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Tesla Cybertruck launch

Did you see the Tesla Cybertruck live launch last week?

250k
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 27, 2019

Tesla’s Cybertruck launch made for entertaining viewing, orders were reported to have reached 200,000 just 3 later. Today, just one week on from launch night and Elon Musk has tweeted ‘250K’, (pictured) – there’s a lot of speculation that this refers to Cybertruck orders to date. Wow, that’s a lot of Cybertrucks!

Prices will start at $39,900, there will be three different battery sizes available with capable of between 250 and 500 miles per charge.

On stage at the launch event the truck’s armor glass didn’t perform quite as expected. In a strength demonstration a metal ball was thrown at and smashed one of the truck’s windows – the glass was supposed to be smash-proof. Following the mishap Elon Musk said with some humour “So there’s still room for improvement”. In previous tests the windows had remained intact!

Cybertruck’s features:

‘Tesla armor glass’ providing potentially smashproof windows
Autopilot as standard
The ‘Cybertruck’ has a logo from a Swiss typographer’s worst nightmares. But typical of Tesla’s disruptive brand presence, and what’s wrong with being a bit different anyway?
Angular “Blade Runner” inspired body.
6 seats
Lockable storage space or ‘vault’
The bed of the truck is 2.0 m long
0-60mph in as little as 2.9 seconds
It’s BIG
- Length: 5,885 mm
- Width: 2,027 mm
- Height: 1905 mm