The Feat of Innovation: Elon Musk's Vision for Cyber Truck

It was clear that the team behind Cybertruck had been thinking outside the box, or rather, inside the iconic shape that had been years in the making. "We looked at what we wanted to make sure we had the capability of a truck," Musk explained. "We couldn't do something this radical and then it was horrible." The team's willingness to take risks and push boundaries was evident from the outset.

The design process was a journey of trial and error, with the team experimenting with different elements to create a vehicle that would be both functional and aesthetically pleasing. "We did a great job of making it like a truck, making it like a car, giving it a six-foot bed, giving it a 4ft wide bed," Musk said. "Making it comfortable but yet still looks like the iconic shape that you drew years ago." It was this perfect blend of form and function that set Cybertruck apart from its competitors.

The development process was not without its challenges, however. The team faced skepticism from their peers, who questioned whether a car with a radical design could actually succeed in the market. "We got a lot of criticism," Musk acknowledged. "People said it's too radical, people said it's too futuristic." But the team remained undeterred, driven by their vision for a vehicle that would revolutionize the industry.

The impact of Elon Musk's leadership on the project was undeniable. "Our boss pushes us to go to the next level," Musk explained. "He wants to see new ideas and innovation." This kind of environment is rare in the automotive industry, where established companies often prioritize proven designs over bold new ideas. But with Musk at the helm, Cybertruck became a symbol of what was possible when innovation and risk-taking came together.

The Corvair, which debuted in 1960, was another example of a revolutionary car that failed to gain traction in the market. Despite its innovative design and features, including a front-mounted engine and transmission, it sold only 1.8 million units. The Mustang, on the other hand, was a huge success, selling over 3.7 million units. Musk used this as an example of how new ideas can sometimes catch fire, but not always. "People worry about electric cars," he said. "They think they're too expensive or that they'll never catch on."

But Musk is convinced that electric vehicles are the future. He pointed out that gas-powered cars have a much higher rate of fires than electric vehicles, and cited statistics to support this claim. Despite the risks, Musk remains committed to his vision for a sustainable future, where electric vehicles dominate the roads.

As Cybertruck made its way onto the market, it was clear that it was more than just a vehicle – it was a symbol of innovation and progress. "It's all-American-made," Musk said proudly. This was exactly what he meant by "American-made." The manufacturing process had been taken to new heights, with thousands of engineers and designers working together to bring the vision to life.

The reaction to Cybertruck has been mixed, with some people embracing its radical design and others criticizing it for being too futuristic or impractical. But Musk remains undeterred, convinced that his vision for a more sustainable future is worth fighting for. As he said, "We're going to make electric cars that will make gas-powered cars obsolete." With Cybertruck leading the way, it's clear that this is just the beginning of a new era in automotive innovation.

In the end, it was clear that the team behind Cybertruck had been driven by their passion for innovation and progress. As Musk said, "I don't follow sports – I follow manufacturing and American-made products." This was evident in every detail of the vehicle, from its design to its manufacturing process. And as he looked out at the crowd of excited onlookers, it was clear that Cybertruck had become a symbol of what was possible when innovation and vision came together.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennow here's a problem a lot of folks have you get so excited about something like this cyber truck you just go out and you just buy it on the spot one of those impulse buys then you go home and you tell your spouse they're not thrilled they throw you out of the house but if you bought the optional tent no problem let's try a little off-roading here and see how we did like nothing yeah it's amazing how when you get that torque in the front it just crawls up and over those rocks it doesn't even care amazing wellcome another episode of jayla's garage the car we're featuring today or the vehicle I guess would be the Tesla 2024 cyber truck we're going to learn some some things you might not know about this we have the chief designer here and as well as the head engineer you might think you know everything about this already if you watch a bunch of the other shows but I think we'll learn some stuff today let's bring in fron Von Hol house he's the designer nice job my friend thank you you know I just watch people get angry they either hate it or they love it and but there's a reaction from everybody well that's when I remember Bob Letz told me when the Viper came out he said half of people hated it but the other half loved it and we're not selling cars the half that hate it right you know that if you got 100 people that means 50 of them are buying it so half so the same thing with this I was amazed at what I was able to do with this let's talk about design first and then we'll get in to some of the features and some of the Easter eggs they call them that are hidden in this truck you know the last new pickup truck in America was the Corvair back in the' 60s and it had the cab in front and had the engine in the back right and people in think of it as a pickup truck but it was and it got along what what kind of truck is that trucks have looked the same since 1918 you know definitely one thing that we looked at in fact we put we we lined up all the trucks from a front view and took the badges off yeah and just asked people if they could identify which truck it was which which brand it was and it was it was really hard to tell they're so similar and there's such a recipe and we just took a step back and said hey how you know how do we look at this from a first principal's perspective and really rethink what a truck could be right and do it better do you find it generational I find people under 40 go crazy people over 40 kind of go what what is that I don't know it kind of it looks kind of Star Wars they just have they're not quite sure but it seems to the young demographic really seems to be drawn to this yeah like kids especially and the thing that we found is that people that would never even consider a truck are putting orders in and you know making reservations just because it's so unique it's so different but it does all the things as you'll learn um that a truck needs to do and it does a lot of them a lot better I thought it would be cumbersome to drive but you got four-wheel steering so you can really steer it like this and a lot of breakthroughs on this as well but we'll discuss that with ls drive by wire and all that let's get back to design what do the government tell you you have to do obviously it's not like the old days you could just design something and that would be it the government says you have to have headlights a certain height and all this type correct and when we started looking at this form factor you know we had to figure out how we put all this stuff that the government requires bumpers lights uh mirrors wipers all these uh um even you know the offset of the tire to the body the the overall width all that stuff has to get baked into a design like this and you know this design is really around the function so the the Simplicity of the of the shape shape and the form really is derived from using the stainless steel you can only Bend stainless steel in One Direction so if you actually look at the the the shape of the car it's defined by just flat panels kind of broken up and faceted kind of like a diamond right right um and and you know there's there's a lot of like stealth technology and and and vehicles that are out there you know we're inspiration because they're basically breaking down kind of the the traditional shape and looking at a new way um and ultimately a better way uh of of manufacturing something so like the idea I I thought by this time we would have cameras here instead of but that's still got talk to your Congressman about yeah that's still illegal you have to have a mirror in Europe we're seeing that you know um becoming more apparent but it hasn't filtered here to the US okay yeah we're all a little behind it I remember dual headlights were considered too bright for for most people so 1957 some states you could not have a dual headlight you get a Cadillac with a single headlight you California you could have the double head it's just so odd but now it's thankfully all one state there's oddly a lot of um requirements that are are state byst state as well so there's a federal level and then there's a state level let me ask you about this is this design or engineering you have this giant wiper oh my it's the biggest wiper blade I've ever seen in my life is that design or is that engineering it's a little bit of both so you know one of one of the things about this design is it's a clean line basically from the nose to the peak right and we didn't want to break up the silhouette of that and have a big offset for the cow that where to traditionally you hide the wipers so we wanted the wiper to be exposed in fact we we we we had a design that we looked at where we were burying the wipers underneath the hood and having the hood pop up and the wipers would reveal pretty complex right um and so we went to a simpler system and we realized that you know we need to wipe for the human to see but also for the cameras to see right and you know we break it broke it down and and the simplest version was to have a one arm and what we learned is that by parking the wiper up up on the side was a there was an arrow benefit to that too so we were able to improve the drag of the vehicle now the wheel covers and this is a wheel cover it's not part of the wheel correct it seems like is that decorative is it Arrow cuz it seems like in a truck having an exposed wheel so more Macho you know I mean what was what was it's a little bit of both so you know the the truck is pretty angular there's not much you know roundness on it but the wheels around and we wanted to just break convention and keep the the overall appearance looking very futuristic and we we we were seeing that as soon as we have round wheels on it it normalized the truck a little bit so we we went for something that was very angular similar to the aesthetic but but we found that was also a really big Arrow Improvement so it's kind of a combination of both and imagine because of stainless steel you had to go angular because you can't really shape it yeah you can't you can you can only bend it and you know we we break form that and um you can see it's it's basically flat in this direction and we bend it only one and what the the tries to go with stainless steel was that something from the get-go or did that come later you design the truck and hey maybe angle steel you know well we were talking about how do you make a truck tough and you know a lot of trucks the the tough part is on the inside not necessarily the outside like if you if you look at a truck the the the most precious part or any vehicle is the paint in a way and that doesn't really describe tough if you're you know driving through the weeds or the BR the brush and you're scratching your paint that doesn't feel tough and so the epitome of toughness is stopping a bullet right and you know we looked at what materials could do that and and we had to design the steel specifically so that we wouldn't split the the steel when we bent it at the thickness that we were using so design comes from the material you okay but it was always going to be bulletproof from day one right pretty much we wanted to again it was like convey the the idea of toughness and there's nothing that feels more tough than being a really taking a bullet yeah I mean really exactly because is your warranty void if they shoot you I have no idea how that works it is the glass also the same same way the glass is not bulletproof but it'll stop at like a you know a baseball thrown at 70 mph or you know class four hail which is like a big chunk of hail at 100 miles hour I I guess in a hail storm this wouldn't Dent would it no that's you know combine that with a bioweapon defense mode the the um heit filter that we have inside you're pretty pretty safe in The Apocalypse from a design standpoint um and aerodynamics does angular hurt you or help you the Curve curves are curves better for aerodynamics than angles yeah Curves in certain areas are better but one of the few curves on the truck is right here on the front bumper and that's really driven by Aero efficiency and trying to get the air to steer around the wheel and that that made a big big Improvement in the overall and what is the coefficient of drag on this yeah the coefficient of drag on this truck is 335 so really that's that's pretty good yeah I mean that's very I would have thought it was like a brick cuz like the C they always take a kunach and a Volkswagen Bug and the bug has a better coefficient of drag than the kunach but Countach looks what people think is aerodynamic isn't really aerodynamic yeah and has a little bit more horsepower to overcome it too right right okay obviously you wanted designers to carry up to what six people five people yeah we wanted to make sure that we fit five adults inside and so it's got effectively a crew cab but then you know in the overall length of um it's actually shorter than F-150 it is able to get a longer bed with just better packaging moving the occupants forward um providing a ton of space for the in the interior and then a six foot long bed in the rear so it's kind of efficient packaging as well and does it say Tesla anywhere on it there are no Tesla badges on really okay so it really is its own kind of product don't know what it is well I think you just see it and you can yeah it's it it be it becomes its own character were you surprised by how many people came forward to put down deposits it was like in the millions was it yeah it over two million deposits $100 for a deposit yeah well you know it's so funny because I know when McLaren built the P1 they just built 375 because we'll see if we can sell that many and at first people go what what's a P1 and then well then they realize oh we should have made more right I mean were you worried that this might be seen us oh my is that the new etel what is that what you know what I'm saying I mean it is polarizing right so and like you said there there's love or hate feel to it but the reservations are are definitely showing and like I said we're getting people that would never in their never own a pickup truck they never even think of owning it but because the vehicle is so unique they're they're absolutely interested I'm surprised you call it a pickup truck I appreciate the honesty because it is but no way is it a pickup truck cuz that's so grained in our mind you it comes from it comes from Henry Ford sold the Model T and Seer sold a kit we could take the trunk off and put a pickup bed in the back so you went down to the railway station to pick up your truck P so they call a pickup truck so it's funny how vernacular what yeah kind of kind of goes that way well it's it it does all the things that a pickup truck would do and more yeah but drives like a car um you can drive it everywhere and do anything with it it is Big it just looks bigger than it is or feels bigger than it is I don't know what it's the angular shape of it it seems like it's huge but it just it just you know it's it's a new shape it's not one that we're used to seeing on the road necessarily but when you park this next to an F-150 or any of the other um normal pickup trucks it actually sits slightly lower and it feels smaller did you have any things that got rejected when you designing was were there certain things oh no that's that's too wild because this is