Tesla fan turns Ford F-150 Raptor into Cybertruck

[Graybeard]

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/bosnian-tesla-fan-turns-ford-f-150-raptor-into-cybertruck

By Gary Gastelu | Fox News

The Tesla Cybertruck doesn’t go on sale until late next year, but a superfan figured out how to get his early. With a very big asterisk.


REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Igor Krezic of Bosnia had the team at Stark Solutions, his automated betting terminal manufacturing company, build a replica of the electric Cybertruck on the chassis of a gasoline-powered Ford F-150 Raptor pickup.


The Tesla Cybertruck is all-electric and scheduled to go on sale in late 2021. (Tesla)

The build took eight months, according to Reuters, and involved a few compromises, including more conventional lighting than the Tesla’s and the required gas filler door. But it’s otherwise a close copy that even includes a rectangular steering wheel and marble-look dashboard like the original.


REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

If nothing else, it proved to be a head-turner during a test drive through downtown Mostar.

“Everybody was watching and half of them thought we made a tank, because people don’t know what the Cybertruck is. One girl even stopped and asked if this is the place where they are producing Tesla Cybertruck,” company manager Mario Coric said.


The F-150 Raptor is powered by a turbocharged V6. (Ford)

Kreziec is hoping to get his creation registered for the road, but said local safety regulations frown upon its sharp edges.


As for when he'll be able to buy the real deal, Tesla doesn’t currently have any stores in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but does have an outlet in nearby Slovenia. However, an on-sale date for the Cybertruck there has not been announced.

[Lloyd Smale]

ill take the raptor thank you. That tesla is BUT ugly.

[Graybeard]

Yup they might sell if he ever gets them to market. But they won't be selling to truck guys.

[Lloyd Smale]

nope the same yuppys that buy kia souls and hybrid cars. Same idiots that don't have a grasp on the fact that charging there GREEN car causes pollution from coal fired or fossil fuel powered power plants. I think they really believe that electricity they use comes from the plug in the wall or the electric fairy. What about the pollution created building that truck, the batteries, eventually disposing of them??  Until perpetual motion or some other break through we haven't even had a hint of comes along there is NO green energy other then walking. Even if you look at solar panels and wind generators it creates pollution manufacturing them and you and I have to pay for them every month in our power bills even if we don't use them. I don't know one self respecting truck guy that would be caught dead in that road warrior looking but UGLY thing. I kind of chuckle. All the little hybrid cars with out of state plates on them comming this summer like the plague up here. Dont they understand that they would be a heck of alot greener if they stayed at home instead of driving a 500-1000 miles to come here and leave there trash on the beach??? I say good luck tesla. Until you make it at least look like a truck instead of a giant hot wheels car americans arent going to flock to your showrooms. Farmers, loggers, construction workers are just going to laugh and shake there heads. Probably the biggest buyer market will come from the city suburb wealthy that will trade in there range rover thinking this thing will impress there neighbors.

[ironglows]

The whole nature of the automotive and many, many other industries is about to change.  Once the method of increasing the production of graphene into a commercially viable quantities, electronics, automotive, aircraft and most other industrial/technological items will undergo a revolution.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoFRwT1M8mY
 
https://www.explainthatstuff.com/graphene.html

  For instance, an electric car or pickup with a graphene battery, may be delivered with a battery that will last for a million miles, and charge to full in a few minutes!.  Don't laugh, just quit thinking in the old, inside-the-box way.

   

    https://www.pocket-lint.com/gadgets/news/130380-future-batteries-coming-soon-charge-in-seconds-last-months-and-power-over-the-air

   Once proper battery material is economically feasible to produce in quantity, the old petroleum powered vehicles will become more and more rare.
 

