It’s a few years late and not without controversy, but the first Cybertruck is hot off the production line according to the company’s official Twitter page.
Tesla claims the truck has a “nearly impenetrable” exoskeleton designed for strength and endurance that’s also resistant to dents, damage and corrosion.
Visually, this has resulted in a car which looks very different to anything on the roads today.
While it’s nice to see Tesla taking some aesthetic risks, the Cybertruck does remind my a little of Lara Croft’s polygon boobs in the first Tomb Raider game.
Maybe you’re kind of into that, though?
This is, of course, not the first time we’ve seen the Cybertruck.
Elon Musk presented this car to the world back in 2019, when the car rolled onto stage surrounded by jets of flame.
Famously, in order to demonstrate the impenetrability of the Cybertruck, Musk handed a metal ball the size of a fist to one of the engineers and asked them to peg it at driver-side window.
The window shattered.
Presumably to show that had been a strange fluke, the engineer then threw the ball at the back window.
That window also shattered.
The incident (which apparently wouldn’t have happened if they hadn’t attacked the car with a sledgehammer first – common mistake) didn’t stop pre-orders.
There’s a bit of speculation over the numbers, but some claim the Cybertruck has over 1.6m pre-orders.
Mass production of the cars is set to start in 2024 according to Musk. No word yet on when you’ll see the Cybertruck on Australian roads, or what the pricing options will be.
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