Everything Tesla Didn't Tell You At The Cybertruck Release Event!

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After exactly four long years of feverishanticipation, the Tesla cybertruck is here.
It's real, and while it maynot be everything that we wanted it to
be, the production cyber truck isshockingly good. Let's just get straight into
it. So, of course,the big headline going around is that Elon

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Musk has personally delivered the first tenproduction cyber trucks to some very lucky owners.
We're not sure who these people areor how they were chosen for such
a prestigious role. They all seemedvery excited to meet Elon Musk for the
first time, so they don't appearto be company insiders or any funny business
like that. The real story,though, the most important point of the

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day is that there are many morecyber trucks to come, and they are
coming soon. Prior to the actualevent, attendees were taken on a walking
tour of the brand new cyber truckproduction line at Giga Texas, and of
course most of those people live streamthere, so we've seen pretty much everything
that is going on behind the sceneson the cyber truck production. And what

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we saw were a lot of cybertrucks in various stages of completion. Now,
obviously they are not running the lineat full speed with a few dozen
pedestrians wandering around, but we getthe very real sense that cyber trucks are
actively being constructed and finished at areasonably fast pace. Many people had feared
that we might see a repeat ofthe Tesla Semi, where a dozen or

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so first production models were released andthen basically nothing has followed for at least
a year. Now this will notbe the case with cyber truck. If
you live in a US city,you will probably see a real, live
cyber truck on the road before toolong. All right, let's talk about
the specs again. We had someconcerns going into this that Tesla would remain

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tight lipped about the actual details oftheir production model cyber trucks, but this
was also not the case. AndI know you all want to know about
the brand new mystery spec and Ido have a little info on that,
but we'll get there in just alittle bit. So here's the scoop.
We currently have two variations in production, the Cyberbeast and the all wheel drive.

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Cyberbeast is a tri motor powertrain,so we are confirmed for now at
least that the four motor cyber truckwas just a figment of Elon's imagination.
It does not exist. With aone hundred and twenty three kilowat hour battery
pack, Cyberbeast has an estimated rangeof three hundred and twenty miles. This
is not an EPA rating like yousee on other vehicles, just something to

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note. Zero to sixty time istwo point six seconds and one hundred and
thirty mile per hour top speed.Tesla also stated that the quarter mile time
for this variant is eleven seconds,which is bonkers considering that the weight of
this vehicle is six eight hundred andforty three pounds. That's thanks to eight
hundred and forty five horsepower and anearth shattering ten twenty two hundred and ninety

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six foot pounds of torque. Forall of that, the Cyrebeast will set
you back a cool one hundred gs. The all wheel drive version is going
to be the preferred option for mostpeople, at a much more friendly price
tag of eighty grand before incentives.As far as we can tell, the
only thing you lose with this optionpackage is the third motor and the extra

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speed that it brings. To thetable, but that does gain you a
bit of range. Now three hundredand forty miles estimated and zero to sixty
is four point one seconds, whichis still extremely fast for any car,
but it's damn fast for a pickuptruck. Top speed is also down now
at just one hundred and twelve milesper hour. That's not actually very fast.

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There are cars with much less powerthat will go faster, so there
definitely are some limitations that come withthis size and weight of the vehicle.
All wheel drive is rated at sixhundred horse power and seven four hundred and
thirty five foot pounds of torque,which is still significantly more torque than you
will ever need. Interestingly, boththe Cyberbeast and all wheel drive are rated

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at eleven thousand pounds of towing capacity, so clearly this has nothing to do
with the limits of the powertrain andis actually limited by the strength of the
vehicle itself. Case in point,Tesla demonstrated their Cyberbeast competing in a towing
challenge against some other notable pickup trucks, the F one fifty Lightning, the
Rivian R one t quad Motor,and the super heavy duty Ford F three

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to fifty diesel. This work truckwas the reigning king of the sled pull.
This is a contest where trucks pulla forty thousand pounds sled in a
straight line for as long as theycan go until something fails. The f
three to fifty pulled the sled twohundred and sixty four feet. The Cyberbeast
pulled the sled three hundred and seventeenfeet. Another similarity between the two cyber

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truck options is going to be thewheel and tire package. For now,
at least, there are only twentyintrims with thirty five five inch all terrain
tires. They're not the chunkiest tireever, but they are a lot more
aggressive than regular all season tires.Okay, now let's talk about it because
I know everyone is dying to getmore info on this mysterious new spec.

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Tesla lists a second range calculation ontheir spec sheet for Cybertruck with something called
range Extender. So what the hellis that? Well, as far as
we can tell from initial reports,the range Extender is literally a second battery
pack that you can buy from Tesla. It connects into that little cubbyhole space
underneath the bed, and it willboost the range by another one hundred and

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twenty miles or more. Apparently,the cost for this add on is going
to be sixteen thousand dollars. Wedo not know when that is going to
be available for now. Both variationsof the cyber truck come with the same
battery pack. It's a one hundredand twenty three kilowat hour structural pack.
From what we saw in the factorytour, it looks to be very similar

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in design to the Model Y structuralpack. Oh and let's not forget that
the single motor rear wheel drive isalive and well as an option package.
This is not something we had expectedto return, but we are very happy
to see it. You can stillget a relatively affordable cyber truck, affordable
by modern standards at least, whichmeans it's still going to cost sixty one

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thousand dollars Anyway, this option willstill give a respectable two hundred and fifty
miles of range and a zero tosixty of six point five seconds, So
there's absolutely nothing wrong with this option, especially for those people who will only
ever drive their truck around the cityand never actually use it for truck specific

