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Driving Tesla Cybertruck: Everything You Need to Know!
Marques Brownlee
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May 9, 2026
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- All right, so the Tesla Cybertruck
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has been kind of an enigma.
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It was revealed four years
ago, almost to the day,
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and ever since then it was kind of quiet.
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But then we slowly started
seeing them rolling
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around like California a little bit
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and then a couple in Texas.
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And these were like prototype Cybertrucks,
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and they were testing.
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Turns out one of them was me.
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Well, for a day anyway.
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So what we have here is a
near final Tesla Cybertruck.
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It's not an actual delivery truck yet.
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It's still one that they've been testing.
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So there's some small, small prototyping
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things here or there,
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but everything that I'm about to show you
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is what's going to show up in
the customer's delivery trucks
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starting basically right now.
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So I've learned a lot about this truck
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in my time testing it.
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There are some surprising things about it,
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some features that are really cool,
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things that I think truck
people are really gonna like,
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but also some concerns that
I have, some surprises.
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Buckle up is gonna be a mega video.
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There's a lot to it.
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Let's take a look at the
final Tesla Cybertruck.
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(upbeat music)
1:15
(wipers squeaking)
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All right, first things
first, let's get to the specs.
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Everyone wants to know
the official numbers.
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Everything on paper.
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And it's funny because we'll
get to this in a second,
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but some things have actually changed
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from the show truck
that showed up on stage,
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including the overall dimensions.
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I'll get to that.
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But the stuff that you probably care about
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is the basics like price,
range, speed, right?
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So there are gonna be three configurations
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of the Cybertruck.
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This one that we're looking at here,
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which you can't tell by looking at it,
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but this is the triple motor version.
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It's not quite the same
as the Plaid powertrain,
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but it is two in the
rear, one in the front
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and it's gonna be able to
do zero to 60 in 2.7 seconds
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and 11 second quarter mile.
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It's got about 845 horsepower.
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It has torque vectoring at the rear
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and it's absurd.
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They call it the beast.
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It's a pretty ridiculous set of specs.
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I think that makes it
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the fastest production
pickup truck factory ever.
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But there's also going to
be a dual motor version
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that they also start to ship early
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and eventually also a single
motor real wheel drive version.
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The triple motor is gonna start
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at about a hundred thousand dollars.
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So this is new information.
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We kind of had a much lower idea
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of what the price is gonna be at launch.
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This is a hundred thousand
dollars truck you're looking at,
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expect somewhere around 75, 85,000
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for the dual motor version.
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And then the single motor
will be further down the road.
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But the dual motor is
still 600 plus horsepower
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and still plenty fast.
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But that's the general basics.
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And as far as range,
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we'll get to the wheels in a second,
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but it's about a 340 mile max range
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from the absolute most
efficient version of this truck.
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Now a couple other last numbers.
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Things that I think some
truck people will appreciate.
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First of all, towing
capacity and bed capacity.
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Those are some things
that Tesla's told me.
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I'm gonna put the numbers up here.
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I think it's 2,500 pounds for
the bed, which is pretty cool.
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And we also measured the truck,
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because officially it's about 5% smaller
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in every dimension from
the original show truck,
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the prototype that people
have been seeing on stage.
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So I measure it from front to back
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and it's about from bumper
to bumper, 224 inches.
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We happen to have an F-150 Lightning here
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that we've been directly
comparing it to right over there.
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We've got some onboard power
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and all sorts of fun features here.
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And so I'll mention when things like
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that also appear on this truck,
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but it's about the size
of an F-150 Lightning
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A little bit smaller.
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Now speaking of the 5%
shrinking dimension wise,
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there are a lot of things that
have changed about this truck
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versus the original show car.
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From front to back there's a lot.
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There's a motorized front trunk,
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there's so much to talk
about in this video.
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There is the world's
largest windshield wiper,
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which I'm sure you're curious about.
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So we'll talk about that.
4:02
It does actually have side view mirrors.
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They're removable and they've kind of done
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all that they possibly can to
make it able to be removed.
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Like you can take this off,
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it has to ship with this
from the factory legally.
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But there is a blind
spot monitoring lights
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inside the truck.
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There are cameras here
on the side of the truck
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to show you that spot when
you put your blinker on.
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So you can just pop this
off if you really wanted to.
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And then also down at the
side here, these wheels,
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this is an arrow cap that is removable.
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So let's just do that to start.
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This is the premium tire
that's going to come
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on a 20 inch rim.
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All of the initial trucks,
triple motor, dual motor,
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they'll all have this tire on.
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It looks like it's a
bespoke Goodyear tire.
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It's got some neat little aesthetic tweaks
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and I'm sure compound
tweaks and tread stuff here.
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But this is a plastic arrow cap
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with like this outside rubber.
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It's actually a two piece
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and it'll get you a couple
percent more range on the truck,
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but if you don't like the look of it
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or if you're off-roading, pop that off.
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And that's how the truck's
stock wheel will look.
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A lot of grease and metal in there.
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But this is a two part thing like I said.
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So if I can rip this off,
these are the two pieces
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and the reason is two parts
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is because actually
one of these to line up
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with the little rectangles on the tire.
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So maybe you want to
take the arrow caps off
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to air down the tires and go off-roading
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and you want maximum brake
cooling, whatever you're doing.
