First Ride: Tesla's Cybertruck Is It What You Expect From An EV Pickup?

Tesla’s new Cybertruck is as much of an all-electric pickup truck for the adventurous early adopter and high-tech consumer, as it is an aristocratic armored battle machine for a dystopian future. At least that was my first impression after taking the first test ride in Elon Musk’s seven-year-in-the-making baby on Thursday night in Los Angeles.

Riding through the backlot of Tesla’s Design Studio and SpaceX headquarters, it didn’t immediately register in my head that this test ride was taking place inside a bulletproof truck that’s the size of a Ford F-150 SuperCab. Spanning 231.7 inches long, 79.9 inches wide, and 75.0 inches tall, Tesla’s Cybertruck isn’t exactly small and certainly won’t be someone’s second Tesla sharing the average home garage. This thing is going on the driveway.

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jerseycat1010 - 11/22/2019 1:32:57 PM

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I think this truck is great looking and destined for sales success.

SanJoseDriver - 11/24/2019 2:07:18 AM

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LOL indeed, almost 200k ordered

SanJoseDriver - 11/24/2019 6:57:44 PM

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I wonder how many preorders the Mach E has. Probably less (although I hope it succeeds as well)

skytop - 11/22/2019 1:53:26 PM

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Wait....I need some time to stop laughing.....Musk definitely must be on on drugs.

Truthy - 11/22/2019 2:49:34 PM

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1980 Citroen Karin meets Deloren to reboot back to the Future.
Tesla stock heading toward 8 percent drop today.

MDarringer - 11/22/2019 4:50:19 PM

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Not true: "...Elon Musk’s seven-year-in-the-making baby..."

Tesla designs it on the screen today and puts it into production in a tent tomorrow without any development work.

This was NOT seven years in the making.

Truthy - 11/22/2019 5:00:13 PM

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AND, SpaceX rocket blows up on launch pad yesterday. This likely went through the same thorough testing as their cars.

Section_31_JTK - 11/22/2019 6:26:59 PM

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If you want to speculate on it's potential in the marketplace, TSLA stock closed down over 6% today LOL.

Go read the comments on the Tesla forums. I'd say 2/3 of the Teslarati thing it's FUGLY.

skytop - 11/22/2019 8:01:26 PM

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Those extra large infotainment screens are MAJOR distractions to the driver and will definitely cause many serious accidents.

SanJoseDriver - 11/24/2019 2:25:18 AM

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Coming to all cars soon

SanJoseDriver - 11/24/2019 6:56:52 PM

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Yup

Section_31_JTK - 11/24/2019 12:20:45 AM

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You mean Etch-A-Sketch?

SanJoseDriver - 11/24/2019 6:57:02 PM

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Yup