has been kind of an enigma.

It was revealed four years ago, almost to the day,

and ever since then it was kind of quiet.

But then we slowly started seeing them rolling

around like California a little bit

and then a couple in Texas.

And these were like prototype Cybertrucks,

and they were testing.

Turns out one of them was me.

Well, for a day anyway.

So what we have here is a near final Tesla Cybertruck.

It's not an actual delivery truck yet.

It's still one that they've been testing.

So there's some small, small prototyping

things here or there,

but everything that I'm about to show you

is what's going to show up in the customer's delivery trucks

starting basically right now.

So I've learned a lot about this truck

in my time testing it.

There are some surprising things about it,

some features that are really cool,

things that I think truck people are really gonna like,

but also some concerns that I have, some surprises.

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Let's take a look at the final Tesla Cybertruck.

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All right, first things first, let's get to the specs.

Everyone wants to know the official numbers.

Everything on paper.

And it's funny because we'll get to this in a second,

but some things have actually changed

from the show truck that showed up on stage,

including the overall dimensions.

I'll get to that.

But the stuff that you probably care about

is the basics like price, range, speed, right?

So there are gonna be three configurations

of the Cybertruck.

This one that we're looking at here,

which you can't tell by looking at it,

but this is the triple motor version.

It's not quite the same as the Plaid powertrain,

but it is two in the rear, one in the front

and it's gonna be able to do zero to 60 in 2.7 seconds

and 11 second quarter mile.

It's got about 845 horsepower.

It has torque vectoring at the rear

and it's absurd.

They call it the beast.

It's a pretty ridiculous set of specs.

I think that makes it

the fastest production pickup truck factory ever.

But there's also going to be a dual motor version

that they also start to ship early

and eventually also a single motor real wheel drive version.

The triple motor is gonna start

at about a hundred thousand dollars.

So this is new information.

We kind of had a much lower idea

of what the price is gonna be at launch.

This is a hundred thousand dollars truck you're looking at,

expect somewhere around 75, 85,000

for the dual motor version.

And then the single motor will be further down the road.

But the dual motor is still 600 plus horsepower

and still plenty fast.

But that's the general basics.

And as far as range,

we'll get to the wheels in a second,

but it's about a 340 mile max range

from the absolute most efficient version of this truck.

Now a couple other last numbers.

Things that I think some truck people will appreciate.

First of all, towing capacity and bed capacity.

Those are some things that Tesla's told me.

I'm gonna put the numbers up here.

I think it's 2,500 pounds for the bed, which is pretty cool.

And we also measured the truck,

because officially it's about 5% smaller

in every dimension from the original show truck,

the prototype that people have been seeing on stage.

So I measure it from front to back

and it's about from bumper to bumper, 224 inches.

We happen to have an F-150 Lightning here

that we've been directly comparing it to right over there.

We've got some onboard power

and all sorts of fun features here.

And so I'll mention when things like

that also appear on this truck,

but it's about the size of an F-150 Lightning

A little bit smaller.

Now speaking of the 5% shrinking dimension wise,

there are a lot of things that have changed about this truck

versus the original show car.

From front to back there's a lot.

There's a motorized front trunk,

there's so much to talk about in this video.

There is the world's largest windshield wiper,

which I'm sure you're curious about.

So we'll talk about that.

It does actually have side view mirrors.

They're removable and they've kind of done

all that they possibly can to make it able to be removed.

Like you can take this off,

it has to ship with this from the factory legally.

But there is a blind spot monitoring lights

inside the truck.

There are cameras here on the side of the truck

to show you that spot when you put your blinker on.

So you can just pop this off if you really wanted to.

And then also down at the side here, these wheels,

this is an arrow cap that is removable.

So let's just do that to start.

This is the premium tire that's going to come

on a 20 inch rim.

All of the initial trucks, triple motor, dual motor,

they'll all have this tire on.

It looks like it's a bespoke Goodyear tire.

It's got some neat little aesthetic tweaks

and I'm sure compound tweaks and tread stuff here.

But this is a plastic arrow cap

with like this outside rubber.

