Tesla Cybertruck Revealed! Photos + Details on the Wild New Electric Pickup

[mfcorey1]

Some moments you never forget. Seeing my bride walk down the aisle toward me at our wedding. Driving my first car home. And now, in a somewhat distant but still significant third place: my initial glimpse of the new, industry-changing Tesla Cybertruck electric pickup in a clandestine September meeting at the automaker's Los Angeles design headquarters.

Few outsiders have ever been inside the top-secret Tesla Design Studio, which is nestled away next to the sprawling SpaceX factory, a Falcon 9 rocket, and a scale replica of Elon Musk's Hyperloop in a corner of the Hawthorne Airport. Elon and his right-hand man, chief designer Franz von Holzhausen, invited us to be the first journalists, and first outsiders, to see the automaker's most hotly anticipated debut since the Model 3: the Tesla pickup truck.

Leading up to the truck's public unveiling, MotorTrend went behind the scenes with the Tesla team, provided feedback, and watched the Cybertruck go from a life-size clay model to a (literally) bulletproof working prototype.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/autos-trucks/tesla-cybertruck-revealed-photos-plus-details-on-the-wild-new-electric-pickup/ar-BBX9kpo?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

[Dorian Gray]

1. It looks stupid...

Sorry. I know people love Tesla. But the truck looks freaking stupid.

[ExciteBike66]

2. I think that's how you do aero without curves...

ICE trucks tend to be shaped like bricks because they don't have to follow car-like MPG standards.

If Tesla had made it aero with curves, it would have ended up looking like a Mon Calamari cruiser...

[Dorian Gray]

3. I don't need a pickup

so this car is not marketed to me at all. I'm sure it will sell bc there is a huge Tesla fan club out there. And electric trucks are cool, in general.

[Ford_Prefect]

4. Meanwhile back in Bolivia...Regime Change.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Doesn't look like much of a truck...

why 4 doors?

[Codeine]

30. Much more convenient for families.

Besides, four-door trucks are pretty popular already.

[coti]

43. Yeah, I generally consider 4 doors a good thing.

Uhh...why four wheels, I guess?

[eShirl]

6. not a fan of the design

[sl8]

7. "Draped in 3mm-thick unpainted stainless steel" ?!

3mm is very, very thick (and heavy), nearly 1/8" thick.

3mm =~ 0.118 inches or approximately 11 gauge. A quick search indicates that modern cars use 22 to 24 gauge steel.


From https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-electric-pickup-bulletproof-stainless-steel-body/

Is the Tesla Cybertruck *Really* Bulletproof?
Would you like your daily driver to be an armored car?

The skin of the Tesla Cybertruck will be made of the same stainless steel that is used by sister-company SpaceX for its coming Starship spacecraft. That means 301 stainless steel, and, in the Cybertruck, 3 mm thickness. Tesla claims this makes it bulletproof to 9mm rounds, but does not mention any armor rating certification.

"If fully hardened, 3mm of 301 stainless is more than adequate to stop any 9mm Luger round I can think of, apart from exotic stuff like dedicated armor piercing bullets, which you're not going to find on gun store shelves," said Iain Harrison, editor-in-chief of Recoil as well as a competitive shooter and former British Army captain.

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[Historic NY]

16. How many brillo pads are needed to keep it clean.

Delorean's were so bad some people had them painted. You have to scour then in one direction.

[Mr. Sparkle]

8. It looks like it was designed in the 80's

The specs and price point are amazing but the looks are very polarizing. I have a feeling it will grow on me after they make a few alterations, before production.

[NightWatcher]

10. By a car designer on lots of cocaine.

The good news is if it hits 88mph it'll go back in time.

[lapfog_1]

12. I was just thinking that there is room in the truck bed

for the "Mr. Fusion" prototype

[Beartracks]

51. It reminds me of the personnel carrier from the Aliens movie...

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[Cartoonist]

9. Not one pic out of 40

Showed the payload or how it is accessed.

[woodsprite]

11. Where's do you haul stuff? Where's the 5th wheel hitch? nt

[MuseRider]

21. LOL my thought too.

I do not think this would easily pull my 35 foot horse trailer. How do you turn with one hitched anyway? One bad corner and ooops!

I think this is mainly made for those in towners that want a pick up because of something?

[Botany]

27. My thought too .... you need the level of the sides of the bed and the tail gate to be the same.

BTW good luck going into a material loading yard and getting some gravel or mulch or top
soil loaded with that overhang thing over the bed.

