Previously on Half Scale Cybertruck we managed to seam weld the entire body,
get the motors mounted, add on the wheels, and then we crashed it...
Oh my god!
Then we did lots of sanding.
In this episode we've got a lot of work to do.
We're gonna start off by adding
the pedals and the steering wheel to make it functional.
Then we're gonna add in the fenders the bumpers and even the hubcaps,
to give it a true Cybertruck look.
Finally we'll paint the Cyber ATV and possibly even give the Cybertruck
its first real test drive.
Holy crap this thing is heavy.
If we made a heel rest for that. Would that be nice?
We could design a heel rest into that design.
I would like that plus have an edge on the left side so I can't go like that.
Kind of scary having all your feet 'n legs inside.
I'm just thinking like the steering like, put the steering wheel in.
Put your foot all the way in.
Yes I know it fits Bogdan but...
Imagine like let's say Elon Musk wants to visit us and see this.
Then we get him to sit the car.
Well he should of made bigger full scale Tesla so our half scale Tesla would be less small. Okay?
Squeeze your foot in between these pointy sharp things.
Did you guys consider this when you took on the project?
We absolutely considered this.
No problem. Yeah but it also goes like this.
That's fine. This is fine.
Did you Bogdan? We knew it would be possible but not comfortable.
It's only been three weeks.
It's actually not that bad. It's pretty comfortable. It could be a lot worse.
So the Cybertruck has a really futuristic steering wheel.
Now our EZ-GO steering wheel looks very similar,
we just need to chop the top and bottom off.
Now that we have our new Cybertruck steering wheel we've
got to reassemble the shortened steering column.
Our steering column is going to sit all the way up here.
Which means we need a way to transfer the power all the way to the bottom kingpin.
In order to do that, we're gonna put together a steering
linkage that's going to join from the top to the bottom in order to allow us
the chance for the motion.
This is going to go right between our kingpin linkage and our steering rack,
and going to give us our steering authority.
Alright so all the steering components are in. We got all the batteries charged
up in the back of the Cybertruck. Now the last step is put the last seat in and drive it.
It's a bit tight.
The driver has to get into the passenger seat first,
and then slide over to the driver's seat and then the passenger can get in afterwards.
I get the ignition switch?
This is terrifying.
Alright you guys ready?
First drive of the Cybertruck.
I thought I had to turn this on first?
We don't have brakes.
This thing wants to go.
There are no brakes...
Bogdan!
Crap!
F*$%
So success. Success!
It could go so much faster but we don't have brakes.
Alright so Bogdan is really excited to test try it the first time.
It has all the capabilities of having real brakes in the back, regenerative braking
using the actual motors and speed controllers but we haven't set any of
that up so there are zero brakes at the moment.
Bogdan wants to go so
Bogdan gonna go.
Gun it!
Oh she goes! Very nice! She Goes!
This isn't even set to full power or anything like that.
Oh looks so good on camera. It looks like a Cybertruck.
Alright you guys ready? Floor it.
That was awesome. I'd say that's a pretty successful first run. What I've noticed is we've
have no limits on the current acceleration of the motors and if you
actually gun it the wheels just spin out so you gotta actually control the
acceleration at the moment to actually get it to accelerate as fast as possible.
I think that once we have brakes on this thing it's gonna be so much fun
Alight so for the rear bumper what we're actually doing is we're fabricating it out of multiple pieces.
This is the underside that goes onto the Cybertruck.
Then we have this metal piece that we made that's gonna hold the license plate.
That goes onto the back. Followed by this big plate which is nice and strong to hold our trailer hitch.
Which will be bolting on to the back of that.
Then a final piece at the top which is going to close up the entire bumper.
So this will be the very bottom plate and the undercarriage of our Cybertruck bumper.
Then we're using box tube around the perimeter to offset it just like the real truck.
Let's go build it!
You want to go in deeper? I would like it deeper I think because in the real one.
This is a lot of stick out. The real ones a quarter inch. Yeah.
This line should go all the way down to there.
Double Check!
Alright so to make some test windows for the Cybertruck I'm actually gonna
have go back to the old shop where the old laser cutter is right now, so let's go there.
Alright so to do some of the finer work on the Cybertruck we're gonna come back the old garage.
Use the laser cutter to do a custom glowing license plate that says Cybertruck. Lets get started.
Alright so we have the license plate all loaded up in our laser cutter software.
We just have to send it to the laser cutter.
WINDOW, WINDOW, WINDOW, WINDOW
Ready?
Ready? Gun it!
That's the absolute max these can do?
It's pretty marginal return on your investment over 600 amps with this motor.
I was wondering if we went to 800 amps would they spin?
Put it up to 700 we'll..
That back wheel was spinning the whole time?
Yeah. This one too, that's cool.
This thing drifts like nothing.
These might be useful.
Oh my god!
Worth it.
After approximately 6 million hours of grinding on the outside we're done.
but now we have to do the inside for another six to fifteen thousand hours.
So let's get right to it!
We just finished grinding the interior of the Cybertruck, first because the
edges were sharp but secondly because we're gonna be vinyl wrapping the entire
inside give it a true Cybertruck aesthetic.
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Alright the Cybertruck is almost done and I've got to say I'm pretty impressed with what the team's accomplished.
This has got to be one of our most polished projects yet.
I mean that both literally and figuratively we really have pulled out
all the stops on this build and I think it's something we can all be super proud of.
That being said there are a few more things we need to do before it's completely done.
Once it's finished we're gonna do the grand reveal and some
serious real-life testing. Including trying to out tow a full-size f-150 and
equipping it with a giant pneumatic air cannon.
Some of the other things we have left to finish are the interior adding windows
the iPad app dashboard for a true Tesla feel the LED lighting the tailgate
complete with a ramp and probably a bunch of other things I'm forgetting, but
mechanically it's pretty much done. So make sure you subscribe with
notifications turned on because this thing is almost ready to rock.