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tasks. There are many of thesepeople out there, and this option package
is not in production right now,but Tesla says that it will be available
sometime in twenty twenty five. Okay, let's move on from the spec sheet
to some real world reviews of thecyber truck. MKBHD just posted his forty
minute hands on review of the Cyberbeastoption package. That's pretty long, so

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we're going to highlight the key findingsright here for you. This is fascinating.
Real world measurements of the production cybertruck show that it is actually five
percent smaller than the initial prototype vehiclefrom twenty nineteen. Elon Musk had previously
said that Tesla only shrunk the cybertruck by three percent, but they ended

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up with a full five percent reductionoverall. This makes cyber Truck just slightly
smaller than the Ford F one fiftyin all exterior dimensions. However, cyber
Truck does manage to beat the Fone fifty in a few key size figures,
most importantly in terms of windshield wiper. The cybertruck features the world's largest

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windshield wiper. Okay, for real, we're going to stop talking about the
wiper. It is what it is. We're over it. But where the
cyber truck does manage to beat theF one fifty is overall bedlength. According
to real world measurements, the cybertruck bed is a full seventy two inches
in length. That's six inches morethan the electric F one fifty. Now

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there is one caveat to this.The cyber truck does have an overhang at
the top of the bed where thecover rolls out, so the overall bed
length at the top is sixty sixinches from overhang to tailgate, but realistically
this should never be an issue.The cyber truck bed has a factory applied
liner. It's a carbon composite linermaterial, probably very similar to GMC carbon

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pro bedliner. It should be virtuallyindestructible, and even if the liner does
get compromised, it's covering an ultrastrong stainless steel alloy that Tesla has formulated
to be corrosion resistant, so durabilityof the truck bed should never be an
issue. The bed also has ledlights and latching points installed for convenience,

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and there are dual one hundred andtwenty volt power outlets plus one two hundred
and forty volt outlet, so youcould charge another test with a level two
charger from the bed of the cybertruck, or you could power your house.
Power Share is a brand new optionfor Tesla that is exclusive to the
cyber Truck, and it allows youto send eleven kilowatts of power from the

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battery pack to your home if youalready have a Tesla powerwall battery at your
house. This is literally a plugand play system. But if you don't
have a power wall, you justneed to buy a separate inverter to connect
the truck to the home. Let'stalk about the front trunk. It is
small, but not so small thatit's useless. Marquez was able to fit

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two rigid shelled airplane carry on bagsinto the front trunk just barely, but
they did fit, and that's morethan we would have expected just from looking
at it. Moving up to thewindshield, this is the single largest piece
of automotive glass in the world.It presents a spectacular view of the sky,
but a less optimal view of anythingin front of the truck. So

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MKBHD is a pretty tall dude andhe was having serious issues with being able
to see anything in front of thetruck through the windshield, which is troubling.
I'm afraid I'm going to look likeHans Molman trying to drive this damn
thing if I ever managed to getone. But in order to mitigate this
issue, Tesla has installed a frontbumper camera on the cyber truck to monitor
that particular blind spot for you.Speaking of blind spot, there is a

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rear view mirror in the cyber truck, but it is mostly useless. The
rear cabin window is tiny and obviouslywith the bed covered down, it's not
a functional window at all. Sowhat Tesla has done is integrated the rear
camera view into the center display andit is always on. You can move
the rear video feed around on thescreen to customize, but this is going

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to be your only way to seewhat's behind you in a cyber truck.
For whatever reason, Tesla did notdo one of those rear view mirrors that
can flip between mirror and screen.I've seen those in other cars. It
would be more intuitive to have thevideo feed up there and not in the
middle, but to Tesla will Teslaanyway, Inside the truck looks very nice,

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very minimalist, as you'd expect.The materials also look nice. One
interesting feature is that the design languagefrom the exterior continues through to the interior.
There are no curves to the interiordesign of the cyber Truck. Even
the speaker grills are all hard angles. The only round thing really is the
steering wheel, and yes it isa steering wheel and not a yoke thing

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like the model s. There's alot to talk about here, so stick
with me. A major standout featureof the new cyber truck is the steering.
This is a big deal. Notonly does the production model have four
wheel steering, but it also featuressteer by wire controls, and that means
there is no mechanical linkage between theinterior steering wheel and the exterior road wheels.

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Instead, steering input is sent througha computer which will manipulate the four
wheels based on current driving conditions.This this is pretty crazy. So because
of the steer by wire, younever have to fully rotate the cyber truck
steering wheel. In fact, youcan't physically spin the wheel. It only
has around one hundred and eighty degreesof movement, so ninety degrees left,

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ninety degrees right. That's about asfar as the wheel will go. The
way this works is that when thetruck is moving slowly, a small amount
of movement to the interior wheel willtranslate to a large amount of movement on
the exterior wheels. When the truckis moving faster, it will take a
larger amount of movement of the interiorwheel to get a small amount of movement

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in the exterior wheels. Everyone follow. Now we have to factor in the
rear wheel steering. When the truckis moving at speeds below forty miles per
hour, the rear wheels will turnup to ten degrees in the opposite direction
of the front wheels. This effectivelyshrinks the wheelbase of the truck and tightens
up the turning circle. The cybertruck can actually turn a tighter circle than

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the model s and going a stepfurther above forty miles per hour, the
rear wheels will actually turn a veryslight degree in the same direction as the
front wheels. This will help tosmooth out the steering performance during slight maneuvers
like lane changes. If this technologyall works the way it is intended,
then the cyber truck should never feelcumbersome to maneuver, even though it is

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very long, and it should alsonever feel jerky or unstable, even though
it is very heavy and sits veryhigh off the road. This would be
a major accomplishment in pickup truck engineeringagain if it all pans out, but
we'll just have to wait and seewhat happens when the cyber truck begins to
take over the roads of the UnitedStates.