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But if you wanna put these back on,
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you sort of line all this up
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(cap clanging)
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and then you take the plastic bit,
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(cap clanging)
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now you're back.
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Get a shot of this, get a shot of my,
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so I'm gonna probably not do that again
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considering everything
it just left on my hands.
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But you get the idea, you can
do that on all four tires,
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20 inch rims.
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These again are the premium tires
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and yeah, okay, great, moving on.
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So okay, you kind of can't
really tell the story
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of the Cybertruck without
addressing the fact
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that it is a giant
stainless steel triangle.
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I mean it looks surreal.
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Like there is not really a single curve
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on this entire truck.
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Every single piece,
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these are giant pieces of stainless steel.
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There's all sorts of sheen
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and fingerprint implications
that we'll talk about,
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but I don't know it's an aesthetic thing,
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like not a whole lot of curves.
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Fine, that's pretty cool.
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But then the other version
of that conversation
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is like look at how
sharp the front of the,
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some of these pieces
here, how sharp it is.
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Not that you're gonna like walk up
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and poke the front of
someone's truck very often,
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but that's a sharp corner piece
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of stainless steel right
there and right there.
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And then this front piece here,
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it's this one huge big stamped piece
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and I had a couple
conversations with people,
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engineers at Tesla about
using stainless steel
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on the body panels like this.
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And they have these huge presses
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that are stamping the stainless steel,
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but steel has this sort
of a spring back effect.
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So you use a lot of force
to stamp it in place,
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but then it springs back really quickly.
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So you have to stamp further than you need
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to get it to unspring back to the part
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that you want it to be at.
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It's a whole complicated thing.
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All of that is to say,
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I've seen a bunch of
Cybertrucks while I've been here
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and they all have
slightly different levels
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of panel gaps, build quality in general.
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This truck in particular
that we're looking at,
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it actually looks great.
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I'm not gonna say it's
micron levels of precision
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or anything like that,
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but generally panel
gaps all the way around
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are pretty small, pretty
even, looks really good.
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But I don't know, I don't
know if I can promise that
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for every truck, like even
just this huge front piece here
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has a little bit of like wavering.
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It's not quite a perfect flat line.
8:04
So I'm not an expert on it,
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but I'm just saying this is a truck,
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you're probably not gonna
care too much about looking
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exactly perfect panel gap wise.
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All right, the next
thing we gotta talk about
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is the Cybertrucks trunk,
AKA, the truck bed.
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There's a lot going on here, actually.
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Look at this gigantic slope.
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It kind of, it looks
like a dump truck to me.
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But one thing you should
know is first of all,
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a dampened opening for the tailgate,
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but it's not a power opening tailgate.
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So you will have to
manually close the thing,
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but it is a nice soft damp.
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And then the other side is
the powered tonneau cover.
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Oh wait, I should do the thing.
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They told me it could
support up to 300 pounds.
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So...
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They told me I could
do it, so here we are.
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I'm not gonna jump, but I'm
told 300 pounds of force
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from somebody standing on one foot.
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So I think if I jumped I could
probably break the thing.
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But the fact that I'm standing on it
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and it's not breaking, that's pretty good.
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And it's a motorized tonneau cover,
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which means...
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Pretty smooth, I gotta say.
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Now once you're here,
there's a bunch of stuff
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I gotta talk about with this trunk.
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First things first, you
probably notice it slid down
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and revealed a rear window,
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which means number one,
yes, there's a rear window.
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It doesn't go up and down,
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but at least you have that glass there.
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And two, yes, that means
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that when you close the tonneau cover
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you are completely blocking
your rear visibility.
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We'll get to that later.
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So the other thing you probably noticed
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is when we first saw the Cybertruck,
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I did a video about this
on the auto-focus channel.
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The bed was just like
bare stainless steel.
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It looked kind of sick, it looked crazy,
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but you'll notice now it is fully lined.
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Tesla said they took it out
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and talked to some
construction people about it
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and were like, "All right, what
do you think of this truck?
10:02
"What do you think of the bed?"
10:03
And they were like, "This is awesome.
10:04
"But the first thing I
would do is spray line this
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"so I could not damage it."
10:07
So they just figured they
would line it themselves.
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Nice thick lining here.
10:12
The bed size, the official
length of the bed for the F-150,
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the lightning got over there
was 66 inches on paper.
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Now when I line this up here,
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I get all the way to 72 inches.
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So it's a solid six foot bed,
10:29
but there's a little bit
of overhang over here.
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So if I subtract a little
bit to account for that,
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it's about the same 66 inches.
10:35
And there's a little bit of a sub trunk,
10:38
which is pretty cool to see.
10:40
So a lot of EVs now have
sort of a sub trunk area.
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This one no different.
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You can definitely fit
duffel bag in there,
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probably a full carry-on bag
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and there is a drain plug,
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so if you wanna make a cooler out of it
10:54
and tailgate it's a pretty
good vehicle to do that.
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There's also some bed lighting you can see
10:59
on the left and right.
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There's lots of lights
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and there's also this
sort of a latch system.
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So all sorts of latch points
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where you can tie things down with cables.
11:10
What you're probably noticing though is
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there's no spare tire, no spare wheel.
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If you do want one, you
can buy one separately
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and tie it up in the trunk but
you don't get one by default.
11:22
And then the other thing is
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there's power in the trunk.
11:26
So two 120 volts here and one 240 volt.
