Living with the Tesla Cybertruck So You Don't Have To!

all right there's been a lot of weird cars to come out in the past couple weeks months years decades uh but this one might be the weirdest one of them all and I don't think it's particularly close this this thing here this has come out for 2024 and it's called the Tesla cyber truck I've been driving it living with it for almost 1,000 miles for a couple of weeks now so you don't have to God it's I will say this vehicle is characterized by these really big highs and lows really big sweeping exciting really interesting things about it and then Lowe's on the other side that are like really disappointing about it that you only really fine by actually living with it which I have been so that's what this video is I'm just going to detail everything break it down try not to get hurt by them they tend to interrupt these videos but that's okay this is the cybertruck now there's really it feels like there's only one place to start with the truck which is how it looks right this thing I have a lot more to say about it and maybe a main Channel full review but I think it's kind of iconic meaning you either love this or you hate it and in person it looks even more cyberpunk like low poly render than maybe anything on video quite shows and I'll dig more into the the materials and the build quality and panel gaps in just a second but there's something you should know about living with the cybertruck which is that the truck itself is a bit of a celebrity at least at this moment especially if you're in a place where there aren't really any others yet you cannot drive this without getting attention at all it's the most attention getting vehicle by a long long way that I've ever gotten you drive this thing people walking past turn around they people driving by literally accelerate to try to get a better video out their side window of you driving by it's actually kind of dangerous like the way that people behave on the road when they see a cyber truck and want to go get a video of it is crazy that's all by itself this truck also has Sentry mode you probably already know about Teslas where you walk up to the truck and it knows and it turns on the recording from the cameras this truck has hundreds of video clips of people walking up to it and looking inside and just generally interrupting it and draining the battery during the day it's that popular so I feel like it's polarizing enough that people either love it or hate it in real life I kind of like it it's really hard to explain why I think it looks sick in person um it's also don't get me started the roads New Jersey suck they're flying away it's okay um but generally yeah this is a uh it's a very unique looking truck but the thing about these looks is I think it actually distracts people from a lot of really interesting technical Innovation that goes on under the hood I mean everyone wants to talk about the looks understandably but the 800 volt architecture this crazy suspension with a ton of travel like there's more happening with this truck that I'll get into in a second but let's just start with the basics what is it right there's basically two cyber Tru specs you can get right now two different versions the dual motor or the triple motor the cyberbeast so this is a foundation Edition cyber truck Foundation series which means it's one of the first ones it's a low VIN number but this is the dual motor version the triple motor version is basically the exact same truck but faster because it has an extra motor in the back and it has alcantar in the dash that's basically the only difference but let's get into the technical stuff first of all they ship to owners without that Hub Cap remember the arrow cap that we see in all those early cyber trucks especially when they showa that promo material that's not on this truck so you do have just the Open Wheel when you get your cyber truck they're redesigning the AOW cover that you'll eventually allegedly get uh which means this you see the Open Wheel you see the brakes but you also just have like no hub caps and no nut covers and that's the only place I've seen rust on this truck a little bit worrying but that's the way it is right now you can get third party covers if you want but that's the place I see rust on this truck and then the thing about a low Vin Tesla is you will be dealing with low Vin production quality stuff only reason I say that is because I'm the guy who doesn't really care about panel gaps too much and I still really don't pay too much attention to it but this panel Gap is actually worth mentioning it's the worst I've ever seen in a production vehicle I'll just show it to you this is the driver's side door there's no door handles as you can tell the way to get into the truck is that little handle and it pushes it out and then you pull the truck out the rest of the way that's why there's fingerprints all over this truck but I don't know I think there's going to be something wrong with this store cuz it literally looks like it's open like that that's pretty bad I've never seen a gap quite that bad that's the way it should look that's the way it looks it's probably one of those things where I'll have to bring it into Tesla they'll tighten some things up and it'll look fine but that's the stuff you will probably have to deal with if you get a low Vin cyber truck but then of course you know you're looking at the materials you're looking at these angles all the sharpness up here we've covered that I've talked about this before this is not a surprise but you have this big LED light bar on the front which is pretty iconic when it pulls up behind