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God I hope they take it to the battlefield. Tesla's are always dialing home. It transmits its location all the time. Easy to find. Easy to track. Once it goes overseas the US and allies don't really need to ask permission to "hack" into Tesla's vehicle communication.

The only thing I can think it would be good for is ferrying VIPs around the rear. The FAR rear.

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How does one recharge a cybertruck on the battlefield? if your adversary is knocking out power, and electricity is limited, then how would one refuel? you would have to carry a generator full of diesel just to refuel it, correct? It feels like it kind of defeats the point

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Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov was probably right what he said about the CyberTruck. The CyberTruck will be exponentially better than the Chinese golf carts that Russian soldiers are using right now to transport them to the battlefield.

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Brandon Herrera just modded his Cybertruck like this. Quite a project. https://x.com/theakguy/status/1829224997208109447?s=61&t=bzPuQKaPvrq-m9V7EjvEJA

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Good luck finding a charger in the field and if you can then how about waiting 7-15 hours to recharge your truck instead of 10 minutes to refuel.

If it’s a diesel truck you can substitute used motor oil and gasoline if diesel isn’t available.

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Back in the day, I had this vision. NATO and WARPAC are in a face off. Someone fires a round over the border. Instantly, every push to talk switch between the Channel and the Urals is depressed simultaneously, generating an immense EMP that fries all electronic gear on both sides and reduces leadership to waving your sabre/bayonet/flags/flashlight/sending up flares and other pre-20th Century means.

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Point about using fuel to run a generator to charge a vehicle. The Laws of Thermodynamics state that every time you convert energy from one form to another, you "lose" some energy as waste (heat in a car engine, for example). "Energy undergoes many conversions and takes on many different forms as it moves. Every conversion that it undergoes has some associated "loss" of energy. Although this energy doesn't actually disappear, some amount of the initial energy turns into forms that are not usable or we do not want to use." So every extra step in the process means you lose energy. Apply this across a fleet of tactical vehicles and it probably becomes significant. Note that the US tried making electrically powered tanks in WW2 and ended up rejecting the idea 1) for a given amount of power, electric propulsion is heavier 2) copper was rare enough a commodity it had to be used only where essential

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I don’t know about the war in Ukraine, but this vehicle would be great as one of those “practicals” so popular with third world militias of one kind or another. Until the first RPG hit it, anyway…

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Not "practical" but "technical" because UN and NGO types listed them on their expense accounts as "technical assistance"

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no it would suck. I imagine that in third world countries torn apart by war electricity would be harder to come by when compared to fuel. Also, it load bearing capacity isn't good enough and it way too darn expensive.

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Bunker branding!

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