpg ... https://www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2019/11/lordstown-plant-going-electric/ ] Twice weekly I'm out and about getting my walking exercise while getting tasks,shopping done (I'm heading toward 70's, and I've met quite a few 80+yrold Texans that look and act younger than I). If a local South-Central Texan's body-language seems spirited,keen, I'll have a go @yakking with them (I get to meet more good-folk that way), and when appropriate, I drop-in (EVangelize) http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=%22EVangel-about%22&days=0 a couple words about my non-profit/unpaid efforts to promote plugins, to keep Texas clean (blue skies, white clouds, reduce-smog, etc.) for future generations. This area is growing very quickly (perhaps raising the price too-high of the home I hope to buy - SE Austin's Silicon-Hills is a Silicon-Valley-CA wannabe in too many-ways). I find it interesting the approach transplants to Texas, like myself (originally a Silicon Valley-ite) have to now living in Texas. I make a strong effort to learn how to be a good-Texan. I find it odd when I come across a transplant that still tries to hold-on-to,claim they are of the area,city they came from (to me that doesn't make sense. I want to get along with my neighbors). One transplant I ended up spending a lot of time yakking with at the local grocer was also new to Texas, and had the same kindred spirit to learn and adopt Texas ways. Though originally from New Jersey, with family and friends up North in NY, he said what I had already thought, that now that he is living in TX he wants to get along as he too likes the fine-folk here. The conversation went on for much longer than I usually get, and it was a great pleasure talking with him. But my energy level was fading, my arthritic standing pain was overcoming the joy of our chat, I had to end it before I wanted to. Our conversation ended with me mentioning my free public EV awareness efforts. I left him with a smile as I told him about a NJ EVangel, Tom Moloughney, who not only owns a restaurant in NJ, but has been a promoter of plugins on the East coast. [ref https://www.greencarreports.com/writer/10009609_tom-moloughney Tom Moloughney, Contributor. Tom is a passionate electric-vehicle advocate, industry consultant and former director at Plug In America. He has been driving electric since 2009, including a MINI E and a BMW ActiveE ... a BMW i3 ... ... https://www.google.com/search?q=Tom+Moloughney+electric ... https://www.plugshare.com/location/6778 (Tom's restaurant) Nauna's Bella Casa naunas.com 148 Valley Rd Montclair, NJ 07042 https://www.naunas.com ] I found it fun that the top (younger) image of Tom on the green car reports link (above), looked like the NJ transplant was Tom's younger brother (same NJ body- language, tilt of the torso, and expression). All throughout the week, I was coming across more and more plugins on the road in my area: - there was a white long-range Tesla-3 EV heading into the same store I was, but like their EV, they were high-energy and quick, thus they were long gone before could even try to catch up with them for a quick chat about their EV. - there was the red Leaf EV bopping its way to one of the many hospitals in the medical center part of San Antonio (sa) where I live. He zipped into one of their secure (rfid card access) parking lots, so I lost that one. - and I always like to swing by the sa superEVSE https://www.plugshare.com/location/204964 to do some Tesla EV watching (all coming and going like bees sipping flowers' nectar). That got me thinking what my future truck needs would be. As I've mentioned, likely I'll need a truck to haul around a e-mobility scooter,cart https://www.google.com/search?q=mobility+scooter in its bed (my painful arthritic joints will be giving out soon, and I'll have EV shows I'll still want to do). So, what type of pick-up truck should I get? Actually, all I really need is a ute like what Giertz &friends made, converting a Tesla-3 into a pickup https://www.google.com/search?q=truckla I kinda did that shtick way back in the 1990's when I had a conversion company, electrify a S-10 Blazer http://brucedp.tripod.com/blazer/index3.html http://brucedp.0catch.com/blazer/ But back then I had a local EV converter to pay for $upport. Today, if I had a truckla made for me IMO, there wouldn't be any support, and I'm way too old to do it myself. Perhaps Willie can state his Tesla support experience here in Texas, but my research shows there really isn't much Tesla support near where I live (sa) https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+repair+texas and their service center would likely not want to touch a conversion (even if it was based off a Tesla-3). I'm glad there are a couple of Tesla service centers in Texas, considering Texas lawmakers have not made it easy for Tesla to get established here. That got me thinking (long before the Tesla pickup truck debut, see above link), why not wait for the new Tesla Cyberpunk pu truck to come out? Without more information, my mind had me worrying about the radical Cyberpunk design would standout making me a regular candidate for rolling-coal attacks https://www.google.com/search?q=rolling+coal I've researched, looking at the up-n-coming Ford & GM, as well as the startup pu-etrucks. The startup pu-etrucks would have even less support near me than Tesla. Though FMC &GM pu-etrucks seem way too far in the future, at least there should be support for them near me as there are many FMC &GM dealerships in sa. Sadly, FMC &GM are taking there huge puffy pu trucks to factory convert to EVs, when there is a market for the extinct light trucks of the 1980's. The light pu truck ice I found was a FMC ranger (yup, they are making those again), HMC, & TMC have one too. I'd really not want to go ice, but rather an pu e-truck. After finally viewing the Tesla pu e-truck debut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj-yB9C7v6s I got over the radical body shape to see more of what Tesla designers were tryig to do: a simpler design to make a more aerodynamic e-truck. The fact that there is a builtin outlet in the bed to plug the mobility e-cart into is a plus. After some thought, other truck makers vehicles look so old in design, like they haven't changed since the 1960's https://www.google.com/search?q=1960s+dodge+truck Am I going to pu a deposit down on a Tesla pu e-truck? No, I have to continue seeking a va loan so I can buy the sa home near the va hospital, then I can start getting serious about upgrading to an e-truck. :-zzz + http://newjersey.news12.com/story/41296505/nj-legislators-pushing-bill-to-expand-electric-vehicle-infrastructure NJ legislators pushing bill to expand electric vehicle infrastructure Nov 08, 2019 State legislators are pushing for the passage of the Electric Vehicle Bill, which they say would ease the transition to greener travel through New Jersey ... would expand electric vehicle plug-in infrastructure and increase rebates for buying electric vehicles ... 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