11:31
If you want to charge a vehicle
with a nine kilowatts out,
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you can use literally the thing
11:37
you'd plug into a dryer outlet.
11:39
You can plug that in here,
11:40
plug it into a vehicle
11:41
and give battery to another EV.
11:43
So just in general, I'm glad
that more EVs are doing this,
11:45
having the ability to power other things
11:47
and actually charge.
11:48
You could actually theoretically
power your house with this
11:51
if you have the right inverter,
11:53
but 11 kilowatts out of the charge port,
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9.6 kilowatts out of the 240 volt onboard.
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All great stuff to have.
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I should also mention small detail,
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bottle cap opener over there
12:06
and then some more mounting points
12:07
for cables and things like that.
12:09
That's the truck bed of the Cybertruck.
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There's some lights that
we'll talk about in a second,
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but let's close the tonneau cover.
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Oh, something I just noticed.
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If you press the button,
12:25
it does the whole thing
or if you hold the button,
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it goes until you let go.
12:30
That's a lie.
12:33
It was doing that up until that point.
12:36
See wait, okay, this is weird.
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It didn't do it that time,
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but it seems like if I hold it down,
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whenever I let go, it stops,
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and if I just press
it, it goes all the way
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until I cancel it,
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which it doesn't wanna cancel over there.
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Okay, I'm learning in real time.
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Close the whole thing.
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Tell me when to cancel.
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I knew it.
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Alright, we gotta talk about these doors,
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'cause there's actually a lot to it.
13:05
So first of all, a lot
of times on a concept car
13:06
or a prototype, you'll see
there's no door handles
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and you're like, oh, that's cute.
13:10
But when you ship the thing,
13:12
you're gonna have door handles eventually.
13:14
No door handles on the cyber truck
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and they're sticking to it.
13:17
I have my concerns about this.
13:18
So basically how this works
is there's a little button
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right here that's indented.
13:23
You press that button
and when it's unlocked
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it sort of pushes it out maybe two inches.
13:28
Then you grab in here
13:30
and open the whole door
and then you close it.
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(door slamming)
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The auto presented windows,
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they all close themselves up here,
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they're frameless windows.
13:38
That's cool.
13:39
It works.
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Same thing actually back here.
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Smaller button.
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You press it, it opens it and it works.
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And this is actually
a full 90 degree door.
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I love that there's like
stainless steel in here.
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It's very clearly all metal.
13:52
(door slamming)
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It's got a nice thunk to it too.
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But what I've noticed,
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and this is something you'd
already be thinking of
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if you live in the northeast or something,
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is if it's cold, or if it's raining
14:02
or if it's frozen,
14:03
if there's like an inch of ice over here,
14:05
is this gonna work?
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Tesla's telling me, and this is a,
14:08
this is a California company
that tells me these things,
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but they're telling me
up to an inch of ice.
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If you can break through that ice
14:14
and press this button,
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it'll push with enough force
14:17
to open it and break the ice off.
14:20
I hope that's true.
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That's debatable, we'll see.
14:23
But the other thing about that
is I think a lot of people
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are going to open it down
here on the stainless steel
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(door slamming)
14:30
and you can see the
fingerprints go so hard
14:34
when you open it like that.
14:35
And because there's no door handles,
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there's not really a good way
14:38
of telling someone how to get in.
14:39
So a lot of people are just
gonna grab it right there
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and fingerprint, look at,
there's just tons of fingerprints
14:45
on the side here.
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So I don't know, there's
gonna be a lot of Cybertrucks
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floating around with lots of fingerprints
14:50
around the place that people's
hands go to open the doors.
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All right, front of the truck here.
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Couple things that are of note.
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First of all, if we go down low,
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this plastic bumper pretty solid,
15:01
but also there's two tow
hitch rigs on the front,
15:05
which is awesome.
15:06
There is a front camera for
the first time ever in a Tesla,
15:10
believe it or not.
15:11
It's useful on a truck like this
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where you can't actually
see over the front.
15:15
Then you have this huge
daytime running light,
15:17
but also the headlights,
the actual headlights
15:19
are just these slots down here.
15:20
I'll show some night, you'll
see some night driving footage.
15:23
So you'll see what the
headlights look like.
15:24
But then the thing
everybody's been asking about
15:26
and I've seen mostly on Twitter
15:27
is there actually a front trunk in here?
15:29
If so, how big is it?
15:31
Yes, there's a front trunk
15:32
and it's automatically opening
15:34
so you just reach in and push the button
15:35
in like that and it's a
pretty shallow front trunk,
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I gotta say.
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This is also the part
where I feel compelled
15:44
to mention that I haven't
seen a single Tesla logo yet
15:47
on this entire truck.
15:48
It's mostly branded with Cybertruck
15:51
in this kind of a welded
text, which is kind of cool,
15:56
but it's a pretty shallow front trunk.
15:57
I mean I can sit in here
15:58
and you're probably seeing
much too shaded right now,
16:02
so it's kind of tough to
understand how big it is,
16:03
but it's only maybe the size of two
16:07
of these Ridge suitcases.
16:10
So I'm gonna put two Ridge carry-ons
16:12
in the front of this thing,
16:15
see if I can actually fit both.
16:18
'Cause this is basically the exact size
16:20
you'd want for like an airplane overhead.
