Funky Form & Features: Tesla Cybertruck Interior Review

welcome back to Monroe live I'm Carl and here today we have a cybertruck uh today actually the first day that I've been able to see the cybertruck looking around some of the different features we're going to talk about the interior features but I can't not speak about the exterior as we get started of course this is a stainless steel vehicle stainless steel exterior body at least now that was done with the DeLorean everyone is very familiar with that but going all the way back to 1957 195 58 Cadillac El Dorado Braum had a brushed stainless steel roof so stainless steel has been done in automotive before it hasn't fully caught on and I'm certain some of the delays and some of the technical issues that Tesla had is one of the reasons why it probably hasn't caught on this video is brought to you by Anker and their new maggo wireless charging station the Mago wireless charging station is the ultimate companion for your Apple ecosystem allowing to charge your iPhone airpods and Apple watch 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like looking at this and thinking of it as a truck but does that matter it doesn't really matter back when we did our video at the interior Expo I said there's a difference between the what and the how the what is the product that the oems send to the market that you have the opportunity to buy but what you don't see is the how and we're looking at the suppliers the tooling the manufacturing methods those methods those different hows can go many different ways they don't support one single one so when I look at these panels and look at the way this is assembled when we tear this vehicle down what we really need to focus on is the how what did they do what did they design that enabled them to do this vehicle and can those methods can those toolings can those approaches be used to develop something else something more Innovative than what we've done traditionally looking at these panels I was actually kind of surprised I assumed that when they stamped this stainless steel that they would have turned edges that's what we see in stampings today but these are not if you really get a closeup view running down this Edge that is is literally just the raw cut edge of the stainless steel there's no return there's no hem which you would normally see in a panel all right well what does that mean well if I am blanking a piece of metal and I'm cutting on the opposite Edge a bur will develop and those burs will be very very sharp in normal stamping for exterior bodies since we do roll and hem those edges in uh further processing we hide those birds but this you cannot hide anything in its blanking process so do they have to dress every edge of a panel that they are blanking out I don't know it would be interesting to see that process but then we have the way the layers of these panels stack on top of each other if you were to come here and look straight down the front of the vehicle you'll notice this gap between these two different panels I completely understand that a gap would have to exist however if I'm thinking of this aerodynamically and how air and material is approaching the front of this vehicle I would assume that I would want to shingle this panel over top of this Edge and the same with this top here I would want to shingle over top of this edge here that's my assumption there might be something in this structure that says Ah we really don't need to do that but why I think that they don't do it that way is because of the side profile looking at the side profile that corner looks much cleaner without that overlap and if I'm the owner of this vehicle and I'm approaching this vehicle I'm always approaching to the side so my angle of view I cannot see those gaps from this angle so I think that it's more of the side styling that affected how they overlap those panels when I look at this vehicle I don't see a truck I see more of an SUV V it's proportions it's actually smaller than I thought it would be in real life but even though I say that I am somewhat impressed with the tailgate and the bed the first opening up the lighting is great everything that I would have to put in there I can see that is wonderful opening up the tunnel it's nice to have a tunnel that fully works that's wonderful additional storage underneath the bed if you have the space why not use it however if I have Lumber in this vehicle this is not a space that I would be able to use I've had discussions with other oems if this is a truck and if I'm towing something what do I need for towing I need a tow hitch I need chains I need binders I need my ratchet straps where am I storing those components most of the time you have to store it in the cab underneath the seats okay but if I am tell I do have that nice storage area here for my chains and my binders but I only have access if I am not using the bed for anything else so if I already had something in the bed taking up this space and now I stopped at a rental company and I need to get a small excavator I cannot bind it down because my binders are buried underneath the other stuff that is loaded in my vehicle lots of times you'll see people driving with their trucks they'll have the tailgate up they'll have some 8ft Lumber which sticks up about 2 ft and then you have to figure out how am I tying it down how am I preventing things from blowing out this is actually kind of neat because I can stop the tunnel where I want it so I could have my lumber sitting here I could still have tie downs but then I can stop it right at the edge of my lumber so I'm still protected but yet I have something that is also providing security so my lumber is not going to flip up pop out I kind of like being able to stop that where I want it to stop press a button that kicks out the door to present it to you let's start with the seat since I've already picked on the seat before in another video it is slightly different from the Tesla seats that we've seen on our other vehicles that we've torn down I would like to understand what is different about this headrest up here the Tesla headrests I had a problem with in the fact that they were fixed headrest but the way they were installed they were still installed with all the same components of a moving headrest they had Chrome tubes that would go down into headrest guides that would lock in place but it was basically a onetime use why am I paying money to chrome a tube that is completely hidden because you cannot adjust it and move it up why do I have headrest guides with the locks if those headrest guides are onetime use I cannot actually function them so when this vehicle is torn down it would be interesting to see if they've changed the way they're working the headrests for this new vehicle now when we look at some of the spy videos or um images that came out early I was talking about the front side shield and the front of the seat now you'll