Photo: Theophilus Chin
You know why we think Musk's space program keeps running into problems? It's because Tesla doesn't make a pickup truck to carry the parts. After all, they say that America was built by the pickup, and if President Obama is serious about turning the nation green, we'll soon need a large bed for carrying sheep to the market with zero tailpipe emissions.
It sounds like we're kidding, but the idea of a luxury pickup truck has been around for quite some time. Cadillacs count, but not for everybody. Journalists raised the question so many times that the company eventually gave in and will launch a sports luxury ute soon. Hyundai, a company built on small and cheap cars, now wants a part of the truck market as well.
So why shouldn't Tesla make a pickup version of the Model X? With all that electric grunt, pulling the whole house is possible without even putting it on wheels. Also, there's a bunch of crazy but very cool people who drag race trucks. Big block V8 engine swaps and Cummins turbodiesels are standard. With many extra turbos, intercoolers, and racing injectors, these oil-burners make clouds of smoke everywhere they go.
People call that "rolling smoke," but it's more like rolling cancer, as diesel fumes are known to cause incurable illnesses in children. Wouldn't it be awesome if the Model X pickup could show up at every drag strap in the nation and humiliate those Cummins boys? After that, they wouldn't have the courage to show up to the races and would sell their tuned guzzlers for scrap.
Since the end of the Tesla Roadster, the EV company's customers have become a lot more varied. However, they are still all wealthy individuals, and celebrities are usually among them. Josh Duhamel, the Rock, Shia LeBeauf and Kristen Stewart all drive trucks and might want to go electric.
We don't want to beat around the bush too much. So we're ending this story on a high note, with the Model X Pickup renderings made by Theophilus Chin. Frankly, we're not 100% in love with what we see because he based his design on the Dacia Duster Oroch. That's hardly the stuff dreams are made off, but you've got to start somewhere.
So why shouldn't Tesla make a pickup version of the Model X? With all that electric grunt, pulling the whole house is possible without even putting it on wheels. Also, there's a bunch of crazy but very cool people who drag race trucks. Big block V8 engine swaps and Cummins turbodiesels are standard. With many extra turbos, intercoolers, and racing injectors, these oil-burners make clouds of smoke everywhere they go.
People call that "rolling smoke," but it's more like rolling cancer, as diesel fumes are known to cause incurable illnesses in children. Wouldn't it be awesome if the Model X pickup could show up at every drag strap in the nation and humiliate those Cummins boys? After that, they wouldn't have the courage to show up to the races and would sell their tuned guzzlers for scrap.
Since the end of the Tesla Roadster, the EV company's customers have become a lot more varied. However, they are still all wealthy individuals, and celebrities are usually among them. Josh Duhamel, the Rock, Shia LeBeauf and Kristen Stewart all drive trucks and might want to go electric.
We don't want to beat around the bush too much. So we're ending this story on a high note, with the Model X Pickup renderings made by Theophilus Chin. Frankly, we're not 100% in love with what we see because he based his design on the Dacia Duster Oroch. That's hardly the stuff dreams are made off, but you've got to start somewhere.
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