Musk also claimed that “there have not been new car [brands] that have been successful for 100 years, apart from Tesla.”
Some automotive brands that were founded in the last 100 years:
Chrysler (1924) Volvo (1927) BMW (1928) Datsun/Nissan (1931/1933) Fiat (1932) Toyota (1936) Volkswagen (1937) Jeep (1943) Land Rover (1948) Honda (1963)
It’s unpainted. On a painted vehicle, a dent or a scratch is a sanding, cleaning and a painting away. Paint can fill scratches and voids. If the entire surface is bare metal, you can’t bodyfill it if it gets a dent and you can’t weld metal into it or onto it to fill a void without marring the finish.
These are going to age like bananas.
It was a concept car.
I don’t get why they can’t just make the thing out of aluminium and paint it a metallic silver. It’ll look just as nice if not better, be cheaper to make, weigh far less, and consequently have a longer range and/or require a smaller battery.
It’s such a dumb hill to die on.
It was a concept car that he doubled down on and promised to deliver it as designed.
As soon as they unveiled it, anyone with a brain could tell you it was never going to make it to market like that.
Are you talking during production or after it’s been sold? On the latter, lack of rusting will go a long way.
After it’s been sold, or even on the lot surrounded by other vehicles coming and going all day. Even if it’s driven down the road once, the front bumper will be pitted with rock marks.
Lack of rusting is great. Just hope you don’t need any other sort of body work.
I highly, highly doubt it will be made entirely of ss. The dissimilar metals problem will be real. But it’ll be branded ‘electrolysis’ which sounds more high tech than ‘rust’
A lesson that was already known from the history of the Delorean.