notice that this seat structure is sitting on a riser that structure that is basically lifting up the track we're moving along the track that Riser is fixed in place the side Shield they still tried to keep a very very crisp design they tried to make it sharp angles similar to the vehicle now there's a problem with those angles however when it comes to injection molding and I don't know how much we're going to be able to get an image of it but if you were to focus right on the front of this seat there is actually a parting line that wraps that corner having an a surface parting line is normally not allowed in production um most oems won't want to have it but because of the sharp angles of this design we don't have a nice smooth rounded Edge which would be open and draft in the injection molding to allow that to not have an a surface parting line the materials are still very clean and very simple we have layers but the layers make sense going from top to bottom so let's look at the door we were talking about the light pipe in the new model 3 recently we have that same look here we have a wrapped upper we have a light pipe separating out our insert area a wrapped armrest with controls now this wrapped armrest passes all the way through most of the times when we are developing these things we hate that just because that means that this surface must be continuous in some way all the way around we have to have a closeout panel somewhere for the edge um and managing those parts especially parts that are not visible to the customer but only could possibly be felt gets a little Annoying going down it is still still a soft touch like material going all the way to the bottom but when we looked at the model 3 we had that nice soft basically formed carpet map pocket we don't have that it is an injection molding with a rubber insert inside of the door panel now the nice thing about that soft touch material on the model 3 is that if you have things in there rattling around you won't hear that that's why on this one they inserted that rubber um insert to help deaden the noise help deaden the sound now when I opened up this vehicle and got in for the first time I did get the feeling of getting in a truck because of the smell I'm blaming that on the plastic and rubber mat uh floor mats um I think that that was giving me the impression that I was getting let's look at this instrument panel I'm going to talk about the different surface Sur is going towards the windscreen the first one I'm going to talk about is this wrapped section here now if I have a WRA section and if I want to avoid sewing I have to make sure that I'm only wrapping material thickness so you see that I have this sharp edge here they avoid sewing on a side panel because they're only wrapping the material thickness but still you can see these wrinkles here whenever I am wrapping an outside corner I always have too much material wrapping an inside corner you don't have enough so because of that when the material is wrapped up around this corner it bunches up gets really thick causing these wrinkles personally for me I don't mind seeing those features just because I know it's real it's not some piece of plastic that was formed some people don't like it then we have this artificial suede material that is the first section that is a cut and sew material you can see the seam line here that is a technical problem we have this very long straight sewn line but again this sewing is all done by hand by operators and trying to keep something very straight over that length is very very difficult now one good thing is they're using black thread on top of a black material it hides the imperfections which I can see several waviness in the Stitch from here if they were to try and do a contrasting thread something that was silver or white you would see the inconsistency it would just pop right out so you kind of avoid a quality issue by making those colors match some type of a perceived quality issue now it's hard to see from inside the vehicle so and I don't know how we'll be able to see it underneath the lights but going forward of that panel we have this fabric wrapped um forward piece we would normally call this like the speaker cover area this does look like it's a textile that has holes in it so there may be speakers buried under there it's an inexpensive material for the most part but what are my problems with wrapping something this far forward in vehicle with a wind screen that is at this angle this is taking very very high Sun loads now I have a black material underneath glass that is basically um perpendicular parallel to the sun I'm assuming that this is going to take a lot of heat what is that going to do that means the adhesive layer that is bonding that material is going to take a lot of heat and could possibly fail now I've saw that issue in Corvette where we had a very very ra windshield we had an air vent and what happened was the material that we wrapped it with underneath that heat would actually shrink and the material would pull away from the air vent and it actually walked up to 14 mm in measurements that I took came right out from underneath the air vent so fabric normally does not shrink as much as other types of materials so I'm hoping that this will not be an issue down the road but this is a area that I would consider is a possible failure point but looking at this glass it does look like there is some sort of tinting in this glass so hopefully they've been able to address that type of heat that they would experience on the glue layer underneath this fabric so if I am an automotive Tier 1 what am I selling I'm selling the actual components that are going into the vehicle I'm selling the door panel most likely as a completed door panel I want to sell an IP that is ready to be loaded and bolted into the vehicle lots of times you'll have many different pieces and parts that are included in that assembly um lots of times you cannot just directly put an IP into a vehicle you're going to have closeout panels and attachment points but look at this these all appear to be solid panels from side to side so here's a question how do I unbolt that IP and take the whole thing out do I have caps covering bolts or screws in some location well we'll find out and we'll see all of those locations as we tear this vehicle down but I would almost be upset as a tier one as a supplier because there's very few components for me to try and make profit on um it is very very clean it can be argued it's very very boring um but I don't have as many components and the good thing about not having as many components is that's fewer components that you have to worry about quality issues on but it's still somewhat stylish depending on your style now it's not a round steering wheel it's not a complete Yol so of course I still have an area to grab at the top but again you should never drive with your hand at the top this airbag is an explosive