about as wild as it gets I you yeah we you we we didn't want mirrors right and so in the beginning we weren't even designing mirrors and then just we couldn't get the regulations changed you want camer yeah okay so okay so you know I think going forward that we would love to get rid of the mirrors um just it's adds to Convention you know it's funny I have uh in my house a three-stall garage in the middle one OB you got the two walls here and I thought well it's never going to fit in there but it did it's small than it seemed and it and and the mirrors I didn't have to retract the mirrors yeah they pulled up yeah yeah but I I didn't have to I pulled right now okay so it meets every legal requirement cuz the original one you designed was maybe 5 or 10% bigger it about 5% bigger yeah and so through the process we just shrank it and shrank it and you know we kind of have this thing at Tesla where we want to create the smallest overall vehicle but biggest on the inside so the the overall maneuverability and us ility of it is is easier but you end up with more space inside any other design tricks that I'm missing here I mean there's there's a ton we have a a tono which we call the Vault and you know that basically you it's tough enough to stand on but it locks the rear bed and that comes standard on every truck and um it it it really allows you to use the bed almost more like a trunk in a way so you know one one thing that's a problem with pickup trucks is you drive around and you put stuff in the back you can't make a stop because it's going to be gone you know right right or a Tano you can just cut with a knife well yeah or a soft Tano but with this it you know it's extruded aluminum um it's and it locks up the whole the whole rear but otherwise the the the bed is you know bigger by volume than any other pickup truck bed too so and longer it's than you know traditional five and I guess you could sleep in the back here couldn't you yeah yeah we make a great tent that goes on the back oh was that right for overlanding and camping there are no door handles just this yeah just push a button just the button and you'll see that the door opens up to 90° and you have room for five adults in there um to easily sit but you can also fold up the seats and then you have a ton of more storage okay so does it open all the way to the back when you it does not open all the way to the back but we looked at this truck and said you know people use trucks kind of like as a Swiss army knife in a way they have to be ready for anything and everybody has something that different that they'll throw out it so we wanted to make it as um flexible and you know delivers much um opportunity you know you notice in the rear we put LTR in there it's a whole system that you can plug in accessories easily than tie downs um and the front seat is um you know big we have a squirkle for the steering wheel right you'll notice well it A variation of the Yol yeah in a way right right okay but for off-roading grab you know being able to grab anywhere the wheels moving gives you a little bit more agility well the 1962 Dodge had that same steering wheel ah maybe that's it was translucent you know when like bed or something right uh I the thing I really like is this quarter window here I find so many cars in recent years have this big a pillar for obviously roof rigidity but I'm always I always think there's a kid on a bicycle right here all the time blind spot yeah so that's that's really super useful it brings light in and you know a lot of the structure for the truck actually comes down through here this is the the main structure a and then in the front we have a a front trunk as well right right which you know you can put a carryon so plenty of space in here right right and then behind this panel is an easy serviceable uh filter for your HEPA filter okay so easy access to that and that HEPA filter is pretty unbelievable isn't it if it's yeah I mean here's some mustard gas attack exactly again like when the apocalypse comes this is where you want to be for sure this is where you want to be that's right not in here but in the truck and then you know like from a signature look of the truck the upper lights are just the DRL the daytime running lights and then we you know hid the headlights down here and super slim and that's legal down there it's legal yeah it's in within the zone so from the appearance they're kind of tucked in you don't even see them yeah and that's an LED yeah well let's let let's bring in our engineer introduce Lars yeah Lars why don't you come in hey guys how you doing good good to see you well pretty amazing truck I I I just driving around the I I got stopped every street going people run up to I mean it's really hilarious you know the thing is it's one thing to to design something absolutely unique but it's another thing to engineer it and then put it into production and so I think in this instance AR and team definitely had one of the hardest jobs on the planet to take something this unique right with materials so different than convention and still turn it into you know a great product thanks F well let me ask you about engineering this sure this my God this is like like you're in a in a ice rink and you're just you know you know we started with squeegees for the windows you know say but how much power does it take to move an arm that big is it well you know the whole trucks you know move to 48 volts I think we've talked about that but like this Mo this wiper probably couldn't exist without that because you know that we we have a 48 volt motor that's connected here it's just under um a kilowatt so it's like 600 800 watts of power to move it back and forth at the speeds we need you know when you're on the highway it's raining a lot it's got to clear that highway speed really and that's heavy that water movement yeah and you get the arrow resistance coming up against it there's actually a little spoiler here uh to keep it down when driving at speed otherwise it you know wipers tend to kind of flop up because usually the low pressure area is underneath so that was an arrow challenge it was a motor challenge it was a you know design challenge but then it was also like where does the water go cuz this windshield is straight no normally you shove the water and you park down here and the wiper keeps the water down right so we had to like work on the Angles and the timing just so the water drains off to the side it actually shoots when you do a wet wipe you know for clean water out the back side of the blade on this side so you're shooting it up and then we're shoving it off the side of the the vehicle when you're when you're driving I mean that alone is like probably like you know most companies definition of innovation yeah right but that was just like one small part we had to get done and of course you know I always wanted it to be smaller less of a thing day and these guys are like no it's got to be big and beefy well let me ask you about 48 volts cuz when when I was the kid a lot of cars were 6V then they went to 12 and I've always told the 48 vol was the maximum amount a human could take on a shock without injuring themselves I mean that that's you know like what OSHA says a little over that it's 50 52 volts and so we keep it at 48 volts because it one it's you know four times the power but you know heat goes with iqu r why has the rest of the industry resisted 48 volts because I mean it change is hard jay like you have to want to change yeah yeah but it seems like with air conditioning and all the electronics you almost need two separate batteries and is this 48 volts coming off the Tesla main battery or we have a brand new power conversion system in this so we have the 800 volt battery um we split that into two for charging so you be 400 volts on our current superchargers but new ones will do 800 um but the power conversion system actually is what takes that DC Vol voltage and down uh downplays it to the 48 volts we do have a 48 volt low voltage battery to keep the systems alive when the main battery is off but that power conversion system is converting that 800 volts to 48 volts and also to 110 and 240 for electrical outlets that you have um and there which are actually AC and what that actually also did is allow us to have bidirectional uh charging so you can take power off the truck and charge your other Tesla or your F1 house right right yeah you know what's funny I remember when electric cars first came in and Tesla first on the road I remember people would always say well once the Germans get into it they'll they'll have the industry and all this kind of stuff but you guys have Battery Technology like these batter batteries for this are like half the weight of some other yeah I mean these are 4680 batteries we make inhouse in Texas and I mean the the battery itself you know is is you know a lot of little batteries right but it's 123 kwatt hours and that energy density when you compare it to like the iron phosphates that most companies are using is you know 30 40% more dense and that allows us to have a truck that weighs you know in this case it's a tri motor 6,850 lbs which is like the same as like a ram F you know 1500 or it's not like you buy this bulletproof stainless thing that looks like it's weighs more it's the same and and that's pretty uh you know a testament to the engineering team and really France helping us work Solutions together well trying to get the most out of the battery pack so we as we're incredibly efficient with our pack and our pack size um and consumption rate and if you look at some of the competitors and you look at the pack size and the range that they get out of that it's it's we're like twice is good right that's what I mean and and for some reason people don't think of Tesla as an American company these are all built in America built in Texas it probably has the highest American content right yeah it does it does model Y is number one model 3 is number two um there's some Honda in there and then there's model snx 3 and four or four and five and I assume this will be you know top five next year as well I can't think of one part that's really not made here very cool now also let me tell you about the tires now obviously the tires seem to be made specifically to match this would this be called a hub cap is that fair to say what do you call it wheel cover we call it a wheel cover C it's combination of you know making the truck feel futuristic and improving the a efficiency it pops right off it's flexible on the edges so you know you can take a an impact if you're off-roading is there an arrow effect to having the wheel covered is it absolutely yeah it's super there's a lot of opportunity for Aero efficiency in wheels and wheel covers now I notied this is six lug nuts which is unusual ual yeah in a vehicle five was used to be the four was the long thing but you know the lug nuts out there are really for for torque I mean um you know a lot of people think that they're also for vehicle load but that's actually on the inside for when you attach the bearing there so this has to take Torque from the motors and the vehicle load although most of these will wind up taking Timmy to a private school it's it's generally an off-road it's it's really an off-road vehicle it has a lot of specific off-road abely people might not know about can you go in water with this can I you could definitely go in water I mean one of the things we we haven't talked about a lot but like this is a truck and trucks are meant to do you know all kinds of things and really be able to go anywhere right you of course we have all wheeel drive we have a lockable diff up front which gives you as much torque on one wheel as you want if one wheel you know is low Traction in the back we don't have that but we don't have any diff CU we have two Motors right each one of those capable of supplying the same amount of torque as the front so you can get one wheel doing you know the all all the torque it needs but it you know from a off-road standpoint it can raise in our fully you know highest mode to 17 and half inches of ground clearance right and in that mode we have also Wade mode W mode as in Waiting in water yeah you sit in water um you want to go through a river wanted to make sure you could do that and um you can go through about 2 and 1/2 ft a little more than 2 and 1/2 ft of water without any water getting into the cabin and having to worry about that but also with an electric vehicle we wanted to be super we're smart about that we have this new technology called uh we call it the scuba pack because we took the air suspension system we actually pressurized the battery you know Waters and B water and batteries they don't really get along you get electrolytes and they start to Arc but we wanted to keep that water out and make sure you wouldn't have to worry about that and that's where we came up with the scuba pack and that happens just by pressing a button on the UI say wade mode will pressurize the pack and what forces the water out it forces air into the pack and all you need to keep the water out cu it is a sealed pack is just a little bit of positive pressure right just a little bit of positive pressure to keep any of those leak points or the flood ports you know from you know the White Steam car you know I've got my 1909 White Steam car what they did back in the day to cross the river they got a full head of steam they taped over everything literally went in under under the water under the water and came out the other side you know people have done that with our cars don't recommend it but you know it's possible yeah that's pretty amazing okay uh let's see what other little engineering tricks do we have here um I mean there's a ton on the inside but on the on the outside like I think you talked about the stainless steel but I think you know some of the things that you kind of don't mention and you mentioned this earlier is the glass so this glass up here right is the biggest piece of automotive glass but it has to be tough too it's a Boral silica glass and what that does is it provides an immense amount of Chip resistance so if you do get a chip and even though it's super tough you know it won't happen that often you get what this kind of stress ring around it and so the chiple form in the middle you get this hoop stress ring and that means it won't propagate right and that's super great for Offroad cuz you get you keep your visibility and then if you do want to repair it you just get that little you know safe light glue and fill it in you won't never see it now this is the first production car or vehicle yeah to steer by wire no steering column no mechanical yeah no mechanical connection it's still electrically connected right I mean there have been a couple other attempts but they've always kept a mechanical backup was that illegal before was it against you have to have a steering column no it's never in many of the regs is one of those things they've never really you know dictated but um I think a lot of folks are afraid of it because of you know redundancy or fail safe but you know airplanes have been steering my wire for 40 50 years right I mean it's really just an effort in in understanding the the health of the system and so we have um d double redundancy on the front motor we have another motor on the rear to turn the rear wheels and then of course we have redundant sensors triple redundancy some cases so that they can arbitrate so if two sensors disagree with the third one then you you take the majority vote um that way if something's going wrong uh you know we really know what's happening so we don't really anticipate any failures and one of the great things about that is it gives you that driving feel you were talking about because at high speeded we can have it be you know a pretty slow ratio so you can feel it but at low speed we speed it up a lot and you don't have to go hand overand ever it's just annoying yeah and what's even cooler is when you're off-roading you know a lot of times you get this kickb and you know your hands are going we can IGN that or stamp it down so you still get the feedb but you're not feeling fatigued and tired and that makes it a super comfortable experience you're not fighting the truck I mean most people go off-roading