TRUCKLA: The world's first Tesla pickup truck on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2021–2023.
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Simone Giertz presents Truckla, a homemade pickup truck conversion of a Tesla Model 3, shown in a short humorous promo.
HN mentions it as a favorite homemade EV pickup, often as an honorable mention in electric truck discussions.
“There's an awesome Tesla pickup truck mod that I'd buy long before the Cybertruck”
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Ughhhhh -- yes, I constantly dream of a pickup truck on a car-size chassis, and often mentally hack off the back of cars on my jogs to imagine what they'd look like as trucks (my version of imagining girls naked ;-)) * The Auzzies had an old version of this: [link] * There's an awesome Tesla pickup truck mod that I'd buy long before the Cybertruck: ▶ this video
in “The end of cool small cars” · View on HN
No, but it's nice to see more entrants to the EV truck space. So now we have: * Ford F-150 Lightning * Tesla Cybertruck * Rivian R1T * Canoo American Bulldog Of course honorable mention to Simone Giertz's Truckla: ▶ this video
in “Canoo's rugged new 'American Bulldog' electric pickup truck” · View on HN
Suddenly the Truckla (Tesla pickup) makes more sense: ▶ this video - the inventor is a Swede living in the US.
in “Homebuilt pickups: How underage teens skirt the law to drive in Sweden (2016)” · View on HN