[MrsCoffee]

31. Looks interesting, but no details.

[coti]

39. Where's the 5th wheel hitch? It doesn't even have side mirrors at the moment.

And you haul stuff in the vault in the back.

[Codeine]

46. It has a bed for hauling.

And considering the vast majority of competing truck designs don’t include a fifth wheel that seems an unlikely issue for potential buyers.

[lapfog_1]

13. when I heard about it on the radio

range 400 miles, 4 person cab, under $50K, etc

I was sort of expecting a more standard looking 4 door pickup truck... with carbon fiber panels...

All this POS needs is gull wing doors to be a "back to the 1980s Delorian" mated to an El Camino.

good god I hope Elon didn't spend a lot of money tooling up to produce this... nobody is going to buy it.

[2naSalit]

14. Yeah, no.

[dalton99a]

15. The lifted 4x4 version will sell like hot cakes

Make it really bulletproof, and waterproof - with run-on-flat tires

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

17. Simone Giertz has already made a Tesla truck she dubbed "Truckla."

Suck it, Elon!

[EX500rider]

37. Much prettier too! nt

[mwooldri]

18. Looks like they hired the people who designed that weird Pontiac SUV...NT

[hedda_foil]

19. It's a ripoff of the Delorean design as a truck.

[Luciferous]

20. That is the ugliest vehicle I have ever seen.

[docgee]

22. Oh FFS! That first link is not what the truck looks like.

Have a look here:. https://electrek.co/2019/06/02/tesla-pickup-truck-price-f150-elon-musk/

[Rstrstx]

24. Actually it is

Electrek's image was from 06/02.


https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck

[docgee]

25. LMAO!

What happened to the normal looking truck they were showing?

[Polybius]

49. Normal doesn't stand out

This is freakishly different, and will likely sell like hotcakes.

[EX500rider]

38. Too bad too cause that one is pretty for pickup:

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[coti]

44. Yeah, but they're not going for pretty, they're going for tough as nails.

They're building an electric tank suitable for hauling and families.

[EX500rider]

45. Just looks to me like the designers only had access to a straight ruler to design it. nt

[Blue_true]

23. It looks hideous. nt

[Alliepoo]

26. Guess I'm the odd man out!

I like it!! If I could afford one I’d buy it. Showed the pics to my grandsons and they think it looks cool!!

[coti]

40. You're not the only one. This thing is badass.

The others are just haters, and for the most part they don't even know the specs of the truck or what it can do.

[Codeine]

47. I like it as well, but I enjoy weird, bold

design choices and unusual-looking vehicles.

[Baclava]

28. Bwahahaha 'Tesla truck's 'unbreakable' windows shatter during demonstration'

[NurseJackie]

29. Looks like it will tow our RV camper-trailer, HOWEVER...

Looks like it will tow our RV camper-trailer, HOWEVER... I can't imagine how I'd manage to tow anything without ANY side-view mirrors to make sure I've got proper clearance when changing lanes, or when backing into a camping spot.

[MrsCoffee]

32. In a Tesla you can see 360 degrees around your car on the console.

[NurseJackie]

34. It would REALLY take some effort to "re-train" myself to look at the console...

It would REALLY take some effort to "re-train" myself to look at the console instead of side-view mirrors. I can see how that would be technically possible with hidden cameras mounted in strategic places on the body of a car... but when pulling a 20' camper, I imagine that there must be a detachable "remote" camera that one must affix to the rear of the camper (in order to see what's going on behind when backing up.)

[Codeine]

48. Yep. My wife's Mazda has a really shitty

view out the back window, but she uses the backup camera screen without issue. I hate driving the goddamned thing because convincing/training myself to use the display on the dash is impossible. #oldmanyellsatcloud

[flamingdem]

33. Trucks and SUVs are the number one

source of air pollution so kudos to Tesla and Musk!!!

Let's hope it catches on with the Ford F-150 set

[ffr]

35. +1

Tesla Cybertruck reservations hit 146,000 - Techcrunch

[EX500rider]

41. Actually I think emissions from industrial plants and manufacturing activities are #1..

https://www.eartheclipse.com/pollution/primary-causes-of-air-pollution.html

[ffr]

36. How the pre-orders are coming in

146,000 Cybertruck orders have been made so far. Of those, 41% picked the most expensive tri-motor option and 42% of future customers chose the dual motor version. The remaining 17% picked the cheapest single-motor model.

It would appear that most want the most expensive versions, 83%.

[coti]

42. Because of the extra range, and power too. nt

[Polybius]

50. Looks like a 1997 polygon game

Nintendo 64 anyone?