in this are just amazed at how easy it is to control because of that feature well I was amazed how quiet it was with these tires I thought I'd be drumming all over you know the Tesla tires are an engineering feat and of themselves we we work with our partners in this case goodye to make some of the lowest rolling resistance tires on the market to Fran's point on efficiency it's got to be super efficient but for this truck in particular it also had to go off-road and to your point it's got to be quiet so these will take you you know basically in the mud and do whatever you want but on the highway they're super quiet there's no compressor to fill the tires on board is there so we do have a compressor on board obviously fills the air suspension there's about 17 L of capacity in that in that so you can you can if you get a spare you can well the thing is that tire has probably about 120 L of air in it so even though we're at you know 300 PSI there and this is at 50 you know the entropy that you need to take the air out of there and put it into there means you're going to fill really slow like 20 30 minutes so what we do is with our 240 and 110 volts in the back we give you an offboard air compressor you put in your little under storage Bay in the trunk and that that compressor is capable of of of of doing tires because it's a different you know set speed any other Secrets here or things I should know yeah so another cool thing we did for off-road is the original fron you had this light you had the two light feature and um at Tesla we never you know under promise we always try and overd deliver so you notice the light is missing but what we did is we made an off-road light um and actually that's a little Easter egg you can see here there's a little roof rack mount here you push it up and there's a wire in there 48 volt wire that'll power our off-road light which is actually laser lit and it fills up the road you know how far does it go FR you remember over five football fields yeah down the way so just about half a mile down the road and that and we get to do that because we made it ourselves it fills in the area you don't see with your brights on so when you go off-roading with that that roof light man and you don't have to you know cut a hole in your IP to wire the little switch it's all did it for built into the user and you just have a button that says you know what's so funny I've driven a lot of electric vehicles and they give me a fob and it's just something I just like the fact that my Tesla is just my I had my phone with me anyway yeah right now I have to carry another thing with another key we didn't even make a fob for this no I know that's what I mean I I find that real Annoying and they and they to give you the Imp they make it nice and heavy so it's it's got some yeah that's now you've got this big thing in your pocket yeah annoying yeah I I love the fact that I can wire to my phone we do have the NFC card that you can give to valet or right you know you never give your card a Val not this one not this one I just say to my wife honey we're not eating here but if you do you take this one they'll just let you park it we do have a valet mode so they can't do the ferris bu thing oh okay let lock them out I got say yeah you you have to be nuts to give your a card yeah you ever read the back of a valet ticket if your car is stolen they don't look for it for 30 days CU you voluntarily key so it was not stolen so now after a month they go looking for your car wow okay now your this is your charge port here yeah charge port we HD away again um didn't want to cut holes in the stainless steel right right make make lars's life easier thank you but when you know one of the things we were also trying to do with all this like cleanness was offer immense amount of flexibility so we talked about the roof rack and the headlight uh but underneath we also have a bunch of features on the outside of the battery pack so you can bolt on a skid plate if you want to go super off-roading um and then we did that back here with the tent and the tailgate and the tuno so you have the roof rack mounts here there's four of them that go all the way up the truck and it's really about customizable as you said Swiss army knife yeah Swiss army knife I mean we designed a tent that's specific for this it's inflatable tent you can inflate it and have your tent built in BAS basically less than 5 minutes includes a mattress in it um so you can overnight anywhere great camping vehicle in the bed you've got yeah your tailgate you've got 110 and 240 right in here so you can you can plug in your welder and weld from this truck which is pretty insane um any other kind of 110 outlet or like you know Elon did want to make it a boat and so like the vehicle almost floats maybe you have to add a little bit of extra buoyancy just to keep it up and you know if you're creative and you want you could figure out how to put an outboard motor plugged into your outlet there turn it on from your screen and go boating really I mean I I haven't engineered that one yet but I'm sure you could do a j yeah yeah that's right at my alley well just very impressive Gentlemen let's let's go to the inside of the vehicle sure you so like every other Tesla we really try to focus on the screen as being the hero right and in this truck a big 18 and a half inch screen in the front right a 9.4 in screen in the rear for the kids and backi passengers which is bigger than in you know some some Vehicles today you can see the squirkle shape of the steering wheel again we talked about steer by wire so you get a really nice onroad command you know we have a a nice welded seal plate here it's you know it's in that cyber truck uh script that we we created but not Tesla just cyber truck just cyber Truck Yeah okay well let's hop in and see see what we got here finally easy access yeah so it's a custom UI um just just for cybertruck and we you know we really tried to rethink um the usability of the UI again it's just one screen that has to have everything speed you know autopilot navigation media and all your other controls um we wanted to make sure that easy access to suspension setting um opening and closing the rear you know off-road capability yeah and that's all right here so like much like our normal screens we have the control screen right but you get easy access access to ride height which you can also do from the scroll wheel but one of the cool things we've done on on on cybertruck is really give it the truck mode so you have your normal controls for quick controls but you also have Dynamics which is you know in our many of our other vehicles is like focused on like steering effort and suspension but there's so much chassis Tech in here that we really wanted to focus it on attribute based so you can see you can choose Comfort or standard or beast and that'll change your off-road modes you can see when I press that it's adjusting the ride height as well as the steering efforts so Beast would be ludicrous or plaid on the other and it's special here because it's not just you know the torque and the suspension it's torque suspension ride height steering efforts everything that goes into making the the truck feel like a beast um and then you know we have the off-road mode here which is specially designed for cyber truck it's our first off-road mode and here's where it really shines there's two basic modes you can either do Baja which is like high speed and again we're really focused on the attribute you can use deceleration mode high if you want to you know be be very controlled with what you're doing or standard and this is you know your fun slider where we give you the handling balance you know if you go 100% rear that's some really fun drifting or if you want to drift backwards you can go 100% front Okay and then we have stability assist for what you might need and then here's the cool one we talked about outside Wade mode where it pressurizes the battery and raises the vehicle and oh now it's going up you can feel it going up feel how to is now and you can can activate this it'll pressurize the battery for driving through water which is super super cool and then you got your overlanding mode and here's another area where we tried to focus on you as a driver a lot of trucks will give you like slip control and like downhill descent but like a lot of people don't really compute with that and so we put it you know very simply here for you what kind of terrain are you on allpurpose Sand gravel rock and we adjust the torque we adjust the the the suspension to deal with those modes as well as we have the same stop mode holder roll and then of course we have um Trail assist which is you know Hill descent assist and again Wade mode here um so that's really all unique and new for cyber truck super super fun off-road stuff that we did also it's got a tow so we tow up to 11,000 lb right integrated trailer brake controller here so you don't have to buy one and you get your trailer gain your brake boost all this stuff right here already integrated into the mode um and then we talked about this earlier but you know Peron was saying you don't have to wire up your 48 volt stuff we put all the switches here too so you can just tune and turn them on from the screen because you know we don't like switches we just make sure they're here do it all right here um other cool things is you know we have extract mode and in in uh off-road mode gets up to 17 1 12 inches of ground clearance you can go up to 10 m hour with that okay so you can be driving you know if you get stuck on a rock you can drive up and go over the rock um and then you know when we're in onroad mode um we have entry mode here which gets you super super low basically slams it on the bump stop so you can get in and out very very easily but all your other controls are here as well opening closing the tunnel and then of course you know you can swipe over you get your and all these work on voice command as well of course we're getting better and better at that so we're all the way up as we as high as we can go now we are actually as low as we can no as high oh we're as high we went up yeah and then I was going to full full high and uh we actually be an extract here so we can go a little higher now it's going a little higher and the air suspension is super super fast it can do up to a half an inch a second which is super quick up and down we have more travel than any of the other air suspensions on the market the Rams the rib whatever and we can go up and down through our entire travel faster than anyone well I think it's important to note that it's true um ground clearance ground clearance there's no diff hanging down in the middle that you know you always scrape on rocks yeah you know there's that difference between running clearance and ground clearance so running clearance is sort of you know what can you um you know clear underneath the the base part of the car but ground clearance is true which what underneath the axles for us it's basically the same number only have just a little bit of the suspension sticking out in the corners but uh anything else you want to talk about in the UI no I think we're probably time to take it for a ride eh yeah let's go for a ride let's see what it's like you like that four-wheel steering huh had to convince Elon on that one I mean it's as quiet as the roll Spectre in here almost well you know we got acoustic glass everywhere um so you get really great reduction in transparency cuz it's basically like having double Paine Windows um and then of course we did a lot to get the road noise Quiet and and really come these tires actually work very well for I thought I'd just be drumming all the way down the highway you know but very nice yeah it's a a lot of work on the groove pattern and how you offset the air in between each tread just so that doesn't like uh radiate to the body and then of course like the you know the vehicle as we were talking about is super super stiff so that means we can have softer bushings and more isolation because we rely on the body for any of the handling we need you know it's 42 45 K meters per degree that's superar level more than p uh P1 it gets a lot of that stiffness from the sail panel exoskeleton actually um and in the a pillars so I mean I always laugh when people say oh they don't make them like they used to well thank God thank you very much you know it's it's a different world now I you know when I was a kid my dad bought a new carv 2 years because it would rust out rust would appear and fenders and and muffers go yeah yeah just all kinds of stuff like that you know it's like everything's like the restaurant business if you don't have an A in the window nobody's going to eat there yeah you nobody goes oh look H it's got a C+ let's go e it's just good enough but the I mean the rust thing that's you know it's come a long way on regular cars but on this one you know you don't have to worry about it at all I mean we had to make our own steel right because stainless steel is more like stain resistant not stain proof right and then the it's like kosher style exactly and the this you know the general recipes of stainless you either get corrosion resistance or you get toughness and like we had to sort of blend that and kind of get to the you know the the really happy spot of super corrosion resistant and super tough and then when you we roll Harden it you know as we get to that full hard State we're actually getting some you know work work hardening back and then we get some ductility through it just just enough to bend it um but then when we bend it it doesn't crack air bending as I talked about before we push the Press from behind and you know there's no there's no tool underneath directly underneath so you're kind of pushing it into air and then we're floating the panel on these bearings and on the side so that we're not really touching the surface either so you know it's very surprising when you watch the process there's no marks after we form it on the outside which really a lot of people thought we were going to buff it out and whatever but it's like we made it so there's no marks there's really no reason to put this in the garage even is it uh yeah tail resistant gun resistant bulletproof I don't know I guess if you get if it gets dusty going to wipe it off I've gotten used to my Yol steering but on I guess they make it an option now yeah that's right yeah but see I think it'll be like the split window in the 63 Corvette people go I want the one with the you know 20 with the unique thing yeah yeah well this gives you kind of the the impression the feeling of a Yol but then you have the top bar for exactly what you're doing now or if you're off-roading yeah off-roading you really want to grab something right be a good y yeah the challenge is though looking through the rim at the gauges in front of you on this vehicle where there's no gauges in front of you it works on a three or a y yeah but we I mean the real change from this to to the cybertruck theme was really to make sure that you had something to grab onto when you were driving Offroad cuz like you know that's a different experience than driving on a track I was very impressed with that Tesla semi that was oh yeah you came out here with Dan yeah the semi is another great engineer Marvel the real vision of the original semi was we were like why are we bringing batteries from Nevada to Fremont on diesels diesel trucks right and the original thought was we were going to use the batteries that were in the back of the trailer to power the semi to get there then we made it so efficient we didn't need to do that but we have a you know close to 100 semis on our Fleet now and that they're doing that run and we're you know working with um Pepsi as well to just understand the durability and get it right so we when we go into volume production next year but you got a two-piece on yeah and it magnets way it goes over here but you know it's uh holds and moves and does everything you want it to do but it's a really big trick to get it to be comfortable on the road like this and I know we're in what are we in sport right now but you can change it go down Comfort Comfort here you can go custom as I mentioned earlier it's our first bir directional power conversion