you and then all of the actual headlights are down here and so that's where all the actual bright light comes from you also got your front-facing camera on a Tesla for the first time with a washer sick and then this huge sloping windshield some might even call it the largest sloping windshield on any vehicle ever which brings us to the windshield wiper this is the largest windshield wiper on any production car and you've seen people do this before but it's just massive it's just big blade it's pretty expensive to uh replace but it seems to work fine the one weird thing about it is it doesn't actually go all the way down to the bottom of the glass on the windshield this actually pivots over to a couple inches above the bottom so when it's wiping there's just a bunch of rain and water at the bottom that still continues to roll up the windshield even while you've cleared the windshield it's kind of a weird California Quirk where they design cars that aren't as good in rain as you would expect either way I'll just finish my way around the outside of the truck it's a pretty big truck as you already know it's full size especially from like this rear 3/4 angle it just has these big shoulders it kind of looks like a dump truck in a way maybe that's not the best way to describe it but that's that's what it reminds me of uh either way big glass sunroof and then you've got this huge truck bed which has the lockable tono cover which they call a vault and when that comes up it closes that rear window and comes all the way back to the front then you can open the tailgate there's lights in the tailgate there's even hidden storage right here there's no room for a spare so this is a truck where if you want to carry a spare that's going to take up room in the actual truck but you know you can have your charging equipment down here maybe have some groceries down here a little sub trunk space never heard anybody and I definitely want to mention you have these Outlets over here so you have the 220s but you also have a 240 volt which you can literally use to charge other vehicles you can charge another Tesla you can charge a rivan whatever just with the mobile connector by plugging it in here and plug it into the other vehicle which is pretty sweet but this is also a good time to talk about the battery of the Cyber Tru it's a big battery physically but it's not the best range I've ever seen so this dual motor cyber Tru is going to get on a full 100% charge up to like 320 M indicated you can actually drive more like 290 and the triple motor which I've been recently living with Max is out a 300 indicated which is actually more like 265 275 and it's also not the fastest charging Tesla we've seen either you go to a regular Tesla Supercharger and you don't max out at quite the same charge curve speeds for a long time as like a model 3 or a model S would so it's really not the ideal long-term Road Tripper that said there are several accessories that are supposed to be also coming to the Cyber truck and this is one of those low points of the Cyber Tru which is it's so early that they don't exist yet and I don't know when they will but one of them is the extended battery that goes in the back of this thing that brings it up to allegedly 500 Miles huge several th000 lbs plugs into the truck takes up space in the truck bed I don't know if or when that's coming but it exists on their website the other is the light bar on the top it's also who knows when it's coming there's no info about it I saw one at Test's Factory but no indication of when that's going to come even though I ordered one and I have a truck that doesn't have it so the last thing that's not shipping with the Cyber truck yet is autopilot so it has all these sensors it has all these cameras all the way around the truck but the autopilot or full self-driving that you're used to in other Model S and model 3 and model Y and model X doesn't work all that this has is traffic wear cruise control so you still steer but it will do following the car in front of you and keeping its distance variable speed that's it you paid for autopilot you don't get it you paid for that battery doesn't exist yet you paid for the light on top it's not there but let me show you it is here because I have noticed some new stuff and by the way I said this in the Impressions video I said that this would happen and here are all your fingerprints from getting into the Cyber Tru but let's look at the interior real quick this is your steering wheel so the Cyber truck is in EV that sounds bad uh the Cyber Tru is in every possible way a Tesla on the inside it's very very minimal and to me maybe even too minimal just because this is supposed to feel a little bit more of a special vehicle here you go first of all this is the key it's just the normal key fob but this is the first Tesla ever with a power opening front trunk it would be nice to have a button to open it or just kind of like a cool cyber fob but cost got to save cost same thing here it's everything on one screen and to give them credit it's an awesome screen it's a huge display I think it's 15 in diagonally it's got all this compute it's really smooth Everything you ask it to do it usually does it pretty dang smoothly so even though there is no carplay there is no Android auto this is the best computer I've ever used in a car all the UI pretty intuitive I think some people find this menu a little bit intimidating because there's a lot visually going on here but once you get used to it you kind of know by muscle memory where to get to things I just wish there was climate control buttons like I always do in a car you have to go