[Lloyd Smale]

 a battery stores energy. It doesnt produce it. Do you know how big of a cable it would take to push that enough amperage into a battery at 12volts in a matter of minutes to power a car for 200 miles?? Little hint. Just look at the size of the cables that power your starter that is only @ 8hp. or about equivalent to a 100 amp charge . At that rate of charge it would take 6 hours to fully charge a 600 amp hour battery.  They will no doubt produce lighter and longer lasting batterys but NO battery can produce more power then is put into it. All this bs looks good on a black board but if it was feasible it would be in a car right now. Bottom line is it takes X killowatts to make Y power and to get Y power you have to put X killowatts into a battery and right now those killowatts for the most part all come from burning fossil fuels. Most of that comes from smoke belching coal fired power plants. Bottom line its like i said. the only way to be really green is to walk everywhere and do it bare footed. The fact you plug in your car vs sticking the gas pump in it sure isnt going to save the earth. Thats the blind ass liberals train of thought. Thats the way they think in California!!! TRUE clean engergy  with todays technology would require a solar panel over the whole country blocking the sun for ever. Im no engineer and i guess at one time splitting an atom was only a dream so it could come one day but id about bet a dime to a hundred bucks that a guy like me at 64 years old is still going to be able to buy a gasoline or some other fossil fuel powered car till he dies. Even if thats 20 years from now. there have been people pushing and improving electric car technology before the first model t rolled out of ford and still havent beat an internal combustion motor. Still a long ways away from beating the efficiency of gasoline and other fossil fuels to produce energy for your car or home..  Control pollution? Its a losing battle no matter how you look at it. Until the population quits growing pollution will increase. No way around it. Fact of life is population control is the only real pollution control. If the earth is really going to survive for the long haul that is what is going to have to have a good hard look at. we will probably starve before air pollution or the fake global warming gets us.

[ironglows]

From Lloyd;
  "a battery stores energy. It doesnt produce it. Do you know how big of a cable it would take to push that enough amperage into a battery at 12volts in a matter of minutes to power a car for 200 miles?"
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  The fact that batteries store energy while not producing it, is a given. The rest however, going with present technology, does seem a pipe dream, but I suspect many of us can recall a time when space exploration was only in comics or Sci-Fi.
  My son does much of his business and communications, through his wrist watch, I never dreamed of such a  thing 20-30 years ago.
  If you read the articles on the nature of graphene, you will find it is expected to be revolutionary in it's nature, not just in batteries, but in much of the generating capacity and all kinds of production, manufacturing and nearly all electronic and mechanical devices.
   The article spoke of the super conductivity of graphene..apparently far beyond the ability of any ferrous or  non-ferrous metal. 
  Much like the electronics revolution we watched transpire, let's just observe the booming capabilities of graphene develop, as soon as the production quantity issue is solved.

     It will be solved..and we should take comfort, that we have a team of gifted people, such as Elon Musk, who are working on solutions.

[Lloyd Smale]

I guess my point is that you can make them lighter, smaller so you can put more on the car and store more energy but until perpetual motion is cracked or something as drastic a battery will allways put out slightly less power then is put into it. Might get more range with smaller lighter and more but that just means you need to put more energy into them before you turn the key and again until things drasticaly change in this country that energy is going to come from polution spouting coal fired power plants. If your thinking there green our company has the option of buying green energy from solar and wind but you pay about double for it. How many of those yuppies buying prius hybrids are going to crack open there wallet to ACTUALLY be green. VERY VERY FEW. Most of them are happy pretending or arent smart enough to even realize that electricity there charging there car from doesnt magicaly flow out of that plug from the earth. Its produced burning coal. In my opinion before electric cars take over the market (which someday they might) there has about got to be a major improvement and cost effectiveness of some type of green energy and thats right back basicaly to the comic books and sci fi movies right now. Then to really talk green like i said they will have to address a green way to dispose of wore out batterys because if all cars were electric right now there would be mountains of them at land fills. maybe ill see the sale of electrics cars and trucks grow enough to actually beat out the sale of gas and diesel in my life time but i doubt it and I about KNOW that at 64 even if i live 20 more years i wont see internal combustion engines gone out of the auto industry. That is unless some stupid liberal greeny gets elected president. Presidents like Trump sure wont push for it. But i could see if we get an another idiot like obama and all his socialist brain washed yuppies push for it. I rest my case just in the fact that the best selling vehicle in america today is an f150. Not even some tiny pretend truck that is more fuel efficient. Most americans gladly give up 5 mpg to drive a real truck and those buyers arent going to buy that BUT UGLY tesla all electric pickup. American isnt ready for that and doesnt really care. Sure they will sell a couple to suburban upper middle class yuppies that want to impress there old hippy friends but thats about it. Ask a farmer or logger what they think and youll get a good laugh.