system right but we just release Power share um which is you know our our our vehicle to Home Solution because getting from all the way to back to the grid you have to deal with a lot of um you know different regulation Statewide Citywide but vehicle to home is is available now through Power share or vehicle to vehicle or vehicle to vehicle if you want to charge finally you can jump start someone on the side of the road or you know if you're a remote and you want to if you're welding something we have 240 in the back so you can run this like a a power station to consider where we came from you know 15 years ago selling 2500 roadsters over a couple full threee span to just have all those old prejudices you know the thing that I find amazing is that people still have no concept of what electricity is it's you know we grew up with it it's ubiquitous it's everywhere plugs you know you know not to stick your finger in the socket but there's no perception of what that is you learn what you know gallons per mile and what gasoline is but you kind of like ignore this thing that's around us all the time so sherock comes called electricity The High Priestess of false security they the electronic uh you know alarm system right and people really don't understand how TV Works how electricity works so how does your picture get in that box side there I mean I think the interesting thing is I don't think people really you know you were talking about how fast your car charges at on our Chargers or supercharging they still don't have a grasp of what a kilowatt is what a kilowatt hour is like you we still talk in Horsepower and foot pounds of torque and it's funny when people ask me that question I have to like do the math in my head to like convert it to horsepower cuz you know I'm always thinking about kilowatts and then same same thing with you know the consumption it's like oh what's the miles per gallon well hold on let me like convert a kilowatt of energy and how did you make the gallon and and um I think eventually people will get there and and like the realization that you know you're you're running on 123 kwatt hours and you can charge at you know up to 350 F kilowatts and you can do the quick math and say okay 250 120 it's a third you know if I if I could keep that power the whole time that's I can charge in a third of an hour and horsepower is still what one horse can pull 33,000 lb w foot it's not what it is yeah which horse was that yeah I know was it your horse was it my horse yeah but the fact that we're still using that yeah but kilowatt you know kilowatt is like a true measure of power right and in in the sense of electrical power power it's power but like it's it's you know um electrons and how fast you know they're moving and that makes a lot more sense to an engineer like me well let's try a little off-roading here and see how we do so when we go into off-road mode yeah we get a top view of your car or your truck here and then you got your ability you know to uh add the locking differential up here and you can see where the torque's going and if your wheels are overheating and how much power you got they're not your wheels your tires all right so we're in off-road mode here okay found the only off-road space and watch you got a rock on this side there it was I I've got full height right yep you got full height so you don't have to worry about that he steps over hilarious so this will take it you know it'll go anywhere we adjust the torque we're in off-road mode and in rock crawling mode so you got full height and it's Shifting the torque front to rear wherever it needs to go to the wheel that you're slipping on or or driving through that's like nothing yeah it's amazing how when you get that torque in the front it just crawls up and over those rocks it doesn't even care amazing that was a fun little spin through the rivers well you know it's funny I I there's so many videos out on this now yeah that we wanted to get from you guys some of the interesting things most people don't know about through the roof rack the tent a lot of these other little Easter egg things I guess they call and I I didn't really see anybody go Offroad everybody wants to race it against a 911 Porsche or something which is I guess fun but it's not TR we already know that we already know it's fast it's fun showing some of the things it can do what a real serious off-road vehicle it is it's funny how the whole perception of electric vehicles has changed because we've gone from it's a glorified golf cart you know that's what everybody used to think to their they fast in a straight line there was a commercial I think with a Prius very early on they had the guys robbing a bank mhm and they get away in a Prius and the cops go the Prius is a we cuz they were trying to get over the idea that that it was slow but they realized maybe robbing A bank's not the best way to yeah it's not commercial didn't last very long it was but it was out there for a really short amount of time I thought they were going to say cuz it was quiet yeah but you know well you know I remember when I was not a kid but I would say 20 years ago I think there was a car called the T-Rex that was electric and this guy would show up drag strips and turn High 10 low 9es you know and people were astounded at electric how is it even possible electric car with it it goes back to this power thing I don't think people realiz like the power density of our Motors you know you got a motor this big outputting you know 300 horsepower in in those days you know and now nowadays you know like get three of them in a car and all of a sudden you got 900 and also just the instant torque you know for what we were just doing the rock crawling or I mean that is the cool thing that we were talking a little bit about but like because we have such good torque control when you go up over that rock or that you know just did the curb there you can really just feather it and it just climbs up it it's super super cool well I've got an electric motorcycle which is really fast it's out of Italy and aica I think it's called Uh 180 horsepower yeah it's too much for a motorcycle that doesn't feel right oh actually actually it does kind of feel right but you just got so much power there the zero motorcycles out of the bay those are also pretty cool yeah zeros are good also zeros are good well hopefully through the series of products that we've been producing we've been able to dispel all the kind of mistruths out there right right right you know range charg performance charging and imagine capability eventually everything will be a DC Charger won't it except for your home yeah I mean DC chargings can get super fast you know like as I mentioned with V4 superchargers up to 350 kilow you know and as we get efficiency better and better the batteries get smaller and for more range you know um like the lowest model three batteries is like 60 kwatt hours so you charge that at if we can get the power in 350 Kow you're talking you know very fast charging the point where you know people just top off you know like they do at a gas station does the fast you fill a battery damage it in terms of longevity for example is a slow 8 to 12h hour charge better for longevity than well it's a 10 minute or a half hour it's really about thermal management and like managing the plating so like you know if you if you're charging a battery that's not cooled that's may be true because it gets hot and then when it gets hot the ion the lithium ions can flow faster and there's more likelihood of them plating um to the anode or the cathode side but when you're when we're charging a battery we're cooling it we're monitoring its temperature so we're keeping it at an optimal temperature so it doesn't really affect the longevity what about 74° F yeah yeah it's basically it's comfortable where we're comfortable right you know if you get above 80 then you get some trouble you know we try and keep it right maybe 60 when you're driving at for a top a top uh temperature and then we also precondition yeah so we also precondition they're ready when you arrive at a supercharger cuz if they're too cool they also don't charge as fast so this this very tight window we're trying to keep it in when you're charging you it's always best to keep your electric vehicle plugged in 24/7 right I mean you don't want it to run out of energy um cuz then you're you're going to you know like have an issue potentially of not having any charge but right you know Ju Just Like if you're going to leave a car uh IC car parked for a while you leave it on a trickle charger right you know you can leave your your EV plugged in trickle charger my other Tesla I had for seven years and it was always plugged in and I don't think I lost one I think the range in back then was like 230 I was like 226 225 after seven years yeah and it was fine 2% or something what I mean your gas mileage goes down more than that right exactly I mean we and we thought early on we you know made the batteries quick swappable and replacable that you know people might want to do this and over the years we've just gone away from that because the batteries last long recharge fast and you don't really need it I mean we built that one pass swaper yeah I mean we we proved out the concept whether you know know if you paid the same amount as a tank of gas but you could have your pack swapped right in the same amount of time it would take like less than 5 minutes or go next door and supercharge for 30 minutes but it was free at that time people always took the free one it didn't make sense yeah they would they would take the extra you know few minutes use the restroom you we we saw people that would go to the the the battery swap swap their battery pull the car over go get a coffee use the restroom and they ended up taking the same amount of time right bother you know and I've been out in China I've done the fast battery swaps they have there and I think it's you know in an urban environment maybe it makes a little sense but you know China's also doing really fast DC charging statistically like the Tesla Supercharger network is like is working 99.6% of the time well if you go to any other charging station it's maybe 80% of the time that was the genius of the whole thing so there's you know there's a chance on you're on a trip um you know one in five chance that when you pull into charge it's not going to work that's you know that's horrible I didn't know when Elon came here in 2007 with the roast he said I'm going to put charging station I'm going yeah right cuz it didn't even seem possible Right but yet I see major manufacturers now they make a car what do your charge oh anywhere no you can't charge anywhere I mean yeah that was great foresight between Elon and JB just to say like we got to build the charging station too and now that we have you know it's become a you know a little bit of a freedom gain you know CU you can go wherever you want and I mean um how far away is the day of having a Tesla home charging car only unit you know for your garage are they well we're working on inductive charging so are they don't even need to plug something in at that point pull your garage drive over the pad and charging I mean the you know with power wall 3 you know we're getting Tighter and Tighter Power Electronics and now with Power share like that device is becoming you know basically could power your whole house if you had solar and charger car ecosystem you know my my house is is completely offgrid like in Beverly Hills you're not allowed to have Sol PS that's cuz they're considered ugly I mean but but now you guys make the tiles that maybe that's okay yeah I think you know the amazing thing to me is when you think about you know how many solar panels we need to power like the entire us or you know we're not talking about like thousands and thousands of square miles it's it's you know really everyone puts them on their home or you know commercial places put on their building that's more than enough and um you know it's nice to know that you know the US is moving that way I think I read a report recently that we're um I think by you know in the next 15 years more than 50% of of all of the US power will be renewable and that's super exciting yeah that is exciting I find it fascinating that we're having a normal conversation in an off-road vehicle with off-road tires at 60 M an hour I'm not so let me ask you what you know that's normally what we be doing I mean it's it's pretty amazing I think that you know when you get in a car you want to feel like you're in your own space especially in places like La where you have traffic or whatever and we really work hard to give that to you and you know as you said you don't even realize you're going 60 or 50 or 70 mph I find sometimes I'm going faster than I should because I'm not used to still after all these years how quiet it gets around you right right well I mean a lot of trucks are you know they're either purpose built for off-road but they are horrible onroad right or they're on-road trucks and that you can't like go off-road in them but you know I think what we're experiencing is you can do both this this super compliant great car acting like a a car on the road and just moments ago we were off-road and it was super capable there and France for you it must be especially uh uh exciting to feel Vindicated you come up with a wacky looking car that people think is just outrageously what and yet everybody's flocked to it you know I mean I couldn't imagine approaching any normal automobile manufacturer with this vehicle they yeah there's no way you know like I'm surpr I was stunned chist to build the penus prowler right yeah but I said well okay maybe things are changing I didn't care for the car myself I thought a little odd but but I thought it was fascinating that just that they buildt it and the fact that you can come up with an idea like this which is either feast or famine isn't it people going to love it oh oh my God just get out of here you know it it's it was this a product at all of market research or just your vision for it here it is hope you like it it was basically that yes we looked at what we wanted to make sure we had the capability of a truck we couldn't do something this radical and then it was horrible as you know a driving car or a truck working with fron on the design we we did a great job of like making it like a truck making it like a car giving it a six foot bed giving it a 4ft wide bed making it comfortable but like yet it still looks like the iconic shape that you drew years ago right and none of that would have really worked if we couldn't do all the other engineering elements that Lars is explained um that make the truck great beyond just you know uh well it's great you work for a company that is open to new ideas you know I have so many design friends and engineer friends it gets his illusion because they spend their whole life just doing door handles you know what I mean we we spend our whole life deleting door handles well you know what I mean I mean I know what you mean we got something new door handle Engineer Expert I mean you know frons and I represent a team of thousands of people that that really like they're the best engineers and designers in the world world and like I you know it's super awesome to to to show their work and this product but it's you know that kind of environment only exists because of you know really our boss yeah Elon pushes us to go to the next level well you know when the Corvair came out it was a revolutionary car and it was a failure cuz he only sold 1.8 million of them yeah only right where his Mustang was like 3.7 so it was and Scot willly it scared everybody just go back to the pan Ard engine transmission rear end right no new ideas no air cooled no flat 6 no yeah you know it was a shame too because when I look at a 66 Corvette Cora which I have people think kids stop me go is that a Carman Gia no it's a COR what's a COR they don't they never heard cor was a great one Carmen Gia was good too but it had the little like uh yeah I remember it had the uh natural gas heater that's a good idea right with the m yeah exactly people worried about electric cars you know like we used to have gas in the cabin well that's another thing I had an argument