Elon Musk on Thursday revealed Tesla’s first—and, based on this design, let’s hope last—pickup truck.
The Cybertruck looks like a 1970s concept of the future, with its wedge-shaped design, stainless-steel skin, “unbreakable” glass, and companion ATV.
Standing 231.7 inches long, 79.8 inches wide, and 75 inches tall (at its pointiest), the vehicle falls in line with basically every other pickup on the market.
But size is where the similarities end.
At Tesla’s California design studio, in front of a rapt audience of journalists and fans, Musk showed off his latest creation, available in three variants:
Starting at $39,900, the single-motor model comes with rear-wheel drive, 250 miles of range, and a towing capacity of 7,500 pounds. For another $10,000 you can get a dual motor, all-wheel drive, 300-mile range, and 10,000-pound towing capacity.
The tri-motor AWD Cybertruck, meanwhile, tops out at nearly $70,000, promising a 500-mile range and 14,000-pound towing*—for all your RV-carrying needs. Oh, and it can travel from zero to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds.
Available now to pre-order for $100, production is scheduled to begin in “late 2021,” with the tri-motor option expected sometime after 2022.
This week’s launch was about as awkward as any of Elon Musk’s tub-thumpers.
But the event went from slightly uncomfortable to positively cringeworthy when the CEO invited lead designer Franz von Holzhausen to demonstrate the strength of Tesla’s “Armor Glass” by throwing a baseball-sized metal ball at the driver-side window.
“Oh my f***ing God,” Musk said, laughing. “Well, maybe that was a little too hard.”
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again—on the rear passenger window.
“It didn’t go through,” the entrepreneur, always looking on the bright side, said of the second failed attempt. “Room for improvement.”
“We threw wrenches, we threw everything,” he said on stage, as reported by TechCrunch. “We even literally threw a kitchen sink at the glass, and it didn’t break. For a little weird reason it broke now, I don’t know why.
“We’ll fix it in post,” Musk added, laughing—before moving on with his presentation.
* Apparently Tesla’s Cybertruck out-pulled a Ford F-150 in a tug of war.
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