16:22
If you actually had to travel
16:23
with stuff in the front
trunk, could you fit it?
16:29
(alarm beeping quietly)
16:30
Not quite, it's really close.
16:32
I think maybe you might
have to do some Jenga
16:36
(suitcases shuffling)
to turn them down.
16:41
As long as they're behind this seal
16:43
I think I'm good.
16:45
Take two.
(trunk clicking)
16:48
Okay, so that's basically your exact limit
16:51
is two Ridge carry-ons.
16:53
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16:56
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Alright, so now let's get to the interior
17:39
(door banging)
of the Cybertruck.
17:41
And once again, there's a lot going on,
17:44
but I think probably the
first thing you notice
17:47
is the only curve in the entire interior
17:50
is this steering wheel.
17:52
And yes, it's a wheel, it's not a yolk.
17:54
I'm pretty sure when they
first showed the car,
17:56
one of the big things they showed was
17:57
it had a yolk and it had
this crazy like marble shelf
18:02
at the front.
18:03
Now it's looking a lot
more normal car-like,
18:07
but there are still a lot to go over.
18:08
So first of all, this glass,
18:11
this glass canopy from the
nose of the car basically
18:15
all the way back to
right in front of my head
18:18
is the single largest piece of glass
18:20
in the entire automotive industry.
18:23
Like if you tried to order
a piece of glass this big
18:25
for a house would be a big piece of glass.
18:27
But this is the biggest
windshield we've ever seen.
18:30
And it kind of is this
nice dramatic canopy
18:33
when you're just like looking around
18:34
and visibility in the truck is very good.
18:37
You also have these
little removable sunshades
18:43
that are actually pretty big
18:44
and there's this nice, look
at this magnetic connector
18:47
(connector clicking)
up top to get that in place.
18:49
So that's cool and everything.
18:50
But aside from that, no other curves.
18:53
Lots of straight angles and
triangles and things like that.
18:57
A good amount of door storage.
18:58
So I think you could fit probably
19:00
two water bottles in there.
19:02
There's some tray storage up here.
19:05
Then you get up to here
19:06
and there's all four window controls,
19:08
the door latch to electronically open it,
19:10
but also the emergency door latch open.
19:12
So if you lose power every door
19:14
that's electronically latched
19:15
has to have that manual opening as well.
19:17
And then in the middle
19:18
you've got just kind of
a bunch of open space.
19:21
I kind of like the pedals down there.
19:22
I think they're metal.
19:23
But then you have just
this big open tray space,
19:26
which I believe the Rivian also has.
19:28
And then in front two wireless chargers,
19:31
two cup holders, a big
old armrest in the middle
19:35
and a bunch of storage in here,
19:36
including another 120 volt outlet
19:38
and a single 65 watt USBC charging port.
19:43
And then you're sort of in the cabin
19:46
and this is where I
think you kind of return
19:50
to the normal Tesla look,
19:51
which is very minimal.
19:53
I do like this material better
19:56
than what they had before,
19:57
though it's not the
best build in the world.
20:01
Tesla's been improving
with their build quality,
20:03
but it is what it is.
20:05
But you can literally,
20:06
you can like lose
something in front of you.
20:08
Like if I put like a, like
a marble or a pizza box
20:12
or something it, it could slide forward.
20:13
Of course I could
accelerate and get it back,
20:15
but there's just a ton of room.
20:17
And then I'm thinking about visibility
20:19
over the nose of the car.
20:21
Man, it's not great.
20:24
I feel like the more I drive this car,
20:25
the more I get accustomed
to the size of it.
20:27
But I really don't feel like
20:29
I'm looking right down over the nose.
20:31
I'm looking out at the
end of the windshield
20:34
and then sort of guessing
where the nose is.
20:36
So, okay, a couple of the smaller things.
20:37
First of all, this light up here,
20:40
touch sensitive, I think
that's pretty cool.
20:42
There's ambient lights all
the way around the cabin
20:43
and you can change the color
of that with RGB with software.
20:46
I'll get to the software in a second.
20:48
There's also an interior
facing cabin camera
20:50
and there would normally be,
20:51
this is one of the prototyping things,
20:53
but there would normally be a
regular rear view camera here.
20:56
Now as I mentioned, you
don't actually get to see
21:00
out the back from the
mirror if your tonneau cover
21:02
is closed, but there
also is no camera option
21:07
for that rear view mirror to
turn into a feed from a camera
21:10
instead that will always be on the screen.
21:14
And I think I've found that
that's, it's actually fine.
21:16
You just sort of train yourself
21:17
to glance at the top of the screen
21:19
instead of at where
the mirror normally is.
21:21
But that's something to note.
21:23
And one more thing, what was I gonna say?
21:25
Oh yeah, huge tinted roof over your head,
21:29
all the way back over
the passenger's heads
21:30
and a ton of speakers.
21:32
Not a single curve to any
of the speaker grills,
21:35
but there are speaker
grills all over this cabin
21:37
and they're all either
trapezoids or squares.
21:40
Okay, something I've just realized,
21:42
I thought that it was required
21:44
that the only actual physical button
21:46
you need in your car
is the hazards button.
21:49
This truck does not have a hazards button,
21:51
it has a touch sensitive hazards thing.
21:54
But then there's also your park, reverse,
21:56
neutral and drive gears
21:57
if you actually wanna change them
21:59
up above your head.