with someone the other day about that yeah but those electric just catch fire all the time no they don't the ratio to gas cars gas cars catch fire so much more often yeah I mean obviously the news you know take it whichever way you want it to go but like that you know the fire rates that we have on our vehicles are on order magnitude lower than than you know gas cars right but once the Press gets over like people go one guy said to me I like these cor they explode right no they don't explode yeah yeah I mean new technology takes a little while for people to get used to but I hope we're you know to fron this point the product core fully was full out now we got a truck we got a semi- TR we got a bunch of cars SUVs it's great I think I think guys congratulations on all excess I really appreciate thank you my friend and it's all americanmade that's what's great exactly I I I you know I don't follow Sports I just follow manufacturing and I follow americanmade products and things and and and that's what I enjoy when I see something like this you know you had since 1915 we lost 2% of car companies you know every if somebody else went nobody new came into the business now we got you guys you got McLaren you got rivan you got um all the others Lucid just all people some some will make it some don't but at least they're new vehicles they're made in America I mean it's great yeah and I mean you know I think it would be great if if all those companies succeed and I'm also happy to see companies like Ford and you know GM trying to make the leap and trying to trying to innovate and you know hopefully that leads to a better you know more sustainable future with products that people want now here's a problem a lot of folks have you get so excited about something like this cyber truck you just go out and you just buy it on the spot one of those impulse buys then you go home and you tell your spouse they're not thrilled they throw you out of the house but if you bought the optional tent no problem see you tomorrownow here's a problem a lot of folks have you get so excited about something like this cyber truck you just go out and you just buy it on the spot one of those impulse buys then you go home and you tell your spouse they're not thrilled they throw you out of the house but if you bought the optional tent no problem let's try a little off-roading here and see how we did like nothing yeah it's amazing how when you get that torque in the front it just crawls up and over those rocks it doesn't even care amazing wellcome another episode of jayla's garage the car we're featuring today or the vehicle I guess would be the Tesla 2024 cyber truck we're going to learn some some things you might not know about this we have the chief designer here and as well as the head engineer you might think you know everything about this already if you watch a bunch of the other shows but I think we'll learn some stuff today let's bring in fron Von Hol house he's the designer nice job my friend thank you you know I just watch people get angry they either hate it or they love it and but there's a reaction from everybody well that's when I remember Bob Letz told me when the Viper came out he said half of people hated it but the other half loved it and we're not selling cars the half that hate it right you know that if you got 100 people that means 50 of them are buying it so half so the same thing with this I was amazed at what I was able to do with this let's talk about design first and then we'll get in to some of the features and some of the Easter eggs they call them that are hidden in this truck you know the last new pickup truck in America was the Corvair back in the' 60s and it had the cab in front and had the engine in the back right and people in think of it as a pickup truck but it was and it got along what what kind of truck is that trucks have looked the same since 1918 you know definitely one thing that we looked at in fact we put we we lined up all the trucks from a front view and took the badges off yeah and just asked people if they could identify which truck it was which which brand it was and it was it was really hard to tell they're so similar and there's such a recipe and we just took a step back and said hey how you know how do we look at this from a first principal's perspective and really rethink what a truck could be right and do it better do you find it generational I find people under 40 go crazy people over 40 kind of go what what is that I don't know it kind of it looks kind of Star Wars they just have they're not quite sure but it seems to the young demographic really seems to be drawn to this yeah like kids especially and the thing that we found is that people that would never even consider a truck are putting orders in and you know making reservations just because it's so unique it's so different but it does all the things as you'll learn um that a truck needs to do and it does a lot of them a lot better I thought it would be cumbersome to drive but you got four-wheel steering so you can really steer it like this and a lot of breakthroughs on this as well but we'll discuss that with ls drive by wire and all that let's get back to design what do the government tell you you have to do obviously it's not like the old days you could just design something and that would be it the government says you have to have headlights a certain height and all this type correct and when we started looking at this form factor you know we had to figure out how we put all this stuff that the government requires bumpers lights uh mirrors wipers all these uh um even you know the offset of the tire to the body the the overall width all that stuff has to get baked into a design like this and you know this design is really around the function so the the Simplicity of the of the shape shape and the form really is derived from using the stainless steel you can only Bend stainless steel in One Direction so if you actually look at the the the shape of the car it's defined by just flat panels kind of broken up and faceted kind of like a diamond right right um and and you know there's there's a lot of like stealth technology and and and vehicles that are out there you know we're inspiration because they're basically breaking down kind of the the traditional shape and looking at a new way um and ultimately a better way uh of of manufacturing something so like the idea I I thought by this time we would have cameras here instead of but that's still got talk to your Congressman about yeah that's still illegal you have to have a mirror in Europe we're seeing that you know um becoming more apparent but it hasn't filtered here to the US okay yeah we're all a little behind it I remember dual headlights were considered too bright for for most people so 1957 some states you could not have a dual headlight you get a Cadillac with a single headlight you California you could have the double head it's just so odd but now it's thankfully all one state there's oddly a lot of um requirements that are are state byst state as well so there's a federal level and then there's a state level let me ask you about this is this design or engineering you have this giant wiper oh my it's the biggest wiper blade I've ever seen in my life is that design or is that engineering it's a little bit of both so you know one of one of the things about this design is it's a clean line basically from the nose to the peak right and we didn't want to break up the silhouette of that and have a big offset for the cow that where to traditionally you hide the wipers so we wanted the wiper to be exposed in fact we we we we had a design that we looked at where we were burying the wipers underneath the hood and having the hood pop up and the wipers would reveal pretty complex right um and so we went to a simpler system and we realized that you know we need to wipe for the human to see but also for the cameras to see right and you know we break it broke it down and and the simplest version was to have a one arm and what we learned is that by parking the wiper up up on the side was a there was an arrow benefit to that too so we were able to improve the drag of the vehicle now the wheel covers and this is a wheel cover it's not part of the wheel correct it seems like is that decorative is it Arrow cuz it seems like in a truck having an exposed wheel so more Macho you know I mean what was what was it's a little bit of both so you know the the truck is pretty angular there's not much you know roundness on it but the wheels around and we wanted to just break convention and keep the the overall appearance looking very futuristic and we we we were seeing that as soon as we have round wheels on it it normalized the truck a little bit so we we went for something that was very angular similar to the aesthetic but but we found that was also a really big Arrow Improvement so it's kind of a combination of both and imagine because of stainless steel you had to go angular because you can't really shape it yeah you can't you can you can only bend it and you know we we break form that and um you can see it's it's basically flat in this direction and we bend it only one and what the the tries to go with stainless steel was that something from the get-go or did that come later you design the truck and hey maybe angle steel you know well we were talking about how do you make a truck tough and you know a lot of trucks the the tough part is on the inside not necessarily the outside like if you if you look at a truck the the the most precious part or any vehicle is the paint in a way and that doesn't really describe tough if you're you know driving through the weeds or the BR the brush and you're scratching your paint that doesn't feel tough and so the epitome of toughness is stopping a bullet right and you know we looked at what materials could do that and and we had to design the steel specifically so that we wouldn't split the the steel when we bent it at the thickness that we were using so design comes from the material you okay but it was always going to be bulletproof from day one right pretty much we wanted to again it was like convey the the idea of toughness and there's nothing that feels more tough than being a really taking a bullet yeah I mean really exactly because is your warranty void if they shoot you I have no idea how that works it is the glass also the same same way the glass is not bulletproof but it'll stop at like a you know a baseball thrown at 70 mph or you know class four hail which is like a big chunk of hail at 100 miles hour I I guess in a hail storm this wouldn't Dent would it no that's you know combine that with a bioweapon defense mode the the um heit filter that we have inside you're pretty pretty safe in The Apocalypse from a design standpoint um and aerodynamics does angular hurt you or help you the Curve curves are curves better for aerodynamics than angles yeah Curves in certain areas are better but one of the few curves on the truck is right here on the front bumper and that's really driven by Aero efficiency and trying to get the air to steer around the wheel and that that made a big big Improvement in the overall and what is the coefficient of drag on this yeah the coefficient of drag on this truck is 335 so really that's that's pretty good yeah I mean that's very I would have thought it was like a brick cuz like the C they always take a kunach and a Volkswagen Bug and the bug has a better coefficient of drag than the kunach but Countach looks what people think is aerodynamic isn't really aerodynamic yeah and has a little bit more horsepower to overcome it too right right okay obviously you wanted designers to carry up to what six people five people yeah we wanted to make sure that we fit five adults inside and so it's got effectively a crew cab but then you know in the overall length of um it's actually shorter than F-150 it is able to get a longer bed with just better packaging moving the occupants forward um providing a ton of space for the in the interior and then a six foot long bed in the rear so it's kind of efficient packaging as well and does it say Tesla anywhere on it there are no Tesla badges on really okay so it really is its own kind of product don't know what it is well I think you just see it and you can yeah it's it it be it becomes its own character were you surprised by how many people came forward to put down deposits it was like in the millions was it yeah it over two million deposits $100 for a deposit yeah well you know it's so funny because I know when McLaren built the P1 they just built 375 because we'll see if we can sell that many and at first people go what what's a P1 and then well then they realize oh we should have made more right I mean were you worried that this might be seen us oh my is that the new etel what is that what you know what I'm saying I mean it is polarizing right so and like you said there there's love or hate feel to it but the reservations are are definitely showing and like I said we're getting people that would never in their never own a pickup truck they never even think of owning it but because the vehicle is so unique they're they're absolutely interested I'm surprised you call it a pickup truck I appreciate the honesty because it is but no way is it a pickup truck cuz that's so grained in our mind you it comes from it comes from Henry Ford sold the Model T and Seer sold a kit we could take the trunk off and put a pickup bed in the back so you went down to the railway station to pick up your truck P so they call a pickup truck so it's funny how vernacular what yeah kind of kind of goes that way well it's it it does all the things that a pickup truck would do and more yeah but drives like a car um you can drive it everywhere and do anything with it it is Big it just looks bigger than it is or feels bigger than it is I don't know what it's the angular shape of it it seems like it's huge but it just it just you know it's it's a new shape it's not one that we're used to seeing on the road necessarily but when you park this next to an F-150 or any of the other um normal pickup trucks it actually sits slightly lower and it feels smaller did you have any things that got rejected when you designing was were there certain things oh no that's that's too wild because this is about as wild as it gets I you yeah we you we we didn't want mirrors right and so in the beginning we weren't even designing mirrors and then just we couldn't get the regulations changed you want camer yeah okay so okay so you know I think going forward that we would love to get rid of the mirrors um just it's adds to Convention you know it's funny I have uh in my house a three-stall garage in the middle one OB you got the two walls here and I thought well it's never going to fit in there but it did it's small than it seemed and it and and the mirrors I didn't have to retract the mirrors yeah they pulled up yeah yeah but I I didn't have to I pulled right now okay so it meets every legal requirement cuz the original one you designed was maybe 5 or 10% bigger it about 5% bigger yeah and so through the process we just shrank it and shrank it and you know we kind of have this thing at Tesla where we want to create the smallest overall vehicle but biggest on the inside so the the overall maneuverability and us ility of it is is easier but you end up with more space inside any other design tricks that I'm missing here I mean there's there's a ton we have a a tono which we call the Vault and you know that basically you it's tough enough to stand on but it locks the rear bed and that comes standard on every truck and um it it it really allows you to use the bed almost more like a trunk in a way so you know one one thing that's a problem with pickup trucks is you drive around and you put stuff in the back you can't make a stop because it's going to be gone you know right right or a Tano you can just cut with a knife well yeah or a soft Tano but with this it you know it's extruded aluminum um it's and it locks up the whole the whole rear but otherwise the the the bed is you know bigger by volume than any other pickup truck bed too so and longer it's than you know traditional five and I guess you could sleep in the back here couldn't you yeah yeah we make a great tent that goes on the back oh was that right