After months of hype, Tesla has finally unveiled its Cybertruck electric pickup truck today in Los Angeles. The vehicle features up to 500 miles of range, a starting price of just $39,900 and much more.
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Elon Musk first mentioned Tesla’s plan to build an electric pickup truck over 7 years ago.
Tonight, at its design studio in Los Angeles, Musk took the stage to finally unveil his vision of a super pickup truck with an all-electric powertrain.
He had warned that the design might be too polarizing due to its futuristic Blade Runneresque-look and no one knew exactly what he meant by that, but now it’s clear that he wasn’t kidding.
Tesla Cybertruck Design and Functionality
The Tesla pickup truck, if you can call it that, looks more like it’s something driving off of a movie set than something you can drive off a car dealership’s lot (not that you can technically do that either).
Like Musk said, it looks like nothing else:
The lines are extremely simple, like nothing else we have seen delivered to customers in the last 30 years, but also more futuristics than most concept vehicles that never see production.
Instead of a body on frame, they created a new platform that uses a skeleton structure, which they claim makes the truck extremely solid:
It is alwo equipped with Tesla Armor Glass, like the Tesla Semi. Though they had an issue with the live demo
It sits 6 people and it is equipped with a 6.5ft bed, which they call the Cybertruck vault.
The top is covered, but it unrolls if you need to fit something higher than the roof of the “vault”:
The Tesla Cybertruck also comes standard with an adaptive air suspension, which should help the performance with different loads.
Tesla Cybertruck Specs
Three versions of the Tesla Cybertruck are going to be available with different battery packs and drivetrain configurations.
The single motor RWD version will offer 250 miles of range.
A dual motor all-wheel-drive version will reach 300 miles of range and a tri-motor version will have 500 miles of range:
Tesla expects the tri-motor version to be able to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds and complete the quarter-mile in 10 seconds.
Here are the full specs of each version of the Tesla Cybertruck:
Tesla Cybertruck Price and Availability
Tesla announced that the Cybertruck will start at $39,900 before incentives in the US, which is a lot less than most people expected.
The two less expensive versions are coming in “late 2021”, while two more expensive versions with more motors and bigger battery packs are going to be available in “late 2022.”
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