Elon Musk: Tesla's pickup will be 'a better truck than Ford F-150' (via CNBCMakeIt)
While "you're never going to get a vehicle that can do everything well," says Smith, "I have no doubt that they can build a pickup truck that has much better handling than the current F-150."
But it will likely prove too difficult to build the typical features of a pickup truck, including the ability to haul heavy cargo and handle off-road driving, into "a light-weight, high-performance sports car" that could match the Porsche 911, he says. "The physics don't work there," says Smith, who adds that the electric battery alone needed for a Tesla pickup could end up weighing as much as an entire Porsche 911. An electric battery large enough to offer a truck sufficient towing power over long distances, along with Musk's other ambitious goals for the pickup, would also cost more money for both Tesla and consumers — making it more difficult to keep the truck's starting price under $50,000.
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