The Tesla Cybertruck was launched to much fanfare and after several delays over a year ago.
It’s been loved, loathed, bought, sold, flipped and bought again.
The truck has been around for a year and a half at this point, so we can draw some conclusions.
Some of it looks good, while some of it looks not so great.
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Elon Musk teased a new Tesla EV truck on more than occasion through the early and mid-2010s, but he gave us nothing but words and we had to wait until the end of the decade, in 2019, to see what the truck would actually looks like.
Whatever else we had imagined, we were clearly all wrong but the Cybertruck looked like nothing else in the world when it debuted in late 2023.
This was the first controversy, because some loved it, some hated it, and a lot of people really loved to say they hated it.
Tesla Cybertruck interior
The interior is comparatively normal.
It certainly stands out a lot less than the exterior.
You get vegan leather seats, a minimalistic dashboard with a rectangular steering wheel (a yoke is available on request) and the usual massive screen in the middle.
Interestingly, what you do not get are truck steps to get in, which you would probably need because the truck is quite tall and the cabin is high off the ground.
For once, the expression ‘to climb into the car’ can be used literally.
The unique exterior of the Cybertruck
Elon Muk said the Cybertruck was primarily inspired by Blade Runner and the Lotus Esprit driven by James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me, a vehicle that Musk actually used to own.
More importantly, Musk said he wanted the Cybertruck to look odd and futuristic because he believes “the future should look like the future”.
The only thing that’s certain is no one ever designed anything like that.
Apart from the shape, there are technical elements worth pointing out as well.
For starters, most trucks look different with or without a tonneau cover, whereas you don’t even notice in the Tesla Cybertruck.
The second and perhaps most important component of the truck’s design is the fact the truck is bulletproof.
This is because Tesla built an exoskeleton that integrates both the body and the frame.
The body is made from stainless steel and left unpainted, which is something else no other manufacturer ha tried before for a production vehicle.
Performance, tech and driver experience
Tesla wanted to make Cybertruck apt off road, but they also wanted to make it fast.
A point the company prove by having the truck beat a Porsche 911 in a drag race… while towing a 911.
The test was later ‘half’ debunked, because it turned out Tesla apparently didn’t use the full quarter-mile strip, just a smaller section of it, but that doesn’t really change much.
This is because the Tesla Cybertruck is extremely fast off the line.
It is also (finally) equipped with Tesla FSD, Full Self-Driving.
Tesla took a while to upgrade the truck to fit it with FSD but it was worth the wait.
Cybertruck is also reasonably priced, and once again some might say ‘finally’.
For a very long time, the only new Cybertruck you could buy was the range-topping $100,000 version.
And because demand outweighed supply, most people resorted to the secondary market.
Now the market has cooled down a bit, and a brand-new Cybertruck starts with an MSRP of just over $70,000.
Although, to be fair, that’s still twice as much as originally promised by Elon Musk.
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