[Bob Riebe]

When one of these go dead in the boonies, and it WILL happen, I wonder where they are going to tell the to tow it, if they are at a job site, and cannot leave?
When I landscaped we ALWAYS had a gas can on the truck, not the little ones used for lawn mowers, as some time we were one hundred miles from home site.

[Lloyd Smale]

it will come with road side assistance 3 hippys and 3 liberal politicians will carry in a generator thats so powerful it can charge it in 15 minutes. But NO LANDSCAPING!! That disturbs the environment. We are not allowed to disturb what mother nature created. No farming either. Dont need it. All your food comes from the grocery store. Magic fairies bring it there.  

When one of these go dead in the boonies, and it WILL happen, I wonder where they are going to tell the to tow it, if they are at a job site, and cannot leave?
When I landscaped we ALWAYS had a gas can on the truck, not the little ones used for lawn mowers, as some time we were one hundred miles from home site.

[geezerbiker]

Thorium molten salt reactors could be set up so that every neighborhood or small town has one.  Long transmission lines would be a thing of the past.  Even without electric cars, these reactors would do wonders for our environment.  I'll get off my soapbox now...

Tony

[Lloyd Smale]

yup and the world will be a utopia and we will all fly around like buck rogers. Might even happen but i sure as hell wont be alive to see it. I worked for the power company and know how powerful they are. They just love coal fired power plants and lots of wires. Thats the cheap way and the way they make big profits. They fight clean energy more then the hardest core conservative redneck. Partly because it cost them profits and the simple fact is they know with todays technology its just not economically feasible. If were going to get there it isnt with solar or wind. At least not at today technology level and electric cars and trucks will not make the shell station obsolete in my lifetime. Might fool the liberal ex hippy yuppies but most with common sense know better. Some BIG technological advancement could come in my lifetime but even then it will be slow to market and we are going to be burning gas and diesel for decades yet. Picture an all electric tractor trailer. After its cab would be the trailer and half of the load would be batteries. Sure they can get a 1000 foot pounds of torque out of an electric car but it lasts for minutes not hours. Like i said it will take something BIG that we havent even heard of yet to change the game. Until then the yuppies can ride around in there hybrid toyotas and chevs and pretend that electricity comes from some nice clean white fairy. I was a lineman for 30 years. My guess is those transmission lines will still require a lineman to fix them 30 years from now. Heck after about 20 i wont care anyway Heck geezer they will probably find that molten salt causes cancer too. 

Thorium molten salt reactors could be set up so that every neighborhood or small town has one.  Long transmission lines would be a thing of the past.  Even without electric cars, these reactors would do wonders for our environment.  I'll get off my soapbox now...

Tony

[geezerbiker]

Do a search for Kirk Sorensen.  He's a former NASA engineer now working on a new version of the thorium liquid salt reactor.  Part of the problem is that the greens are fighting it as much as the power companies.  The truth is that nothing is more powerful than an idea who's time as come and it's looking like the time of the thorium reactor is upon us. 

If it's not developed here in the USA, it'll likely be the Chinese that bring it to market. 

Tony

[Lloyd Smale]

they still will have to bring the big power companies and there political power kicking and screaming. There the REAL power in the the US power business and control what will be excepted or not. Probably more under the table money flows in that industry then all others combined with maybe the exception of big oil companies.

Do a search for Kirk Sorensen.  He's a former NASA engineer now working on a new version of the thorium liquid salt reactor.  Part of the problem is that the greens are fighting it as much as the power companies.  The truth is that nothing is more powerful than an idea who's time as come and it's looking like the time of the thorium reactor is upon us. 

If it's not developed here in the USA, it'll likely be the Chinese that bring it to market. 

Tony

[ironglows]

  Humans are funny..they sometimes want to cling to certain objects and customs, long after they have outlived their uselessness.  Here is some info to that effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaughlin_Motor_Car_Company
 
  I can recall a history teacher I particularly admired, who had in his lifetime seen the rise of the automobile, since he was probably born around the turn of the 20th century.  He taught us something I have never forgotten..which is mentioned in the above link. It demonstrates just how we can cling to outmoded things, as a transitory comfort!
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  " By 1915 McLaughlin was making one carriage every ten minutes.[1] This was the year McLaughlin Carriage Company was sold to Carriage Factories Limited of Orillia, Ontario, McLaughlin's largest competitor. The major carriage manufacturers did not close their doors but switched to automobile bodies. Some of the automobiles even retained whipsockets."

