Encountered on the way home with a trailer load of groceries:
It’s about as distinctive as (yet much uglier than) Amazon’s Rivian trucks:
What I do not understand is the lack of a license plate on that front bumper, here in New York State where front license plates are mandatory. I’ve noticed several Tesla vehicles (in their S3XY automotive series, among which I cannot distinguish) without front plates, so it must be a Tesla owner thing.
The WordPress AI image for this post gets the angular aspect right, along with the missing plate:
Cybertruck, fear me!
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Ugly with serious sight-line and vision issues for the driver – Elon & the design team must have been off their meds
Many people with cars that they expect to retain value prefer to not have the license plate on the front because mounting one almost always damages the bodywork. Others have cars they consider to be attractive and don’t want the plate on the front to ruin the appearance. They are willing to take the cost of the “fixit” ticket from time to time. Most jurisdictions treat missing front plates as a, “lesser included offense”, and don’t pull over for it. If, that is, they are even pulling over for traffic offenses at all in this post-Covid, post-BLM environment.
Given the number of cars sporting dark-tinted windows and totally unreadable plates, enforcement is obviously not a thing in these parts.
Subject: Cybertruck owners mocked as vehicle issues mount up: ‘Clueless f****ng idiots’ – Business – Finance – Daily Express US
https://www.the-express.com/finance/business/137435/cybertruck-owners-mocked-vehicle-faults-tesla-elon-musk/amp
Somewhat to my surprise, Tesla earned a spot in my “hard no” category. Given they started at “Yeah, I’d try one of those”, it’s been a continuous series of disappointments and unpleasant surprises.
AFAICT, Cybertrucks have much the same aura as Hummers.
But keep some cardboard from the move. Add some duct tape and grey paint and this Halloween you could be riding a cyber recumbent. (That’s more rust resistant than the cyber truck.)
Cardboard: check.
Design files: check.
Laser cutter: check.
Duct tape: check.
Fit a pair of recumbents in there and we’re ready for the Halloween parade!
On the Mid-Hudson Bridge last week I spotted one of these approaching from the opposite direction. As it got closer I saw that it was pulling a U-Haul rental trailer, and on that trailer was an electric golf cart. Stranger than seeing a Dead-head sticker on a Cadillac.
I gotta get out more often …
The first Tesla truck was much cooler, but it was created by Simone Giertz not Elon, and there is only one of them. (And yes, I know folks, Elon didn’t create Tesla either).
Now, that’s dedication to the cause …
I am convinced Musk was five beers into a six pack when he sketched the truck on a bar napkin. His minions were too scared to change a thing so they built exactly what was on the napkin, sort of like Stonehenge in Spinal Tap.
Tesla installed a charging station by the Kroger affiliate a few years back, and after a year or so is now moderately busy. A lot of the first uses were new cars in transit to the service center in Bend (140 miles north). Thus no plates at all. Now that there’s some acceptance (mostly urban drivers), I’ll see occasional cars missing the front plate. [shrugs]
On the other hand, I have yet to see a Cyber Truck in the county. Somehow, I doubt I’ll see one backed up to a dumpster at the transfer station or at the Feed ‘n Seed getting hay. [grin] Somehow, rural life and EVs don’t get along. Goes double for electric trucks.
Hmm, seeing that picture brought up an old memory, and perhaps the inspiration for the CT’s design:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainfan_Facetmobile
Not like anything else at the air show, fer shure!