into the menus here and then sort of move this stuff around this is all this is all very Tesla right but you've got this storage space in the middle you've got two wireless chargers that work great two cup holders and then storage in the center here and that actually goes down even further and then some pretty comfortable seats I'd say they are heated and ventilated but I think what you really care about from the driver's seat is the steering so one of the highs of the Cyber Tru is it has this incredible steering which is enabled by basically three main things a combination of the things one steer by wire two a variable steering ratio and three rear wheel steering okay so all of these things put together make this the most Nimble feeling truck especially at low speeds I think ever made okay so this is the steering wheel or squirkle you're dealing with it's kind of small but it does have your blinker buttons that are are physical buttons that actually click instead of just haptics you've got your uh headlights there a real horn thankfully uh and your autopilot button which again just does adaptive cruise control and your Jesus your giant windshield rer right there and voice controls okay so we know what this looks like first thing that's crazy about this is this is full lock it's not this like hand over hand overand thing to get the truck to fully steer that is turning all the way right and that is turning all the way left so this is the most one-h handable driving vehicle probably ever of this size and then the variable steering ratio all that really means is at low speeds it's turning the wheel steer by wire is this crazy thing it sounds insane because the wheel is not physically connected to the actual wheels and tires it's all just a computer and might as well be a video game controller but what it's actually doing on top of all that is it's changing the amount that it's steering based on how fast you're going so at low speeds really really quick and Nimble and at high speeds it softens up a little bit and it's not quite so bad you get used to it very quickly and then like I said the last component is the rear wheels turn more than any other vehicle again that I've ever tried 10° right now in either direction and so when you're turning around quickly in a small parking lot it's incredibly impressive how quickly you can get into parking spots and turn in and out of things and at highway speeds it actually changes the rear wheel Direction in the same way as the front wheels so you're kind of gliding from Lane to Lane like I said it all gets put together into this really nice package of very Nimble impressive handling it's not a sports car by any means but it's it's really Nimble for a full-size truck it's actually gotten to the point where I got so used to it like this that I I recently drove an F150 Lightning and I felt like I was doing a whole bunch of extra movement to get the truck to do the same amount of turning even though F-150 Lightning is decently Nimble it's like whoo all this extra movement this makes it feel like I should just be able to do this with every truck that's full lock that's crazy but okay let me just hit you with a couple other build quality things from this front seat before we get to the back first of all this rear viiew mirror maybe the dinki rearview mirror you'll ever see in a car this size it's also borderline useless because you don't actually see out the back of the truck when the tunel cover is closed instead you have to deal with a screen rear view mirror here this is classic Tesla Tesla wants to save money we all know that this should have been a screen to have your rearview mirror show up here from the camera feed but instead they put the camera feed on the screen because another screen means more cost and they don't want more cost it's annoying but you have to remap your brain to check there instead of there to look behind you pretty classic Tesla either way you also have this gigantic expansive wind shield and the the weird angle thing kind of plays tricks on you cuz you feel like you can't see over the hood but that corner basically is the hood so you have a little visibility there and then basically it's a it's a cliff right there where it drops off so it's just huge window and then cliff and then at the top of this Cliff here is your uh sun shades which are pretty big but they're these like half sun shades again to stay out of the way so the root over your head then this half sun shade thing and then just like the Fisker actually tiny tiny mirrors on each of these but uh it does actually flip out just like that over to the side so there you go God these are weird big mirror things and then uh you have your light here so you can pop that open I said open you can pop that on or off and then the last thing I want to talk about is these speakers which are actually incredible this is one of the highlights back to the highlights of the Cyber Tru best sound system I've ever heard in a truck top five sound systems I've ever heard in a vehicle and I think the subwoofers are at the front it really sounds like the thump and how they're really good subwoofers but I think there's two subwoofers both at the front possibly in the doors that end up sounding incredible I I don't I want to verify that because there's a lot of other speakers in the vehicle from one here to there to there to there but bro it sounds amazing in here but let's do the back seat cuz this is actually a pretty comfortable back seat experience and I kind of in my head a little bit I'm comparing it to other full-size trucks like the F-150 Lightning but also like the rivan r1t for example