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TRUCKLA: The world's first Tesla pickup truck

Name: TRUCKLA: The world's first Tesla pickup truck
Description: Simone Giertz presents Truckla, a homemade pickup truck conversion of a Tesla Model 3, shown in a short humorous promo.

Simone Giertz

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1 HN user recommended this comedy video1 month2021–2023 score 1

Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN mentions it as a favorite homemade EV pickup, often as an honorable mention in electric truck discussions.

Simone Giertz presents Truckla, a homemade pickup truck conversion of a Tesla Model 3, shown in a short humorous promo.

“There's an awesome Tesla pickup truck mod that I'd buy long before the Cybertruck” (HN, 2023)

1 recommendations · 2 citations · Comedy

3D printing, CNC & maker projects Cars, EVs & motorcycles Comedy Engineering, Transport & Making

3 Hacker News comments

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@daisystanton Aug 2023 Recommends

on HN thread The end of cool small cars

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]

Homemade Tesla pickup conversion.

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@bellyfullofbac Dec 2021 Cites it

on HN thread Homebuilt pickups: How underage teens skirt the law to drive in Sweden (2016)

Suddenly the Truckla (Tesla pickup) makes more sense: [this video] - the inventor is a Swede living in the US.

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@lsllc Nov 2023 Cites it

on HN thread Canoo's rugged new 'American Bulldog' electric pickup truck

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]

Homemade Tesla pickup, mentioned among EV trucks.

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