Is the Cybertruck A Good Zombie Apocalypse Vehicle?

[Phantasmagoria]

What do you think? Could you survive in the Cybertruck?

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dracoco OwO:

It is terrible for plenty of reasons, the fact it's an electric car is the main one because where the ♥♥♥♥ do you recharge this ♥♥♥♥?

Haha!

It's hard enough finding a place to charge an electric car BEFORE society collapses.

That's why electric cars are getting less and less popular, and really only being supported by government subsidies and not actual popularity or mass market adoption, because chargers are not only often hard to find, but often broken, and on top of that, most people don't want to sit around in public for over an hour or more to charge their overpriced electric toy.

[Violeta]

"Gasoline has an expiration date and can go bad in a few months if left in a car's fuel tank. The length of time gasoline remains usable depends on the type of gas and how it's stored"

Gas can last up to a year.

Meaning if you could find say a coal powered generator to recharge the electric car. It could be better than the gas one after a year.

All these survival games have this nonsense of gas having no spoil timer.

[xDDD]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Silverlight:

It's bulletproof for small arrms. Probably makes it zombie proof too.

Bulletproof*
Unless you shoot the windows lmao

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Diposting pertama kali oleh ⛧⸸ Violeta ⸸⛧:

"Gasoline has an expiration date and can go bad in a few months if left in a car's fuel tank. The length of time gasoline remains usable depends on the type of gas and how it's stored"

Gas can last up to a year.

Meaning if you could find say a coal powered generator to recharge the electric car. It could be better than the gas one after a year.

All these survival games have this nonsense of gas having no spoil timer.

LOL

I've started and driven cars with 10+ year-old gas in them without problems. Ones sitting in a garage or ones out in a field.

Fuel-injected and carbureted.

Seems the only modifier is how tightly the fuel system is sealed. If it has too much leakage of air and such it can turn the fuel into a varnish of sorts after just a few years.

I'd like to see that work with an electric car sitting for 10 years if it'll even charge anymore.

[Violeta]

Tell it to google then. Because it says gas expires quickly.

[Chaosolous]

The Cybertruck isn't a good vehicle.

[Michael]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Chaosolous:

The Cybertruck isn't a good vehicle.

A fridge on wheels is better than one without wheels.

[C4Warr10r]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dracoco OwO:

It is terrible for plenty of reasons, the fact it's an electric car is the main one because where the ♥♥♥♥ do you recharge this ♥♥♥♥?

Haha!

It's hard enough finding a place to charge an electric car BEFORE society collapses.

That's why electric cars are getting less and less popular, and really only being supported by government subsidies and not actual popularity or mass market adoption, because chargers are not only often hard to find, but often broken, and on top of that, most people don't want to sit around in public for over an hour or more to charge their overpriced electric toy. :MMForFun:

As usual, Dook nails it. If I had a Cybertruck, I'd drive it to the closest freight railway line, because trains are both full of goods, and can run over any number of zombies if you know how to operate them. They can run for thousands of miles on one fuel bunker (Yeah they have that much fuel in them. It's a not a fuel tank, it's a fuel bunker) and quite handily, most military vehicles, at least in the US, can run on that same diesel mix.

With those kinds of logistics, we might even be capable of (A) not having the military miraculously die in the first place, and (B), rebuilding society if that were to happen, because diesel-electric locomotives are also mobile power plants. Use the train to get fuel to military vehicles, use the military vehicles to get more fuel trains, and so on and so forth. Pretty damn sure we could have enough materials and energy to build a walled settlement with power, and the green revolution would finally happen once we finally ran out of that power, unless we can find some riggers that can restore the oil production and refineries.

That would be a rather tall order, given the number of oil specialists required to maintain such facilities, but I'm pretty sure Dook can find the men needed for such a task, and learn how to run the trains in my absence, as well. He gets this "Logistics 101" stuff, and I doubt much is too hard for him.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Diposting pertama kali oleh ⛧⸸ Violeta ⸸⛧:

Tell it to google then. Because it says gas expires quickly.

LOL don't let google think for you.

And don't try to act like you know the answer to something just because you believed everything google or a Reddit forum tells you.

Search engines have bias and can be just as wrong as any other person out there.

I'm an auto mechanic and have decades of experience. Gas can go bad, yes, but it all depends on conditions.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

unless you're lucky to have spare parts if something break and that your vehicle doesn't just rust your cybertruck is likely to become a giant brick after a few years.

that thing doesn't look like it's well designed and more just there to fool peoples with too much money.

[Uncle Sam]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Phantasmagoria:

Is the Cybertruck A Good Zombie Apocalypse Vehicle?
What do you think? Could you survive in the Cybertruck?

Since most of the electric grid would be toast in a zombie apocalypse, that would be a no. However, the truck parts can be dismantled for other purposes

[Hathaway]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Goblin:

the longevity of these vehicles don't seem promising

They seem fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HlyQy9WRlc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gMwjvdrfaQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxCURT2NBpI

Diposting pertama kali oleh ⛧⸸ Violeta ⸸⛧:

"Gasoline has an expiration date and can go bad in a few months if left in a car's fuel tank. The length of time gasoline remains usable depends on the type of gas and how it's stored"

Gas can last up to a year.

Meaning if you could find say a coal powered generator to recharge the electric car. It could be better than the gas one after a year.

All these survival games have this nonsense of gas having no spoil timer.

Yea you would have to raid Jay Lenos garage, they make gasoline preservation agent, but its only something collectors use.

[A&A]

It's an EV, so better replace those batteries or I should say everything.
And you want it to be with a diesel engine.

At this point, better get a Hummer!

[permanent name]

it's a pretty infamous modding chassis. people have made some really really good stuff out of them before.

the issue is finding the right size and voltage forklift engine to replace what's in there, as well as a rack of mixed batteries to handle volt hacking the onboards, and a second one so you can remove the doors and put them on the windows. rest of the parts can be taken from hybrids and other electrics on the market.

most people would blow themselves up volthacking, so.

it's not a very good car in the scope of cars, but in terms of electrics it's kind of the only thing really suitable for this besides maybe a prius with a rare frame. fuel and stuff is a lot harder to deal with than driving out to a windmill farm and setting up a siphon, assuming you can get past the 'i blew myself up with batteries' hump.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Need a combustion car that can run off a wood "Gasifier"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AFw3Agg7SM