VIDEO SCRIPT: Unveiled for
the first time back in November 2019, was the Tesla CyberTruck
The Cyber punk-inspired - Pointy, angular Tesla Cyber Truck, hasn’t
been released yet 4 months into 2021, as the product is going
through some final design tweaks and upgrades before hitting the market.
Welcome to Smart Sense! In today’s video,
we are going to dive into all the latest news about Tesla's CyberTruck estimated release
date, new changes, upgrades, and the real purpose behind all these changes,
which I'll get to at the end of this video, let's get started.
CEO and owner of the company Elon Musk has been dropping some hints regarding design changes on
Twitter while replying to his Twitter fans. Keep on watching to know about each specific update.
The final design update was previously supposed to come out at the end of 2020, which unfortunately
didn't happen as planned. The pre-orders number has now surpassed
half a million and increasing. Most of the Tesla Cyber Truck customer
base lies locally in the US market, but it has managed to attract some
audience in the Chinese market as well. In a tweet earlier this month Elon Musk revealed,
he is hoping to come out with the company’s quarter
year report – Which means that we can expect it to hit production lines by late 2021.
But looking at the anticipation shown by Tesla enthusiasts on Twitter,
people are seeming to become more and more impatient for
the grand release. This is also quite evident from the pre-orders that Tesla
has received for the Cyber Truck starting from after its unveiling in late 2019.
The starting price of Tesla Cyber Truck was announced to be
$39,000 – with no compromise over functionality. To be specific, the production of a two-engine
all-wheel-drive version is scheduled to go into production
by the end of 2021, while the single-engine rear-wheel-drive version is supposed to hit
production lines by late 2022.
Now, getting into the changes and upgrades, let us start with
the Cyber Truck’s armor glass which took a pretty hard blow during the durability test
dine during the unveiling event in 2019. This was a huge setoff, as Elon Musk had previously
claimed the glass to be INDESTRUCTIBLE.
Later after the event, the reason for the glass breaking was explained to be that the sledgehammer
blows to the Truck door while demonstrating the strength of
the exoskeleton, cracked the base of the glass which is embedded into the exoskeleton.
And that resulted in the glass cracking, instead of metallic
balls bouncing off of it, during the glass durability demo.
Either way, this mishap exposed a flaw, which certainly needed some deliberation,
which the company did. Elon Musk posted a tweet on November 23rd, 2019,
which included a video demo of Glass durability, and mentioned that they will be making
improvements to the windows before the vehicle goes into final
production. In April 2020,
Musk announced an almost 3% decrease in the overall size of the vehicle. Elon Musk
explained that this size reduction decision was made because the original
dimensions of the Cyber Truck were too big for letting it
fit into a standard parking space. But he has assured his concerned fans and
customers that this downsizing is not going to have any significant effect
on the specs and storage capacity.
Elon Musk also announced the installment of all-new air
suspensions for the Tesla Cyber Truck, which were exclusively designed for this vehicle
and are not a re-rendering of Tesla Models X or S's suspension
system. The Tesla Cyber Truck team had been working on
increasing the dynamic air suspension to make the truck better for off-roading. In addition to this,
Tesla’s battery packs are water sealed so no damage is
happening to the batteries from water. Thanks to this feature you won’t need to worry about exhaust
pipes filling up with water since EVs do not have those.
Elon said that the final version will be able to handle fairly high levels of water with no
problem, and that
‘’It will even float for a while’’… Around that same time,
Musk again took to Twitter to announce that they will also be producing solarpaneled roofs
to charge the batteries on its own. Replying to a Twitter fan that was
asking for a teaser to the updated version of the Cyber Truck earlier
this month, Elon Musk said that there will be no Door handles in the final version.
Whereas previously, the Cyber Truck was declared to have self-presenting
door handles as used in Tesla Model S; which lay flat against
the door surface when they are not needed, and pop up if u push against
the door handle, or automatically as the driver would be approaching.
But apparently, this idea has been changed for the Cyber Truck.
Getting rid of the Tesla Model S's self-presenting door handles is a win for Tesla, as many of the
customers were disappointed by them due to their tricky usage and not-so-great performance,
especially in freezing weather. Among other updates to the structure, the window
sills have been lowered a few inches and the centerline has been made more leveled as well.
Now some people may be concerned about shrinking the size of the Truck by 3%, which might result in
decreasing the original size of the bed, and room inside.
But knowing the over-achieving track record of
Elon’s team, it is likely that the original storage specs are to remain
unaltered and size changes to be made entirely across the trunk.
The steel alloy exoskeleton of the truck shows incredible durability and
is dominantly considered to be a safe driver for its passengers,
with the ability to recoil most of the impact in the case of low speed or
even high-speed crashes, preventing any significant damage to the passengers.
However, modern vehicles are also needed to be safe for pedestrians to some extent, given the
possibility of a road crash. And looking at the pointy,
sharp, and angular body of the Cyber Truck, there is a strong possibility that it might not get
approved to be released, especially in Europe. It is most likely
to fail the European Safety Certificate and would need some modifications to its shape and structure
before getting approved—according to some safety experts.
So maybe we can expect some tweaking to the shape of the chassis as well,
but if this is to happen, the changes will most likely be
applied to a version of the truck that will be specifically designed for Europe
only. So,
at the beginning of the video, we talked about how there's a bigger purpose for all the CyberTruck
changes Overall,
the changes made to the final version are going to be an increment to the specs of the vehicle
and will make it more cost-efficient to make it affordable.
Tesla is not just making an average truck;
the goal is to make the CyberTruck a leader in the pickup
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