22:02
I've never seen that there're
in any car, ever actually.
22:06
Typically it's right in front of you
22:07
with the paddles shifters
or your gear selectors
22:10
and you can still do it on the screen
22:12
like you can in other Teslas.
22:13
But that, that's new.
22:15
That's definitely new.
22:17
Okay, now the backseat of the Cybertruck,
22:22
it's weirder than you think.
22:24
All right, first of all,
22:25
I like that the door's open 90 degrees,
22:27
you get the seat back in front of you,
22:29
really good rear leg room.
22:32
Mostly because the seat in front of me
22:34
is on these cool Cybertruck
looking rectangular risers.
22:37
But that means I have real space
22:39
to put my feet under
the seat in front of me,
22:40
which is huge for leg room.
22:42
So either side, totally fine, middle,
22:45
not the best leg room ever,
22:47
but still a totally great backseat.
22:47
Got another screen back here
22:48
that I'll show you in a second.
22:50
There's a little bit of seat back storage,
22:51
but check this out.
22:52
There's a little trick to the back seat.
22:54
Just for storage, so although you already
22:56
have a front trunk and a rear trunk,
22:58
if you want even more covered storage
23:01
with this latch right here,
23:04
the right seat actually
comes completely up
23:07
and you can just keep stuff down here
23:09
if there's no person here.
23:10
Matter of fact, the left
two seats come over here,
23:13
also do the same thing.
23:14
I'm gonna get out and
pull that latch as well.
23:18
And then that's just, that's
a ton of room for activities.
23:21
Look at this, not that that's
better than having a seat,
23:24
but you could put a
bunch of boxes back here.
23:26
You could put, I don't know,
23:28
you could just put stuff back here.
23:30
Also, there's the nine
and a half inch screen
23:32
for the passengers, which
is where I discovered
23:34
you can move the passenger seat,
23:38
not the driver's seat on the screen.
23:40
And these are also heated
left and right, not middle,
23:42
but heated, left and right rear seats.
23:45
They look ventilated, they look cool,
23:47
but they don't do that.
23:48
Just heat.
23:51
Or you could just like watch a movie
23:52
or direct your airflow.
23:56
Cool.
23:56
Okay, so whenever you're talking about
23:58
a new vehicle like this,
23:59
a new platform like this,
24:00
you gotta talk vehicle controls.
24:02
So as I'm in the driver's seat,
24:03
that's gonna be this new 18
and a half inch touchscreen
24:05
in the center, biggest ever in a Tesla.
24:07
It's also the biggest ever car.
24:09
And this steering wheel, which
I got a lot to say about it,
24:13
but you're gonna notice
24:14
it looks pretty familiar
to any other Tesla.
24:16
But they have made some key changes
24:19
that I think I actually like a lot.
24:21
There's still no stalks,
there's still no blinker stalks,
24:24
still no drive, reverse, all that stuff.
24:27
But the buttons on the steering wheel
24:29
are at least now haptic
like actual buttons.
24:33
They're not haptic touch controls
24:34
where you touch it and it
vibrates to simulate a button.
24:36
Now it actually clicks
and moves this time.
24:38
So that's awesome.
24:40
So at least that's better.
24:41
So that's the blinkers
on the steering wheel.
24:43
That's your headlights.
24:44
That's your giant windshield wiper,
24:46
which I'll talk about.
24:47
And your voice controls,
24:48
you still got your wheels up and down
24:49
for volume of media and
your autopilot controls.
24:53
And then this sort of a flat squirkle,
24:56
I guess is what you'd call it,
24:57
like a squared off circle type
thing for the steering wheel.
25:00
Oh, and then
(horn honking)
25:03
it's a real horn this time.
25:05
There's no like button on
the steering wheel horn
25:07
like in my car.
25:08
So I really appreciate that.
25:10
Also, again, no Tesla logo
on the steering wheel.
25:13
It's a Cybertruck like
trapezoid silhouette type thing.
25:16
So again, I think the only
Tesla logo in the whole car
25:19
is literally the key,
same as every other Tesla.
25:23
But that brings us of
course to the new software.
25:25
So I think they've done an
actually really, really good job
25:28
with the software in
this all new cyber UI.
25:31
So, if you've used a Tesla before,
25:33
it's laid out the exact same way,
25:35
but it's all themed in
a very Cybertruck way.
25:37
But there's some new little
things that they've done.
25:39
It's really well thought out.
25:40
And I still honestly, after using it,
25:42
I really feel like Tesla
has the best software
25:44
in the car industry that's
not CarPlay and Android Auto.
25:48
So first of all, you start
with just this huge Cybertruck
25:51
in the middle for all
your vehicle controls.
25:54
There's little hovering dots.
25:55
So if you want to open the tailgate
25:58
or open the Tonneau cover, you can do that
26:00
with any of these little hovering buttons.
26:03
Open the charge port flap,
charge port flap, cool.
26:08
But then all of the rest
of the looks about the car,
26:12
you can adjust in real time.
26:14
So first of all, ride height,
26:16
you tap the wheel there
26:17
we are at the sort of a entry ride height
26:20
where it squats to be as
easy as possible to get into.
26:23
You can also go low, medium or high
26:25
and it adjusts super fast.
26:27
There's a pretty awesome 12
inches of suspension travel
26:30
between the lowest mode
and the highest mode.
