Ronin
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As part of their phase 2 development. Tesla want to broaden their vehicular offering. It's not sure how much of this is just to keep interest and buzz going on about the brand but Tesla as not been one brand to stay away from challenges.
I stumbled on some artist rendering and a in-house tinkering specification sheet, the latest is the most interesting imo.
A Tesla, YJ like vehicle with 4wd electric drive would climb trees on demand and the low speed of trail blazing would probably not be to hard on the batteries. Add all the brake regen you would get and it might not be a far fetch idea.
Granted, they need to beef up the undercarriage to protect the battery but still... as some potential!
full article here http://electrek.co/2016/07/25/tesla-allterrain-concept-developed-internally-could-help-envision-teslas-unique-pickup-truck-gallery/
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I stumbled on some artist rendering and a in-house tinkering specification sheet, the latest is the most interesting imo.
A Tesla, YJ like vehicle with 4wd electric drive would climb trees on demand and the low speed of trail blazing would probably not be to hard on the batteries. Add all the brake regen you would get and it might not be a far fetch idea.
Granted, they need to beef up the undercarriage to protect the battery but still... as some potential!
full article here http://electrek.co/2016/07/25/tesla-allterrain-concept-developed-internally-could-help-envision-teslas-unique-pickup-truck-gallery/
Elon Musk revealed his “Master Plan Part 2” for Tesla last week and one of the biggest product to be officially announced, though Tesla officials already had expressed interest in releasing such a vehicle, was a ‘Tesla Pickup Truck’. We don’t have a timeline for the release or the unveiling of the vehicle, but Musk called it “a new kind of pickup”, which of course piqued our curiosity.
For better or worse (probably better), Tesla is not the kind of automaker to release concepts that are not already scheduled for production and therefore, it’s difficult to envision what their new products will look like…
It doesn’t stop fans to produce renderings based on the little information Tesla releases or the occasional leaks. For the Model 3, we did a few roundups of fan renderings and some actually came pretty close.
We have already seen some fan renderings for the pickup truck, but they are not based on much information.
What we will be looking at today in order to get some inspiration to imagine Tesla’s pickup is an actual concept developed by a recent graduate of the Art Center College of Design, where several if not most of Tesla’s designers studied, while he was doing a design internship at Tesla’s Design Studio in Hawthorne last year.
The concept was Jason McGinnity’s Sponsored Thesis Project completed during his Interior/Exterior Design internship with Tesla. McGinnity now works as a Product Designer at Adidas Future Design in Portland, Oregon.
It is called the ‘Tesla Allterrain’ and it is based on a Jeep Wrangler and Toyota FJ Cruiser (images via Jason McGinnity):
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