Tesla Cybertruck looks weirder than ever in new off-road footage

Tesla Cybertruck looks weirder than e'er in new off-road footage

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At that place's something pretty mysterious nigh the Tesla Cybertruck, and we're non talking near the truck's admittedly bonkers pattern. For all of Tesla'due south work in hyping up the EV, we haven't really seen the Cybertruck in activity. Until at present.

A video posted by Harsimran Bansal over on Twitter shows what appears to be an official Tesla promo of the Cybertruck. Evidently, Bansal saw information technology in a Tesla exhibit, even though it's yet to be shared on the automaker'southward social media channels.

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Honestly? The Cybertruck looks even weirder when it's out on the roads. Which is proverb something, considering how strange it looked on stage next to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Hither you become, head on Cybertruck footage! pic.twitter.com/fQfGe0FWolOctober twenty, 2021

It's been obvious from the get become that the Cybertruck is a really bizarre-looking vehicle. Like something out of a PS1-era Cyberpunk game, later on being filtered through a fever dream. It's the angles and the distinct lack of detail that does it for me, peculiarly with the apartment gradient at the back of the truck.

The complete void at the front end is besides a little unnerving, particularly the fact there'south a thin bar of light across the entire hood instead of headlights. Elon Musk is not wrong when he says the Cybertruck is dissimilar annihilation else on the road.

Musk has even admitted that the Cybertruck's blueprint may not work in its favor for that very reason. It has very little in mutual with all the electric cars out in that location, and the swarm of electric trucks that are on the way. But that is why Musk loves the thing so much, as well claiming that the Cybertruck "looks similar it was fabricated by aliens from the future".

I certainly wouldn't go that far, but there is a reason why the Cybertruck looks the manner it does. The truck seems to accept been designed every bit a hybrid pick, a fully-capable truck with all the performance of a sports car. Information technology's outer beat out has besides been designed to exist "near impenetrable" to keep the occupants prophylactic from the outside world.

Elon Musk even showed off this final fact when he unveiled the Cybertruck, though things went famously awry with the "Tesla armor glass" in the windows. For those that still haven't seen the clip, while the Cybertruck's steel exoskeleton could withstand blows from a sledgehammer and 9mm pistol rounds, the glass did crack after blows from a metal ball.

Weirdness bated, the Cybertruck is also set to come with a lot of great features. There'due south Autopilot with "Full Cocky Driving," a large flat bed that can be used for various add-ons, a luxury interior, and over 500 miles of range on the more than expensive tri-motor model. That same model volition also supposedly offer a 0-60 time of less than two.9 seconds.

The Cybertruck was originally due to get in towards the end of this twelvemonth, but was delayed until onetime tardily next year. According to Musk, the filibuster is down to the fact Tesla can't produce enough 4680 battery cells for the machine, and to rush production now would crusade the truck to toll manner too much. "Literally" one million dollars, according to Musk.

Sadly, this EV won't get into book production until 2023, which means in that location'south still quite a ways before you might be able to go out and buy a Cybertruck for yourself. Assuming you want a auto that stands out this much.

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