for overlanding and camping there are no door handles just this yeah just push a button just the button and you'll see that the door opens up to 90° and you have room for five adults in there um to easily sit but you can also fold up the seats and then you have a ton of more storage okay so does it open all the way to the back when you it does not open all the way to the back but we looked at this truck and said you know people use trucks kind of like as a Swiss army knife in a way they have to be ready for anything and everybody has something that different that they'll throw out it so we wanted to make it as um flexible and you know delivers much um opportunity you know you notice in the rear we put LTR in there it's a whole system that you can plug in accessories easily than tie downs um and the front seat is um you know big we have a squirkle for the steering wheel right you'll notice well it A variation of the Yol yeah in a way right right okay but for off-roading grab you know being able to grab anywhere the wheels moving gives you a little bit more agility well the 1962 Dodge had that same steering wheel ah maybe that's it was translucent you know when like bed or something right uh I the thing I really like is this quarter window here I find so many cars in recent years have this big a pillar for obviously roof rigidity but I'm always I always think there's a kid on a bicycle right here all the time blind spot yeah so that's that's really super useful it brings light in and you know a lot of the structure for the truck actually comes down through here this is the the main structure a and then in the front we have a a front trunk as well right right which you know you can put a carryon so plenty of space in here right right and then behind this panel is an easy serviceable uh filter for your HEPA filter okay so easy access to that and that HEPA filter is pretty unbelievable isn't it if it's yeah I mean here's some mustard gas attack exactly again like when the apocalypse comes this is where you want to be for sure this is where you want to be that's right not in here but in the truck and then you know like from a signature look of the truck the upper lights are just the DRL the daytime running lights and then we you know hid the headlights down here and super slim and that's legal down there it's legal yeah it's in within the zone so from the appearance they're kind of tucked in you don't even see them yeah and that's an LED yeah well let's let let's bring in our engineer introduce Lars yeah Lars why don't you come in hey guys how you doing good good to see you well pretty amazing truck I I I just driving around the I I got stopped every street going people run up to I mean it's really hilarious you know the thing is it's one thing to to design something absolutely unique but it's another thing to engineer it and then put it into production and so I think in this instance AR and team definitely had one of the hardest jobs on the planet to take something this unique right with materials so different than convention and still turn it into you know a great product thanks F well let me ask you about engineering this sure this my God this is like like you're in a in a ice rink and you're just you know you know we started with squeegees for the windows you know say but how much power does it take to move an arm that big is it well you know the whole trucks you know move to 48 volts I think we've talked about that but like this Mo this wiper probably couldn't exist without that because you know that we we have a 48 volt motor that's connected here it's just under um a kilowatt so it's like 600 800 watts of power to move it back and forth at the speeds we need you know when you're on the highway it's raining a lot it's got to clear that highway speed really and that's heavy that water movement yeah and you get the arrow resistance coming up against it there's actually a little spoiler here uh to keep it down when driving at speed otherwise it you know wipers tend to kind of flop up because usually the low pressure area is underneath so that was an arrow challenge it was a motor challenge it was a you know design challenge but then it was also like where does the water go cuz this windshield is straight no normally you shove the water and you park down here and the wiper keeps the water down right so we had to like work on the Angles and the timing just so the water drains off to the side it actually shoots when you do a wet wipe you know for clean water out the back side of the blade on this side so you're shooting it up and then we're shoving it off the side of the the vehicle when you're when you're driving I mean that alone is like probably like you know most companies definition of innovation yeah right but that was just like one small part we had to get done and of course you know I always wanted it to be smaller less of a thing day and these guys are like no it's got to be big and beefy well let me ask you about 48 volts cuz when when I was the kid a lot of cars were 6V then they went to 12 and I've always told the 48 vol was the maximum amount a human could take on a shock without injuring themselves I mean that that's you know like what OSHA says a little over that it's 50 52 volts and so we keep it at 48 volts because it one it's you know four times the power but you know heat goes with iqu r why has the rest of the industry resisted 48 volts because I mean it change is hard jay like you have to want to change yeah yeah but it seems like with air conditioning and all the electronics you almost need two separate batteries and is this 48 volts coming off the Tesla main battery or we have a brand new power conversion system in this so we have the 800 volt battery um we split that into two for charging so you be 400 volts on our current superchargers but new ones will do 800 um but the power conversion system actually is what takes that DC Vol voltage and down uh downplays it to the 48 volts we do have a 48 volt low voltage battery to keep the systems alive when the main battery is off but that power conversion system is converting that 800 volts to 48 volts and also to 110 and 240 for electrical outlets that you have um and there which are actually AC and what that actually also did is allow us to have bidirectional uh charging so you can take power off the truck and charge your other Tesla or your F1 house right right yeah you know what's funny I remember when electric cars first came in and Tesla first on the road I remember people would always say well once the Germans get into it they'll they'll have the industry and all this kind of stuff but you guys have Battery Technology like these batter batteries for this are like half the weight of some other yeah I mean these are 4680 batteries we make inhouse in Texas and I mean the the battery itself you know is is you know a lot of little batteries right but it's 123 kwatt hours and that energy density when you compare it to like the iron phosphates that most companies are using is you know 30 40% more dense and that allows us to have a truck that weighs you know in this case it's a tri motor 6,850 lbs which is like the same as like a ram F you know 1500 or it's not like you buy this bulletproof stainless thing that looks like it's weighs more it's the same and and that's pretty uh you know a testament to the engineering team and really France helping us work Solutions together well trying to get the most out of the battery pack so we as we're incredibly efficient with our pack and our pack size um and consumption rate and if you look at some of the competitors and you look at the pack size and the range that they get out of that it's it's we're like twice is good right that's what I mean and and for some reason people don't think of Tesla as an American company these are all built in America built in Texas it probably has the highest American content right yeah it does it does model Y is number one model 3 is number two um there's some Honda in there and then there's model snx 3 and four or four and five and I assume this will be you know top five next year as well I can't think of one part that's really not made here very cool now also let me tell you about the tires now obviously the tires seem to be made specifically to match this would this be called a hub cap is that fair to say what do you call it wheel cover we call it a wheel cover C it's combination of you know making the truck feel futuristic and improving the a efficiency it pops right off it's flexible on the edges so you know you can take a an impact if you're off-roading is there an arrow effect to having the wheel covered is it absolutely yeah it's super there's a lot of opportunity for Aero efficiency in wheels and wheel covers now I notied this is six lug nuts which is unusual ual yeah in a vehicle five was used to be the four was the long thing but you know the lug nuts out there are really for for torque I mean um you know a lot of people think that they're also for vehicle load but that's actually on the inside for when you attach the bearing there so this has to take Torque from the motors and the vehicle load although most of these will wind up taking Timmy to a private school it's it's generally an off-road it's it's really an off-road vehicle it has a lot of specific off-road abely people might not know about can you go in water with this can I you could definitely go in water I mean one of the things we we haven't talked about a lot but like this is a truck and trucks are meant to do you know all kinds of things and really be able to go anywhere right you of course we have all wheeel drive we have a lockable diff up front which gives you as much torque on one wheel as you want if one wheel you know is low Traction in the back we don't have that but we don't have any diff CU we have two Motors right each one of those capable of supplying the same amount of torque as the front so you can get one wheel doing you know the all all the torque it needs but it you know from a off-road standpoint it can raise in our fully you know highest mode to 17 and half inches of ground clearance right and in that mode we have also Wade mode W mode as in Waiting in water yeah you sit in water um you want to go through a river wanted to make sure you could do that and um you can go through about 2 and 1/2 ft a little more than 2 and 1/2 ft of water without any water getting into the cabin and having to worry about that but also with an electric vehicle we wanted to be super we're smart about that we have this new technology called uh we call it the scuba pack because we took the air suspension system we actually pressurized the battery you know Waters and B water and batteries they don't really get along you get electrolytes and they start to Arc but we wanted to keep that water out and make sure you wouldn't have to worry about that and that's where we came up with the scuba pack and that happens just by pressing a button on the UI say wade mode will pressurize the pack and what forces the water out it forces air into the pack and all you need to keep the water out cu it is a sealed pack is just a little bit of positive pressure right just a little bit of positive pressure to keep any of those leak points or the flood ports you know from you know the White Steam car you know I've got my 1909 White Steam car what they did back in the day to cross the river they got a full head of steam they taped over everything literally went in under under the water under the water and came out the other side you know people have done that with our cars don't recommend it but you know it's possible yeah that's pretty amazing okay uh let's see what other little engineering tricks do we have here um I mean there's a ton on the inside but on the on the outside like I think you talked about the stainless steel but I think you know some of the things that you kind of don't mention and you mentioned this earlier is the glass so this glass up here right is the biggest piece of automotive glass but it has to be tough too it's a Boral silica glass and what that does is it provides an immense amount of Chip resistance so if you do get a chip and even though it's super tough you know it won't happen that often you get what this kind of stress ring around it and so the chiple form in the middle you get this hoop stress ring and that means it won't propagate right and that's super great for Offroad cuz you get you keep your visibility and then if you do want to repair it you just get that little you know safe light glue and fill it in you won't never see it now this is the first production car or vehicle yeah to steer by wire no steering column no mechanical yeah no mechanical connection it's still electrically connected right I mean there have been a couple other attempts but they've always kept a mechanical backup was that illegal before was it against you have to have a steering column no it's never in many of the regs is one of those things they've never really you know dictated but um I think a lot of folks are afraid of it because of you know redundancy or fail safe but you know airplanes have been steering my wire for 40 50 years right I mean it's really just an effort in in understanding the the health of the system and so we have um d double redundancy on the front motor we have another motor on the rear to turn the rear wheels and then of course we have redundant sensors triple redundancy some cases so that they can arbitrate so if two sensors disagree with the third one then you you take the majority vote um that way if something's going wrong uh you know we really know what's happening so we don't really anticipate any failures and one of the great things about that is it gives you that driving feel you were talking about because at high speeded we can have it be you know a pretty slow ratio so you can feel it but at low speed we speed it up a lot and you don't have to go hand overand ever it's just annoying yeah and what's even cooler is when you're off-roading you know a lot of times you get this kickb and you know your hands are going we can IGN that or stamp it down so you still get the feedb but you're not feeling fatigued and tired and that makes it a super comfortable experience you're not fighting the truck I mean most people go off-roading in this are just amazed at how easy it is to control because of that feature well I was amazed how quiet it was with these tires I thought I'd be drumming all over you know the Tesla tires are an engineering feat and of themselves we we work with our partners in this case goodye to make some of the lowest rolling resistance tires on the market to Fran's point on efficiency it's got to be super efficient but for this truck in particular it also had to go off-road and to your point it's got to be quiet so these will take you you know basically in the mud and do whatever you want but on the highway they're super quiet there's no compressor to fill the tires on board is there so we do have a compressor on board obviously fills the air suspension there's about 17 L of capacity in that in that so you can you can if you get a spare you can well the thing is that tire has probably about 120 L of air in it so even though we're at you know 300 PSI there and this is at 50 you know the entropy that you need to take the air out of there and put it into there means you're going to fill really slow like 20 30 minutes so what we do is with our 240 and 110 volts in the back we give you an offboard air compressor you put in your little under storage Bay in the trunk and that that compressor is capable of of of of doing tires because it's a different you know set speed any other Secrets here or things I should know yeah so another cool thing we did for off-road is the original fron you had this light you had the two light feature and um at Tesla we never you know under promise we always try and overd deliver so you notice the light is missing but what we did is we made an off-road light um and actually that's a little Easter egg you can see here there's a little roof rack mount here you push it up and there's a wire in there 48 volt wire that'll power our off-road light which is actually laser lit and it fills up the road you know how far does it go FR you remember over five football fields yeah down the way so just