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Is the Tesla CyberTruck Worth it?! - A Truck Owners Thoughts - YouTube
Channel: JerryRigEverything
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so trucks are some of the most useful
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vehicles on the planet they can carry
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just as many people as a car can but
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they can carry more cargo than a car can
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and toll more weight than a car can
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personally I've been a truck guy for the
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last 10 years I'm driving a 2018 Toyota
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Tacoma but today that might all change
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I'm here at Tesla HQ in California
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because Tesla has an event announcing a
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new truck Betty Long's calling a cyber
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truck and if the rumors are true it
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could very well blast everything else
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out of the water and I'm pretty excited
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I think it's time to see what this truck
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is all about let's get started so there
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are two unarguable truths one truck guys
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really like their trucks and two a lot
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of people including truck guys still
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think electric cars are glorified golf
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carts so in order to win over the hearts
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of the millions of fossil fuel powered
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truck owners Tesla needs to come out
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swinging hard with this new cyber truck
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Elon Musk the CEO of Tesla came out on
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stage and explained that trucks have
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looked the same for the past 100 years
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nothing has really changed and is true
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just like the horse and buggy plateaued
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until the gas powered vehicles came
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along the gas powered vehicles have
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plateaued as well for a while which
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makes it a perfect time for a new era of
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vehicles enter the cyber truck
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definitely something nobody has ever
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seen before
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Elon said this would look like an
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armored truck from the future and he's
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deaf
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the old-school retro vibe threw me off
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for a second but the simple minimal
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stainless steel design quickly won me
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over as someone who likes to build
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things in my garage I'm kind of glad it
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looks like it was built in someone's
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garage
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the reflective stainless steel panels
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aren't painted I'm sure they could be at
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some point in the future but I'm all for
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that bare metal design I'm sure the
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whole look of this truck is pretty
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polarizing though so let me know what
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you think of this truck aesthetic down
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in the comments and don't hold back
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Elon went on to explain that the truck
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is designed with an exoskeleton design
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instead of a body-on-frame design like a
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normal truck which is pretty interesting
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made from cold rolled stainless steel
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the metal used on the cyber truck is the
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same alloy used in a starship rocket
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there was a pretty brutal on stage
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durability test of the truck which I
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thoroughly enjoyed listen to the sound
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that both doors make when Franz the lead
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designer hits it with a sledgehammer
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they even went as far to say that the
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sturdy cold rolled stainless steel
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panels could stop bullets which is
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interesting now normally cars would come
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with some kind of crumple zone in the
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front for pedestrian safety and I'm not
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sure if these panels provide that but
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I'm sure we'll learn more down the road
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Elon is calling the glass windows a
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transparent metal which I would love to
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learn more about durability testing of
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the transparent metal didn't go too well
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because a glass is glass and glass
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breaks
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I did talk to an employee after the
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presentation who said that they were
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throwing things at the glass quite a few
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times before the actual event started so
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this window might have gotten itself
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compromised you know how your cell phone
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might break after dropping only a foot
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as because some tiny fracture or
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imperfection probably existed before
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your tiny drop
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the truck has its own automatic adaptive
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air suspension that can raise for
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off-roading or lower for freeway stuff
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it has a 16 inch ground clearance the
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highest of any production truck on the
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market for reference my own dick oma has
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a nine and a half inch stock clearance
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height I even added an aftermarket lift
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to get me to 13 inches so 16 inches of
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ground clearance is pretty impressive
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straight off the assembly line
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trucks are meant to be tools though and
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specs are important and once again the
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cyber truck beats my tacoma by almost
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double it has a 14,000 pound towing
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capacity while my Tacoma has 6,800 and
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again the electric cyber truck doubles
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my acceleration with a 2.90 260
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while my Tacoma has a 6.8 seconds 0 to
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60 it's got the speed of a sports car
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and the body of a tank of course it's
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all electric and this truck bed has
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charging outlets to run power tools act
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as a generator or even charge up other
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electric vehicles like the new electric
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four-wheeler or other Tesla's or
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electric cars Elon hinted as well that
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the pneumatic air powered suspension
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could even be tapped into for air tools
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there are three versions of this truck
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I've been comparing my Tacoma to the
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most maxed out most expensive version
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which cost 69 thousand dollars and comes
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out in 2022 but there is a cheaper
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version which cost 39 thousand dollars
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and has basically the same exact specs
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range and acceleration as my Tacoma does
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right now and it comes out in 2021 the
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price is competitive with current truck
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pricing keep in mind though that
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electric cars are cheaper to own for the
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long term electricity is cheaper than
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gas or diesel and combine that with no
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oil changes no emission and the cost of
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operations is just lower in general over
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the life of the truck the price just
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gets better and better
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the maxed out 69 thousand dollar cyber
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truck has a range of 500 miles which is
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the most of any electric vehicle
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currently announced on the market right
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now I did get to ride inside of this
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contraption the truck is pretty
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minimalist which I'm a fan of remember
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before I bought my new 2018 Tacoma I was
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driving around a 20-year old 1998 Tacoma
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it got the job done to me the usefulness
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of the truck is more important than the
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appearance of the truck a truck is a
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tool the cyber truck has a slightly
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larger footprint than my Toyota Tacoma
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combined that with these 16 inches of
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ground clearance
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and you could definitely feel the
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difference there is a drop-down platform
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cupholder thing between the two front
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seats this can also be raised up to turn
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the front row into a bench seat to fit
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six people it also has a large screen in
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the center comparable to the current
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Tesla Model 3 the reflective stainless
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steel panels on the sides are pretty
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iconic the truck really looks like
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nothing else on the street right now and
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no other truck in existence we are
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ushering in a new era of Technology the
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Model T was the first gas powered truck
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100 years ago and fossil fuel vehicles
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have come a long way before
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plateaued now this cyber truck is
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starting a new era of electric trucks
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and will be fun to watch and see where
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electric vehicles end up see the bed of
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the truck back here with the LED light
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board light bars lit inside and there's
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an LED light bar up top as well that
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doesn't reflect off the the bonnet of
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the vehicle which is super nice
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we are literally and figuratively
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blazing a trail to go find a new peak I
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have pre-ordered this cyber truck it's
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100 bucks to hold your spot in line and
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fully refundable so I figured I'd get a
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head start before I have to officially
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make up my mind in 2020 to that 500
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miles of electric range is appealing
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driving around it did feel more like a
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prototype than a real truck right now
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and that's probably because the release
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date is still pretty far in the future
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and a lot can happen between now and
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2020 - Vivian has a truck supposedly
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coming out next year in 2020 and Ford
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and GM have tentatively teased electric
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trucks as well
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remember the smartest thing you can do
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with your money and for the environment
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is to drive the vehicle you currently
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own until it dies fix it and keep going
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but if it is time for you to get a new
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rig electric just might be the future a
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new age is coming and I think it looks
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pretty good feel free to tag me in the
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Twitter and Instagram memes and I think
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they're pretty funny and let me know
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what you think of the truck down in the
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comments thanks ton for watching and
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I'll see you around
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