This is a quick note on yet another serious Cybertruck design issue. Consider first, to set some context, that a website called TeslaTap has infamously leaked the following info on prior Tesla problems with leaks.

Will Leaks Happen? While EVs in general are designed not to leak for a lifetime, there are many contributors to why a leak may happen. […] Design – Parts can be poorly designed, using the wrong materials and/or unable to withstand the tough automotive environment. The LCD displays used from about 2013 through 2018 fall into this category.

They seem to mention that Tesla knowingly and repeatedly pushed bad designs to production for at least five years. What did Tesla do in response to all the leaks? Apparently nothing much. Slow response if any at all has become a hallmark of the Tesla brand of ignorance and science denial.

Consider next, that I also wrote about a critical door striker design failure the other day, which seems to have no response from Tesla at all.

So, here we go again.

It is an understatement in 2024 that the massively over-hyped and under-designed “survivability” Cybertruck is manifestly “unable to withstand the automotive environment“.

Apparently just a little bumping and the coolant hoses come popping, dumping fluid out like the Cybertruck needs a diaper (as opposed to just being one). While one owner complained bitterly about it, they strangely didn’t seem upset when they discovered the exact cause — a design error. The coolant hose fix (reset and clamp) is so trivial as to reveal just how poorly this tragic vehicle was designed and made.

But, when it comes to coolant leaks, it gets much worse.

A cohort of self-described “Alpha males” (e.g. toddlers) exhibit behavior indicative of stunted emotional development, deeply entrenched in a dubious mythology of Cybertruck marketing. These emotionally undeveloped men, seemingly desperate for validation, devise “tests” to demonstrate their allegiance to the vehicle’s “father” figure.

Such misguided attempts to gain favor with Elon Musk, an individual whose own maturity is obviously stunted, ultimately prove futile. The Cybertruck’s awful performances, beset by numerous technical and design flaws, fails to meet even basic expectations. Its shortcomings serve as a stark illustration of the disconnect between marketing claims that amount to fraud, and well-known practical automotive engineering realities.

The result is a cascade of Cybertruck owner disappointments, affecting both the vehicle maker and even its most ardent supporters. This very “American idiot” outcome underscores the pitfalls of allowing unthinking adherence to dictated propaganda and the dangers of vulnerable people falsely conflating product capability with a Potemkin-like personal identity.

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And how did this radiator end up so obviously broken? Notice in the full video how a Cybertruck carefully avoids the one actual fence post at the end of the show, after it tries so hard to hit only thin sheets of plastic masquerading as a fence.

The design and performance deficiencies of the Cybertruck become glaringly apparent to those with even rudimentary engineering knowledge or automotive industry experience. The vehicle’s numerous shortcomings highlight a fundamental lack of understanding of basic automotive design principles.

For instance, the inclusion of an oversized bull bar equipped with excessive lighting, while simultaneously lacking a crucial underbody skid plate, exemplifies a prioritization of aesthetics over functional off-road capability. The widely circulated video of the vehicle breaching a thin, presumably prop-constructed fence fails to provide any meaningful data about its structural integrity or real-world performance.

These superficial attempts at demonstrating the Cybertruck’s capabilities only serve to underscore its engineering inadequacies. Any rigorous testing regimen would likely reveal the need for extensive redesigns or complete replacement of major components, as the vehicle appears to disregard fundamental engineering principles in favor of unconventional styling.

Potential owners would be better served by investing their resources in vehicles that have undergone proper engineering and testing processes, rather than being swayed by marketing spectacles that bear little relation to practical automotive functionality. Selling a giant stainless steel diaper made by Tesla isn’t helping anyone, as its buyers should be spending their time and money in therapy instead.

Sales of the Cybertruck are becoming evidence of a mental health crisis in America, rising to a national security issue. We test for vulnerabilities in other areas, so as a simple test in this domain please show the below Elon Musk email to people you care about. See who is prone to become victims to a criminal scam:

LEGO and soda cans. I’m surprised he didn’t mention fruit cups.