26:33
You can go all the way up to 17 inches
26:35
of clearance in off-road mode.
26:37
Extract mode is the absolute highest.
26:39
It'll add another 80
millimeters of clearance,
26:41
but it'll go a foot down from that.
26:43
So that's pretty sick.
26:44
And there are aluminum skid plates
26:45
slash aero shields at
the bottom of the truck.
26:48
I continue to move around.
26:50
If I lower the window, for example,
26:52
look at the window on the car,
26:54
halfway down, halfway down.
26:57
I go all the way down on this window,
26:59
all the way down on that window.
27:00
So that's real time.
27:02
I get my lights in real time.
27:03
I have the headlights down here.
27:06
If I even turn the steering wheel,
27:09
all of that moves in real time.
27:11
And it's kind of on
this like Mars terrain,
27:13
cyber terrain, whatever you wanna call it.
27:15
I think that's sweet.
27:16
So you just get a full
overview of the car there.
27:17
If you've got your media, your navigation,
27:20
it's telling me if I need to close my door
27:21
or fasten my seatbelt,
27:23
and this is my range indicator up here,
27:25
223 miles right now, which
if I tap it is 76% battery,
27:29
pretty close to what I'm expecting.
27:31
And then you see your navigation,
27:33
which basically if you just swipe over,
27:35
you can fill that right
two thirds of the screen
27:38
with navigation and keep your
vehicle controls on the left.
27:41
And when you're in drive,
27:42
that looks just like it
normally does in a Tesla
27:43
with other stuff on the road.
27:45
But now you have all
your navigation stuff.
27:47
You always have all your stuff in the dock
27:49
down at the bottom,
27:50
heated steering wheel with two levels,
27:53
which is nice now and your
heated and cooled front seats,
27:57
which is great.
27:58
So if you just get into
controls and dynamics,
28:00
these are sort of the two spaces
28:02
you'll spend the most time.
28:03
Controls is all of the things
with just opening and closing,
28:07
unlocking screen brightness, headlights,
28:10
your glove box is a drawer,
28:11
which I think is a little bit unique,
28:14
a button on the screen.
28:15
I kind of wish you still had a
button to open the glove box.
28:17
But all of that is here.
28:19
And then dynamics is where you have all
28:23
of your typical like steering
28:25
and acceleration profiles for Tesla.
28:27
So in the triple motor version,
28:29
that would be comfort mode,
28:31
standard mode and beast mode,
28:34
little cringey I guess.
28:35
But that is your maximum acceleration
28:38
and then your ride and handling
28:40
and your preferred ride height.
28:42
If you go custom, you can actually
28:43
individually adjust these things.
28:45
So acceleration, I'm gonna go beast mode,
28:47
but ride and handling,
28:48
maybe you want it to be
a little more relaxed
28:50
or a little more focused.
28:52
That just basically means your damping
28:53
and your suspension is
either a little firmer
28:56
or a little softer.
28:57
I gotta say though, the
steering is, in my opinion,
29:00
the craziest thing about
the Tesla Cybertruck.
29:03
Crazier than the design,
crazier than the dimensions,
29:05
crazier than everything else
about it is the steering.
29:08
So it's a steer by wire system.
29:10
This is the first time Tesla's done this.
29:11
You can't actually change
the steering weight
29:14
or steering feel.
29:15
It's always the same ratio all the time.
29:16
But it's crazy for two reasons.
29:18
One, there is rear axle steering
29:21
and it is very, very
active and really helpful.
29:24
And two is the total turn
is less than 180 degrees
29:29
for your maximum tightest turn.
29:31
Usually you're used to doing
29:32
a whole bunch of movement on the wheel.
29:34
You don't have to do that anymore.
29:36
So that kind of makes the muscle memory
29:38
of grabbing the top of
the squirkle useless.
29:40
So first of all, the rear
wheel steer, it's awesome.
29:43
It's up to 10 degrees in
the opposite direction
29:46
of the front wheels.
29:47
At low speeds under 40 miles an hour.
29:49
And what that does, if
you've heard of this before,
29:51
it effectively shortens the wheel base
29:53
and allows you to turn way, way tighter.
29:56
I think we'll do a sort of a comparison
29:57
with the F-150 Lightning,
29:59
which is a normal truck that doesn't have
30:01
10 degrees of rear wheel steer.
30:02
And this one, it just means
you can turn way sharper.
30:06
It feels way more nimble in parking lots.
30:08
It feels like it shrinks the wheel base,
30:10
the whole dimensions of the truck.
30:12
It's great, it takes some getting used to,
30:14
but it's very useful.
30:15
And then at higher speeds
above 40 miles an hour
30:18
is when it actually
changes one or two degrees
30:20
in the same direction as the front wheel.
30:23
So that's gonna feel more like
lengthening the wheel base
30:26
and a more stable movement
30:27
changing between lanes at
highway speed, stuff like that.
30:30
But the fact that your
entire steering radius
30:34
is right there in less than one turn,
30:37
like half a turn, is crazy.
30:39
It takes some getting used to.
30:41
It is awesome that you
can turn around so easily
30:44
and make those tight parking lot maneuvers
30:46
and make this big truck feel smaller.
30:49
But it is, it's really, it's a lot.
30:52
It's gonna take some getting used to,
30:54
but I think we should just
get to driving this thing.
30:57
So let's do it.
