Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it

Cyber truck looks absolutely shit. The only thing it had going for itself was that it would have been the very first fully electric pick up truck - when it was first announced.

After more than 5 years Tesla is nowhere close to mass producing the ugly while Ford stole the thunder with announcing and launching the F150 Lightning. If I was in market for an EV pick up, I’d no longer consider Tesla cyber truck, let alone the Fascist ElMo’s shenanigans.

Any day now, the cyber truck will come whizzing down the hyperloop with its sub 10 micron build tolerance and tornado proof glass, fully autonomously driving of course. Any day now.

You just know Elon had a personal hand in designing it, because there's no other reason a car company would go ahead and build the equivalent of "The Homer".

It looks like a shitty futuristic movie prop

It’s looks like a little kid was drawing a house and halfway said, fuck it, it’s a car and put wheels on it.

There's no way in hell this shit doesn't completely flop, right? Like, who in their right mind would buy this garbage aside from techbros riding Elon's pole?

Completely flat steel's gonna ding like a bitch and it'll never come out. You'll need an entire new sheet to replace it if you want it to look right.

That said, it will never look right since it's not being built with thermal expansion in mind.

I thought he was always the only engineer tho. This implies he does not do his own designs. Very sus. /s

So both the engineers and everyone in the comments is just saying they hate/like the look of it? That's the last important part. As I understand it, the Cybertruck is never going to be allowed to the roads in Europe because of how unsafe it is. That's what people should be interested in. Looks can be pleasing to some and ugly to others and that's ok.

The OG cybertruck reminds me of Lara Croft in the OG Tomb Raider.

If you know you know, looks like a shitty prototype.

Y'know, I wanted one until I learned anything about Tesla as a company or about Elon, and then I decided it's vaporware and will probably never be delivered for reasons that are stupid. Looking from the outside but with experience shipping big software releases, this smells a lot like what you get when you think of QC not as an engineering discipline, but as a cost to be minimized.

I am still very confused why it's not called the X Truck or CyberX TruX or something stupid containing the letter X

Drive one from California to Texas and see where the body panels pop off.

you mean, the mockup on a model s chassis that Elon's groupies pre-purchased ? Financing for free (of interests) a multi-billions dollars company ... no!

Am I the only person besides Elon who likes the cybertruck? I hate agreeing with that idiot on anything, but I think the cybertruck looks cool.

Hasn't Tesla's design language always been about not rocking the boat aesthetically? The model S looks nice, but except for the lack of a grille it kinda just looks like any other car. You could make an EV look pretty weird as you don't really need an engine compartment, but it's harder to sell someone on both an exotic drivetrain and an exotic appearance. This think looks like it fell out of blade runner...

It also doesn't look very aerodynamic. I have some concerns about range, especially considering that Tesla doesn't exactly have the best record of honesty in that particular area.

I guess we'll see how it sells. Eventually.

There's a lot to hate. It's insanely ugly. It's like a PT Cruiser and a Nissan Cube mated and all the worst car genes went right into the CybeR TruCk.

Maybe the truck should get a chance to throw a steel ball at Elon’s face.

Keep those designs in your back pocket. Teslas gonna need something to replace the Cybertruck with after it flops and investors finally oust Elon.

i'm really excited for this isaacson bio; i loved his steve jobs one, but i read that in high school, bright eyed and wanting to go into tech. lol.

Now this I want to see. What did the engineers working on their own side project come up with?

Read this as 'cyberduck' at first and I was like, what's wrong with my favorite FTP client? Why do they hate it?

Tesla is developing a skunkworks. Maybe something good will come out of this.

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I ironically like it

I dont believe for a second that any engineer in Tesla was opposed to this design. Everyone wanted a taste of daddy Tesla after that cybertruck was revealed. I know its en vogue to shit on Elon now in 2023 but 2020/2021 everyone was dick riding the biggest chad on earth.