Over and again I see Tesla fraud victims cry out “I love the [deception]… What should I do next” as if they are in so deep they can’t stop digging themselves into more and more debt.

Like this:

And this:

Who will help these child-like unfortunates who run loose and keep getting themselves caught up in Tesla fraud, throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars away? If not governmental regulators, if not their parents, then who?

Cybertruck Owner Brags About High-Tech Pedal That Makes Vehicle Accelerate When Pressed

The fence in this video thus is a striking metaphor, as it stopped the child from doing even more predictable damage to himself and his environment. The lesson for America is perhaps that better fences earlier (in life) can prevent such disasters.

Without fraud, there would be no Tesla.

It’s like multi-factor authentication in that the mosquitos use infrared among other factors to target humans. Nonetheless, this study helps explain why loose fitting clothes, which eliminate an IR profile, are so effective in preventing bites.

We demonstrate that Ae. aegypti sense the infrared (IR) radiation emanating from their targets and use this information in combination with other cues for highly effective mid-range navigation. Detection of thermal IR requires the heat-activated channel TRPA1, which is expressed in neurons at the tip of the antenna.

An investor says the cost of the German factory is a total loss, as soon nobody in EU will be buying a Tesla and inventory stacks up.

Despite having spent close to $5 billion building a factory in Brandenburg, Germany, which started production in March 2022, Tesla’s sales in Europe are beginning to drop towards levels before the factory existed (see Figure 5).

Tesla’s German factory operated at 18% of capacity between March to December 2022, 47% last year, and at 45% in the 1H of 2024. Capacity utilization under 70% usually implies losses. Below are what I see as growing problems for Tesla in Europe that could lead them to write off their German plant (if Musk were smart, and we know he isn’t).

Of course this misses the point. Elon Musk taking over Twitter was backed by Russia, to be a disinformation spigot inside America. Sure it’s a bad business decision, but that’s not how military decisions are made.

Likewise, Russia financing a giant munitions factory to generate chemical cluster bomb drones just outside of Berlin… is a military plan with little relevance to car business as usual.

Consider that this Tesla factory is in the old “East” that was Putin’s notorious stomping grounds for KGB operations to spin up Nazi gangs that could infiltrate the West. This time around, instead of hooligans, expect Putin’s plan to leverage idle Tesla robots to cause mass terror and destroy democracy.

Tesla building a Russian munitions factory inside Germany, and filling it with Nazi party (AfD) activists to influence elections, has very little to do with selling cars.

Background:

Let’s start with this. A disused military facility outside Berlin is stockpiling “unsold” Tesla cars on a military base.

Is it reasonable to accept the CEO’s portrayal of this as a collection of AI-powered robots that can be controlled by one person with a simple command? Perhaps national security experts should evaluate this centrally managed drone force – which essentially amounts to a mobile arsenal of clustered chemical explosives – for what it truly represents.

The Tesla factory in Brandenburg is located near the borders of Saxony and Berlin, but not Thuringia. Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia are all former East German states that have experienced significant Russian influence. The extremist far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, often criticized for being a Nazi party that Elon Musk actively promotes, has gained considerable support in these states. In Thuringia, the AfD won the most recent state election with 32.8% of the vote, marking the first time a far-right party has won a state election in post-war Germany. In Saxony, the AfD narrowly lost the state election, receiving 30.6% of the vote. Brandenburg has also seen a rise in AfD support, influenced by the party’s growth in neighboring states. German political parties refuse to form coalitions with the AfD, viewing it as a threat to democratic principles. Some observers argue that the AfD’s rise is part of a broader strategy, possibly driven by Russia (along with Elon Musk), to fragment German politics and hinder the formation of stable governments.

Notably, Putin served in the KGB from 1975 to 1991. He started as a junior officer in the Second Chief Directorate (counter-intelligence). He primarily was stationed in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) but from 1985 to 1990 was assigned to Dresden, East Germany (German Democratic Republic). Putin had achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel by the time the USSR was being dismantled in 1991. Examinations of Stasi files and interviews with former colleagues (e.g. Klaus Zuchold) suggest Putin’s role was far from mundane — even though it was meant to appear boring or unimportant middle management operations work and low-level intelligence gathering.