30:58
Let's drive the Cybertruck.
31:00
All right, driving the Tesla Cybertruck.
31:06
Feels like a Doug Miro
way to start the video,
31:08
but man, okay, it still
doesn't really feel
31:11
like a real vehicle, but it definitely is.
31:14
And first impression really is,
31:19
well okay, it feels like a Tesla.
31:21
That's not gonna be a shocker.
31:22
Really instant throttle response.
31:25
This is the triple motor
version, it's the beast.
31:29
But also like spacing wise.
31:30
I'm just looking around,
31:31
just trying to feel how
big this vehicle is.
31:33
This is a small road, school bus.
31:35
I'm able to maneuver around though.
31:38
I have pretty good visibility everywhere.
31:40
I'm just thinking a lot about
31:41
where the nose of the truck is,
31:44
because it is such a short nose.
31:45
It's a really different, different ratio.
31:48
I'm not used to the hood being that short
31:50
compared to where the windshield is,
31:52
but either way it's pretty quiet.
31:55
I will say these laminated
windows do a good job
31:59
of sealing out all the noise.
32:01
They also happen to be shatterproof.
32:03
The truck also happens to
be allegedly bulletproof.
32:07
I'm not testing that in this video,
32:08
but you've seen the pictures.
32:11
So the idea is it's really well built.
32:14
I'm just trying to figure out,
32:15
all right, this feels nimble, right?
32:17
Steering is the way it's not gonna change.
32:20
So this is the way it always is.
32:23
Getting used to the
steering is really gonna be
32:24
the number one thing for people.
32:26
They're not gonna be used to
32:27
the entire steering being
less than an entire turn.
32:31
It's a half a turn, 180
degrees, I think it's 170,
32:34
and it is a pretty big truck,
32:37
but it's, I feel like
it's a tiny bit smaller
32:40
than the F-150 Lightning.
32:41
I think they did a good job
32:42
of giving you as much space as you can.
32:44
Like this is a spacious cabin,
32:45
spacious back seats as I showed you,
32:48
and a full six foot bed.
32:50
But it's got the smallest front.
32:52
Even smaller than the smaller Rivian R1T.
32:55
So they've kind of pushed around
32:57
the dimensions a little bit.
32:58
But second thing is just the vast distance
33:01
between me and the front of the windshield
33:03
and then I just straight up
can't see the front of the car.
33:06
I can't see the nose no
matter how high I look.
33:09
That's just different, very different.
33:13
Something I'm gonna have to get used to.
33:14
Okay, love that the button blinkers
33:18
are actually physical buttons
33:20
and now we're on a bit of a crazier road
33:22
so we can...
(car buzzing quietly)
33:23
Holy, come on.
33:27
That's crazy.
33:29
Actually, the suspension
pretty firm right now
33:32
and there is a large delta
between the firmest suspension
33:36
and the softest suspension
that you can have.
33:39
The body itself, thanks
to the stainless steel,
33:41
thanks to the way it's built is very,
33:43
very stiff, torsionally stiff.
33:45
It's very rigid.
33:47
And so all of that effort
to be either soft or firm
33:50
goes on the suspension
33:51
and they have a really good suspension,
33:53
really good travel, really fast travel.
33:55
It really is very quiet.
33:56
Okay, a couple other interesting
things that you note.
33:59
One is like huge amount of glass,
34:01
world's largest windshield
is pretty funny.
34:04
I think with every Tesla I've reviewed
34:05
for the past couple years,
34:06
there's always been one
muscle memory remap required
34:10
to get used to this thing.
34:10
And I think with previous Teslas,
34:12
like we all know about the center screen,
34:14
you're used to checking right
in front of you for the speed.
34:16
Now you have to look over to the side.
34:17
Just a little remap there.
34:19
With the yolk steering wheel
34:20
and the buttons on the steering wheel,
34:22
that's a remap people have to adjust to.
34:24
They're pretty stubborn about this stuff.
34:26
With this one, it's gonna be that there
34:28
is no rear visibility with the mirror
34:31
when the tonneau cover's closed.
34:33
So my tonneau cover's closed right now,
34:35
can't see anything behind me,
34:37
but I've sort of started to
remap my glance behind me
34:41
to the preview of the rear facing camera,
34:44
which is on the screen all the time.
34:46
And so I just keep glancing
there to see what's behind me.
34:48
You can actually move it to
the left or right hand side
34:50
so you get a bigger preview
when it's on the right
34:52
or you can just move it on the left.
34:54
So yeah, that's the Cybertruck.
34:55
Muscle memory remap is
your rear view mirror
34:58
doesn't have a camera mode.
34:59
So if you wanna check behind you
35:01
while the tonneau cover's closed,
35:02
you're looking down there.
35:04
All right, we got a nice
little highway coming up.
35:06
I like instinctively put my
hand on this side of the wheel
35:08
to get ready for a big turn.
35:09
- Oh my god.
- But I don't have to do it
35:11
because it's so little.
35:14
It's a little turn.
35:14
All right, let's get on the highway.
35:19
So you don't need a ton of horsepower
35:21
for regular pickup truck stuff,
35:23
but merging onto a highway,
35:25
makes a lot of sense.
35:27
Let me get some space between
the car in front of me.
35:31
Oh my God, on all season
tires, all terrain tires.
35:38
Shouldn't be able to do that.