you do not want that explosive banging up your arm you want when that explosive goes off your elbow to be able to move around that bag that is expanding in front of you you don't want to be on top and then throwing up your arm it can't hinge that way it's going to hurt now I don't have an adjustable headrest but for me my body size may not be for everyone you'll see this triangle protrusion in that headrest it fits my neck and my head very very well now that triangle depending on how tall you are is going to move in relation to your body now maybe this angle is a development that Tesla has done to try and mount to the adjustment of the height of the person that's in the vehicle my sight line at the top so I'm looking at this section of the header then it's going into the the sun visor if I'm flipping that sun visor down this is kind of a weird condition the fact that I've now opened up a section of glass over top of the sunvisor all right I do have an extension which is nice on my view here but I have opened up a section that can possibly blind me above the sun visor now this does have a tinted band across here I have not been able to drive this vehicle or be out in the sun so I don't know how it performs but that is something that I would want to think about moo huh don't know if I like that the use of the sun visor seems kind of odd to me so our center console we looked at a wrapped center console on the model 3 and it had stitching going from front to back we don't have any stitching on here opening up the console I have a storage bin now this seems kind of odd to me in the fact that this is a floating bin but it's not self storing so it's not like it's a bin that I'm sliding forward and back to access what's underneath of it I actually have to pull it out now there is a power port there which is why I assume there is a gap here so that your cords can still stick out if they're being plugged in let's look at the floor I did a very high-end vehicle a while ago and they actually wanted a decorative floor they actually wanted a cut and SE floor now they were still trying to use the floor shape from their standard vehicle which had all types of undulations and protrusions in it that works for carpet because you're thermal forming the carpet you can have many of those shapes trying to do a cut and se you can't um I told them that your floor is going to look like Frankenstein because of all the seams that I'm going to have to put in these random areas but this is relatively flat side to side I'm certain that there's going to be some Market people that are going to do some quilted sewn vegan vinyl leather type material that would fit to this floor because this floor is almost made for something like that all right so looking at this seat there are some differences here one thing that I want to make mention is what we saw on the Tesla Model 3 the new version of the model 3 we were looking at the full down armrest and we noticed that the headrest moved with the armrest so unlike the model 3 however this armrest is locked in position there is a release cable right here to fold it down however it looks like I have to both release and pull down at the same time um all right that's not so bad that gives us our cup holders we still have a moving headrest this also gives us access to the child tether located here but this is also a truck seat what do truck seats normally do normally our cushion folds up and we have some sort of storage we do have storage you'll notice if hidden behind the seat Bel on the corner there's a little d-ring that's a pull strap so I would grab that ring release my seat and I can stand the seat up 90° this gives me a flat floor section if I'm loading in boxes of materials that's nice I don't really have have an independent storage bin but I have the bin in the tailgate this is interesting see this big piece of plastic so this plastic is closing out the bottom of the seat cover here's the debate that I've had when what is less expensive if this was a piece of plastic or if this was a sewn carpet panel just on the seat cover if it was a sewn carpet panel that means that I would have to have some sort of a close out I would have zippers running along the side to close it out after I put the cover on this cover is most likely attached independently all the way around this perimeter and then this plastic panel is popped on depending on the cost of your carpet the injection molding may be less expensive but depending on the handling the processing the actual installation maybe it's more um I've done those calculations on several different vehicles and depending on how you do it it can either be a cost save or a cost hit so it's just interesting to me to see that they went ahead and put plastic panels on the bottom of the seats we saw on the Tesla Model 3 that they put a screen that has controls for the rear occupant so we see we have the same thing here it does look like we have much of the same features so we have have our ventilation controls to the different occupants oh look at that even directional that's quite nice we have a seat control okay so I have seat heat for the two occupants and I have the ability to adjust the passenger seat for the rear passenger audio controls video controls can't have that in the front so this actually kind of nice I I like this feature I don't know how much money a feature like this is adding into the vehicle there are some physical components that you're eliminating by putting something like this in but putting in a screen integrating those controls there is a cost in all of that it's up to the occupant or up to the owner whether or not the cost is worth it now again we saw this in the Tesla Model 3 a $35,000 vehicle so I'm very impressed that they're able to integrate a feature like this into a vehicle that is at that price point and we see we have it in the Cyber Tru as well so the good thing about this this is not just a walk around review video we are going to be tearing down this cyber truck we will be able to see those different features how they were able to integrate them how they made them work I'm interested to see how these flat stamped body panels are actually attached to some sort of structure um how does that structure integrate does that structure enable us to do something new on other vehicles what is supporting the decisions that they made for the cybertruck those supporting decisions I think are the most important thing we can see the how how does this work and we can use that how to go into other vehicles in the future so please if you're not subscribed subscribe so that you can see the complete tear down of the cybertruck and how they were able to accomplish what they did and how those hows can apply into the future thanks for watching minro live have a good day

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Length: 25min 35sec (1535 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 20 2024