There are networks of billionaires who essentially are arms of the Kremlin

Specifically, it is far too easy to describe as mundane how the Dresden KGB efforts drove the city and surrounding region of Saxony to be strongholds of Nazi activity in Germany up to the present day. The most striking example is a Nazi leader in Germany who had previously been an informant for East German intelligence (Stasi) and had connections to the KGB, including Putin. Rainer Sonntag initially was recruited as an informant by Georg Johannes Schneider, who worked directly with Putin in Dresden in the late 1980s. According to researcher Regine Igel, Sonntag became involved with prominent neo-Nazi Michael Kühnen and rose in the far-right movement after being ransomed to West Germany in 1986.

Putin attempted later to describe his Dresden time as sitting around doing nothing at all, just drinking beer with Germans and putting on weight like them, which should obviously warn you he was instead a very busy, athletic, cruel and dishonest officer stationed in Dresden to run targeted extremist operations into Berlin.

he liked to pretend when he first came to the presidency that he hadn’t done anything at all, and the very fact of his being there was a sign that his career had reached a dead end. He talked about how there was nothing to do, and all he did was drink so much beer that he put on weight. When, really, there are no photographs there showing Putin having put on any weight at all. I think people were overly dismissive of Dresden and its importance. Putin was working closely with Matthias Warnig, who we know now as the chairman of Nord Stream 1 and 2. In those days, Warnig was a hotshot Stasi officer. According to a defector who had worked with Putin in the Stasi, Warnig was running a KGB cell for Putin. Putin was the chief liaison between the KGB and the Stasi, and it also turns out from another defector that Putin was then involved in active measures against the West. For instance, he had been trying to entrap a professor into handing over the secret to untraceable poison by planting compromising pornographic materials on him. We don’t know whether this operation ever came off. Putin was supposedly also a handler of a notorious neo-Nazi, who later helped stoke the rise of the far right in the east. […] Putin being in Dresden did not mean his career was at a dead end. It meant that he was actually involved in much more covert operations that were far away from the eyes of the West, and the West was concentrating only on Berlin.

Elon Musk, heavily concentrating on Berlin, has become infamous for boasting about warm relations with Putin such as when he can and does call the dictator on the phone to discuss Ukraine strategies. Musk also recently has been implicated in Russian propaganda campaigns targeting America.

On a related note, as picked up by German reporters, Putin used Tucker Carlson to promote the grotesquely false disinformation narrative that Hitler was right to invade Poland just as Putin is right to invade Ukraine.

And Elon Musk similarly just used Tucker Carlson to promote the grotesquely false disinformation narrative that Hitler was the good guy in WWII and the Holocaust.

And this is why a huge old military base outside Berlin filled with Tesla robots has little to nothing to do with typical business analysis, confusing street investors who overlook the geopolitical security implications.

Reporting on Tesla now is so brutal and honest I don’t have to add much to explain the growing mountain of integrity problems.

The Cybertruck’s FSD timeline has been steadily pushed back (much like the launch of the Cybertruck itself). CEO Elon Musk initially expected it to be available in June and then pushed the timeline back to August, Teslarati reports. It’s now expected in September, according to a release roadmap posted…

Delay, delay, delay… the brand is known for promises it never keeps and constant failure to meet deadlines.

What’s even worse?

As many as 30,000 Cybertruck drivers have already paid $12,000 for FSD and have been waiting to receive it since the first deliveries went out in November, according to Autoevolution. In April, Tesla dropped the price to $8,000 without refunding customers the difference.

Damn. That’s straight up abuse of customers. Demand an early hyped payment and deliver nothing. Then drop the price to reward latecomers, while keeping all the money that was paid by victims of a campaign to get them in early.

This is not even a car reporter or source. It is PC Magazine writing, just to be clear how widespread the loathing and disgust for Tesla has grown.