The Cybertruck has arrived and it looks nothing like any pickup truck you've ever seen. Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed the long-awaited electric pickup truck at its Design Studio in Hawthorne, California, just outside Los Angeles.
When the truck initially drove onto the stage, many in the crowd clearly couldn't believe that this was actually the vehicle they'd come to see. The Cybertruck looks like a large metal trapezoid on wheels, more like an art piece than a truck.
Instead of a distinctly separate cab and bed, the body appears to be a single form. The exterior is made from a newly developed stainless steel alloy, the same metal that's used for SpaceX rockets, Musk said. That alloy enables the car to be "literally bulletproof" against at least smaller firearms, including 9-mil glimeter handguns, Musk said.
A man with a sledgehammer hit the sides of the truck without damaging it. But a demonstration of the truck's supposedly unbreakable metal glass windows backfired when a metal ball thrown at the windows did, in fact, break them.
"But it didn't go through, " Musk sheepishly pointed out.
“"But it didn't go through, " Musk sheepishly pointed out.
Watch the unveiling demo mishap here