A Cybertruck engineer, Wes Morrill, addressed claims Tesla's truck rusts in the rain and said the specks of rust were the size of a "pinhead."
Cybertruck engineer pushes back on claims that Tesla EVs rust in the rain — “It’s surface contamination only and can be cleaned off easily.”::A Cybertruck engineer, Wes Morrill, addressed claims Tesla’s truck rusts in the rain and said the specks of rust were the size of a “pinhead.”
And this is why you don’t buy stainless steel sinks and cars, unless you want to polish them regularly they will look like shit even just from water stains.
Edit: Stop telling me your sink doesn’t have rust on it. I’m not talking about rust. Most stainless steel will not rust. I’m talking about how stainless steel can become ugly from residual water marks, staines, water with high mineral content, etc
Unless you take care of it, clean it and polish it regularly. Maybe ideal for a kitchen surface but not for a big ass ugly car.
Stainless steel which has been sufficiently alloyed with Chromium won’t rust. The chromium reacts with oxygen at the surface and forms an inert layer preventing oxidation of the iron in the steel. Cybertruck’s stainless steel simply doesn’t have enough Chromium.
Doing an image search, there are a lot of real ones in various states of decay or oxidization. Certainly takes a lot more time (and straight up abandonment) for a DeLorean to show damage.
Most likely metal dust, called fallout by detailers and “flying rust” by some. Mostly comes off brake discs and railroads and other things that grind ferrous metals.
Common pest for anyone washing their car. There are chemicals that are useful. Mostly those smelling of eggs and turning purple on contact with iron.
You can buy versions of it that don’t smell like eggs, though they never smell good. That it turns purple is convenient when you spray it off, imho at least.
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That’s my engineer LOL
Didn’t he know that the surface is the most important part? Surface is everything!
Rust grows once it’s punctured down, everyone knows this, no? I guess they only test cars in Texas and California. Still like the trukk
What do you like about it?
I live rural and driving a big ol electric brick is my dream XD
Me too, better options than a stainless steel liability though.
I wouldn’t call polishing your car every three days “clean off easily”
And this is why you don’t buy stainless steel sinks and cars, unless you want to polish them regularly they will look like shit even just from water stains.
Edit: Stop telling me your sink doesn’t have rust on it. I’m not talking about rust. Most stainless steel will not rust. I’m talking about how stainless steel can become ugly from residual water marks, staines, water with high mineral content, etc Unless you take care of it, clean it and polish it regularly. Maybe ideal for a kitchen surface but not for a big ass ugly car.
Just wipe it down, then.
Stainless steel which has been sufficiently alloyed with Chromium won’t rust. The chromium reacts with oxygen at the surface and forms an inert layer preventing oxidation of the iron in the steel. Cybertruck’s stainless steel simply doesn’t have enough Chromium.
30 years of a stainless steel sink without any rust
Never seen any rust on my stainless steel sink
Never seen a rusty de lorian… just sayin’
It happens, and it’s a very sad sight indeed.
Edit: Yeah, that one is a fake. Sorry about that.
Doing an image search, there are a lot of real ones in various states of decay or oxidization. Certainly takes a lot more time (and straight up abandonment) for a DeLorean to show damage.
Using technology from the present to depict a past relic in a state it’ll be in the future
You just have to think fourth-dimensionally.
Obvious AI-generated image is obvious
Yeah but like outside of this AI image have you ever seen a rusty DeLorean?
Contaminated by what? CONTAMINATED BY WHAT MOTHERFUCKER
Most likely metal dust, called fallout by detailers and “flying rust” by some. Mostly comes off brake discs and railroads and other things that grind ferrous metals.
Common pest for anyone washing their car. There are chemicals that are useful. Mostly those smelling of eggs and turning purple on contact with iron.
You can buy versions of it that don’t smell like eggs, though they never smell good. That it turns purple is convenient when you spray it off, imho at least.