about half a mile down the road and that and we get to do that because we made it ourselves it fills in the area you don't see with your brights on so when you go off-roading with that that roof light man and you don't have to you know cut a hole in your IP to wire the little switch it's all did it for built into the user and you just have a button that says you know what's so funny I've driven a lot of electric vehicles and they give me a fob and it's just something I just like the fact that my Tesla is just my I had my phone with me anyway yeah right now I have to carry another thing with another key we didn't even make a fob for this no I know that's what I mean I I find that real Annoying and they and they to give you the Imp they make it nice and heavy so it's it's got some yeah that's now you've got this big thing in your pocket yeah annoying yeah I I love the fact that I can wire to my phone we do have the NFC card that you can give to valet or right you know you never give your card a Val not this one not this one I just say to my wife honey we're not eating here but if you do you take this one they'll just let you park it we do have a valet mode so they can't do the ferris bu thing oh okay let lock them out I got say yeah you you have to be nuts to give your a card yeah you ever read the back of a valet ticket if your car is stolen they don't look for it for 30 days CU you voluntarily key so it was not stolen so now after a month they go looking for your car wow okay now your this is your charge port here yeah charge port we HD away again um didn't want to cut holes in the stainless steel right right make make lars's life easier thank you but when you know one of the things we were also trying to do with all this like cleanness was offer immense amount of flexibility so we talked about the roof rack and the headlight uh but underneath we also have a bunch of features on the outside of the battery pack so you can bolt on a skid plate if you want to go super off-roading um and then we did that back here with the tent and the tailgate and the tuno so you have the roof rack mounts here there's four of them that go all the way up the truck and it's really about customizable as you said Swiss army knife yeah Swiss army knife I mean we designed a tent that's specific for this it's inflatable tent you can inflate it and have your tent built in BAS basically less than 5 minutes includes a mattress in it um so you can overnight anywhere great camping vehicle in the bed you've got yeah your tailgate you've got 110 and 240 right in here so you can you can plug in your welder and weld from this truck which is pretty insane um any other kind of 110 outlet or like you know Elon did want to make it a boat and so like the vehicle almost floats maybe you have to add a little bit of extra buoyancy just to keep it up and you know if you're creative and you want you could figure out how to put an outboard motor plugged into your outlet there turn it on from your screen and go boating really I mean I I haven't engineered that one yet but I'm sure you could do a j yeah yeah that's right at my alley well just very impressive Gentlemen let's let's go to the inside of the vehicle sure you so like every other Tesla we really try to focus on the screen as being the hero right and in this truck a big 18 and a half inch screen in the front right a 9.4 in screen in the rear for the kids and backi passengers which is bigger than in you know some some Vehicles today you can see the squirkle shape of the steering wheel again we talked about steer by wire so you get a really nice onroad command you know we have a a nice welded seal plate here it's you know it's in that cyber truck uh script that we we created but not Tesla just cyber truck just cyber Truck Yeah okay well let's hop in and see see what we got here finally easy access yeah so it's a custom UI um just just for cybertruck and we you know we really tried to rethink um the usability of the UI again it's just one screen that has to have everything speed you know autopilot navigation media and all your other controls um we wanted to make sure that easy access to suspension setting um opening and closing the rear you know off-road capability yeah and that's all right here so like much like our normal screens we have the control screen right but you get easy access access to ride height which you can also do from the scroll wheel but one of the cool things we've done on on on cybertruck is really give it the truck mode so you have your normal controls for quick controls but you also have Dynamics which is you know in our many of our other vehicles is like focused on like steering effort and suspension but there's so much chassis Tech in here that we really wanted to focus it on attribute based so you can see you can choose Comfort or standard or beast and that'll change your off-road modes you can see when I press that it's adjusting the ride height as well as the steering efforts so Beast would be ludicrous or plaid on the other and it's special here because it's not just you know the torque and the suspension it's torque suspension ride height steering efforts everything that goes into making the the truck feel like a beast um and then you know we have the off-road mode here which is specially designed for cyber truck it's our first off-road mode and here's where it really shines there's two basic modes you can either do Baja which is like high speed and again we're really focused on the attribute you can use deceleration mode high if you want to you know be be very controlled with what you're doing or standard and this is you know your fun slider where we give you the handling balance you know if you go 100% rear that's some really fun drifting or if you want to drift backwards you can go 100% front Okay and then we have stability assist for what you might need and then here's the cool one we talked about outside Wade mode where it pressurizes the battery and raises the vehicle and oh now it's going up you can feel it going up feel how to is now and you can can activate this it'll pressurize the battery for driving through water which is super super cool and then you got your overlanding mode and here's another area where we tried to focus on you as a driver a lot of trucks will give you like slip control and like downhill descent but like a lot of people don't really compute with that and so we put it you know very simply here for you what kind of terrain are you on allpurpose Sand gravel rock and we adjust the torque we adjust the the the suspension to deal with those modes as well as we have the same stop mode holder roll and then of course we have um Trail assist which is you know Hill descent assist and again Wade mode here um so that's really all unique and new for cyber truck super super fun off-road stuff that we did also it's got a tow so we tow up to 11,000 lb right integrated trailer brake controller here so you don't have to buy one and you get your trailer gain your brake boost all this stuff right here already integrated into the mode um and then we talked about this earlier but you know Peron was saying you don't have to wire up your 48 volt stuff we put all the switches here too so you can just tune and turn them on from the screen because you know we don't like switches we just make sure they're here do it all right here um other cool things is you know we have extract mode and in in uh off-road mode gets up to 17 1 12 inches of ground clearance you can go up to 10 m hour with that okay so you can be driving you know if you get stuck on a rock you can drive up and go over the rock um and then you know when we're in onroad mode um we have entry mode here which gets you super super low basically slams it on the bump stop so you can get in and out very very easily but all your other controls are here as well opening closing the tunnel and then of course you know you can swipe over you get your and all these work on voice command as well of course we're getting better and better at that so we're all the way up as we as high as we can go now we are actually as low as we can no as high oh we're as high we went up yeah and then I was going to full full high and uh we actually be an extract here so we can go a little higher now it's going a little higher and the air suspension is super super fast it can do up to a half an inch a second which is super quick up and down we have more travel than any of the other air suspensions on the market the Rams the rib whatever and we can go up and down through our entire travel faster than anyone well I think it's important to note that it's true um ground clearance ground clearance there's no diff hanging down in the middle that you know you always scrape on rocks yeah you know there's that difference between running clearance and ground clearance so running clearance is sort of you know what can you um you know clear underneath the the base part of the car but ground clearance is true which what underneath the axles for us it's basically the same number only have just a little bit of the suspension sticking out in the corners but uh anything else you want to talk about in the UI no I think we're probably time to take it for a ride eh yeah let's go for a ride let's see what it's like you like that four-wheel steering huh had to convince Elon on that one I mean it's as quiet as the roll Spectre in here almost well you know we got acoustic glass everywhere um so you get really great reduction in transparency cuz it's basically like having double Paine Windows um and then of course we did a lot to get the road noise Quiet and and really come these tires actually work very well for I thought I'd just be drumming all the way down the highway you know but very nice yeah it's a a lot of work on the groove pattern and how you offset the air in between each tread just so that doesn't like uh radiate to the body and then of course like the you know the vehicle as we were talking about is super super stiff so that means we can have softer bushings and more isolation because we rely on the body for any of the handling we need you know it's 42 45 K meters per degree that's superar level more than p uh P1 it gets a lot of that stiffness from the sail panel exoskeleton actually um and in the a pillars so I mean I always laugh when people say oh they don't make them like they used to well thank God thank you very much you know it's it's a different world now I you know when I was a kid my dad bought a new carv 2 years because it would rust out rust would appear and fenders and and muffers go yeah yeah just all kinds of stuff like that you know it's like everything's like the restaurant business if you don't have an A in the window nobody's going to eat there yeah you nobody goes oh look H it's got a C+ let's go e it's just good enough but the I mean the rust thing that's you know it's come a long way on regular cars but on this one you know you don't have to worry about it at all I mean we had to make our own steel right because stainless steel is more like stain resistant not stain proof right and then the it's like kosher style exactly and the this you know the general recipes of stainless you either get corrosion resistance or you get toughness and like we had to sort of blend that and kind of get to the you know the the really happy spot of super corrosion resistant and super tough and then when you we roll Harden it you know as we get to that full hard State we're actually getting some you know work work hardening back and then we get some ductility through it just just enough to bend it um but then when we bend it it doesn't crack air bending as I talked about before we push the Press from behind and you know there's no there's no tool underneath directly underneath so you're kind of pushing it into air and then we're floating the panel on these bearings and on the side so that we're not really touching the surface either so you know it's very surprising when you watch the process there's no marks after we form it on the outside which really a lot of people thought we were going to buff it out and whatever but it's like we made it so there's no marks there's really no reason to put this in the garage even is it uh yeah tail resistant gun resistant bulletproof I don't know I guess if you get if it gets dusty going to wipe it off I've gotten used to my Yol steering but on I guess they make it an option now yeah that's right yeah but see I think it'll be like the split window in the 63 Corvette people go I want the one with the you know 20 with the unique thing yeah yeah well this gives you kind of the the impression the feeling of a Yol but then you have the top bar for exactly what you're doing now or if you're off-roading yeah off-roading you really want to grab something right be a good y yeah the challenge is though looking through the rim at the gauges in front of you on this vehicle where there's no gauges in front of you it works on a three or a y yeah but we I mean the real change from this to to the cybertruck theme was really to make sure that you had something to grab onto when you were driving Offroad cuz like you know that's a different experience than driving on a track I was very impressed with that Tesla semi that was oh yeah you came out here with Dan yeah the semi is another great engineer Marvel the real vision of the original semi was we were like why are we bringing batteries from Nevada to Fremont on diesels diesel trucks right and the original thought was we were going to use the batteries that were in the back of the trailer to power the semi to get there then we made it so efficient we didn't need to do that but we have a you know close to 100 semis on our Fleet now and that they're doing that run and we're you know working with um Pepsi as well to just understand the durability and get it right so we when we go into volume production next year but you got a two-piece on yeah and it magnets way it goes over here but you know it's uh holds and moves and does everything you want it to do but it's a really big trick to get it to be comfortable on the road like this and I know we're in what are we in sport right now but you can change it go down Comfort Comfort here you can go custom as I mentioned earlier it's our first bir directional power conversion system right but we just release Power share um which is you know our our our vehicle to Home Solution because getting from all the way to back to the grid you have to deal with a lot of um you know different regulation Statewide Citywide but vehicle to home is is available now through Power share or vehicle to vehicle or vehicle to vehicle if you want to charge finally you can jump start someone on the side of the road or you know if you're a remote and you want to if you're welding something we have 240 in the back so you can run this like a a power station to consider where we came from you know 15 years ago selling 2500 roadsters over a couple full threee span to just have all those old prejudices you know the thing that I find amazing is that people still have no concept of what electricity is it's you know we grew up with it it's ubiquitous it's everywhere plugs you know you know not to stick your finger in the socket but there's no perception of what that is you learn what you know gallons per mile and what gasoline is but you kind of like ignore this thing that's around us all the time so sherock comes called electricity The High Priestess of false security they the electronic uh you know alarm system right and people really don't understand how TV Works how electricity works so how does your picture get in that box side there I mean I think the interesting thing is I don't think people really you know you were talking about how fast your car charges at on our Chargers or supercharging they still don't have a grasp of what a kilowatt is what a kilowatt hour is like you we still talk in Horsepower and foot pounds of torque and it's funny when people ask me that question I have to like do the math in my head to like convert it to horsepower cuz you know I'm always thinking about kilowatts and then same same thing with you know the consumption it's like oh what's the miles per gallon well hold on let me like convert a kilowatt of energy and how did you make the gallon and and um I think