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TRUCKLA: The world's first Tesla pickup truck

7.9M views · Jun 18, 2019 · 1:46 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2021–2023

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

Why Hacker News points people here: 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”HN comment, 2023

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RecommendsdaisystantonAug 2023

“There's an awesome Tesla pickup truck mod that I'd buy long before the Cybertruck”

Homemade Tesla pickup conversion.

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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

Cites itbellyfullofbacDec 2021

“Suddenly the Truckla (Tesla pickup) makes more sense”

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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
Cites itlsllcNov 2023

“honorable mention to Simone Giertz's Truckla”

Homemade Tesla pickup, mentioned among EV trucks.

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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