35:40
A couple other interesting
things though about this truck.
35:42
One, world's largest
windshield wiper is hilarious.
35:48
It looks ridiculous.
35:50
It might be logistically ridiculous too.
35:53
I don't know if in the ice or the snow,
35:56
if it's gonna be able to like break apart
35:58
enough ice to move that
huge windshield wiper.
36:01
There's probably a much
bigger motor to move it,
36:04
but it works.
36:07
So Neil, if you're wondering,
36:08
it doesn't quite cover
the entire windshield,
36:11
but it does go above my head
36:13
and cover 75% of what the
passenger's gonna see too.
36:16
So I feel like it's working at least.
36:19
And then the other thing to
note is for your road tripping
36:21
totally compatible with all
the Tesla superchargers,
36:24
it has all of the autopilot
stuff that other Teslas have,
36:26
but it's also now an
800 volt architecture.
36:30
And what that basically means
36:31
is it's able to charge
faster at V4 superchargers
36:34
and it's able to make total wires thinner.
36:37
because they conduct better
and they're more efficient.
36:40
And so the total wire
weight of the car goes down
36:43
for all of the high voltage systems.
36:44
It also has a 48 volt low voltage system,
36:48
which is four times the normal 12 volts
36:50
you'd see in most cars.
36:51
So in general this is,
it feels future proof
36:54
for that reason, but it'll
still charge just the same
36:57
as any other Tesla V3
and V2 superchargers.
37:00
A little more road noise too,
37:02
you notice in a little more,
37:03
a little more all-terrain tread
37:05
coming through to the cabin.
37:08
These bespoke tires I'm
told do have foam in them,
37:10
but you can still hear it and feel it.
37:14
Tiny bit of steering feel, that's weird.
37:16
Teslas are usually pretty numb,
37:18
but this does have some steering feel.
37:20
Now probably the funniest,
most interesting option
37:22
that I'm told about with this truck
37:24
is the extended battery option.
37:26
So all the cyber trucks will have
37:28
the same 123 kilowatt hour battery size.
37:31
But as we all know, long road trips
37:34
and towing and hauling things especially
37:36
takes a toll on your battery.
37:37
So there will be an optional battery,
37:40
an add-on battery that
you put in the trunk
37:43
that adds 120 miles of range.
37:46
It also adds a ton of weight
37:47
'cause now you're hauling
around a huge battery,
37:49
but now you have close to a
400, 450 mile range truck,
37:54
which might be what people need
37:56
to haul big things if
they're gonna work with it.
37:59
It's interesting.
38:00
I really feel like the biggest
strength of the Cybertruck
38:02
is it's gotta be the
power, the sheer force
38:07
of 2.7 seconds, zero to
60, 850 ish horsepower
38:13
like no other truck moves
38:16
in a straight line like this one does.
38:18
But I'm also gonna include
the steering as a pro,
38:21
you gotta get used to it.
38:23
But again, that tight turning radius
38:25
and how nimble it feels like on a highway
38:28
that's remarkably responsive.
38:30
Like I can turn my wheel
like this in a Model S Plaid
38:33
and it does not feel
as responsive as this.
38:36
That's a crazy thing to say.
38:37
So then it's downside is gonna be one,
38:42
just that people think
it's ugly and that's fine.
38:46
A lot of people are gonna think it's ugly.
38:48
And two is it's more expensive
than we originally thought.
38:50
It doesn't have that price advantage.
38:52
I am driving a hundred thousand
dollars truck right now.
38:55
There's no way around that.
38:57
The F-150 Lightning
I'm following right now
38:59
is gonna cost significantly less.
39:00
The Rivian R1T and the and the Hummer
39:03
are also very expensive,
39:04
but it's no longer an advantage
39:06
that we might have
thought it was gonna be.
39:08
Now this isn't a review.
39:09
I haven't towed anything with this.
39:10
I haven't used any of
the trailer features.
39:12
I haven't filled it up with rocks
39:14
and mud and gotten it dirty.
39:15
I haven't off roaded at all.
39:17
There's a total separate off-road mode
39:19
in the thing I haven't used.
39:20
I haven't road tripped in it.
39:22
I haven't lived with it.
39:23
I do have an order so I
plan on doing all that.
39:25
So make sure you get subscribed
39:26
to see the full review of the
Cybertruck when it comes out.
39:29
But I think generally, as this
is my second impressions ever
39:32
and first time ever driving the thing,
39:34
I think they really got
themselves something solid here.
39:37
We're gonna have to see
about fit and finish.
39:40
A lot of, let's see,
a lot of wait and see,
39:42
but I'm impressed with this.
39:44
I'm impressed.
39:46
So lemme know what you think.
39:47
Obviously, there're gonna be
39:48
some polarizing thoughts on the looks.
39:49
Let me know if you're in the,
39:51
this thing is ugly and
I'll never buy it camp.
39:52
Why is this thing looking like
39:53
a stainless steel refrigerator on wheels?
39:55
I totally get it,
39:57
but lemme know what you
think about Cybertruck
39:59
versus F-150 Lightning versus Rivian R1T.
40:04
Let me know if there are other things
40:05
you want to see in a video
40:06
then get subscribed to me
40:07
among the first to see that stuff.
40:11
I think that's about it for this one.
40:12
Thanks for watching.
40:13
Catch you later, peace.
40:16
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