eventually people will get there and and like the realization that you know you're you're running on 123 kwatt hours and you can charge at you know up to 350 F kilowatts and you can do the quick math and say okay 250 120 it's a third you know if I if I could keep that power the whole time that's I can charge in a third of an hour and horsepower is still what one horse can pull 33,000 lb w foot it's not what it is yeah which horse was that yeah I know was it your horse was it my horse yeah but the fact that we're still using that yeah but kilowatt you know kilowatt is like a true measure of power right and in in the sense of electrical power power it's power but like it's it's you know um electrons and how fast you know they're moving and that makes a lot more sense to an engineer like me well let's try a little off-roading here and see how we do so when we go into off-road mode yeah we get a top view of your car or your truck here and then you got your ability you know to uh add the locking differential up here and you can see where the torque's going and if your wheels are overheating and how much power you got they're not your wheels your tires all right so we're in off-road mode here okay found the only off-road space and watch you got a rock on this side there it was I I've got full height right yep you got full height so you don't have to worry about that he steps over hilarious so this will take it you know it'll go anywhere we adjust the torque we're in off-road mode and in rock crawling mode so you got full height and it's Shifting the torque front to rear wherever it needs to go to the wheel that you're slipping on or or driving through that's like nothing yeah it's amazing how when you get that torque in the front it just crawls up and over those rocks it doesn't even care amazing that was a fun little spin through the rivers well you know it's funny I I there's so many videos out on this now yeah that we wanted to get from you guys some of the interesting things most people don't know about through the roof rack the tent a lot of these other little Easter egg things I guess they call and I I didn't really see anybody go Offroad everybody wants to race it against a 911 Porsche or something which is I guess fun but it's not TR we already know that we already know it's fast it's fun showing some of the things it can do what a real serious off-road vehicle it is it's funny how the whole perception of electric vehicles has changed because we've gone from it's a glorified golf cart you know that's what everybody used to think to their they fast in a straight line there was a commercial I think with a Prius very early on they had the guys robbing a bank mhm and they get away in a Prius and the cops go the Prius is a we cuz they were trying to get over the idea that that it was slow but they realized maybe robbing A bank's not the best way to yeah it's not commercial didn't last very long it was but it was out there for a really short amount of time I thought they were going to say cuz it was quiet yeah but you know well you know I remember when I was not a kid but I would say 20 years ago I think there was a car called the T-Rex that was electric and this guy would show up drag strips and turn High 10 low 9es you know and people were astounded at electric how is it even possible electric car with it it goes back to this power thing I don't think people realiz like the power density of our Motors you know you got a motor this big outputting you know 300 horsepower in in those days you know and now nowadays you know like get three of them in a car and all of a sudden you got 900 and also just the instant torque you know for what we were just doing the rock crawling or I mean that is the cool thing that we were talking a little bit about but like because we have such good torque control when you go up over that rock or that you know just did the curb there you can really just feather it and it just climbs up it it's super super cool well I've got an electric motorcycle which is really fast it's out of Italy and aica I think it's called Uh 180 horsepower yeah it's too much for a motorcycle that doesn't feel right oh actually actually it does kind of feel right but you just got so much power there the zero motorcycles out of the bay those are also pretty cool yeah zeros are good also zeros are good well hopefully through the series of products that we've been producing we've been able to dispel all the kind of mistruths out there right right right you know range charg performance charging and imagine capability eventually everything will be a DC Charger won't it except for your home yeah I mean DC chargings can get super fast you know like as I mentioned with V4 superchargers up to 350 kilow you know and as we get efficiency better and better the batteries get smaller and for more range you know um like the lowest model three batteries is like 60 kwatt hours so you charge that at if we can get the power in 350 Kow you're talking you know very fast charging the point where you know people just top off you know like they do at a gas station does the fast you fill a battery damage it in terms of longevity for example is a slow 8 to 12h hour charge better for longevity than well it's a 10 minute or a half hour it's really about thermal management and like managing the plating so like you know if you if you're charging a battery that's not cooled that's may be true because it gets hot and then when it gets hot the ion the lithium ions can flow faster and there's more likelihood of them plating um to the anode or the cathode side but when you're when we're charging a battery we're cooling it we're monitoring its temperature so we're keeping it at an optimal temperature so it doesn't really affect the longevity what about 74° F yeah yeah it's basically it's comfortable where we're comfortable right you know if you get above 80 then you get some trouble you know we try and keep it right maybe 60 when you're driving at for a top a top uh temperature and then we also precondition yeah so we also precondition they're ready when you arrive at a supercharger cuz if they're too cool they also don't charge as fast so this this very tight window we're trying to keep it in when you're charging you it's always best to keep your electric vehicle plugged in 24/7 right I mean you don't want it to run out of energy um cuz then you're you're going to you know like have an issue potentially of not having any charge but right you know Ju Just Like if you're going to leave a car uh IC car parked for a while you leave it on a trickle charger right you know you can leave your your EV plugged in trickle charger my other Tesla I had for seven years and it was always plugged in and I don't think I lost one I think the range in back then was like 230 I was like 226 225 after seven years yeah and it was fine 2% or something what I mean your gas mileage goes down more than that right exactly I mean we and we thought early on we you know made the batteries quick swappable and replacable that you know people might want to do this and over the years we've just gone away from that because the batteries last long recharge fast and you don't really need it I mean we built that one pass swaper yeah I mean we we proved out the concept whether you know know if you paid the same amount as a tank of gas but you could have your pack swapped right in the same amount of time it would take like less than 5 minutes or go next door and supercharge for 30 minutes but it was free at that time people always took the free one it didn't make sense yeah they would they would take the extra you know few minutes use the restroom you we we saw people that would go to the the the battery swap swap their battery pull the car over go get a coffee use the restroom and they ended up taking the same amount of time right bother you know and I've been out in China I've done the fast battery swaps they have there and I think it's you know in an urban environment maybe it makes a little sense but you know China's also doing really fast DC charging statistically like the Tesla Supercharger network is like is working 99.6% of the time well if you go to any other charging station it's maybe 80% of the time that was the genius of the whole thing so there's you know there's a chance on you're on a trip um you know one in five chance that when you pull into charge it's not going to work that's you know that's horrible I didn't know when Elon came here in 2007 with the roast he said I'm going to put charging station I'm going yeah right cuz it didn't even seem possible Right but yet I see major manufacturers now they make a car what do your charge oh anywhere no you can't charge anywhere I mean yeah that was great foresight between Elon and JB just to say like we got to build the charging station too and now that we have you know it's become a you know a little bit of a freedom gain you know CU you can go wherever you want and I mean um how far away is the day of having a Tesla home charging car only unit you know for your garage are they well we're working on inductive charging so are they don't even need to plug something in at that point pull your garage drive over the pad and charging I mean the you know with power wall 3 you know we're getting Tighter and Tighter Power Electronics and now with Power share like that device is becoming you know basically could power your whole house if you had solar and charger car ecosystem you know my my house is is completely offgrid like in Beverly Hills you're not allowed to have Sol PS that's cuz they're considered ugly I mean but but now you guys make the tiles that maybe that's okay yeah I think you know the amazing thing to me is when you think about you know how many solar panels we need to power like the entire us or you know we're not talking about like thousands and thousands of square miles it's it's you know really everyone puts them on their home or you know commercial places put on their building that's more than enough and um you know it's nice to know that you know the US is moving that way I think I read a report recently that we're um I think by you know in the next 15 years more than 50% of of all of the US power will be renewable and that's super exciting yeah that is exciting I find it fascinating that we're having a normal conversation in an off-road vehicle with off-road tires at 60 M an hour I'm not so let me ask you what you know that's normally what we be doing I mean it's it's pretty amazing I think that you know when you get in a car you want to feel like you're in your own space especially in places like La where you have traffic or whatever and we really work hard to give that to you and you know as you said you don't even realize you're going 60 or 50 or 70 mph I find sometimes I'm going faster than I should because I'm not used to still after all these years how quiet it gets around you right right well I mean a lot of trucks are you know they're either purpose built for off-road but they are horrible onroad right or they're on-road trucks and that you can't like go off-road in them but you know I think what we're experiencing is you can do both this this super compliant great car acting like a a car on the road and just moments ago we were off-road and it was super capable there and France for you it must be especially uh uh exciting to feel Vindicated you come up with a wacky looking car that people think is just outrageously what and yet everybody's flocked to it you know I mean I couldn't imagine approaching any normal automobile manufacturer with this vehicle they yeah there's no way you know like I'm surpr I was stunned chist to build the penus prowler right yeah but I said well okay maybe things are changing I didn't care for the car myself I thought a little odd but but I thought it was fascinating that just that they buildt it and the fact that you can come up with an idea like this which is either feast or famine isn't it people going to love it oh oh my God just get out of here you know it it's it was this a product at all of market research or just your vision for it here it is hope you like it it was basically that yes we looked at what we wanted to make sure we had the capability of a truck we couldn't do something this radical and then it was horrible as you know a driving car or a truck working with fron on the design we we did a great job of like making it like a truck making it like a car giving it a six foot bed giving it a 4ft wide bed making it comfortable but like yet it still looks like the iconic shape that you drew years ago right and none of that would have really worked if we couldn't do all the other engineering elements that Lars is explained um that make the truck great beyond just you know uh well it's great you work for a company that is open to new ideas you know I have so many design friends and engineer friends it gets his illusion because they spend their whole life just doing door handles you know what I mean we we spend our whole life deleting door handles well you know what I mean I mean I know what you mean we got something new door handle Engineer Expert I mean you know frons and I represent a team of thousands of people that that really like they're the best engineers and designers in the world world and like I you know it's super awesome to to to show their work and this product but it's you know that kind of environment only exists because of you know really our boss yeah Elon pushes us to go to the next level well you know when the Corvair came out it was a revolutionary car and it was a failure cuz he only sold 1.8 million of them yeah only right where his Mustang was like 3.7 so it was and Scot willly it scared everybody just go back to the pan Ard engine transmission rear end right no new ideas no air cooled no flat 6 no yeah you know it was a shame too because when I look at a 66 Corvette Cora which I have people think kids stop me go is that a Carman Gia no it's a COR what's a COR they don't they never heard cor was a great one Carmen Gia was good too but it had the little like uh yeah I remember it had the uh natural gas heater that's a good idea right with the m yeah exactly people worried about electric cars you know like we used to have gas in the cabin well that's another thing I had an argument with someone the other day about that yeah but those electric just catch fire all the time no they don't the ratio to gas cars gas cars catch fire so much more often yeah I mean obviously the news you know take it whichever way you want it to go but like that you know the fire rates that we have on our vehicles are on order magnitude lower than than you know gas cars right but once the Press gets over like people go one guy said to me I like these cor they explode right no they don't explode yeah yeah I mean new technology takes a little while for people to get used to but I hope we're you know to fron this point the product core fully was full out now we got a truck we got a semi- TR we got a bunch of cars SUVs it's great I think I think guys congratulations on all excess I really appreciate thank you my friend and it's all americanmade that's what's great exactly I I I you know I don't follow Sports I just follow manufacturing and I follow americanmade products and things and and and that's what I enjoy when I see something like this you know you had since 1915 we lost 2% of car companies you know every if somebody else went nobody new came into the business now we got you guys you got McLaren you got rivan you got um all the others Lucid just all people some some will make it some don't but at least they're new vehicles they're made in America I mean it's great yeah and I mean you know I think it would be great if if all those companies succeed and I'm also happy to see companies like Ford and you know GM trying to make the leap and trying to trying to innovate and you know hopefully that leads to a better you know more sustainable future with products that people want now here's a problem a lot of folks have you get so excited about something like this cyber truck you just go out and you just buy it on the spot one of those impulse buys then you go home and you tell your spouse they're not thrilled they throw you out of the house but if you bought the optional tent no problem see you tomorrow\n"