That’s another great point. Unlike some other trucks, it won’t even be street legal in a lot of other countries, and it’s one pedestrian safety legislation away from needing major reworking.
Rivian is expanding into Europe including its commercial van, which is a product that Tesla should have made given that EVs are perfectly suited to delivery vehicles.
Tesla should be coming out with a three row family vehicle similar to the EV9 or ID Buzz but they wasted resources on a niche $100k truck that will inevitably (in the long term) be snuffed out by Ford, GM, and RAM pushing the kind of volume that they do with trucks.
Fortunately if legislators and regulators are appropriately financially or politically incentivized, such safety legislation may not be something shareholders need to be concerned about.
The Model X isn’t price competitive with the EV9 and the doors are maintenance liabilities.
Its third row is too small. It’s a two row-size SUV where they stuffed in a tiny third row, it isn’t a serious alternative to a car like the Hyundai Palisade.
It is about most pedestrian hostile design possible with those sharp corners. How it’s allowed on the roads boggles my mind.
Also it is owner hostile. What other vehicle can you not resell?
Finally, the body panels are all wavy when viewed at a shallow angle. Even the cheapest of cars do not suffer from this.