Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been teasing an electric pickup truck for so long that an entire genre of fan-inspired images developed on the Internet predicting what it might look like.
On Thursday night, we finally saw the real Cybertruck. It’s fair to say the prognosticators were wrong. At an LA-based event that was live-streamed, Tesla showed off a one-of-a-kind angular experiment of a truck—with an edgy design and extreme sports car acceleration—that will surely divide potential truck buyers.
Aside from the unexpected looks, the design replaces the traditional truck frame with a hard stainless steel “exoskeleton,” similar to airplane design. Musk showed off the strength of the truck’s body panels with an onstage demonstration of a sledgehammer swung hard at the door panels, only to bounce off of them without leaving a mark.
A demonstration of the truck’s extra-strong glass didn’t go as well—a steel ball thrown at the truck windows cracked the glass, seemingly unexpectedly, but the windows didn’t break apart. Musk carried on the rest of the presentation standing in front of his brand-new creation with cracked and spider-webbed windows.
The edgy design is decidedly unconventional for a pickup and promises to be polarizing, but the price and performance specifications would appeal to any would-be truck shopper. The base model starts under $40,000—about $10,000 less than predicted, and below the current price for some midrange versions of the F-150. The Tesla truck will come in three variations, with battery ranges of 250, 350, and 500 miles. The top-end version promises acceleration of 0-60 mph in 2.9 seconds, combined with the ability to tow 14,000 pounds.
The Cybertruck unveiling came at the end of a busy LA Auto Show, which saw more than a dozen new EVs revealed, including the Ford Mustang Mach-E, an electric SUV inspired by the iconic Mustang.
Even though EVs command a tiny sliver of the car market, automakers increasingly believe the future lies in electrified powertrains, and the LA Auto Show is the biggest showcase for what’s coming in that arena.
The Cybertruck is the latest model from Tesla, presented with the aim to reduce the environmental impact of transportation. By moving into full-sized pickup trucks, Tesla is looking to disrupt a hot-selling vehicle segment that is also the least fuel efficient.
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