The Cybertruck is easily the most hyped car on the market right now with its otherworldly styling and insane performance. Today I’m reviewing this Tesla Cybertruck and I’ll show you the many quirks and features. I’m also going to get behind the wheel and show you what it’s like to drive.
source.image: Doug DeMuro
According to Musk, the design of the Cybertruck was inspired by Blade Runner and “Wet Nellie”, the Lotus Esprit driven by James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me, which doubled as a submarine. The 300-series stainless steel panels have a thickness of 1.8 and 1.4 mm for the doors and body, respectively, according to a factory tour video, for comparison, the 2019 prototype featured 3 mm-thick (1⁄8 in) cold-rolled panels, according to Musk.
These panels cannot be stamped like conventional automobile parts, but instead are laser-cut and then bent along straight lines. Tesla stated that they use a platform approach to the powertrain components—using only a single permanent magnet motor rotor/stator design, a single induction motor rotor/stator design, a single motor inverter design, and a single gear set design—for all three configurations of Cybertruck—tri-motor AWD, dual-motor AWD, and single-motor RWD—delivering a range of power from 845 hp on the tri-motor down to 315 hp in the single-motor version.
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The Cybertruck has five seats, two in the front and a three-seat bench in the back row. The vehicle has a 18.5 in (47 cm) touch-screen display in the front for most of the climate, media, and vehicle controls. The vehicle also contains a 9.4 in (24 cm) touch-screen for the rear seat passengers. The Cybertruck has a steering wheel in the shape of a “squircle” (combination of a square and a circle), with a flat top and bottom, and round sides.