[Lloyd Smale]

well i know its comming but i pray im gone before the music of a american v8 turning 6000rpm doesnt exist or the liberals make it illegal.

[Graybeard]

California has already outlawed it Lloyd. I think the date is 2035 tho when no more gas or diesel power is allowed. I might see 2035 but at my age sure wouldn't bet on it and for sure I won't be seeing it in California.

I had to make several trips out there back in my working days but I retired 25 years ago and for sure haven't been back since and never will go back.

[Lloyd Smale]

i cant see me ever sitting foot in CA again. At my age ill probably never see west of the mississippi again. Also lots can happen in 15 years to change the game in CA. Look at how much the world and politics have changed in the last 10. Yup it could change for the worse but my hope is those idiot liberals are long gone and just a part of history by then. That there stupidity in not seeing that electric cars in the big picture pollute as much as gas if you factor in producing the power to charge them and the pollution created making those batteries and disposing of the spent ones.

Maybe gasoline will become obsolete but im betting if it does theres going to come a new alternative other then electricity that will power the cars and trucks of tomorrow. Like we both said bill. If it does come it we both will probably be fertilizer by then anyway. Right now its just a novelty that hippys and college girls buy into that think there making some kind of save the planet statement and just dont have a grasp on reality. I read that if we really had to be clean and use clean electricity the entire country would need to be covered with solar panels and even then wed come up short. How much pollution would be created just making all the steel and plastic to build them??

 Im sure someone who wanted there minute of fame years ago said gunpowder would be obsolete by now too but probably 3/4s of the population of this country has some ammo in there home loaded with it. Same could be said of steel. Using fertilizer to grow food. Like we both agreed on before. The only way to make this planet green and make it last forever is population control. MORE people MORE pollution. I once read something about how even the amount of animals that we need to raise to feed us is causing pollution because of there poop. Farmers pollute the earth with more and more fertilizer because its the only way to grow enough food to feed the growing population. Even our political mess is caused by just to many people and not enough recourses.

We i america dont see it near as much as many other countrys. Even if america goes all electric dont people realize that countries like russia and china will have to play the game too or we are pissing in the wind. Even if Ca's liberal hippys get that law enacted they are such a minute percentage of the worlds population that its insane to think it would help a thing. Add to that that Americans want what the want and car manufactures make what will sell and america sure isnt ready to give up there internal combustion engines or have the government shove something down there throats that in the long run will cost them more money. That said theres a big car culture in even CA and not everyone in that state wants a electric vw bus with flowers painted on it. Easy to pass that law today saying in 15 years its mandatory but a good many of those polititians that pushed it will be pushing flowers with us in 15 years themselves.

Just look at even gun sales. There booming in CA too right now. Even with there restrictive laws. I think its due in part to the fact that many Californians are getting fed up with there states socialist doctrines. Tired of a few citys controlling there whole state. Enacting law after law that takes there freedoms of choice away. Today we are ready to draw the line in the sand. I truely believe that day is coming soon for the people of CA too. I live in a state like that myself. A few citys in the south control the elections and are led by our liberal governor. Ride up here today and see the trump signs every 50 yards on the side of the road. Ive never seen so many campaign signs or such a lop sided number of them for all the republicans running for office. People up here are sick and tired of those liberals and welfare trash from the south controlling our lives and ruining this state. 15 years is a ******* long time. One way or another the country we know now isnt going to be the country then. Hopefully people will join us in drawing the line in the sand. It either that or live in bernie sanders utopia and drive teslas and stand in food lines.

[ironglows]

When one of these go dead in the boonies, and it WILL happen, I wonder where they are going to tell the to tow it, if they are at a job site, and cannot leave?
When I landscaped we ALWAYS had a gas can on the truck, not the little ones used for lawn mowers, as some time we were one hundred miles from home site.

 I guess one would have to look at such a situation, just as one does in case they throw a rod, break an axle, lose a transmission or shred a timing belt..just have to get towed out.  Any of those cases would hopefully be rare .

[geezerbiker]

My Chevy Silverado is the quietest machine I've ever owned.  It has a 350V8 but no music other than on the stereo. 

I find the sound of a big motorcycle is music to my ears and while a H-D sounds great, my almost 40 year old Yamaha is a better bike...

Tony