It's actually a two piece

and it'll get you a couple percent more range on the truck,

but if you don't like the look of it

or if you're off-roading, pop that off.

And that's how the truck's stock wheel will look.

A lot of grease and metal in there.

But this is a two part thing like I said.

So if I can rip this off, these are the two pieces

and the reason is two parts

is because actually one of these to line up

with the little rectangles on the tire.

So maybe you want to take the arrow caps off

to air down the tires and go off-roading

and you want maximum brake cooling, whatever you're doing.

But if you wanna put these back on,

you sort of line all this up

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and then you take the plastic bit,

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now you're back.

Get a shot of this, get a shot of my,

so I'm gonna probably not do that again

considering everything it just left on my hands.

But you get the idea, you can do that on all four tires,

20 inch rims.

These again are the premium tires

and yeah, okay, great, moving on.

So okay, you kind of can't really tell the story

of the Cybertruck without addressing the fact

that it is a giant stainless steel triangle.

I mean it looks surreal.

Like there is not really a single curve

on this entire truck.

Every single piece,

these are giant pieces of stainless steel.

There's all sorts of sheen

and fingerprint implications that we'll talk about,

but I don't know it's an aesthetic thing,

like not a whole lot of curves.

Fine, that's pretty cool.

But then the other version of that conversation

is like look at how sharp the front of the,

some of these pieces here, how sharp it is.

Not that you're gonna like walk up

and poke the front of someone's truck very often,

but that's a sharp corner piece

of stainless steel right there and right there.

And then this front piece here,

it's this one huge big stamped piece

and I had a couple conversations with people,

engineers at Tesla about using stainless steel

on the body panels like this.

And they have these huge presses

that are stamping the stainless steel,

but steel has this sort of a spring back effect.

So you use a lot of force to stamp it in place,

but then it springs back really quickly.

So you have to stamp further than you need

to get it to unspring back to the part

that you want it to be at.

It's a whole complicated thing.

All of that is to say,

I've seen a bunch of Cybertrucks while I've been here

and they all have slightly different levels

of panel gaps, build quality in general.

This truck in particular that we're looking at,

it actually looks great.

I'm not gonna say it's micron levels of precision

or anything like that,

but generally panel gaps all the way around

are pretty small, pretty even, looks really good.

But I don't know, I don't know if I can promise that

for every truck, like even just this huge front piece here

has a little bit of like wavering.

It's not quite a perfect flat line.

So I'm not an expert on it,

but I'm just saying this is a truck,

you're probably not gonna care too much about looking

exactly perfect panel gap wise.

All right, the next thing we gotta talk about

is the Cybertrucks trunk, AKA, the truck bed.

There's a lot going on here, actually.

Look at this gigantic slope.

It kind of, it looks like a dump truck to me.

But one thing you should know is first of all,

a dampened opening for the tailgate,

but it's not a power opening tailgate.

So you will have to manually close the thing,

but it is a nice soft damp.

And then the other side is the powered tonneau cover.

Oh wait, I should do the thing.

They told me it could support up to 300 pounds.

So...

They told me I could do it, so here we are.

I'm not gonna jump, but I'm told 300 pounds of force

from somebody standing on one foot.

So I think if I jumped I could probably break the thing.

But the fact that I'm standing on it

and it's not breaking, that's pretty good.

And it's a motorized tonneau cover,

which means...

Pretty smooth, I gotta say.

Now once you're here, there's a bunch of stuff

I gotta talk about with this trunk.

First things first, you probably notice it slid down

and revealed a rear window,

which means number one, yes, there's a rear window.

It doesn't go up and down,

but at least you have that glass there.

And two, yes, that means

that when you close the tonneau cover

you are completely blocking your rear visibility.

We'll get to that later.

So the other thing you probably noticed

is when we first saw the Cybertruck,

I did a video about this on the auto-focus channel.

The bed was just like bare stainless steel.

It looked kind of sick, it looked crazy,

but you'll notice now it is fully lined.

Tesla said they took it out

and talked to some construction people about it

and were like, "All right, what do you think of this truck?

"What do you think of the bed?"