which is a bit smaller this is a really good back seat so again one of my favorite tricks with this back seat row is you've got three across and if you pop this up you can just raise up those two back seats and get even more storage I have these like floor mats in here but that amount of storage very quickly is super convenient and I like that a lot about it pop it back down and then you get in and I'm behind a 63 driving position here and oh wow it's a good amount of leg room you have that little pocket right there you have a larger display at the back here so for all your HVAC controls and media I would never use that cuz watching a movie Down by your knee is just weird to me but you know you have the option if you want it oh just had to pause for a second but I tell you anyway like I said it's a really good back seat one more thing I couldn't figure out how to do quickly was put this little middle armrest down but there's a little hook right here you pull that then you can put the middle armrest down and you've got two cup holders and not really much else but at least you have that for the middle passenger if you want to give somebody a seat there you go these are comfortable seats you know what's funny about this whole back seat thing is so many people are going to use the Cyber Tru just like a large SUV I'll talk about this more in the main Channel full review but this truck has very clear weaknesses like the other electric trucks at truck things off-roading Towing for example it's not very good at that stuff over long distances but SP spiler 90 something per of people almost never use truck stuff with their trucks they buy F-150s and they never tow anything or haul anything or maybe once a year they do and so this truck is actually amazing for that and if you made me road trip in any of these full-size electric trucks I probably want to be in the backseat of this one to be honest this or the F-150 Lightning but this still with the supercharger Advantage it's real I would I'd rather be in this one but hey as long as we're talking about driving I just want to mention the suspension on the Cyber truck is one of the most underrated things about it it's a highlight for sure so it's got this air suspension with this massive amount of travel this is right now one of the higher settings and it looks pretty high you can tell but in sport mode it lowers itself all the way down for maximum efficiency and arrow even though it's kind of a refrigerator but the point is it can go lower and it can go even higher in its full maximum mode which off-roading it just looks silly and also so super cool there's like an extraction mode for if it's stuck in something which yes people have gotten it stuck in things but it'll get even higher there's like a foot total of travel with the air suspension more impressive to me is the fact that it doesn't seem to body roll or a yaw very much so when you hit that accelerator in an F-150 Lightning dude the nose comes up the whole thing rocks back and forth this is surprisingly flat again not a sports car don't get it twist it it's not going to feel stable like something much lower to the ground but I was expecting much more body roll out of this thing uh also while we're at the front let me just hit that front button this is a weird button because you don't pull it you like press in on this button which is a little bit unusual but that's a pretty small front trunk not going to lie uh you can put groceries in here it's pretty small you can tailgate if you want to sit here you are covered from the rain um there's also a lot of talk about how dangerous this front trunk might be specifically at these pinch points over in the corners sounds like a test for the main Channel but I think the uh the moral of the story is don't put your fingers near the pinch points while it's closing just trust me on this one but okay last highlight of the Cyber truck again first Tesla with a power opening front trunk and with a camera on the front but again I I'll just bring it back to the looks at the end of the day this is one of those weirdly polarizing Vehicles where most of your verdict on it is probably already dictated by how it looks whether you love the way it looks which trust me as you drive down the street you realize a lot of people love it or if you hate the way it looks and you would never drive this stainless steel refrigerator on Wheels it's got all kinds of bug marks and stuff all over it as you've seen I haven't had any rusting issues or any s with it yet I don't really clean trucks very often but so far so good but it is kind of hard to ignore how many other Tech things are under the hood the 800 volt architecture makes it surprisingly the lightest electric pickup truck among the Hummer EV and the rivan and the F-150 Lightning um it obviously has a crazy suspension which is really really capable the computers inside all this stuff working for it but look it's all about what you think of the Aesthetics so let me know in the comments what you think of the Aesthetics also shout out to Ridge for sponsoring this video and providing this cyber Tru that I've been testing for the past couple weeks until I got mine you guys might have already seen but I've actually joined ridge's board I a chief creative partner with Ridge and we're working on some we're cooking up some pretty cool stuff that you guys are going to see in the next couple weeks and months and years making real products I'm excited about it but hey they got the the cybertruck here and we're able to get it out here and they actually already make a bunch of really well-made solid products very similar to the Cyber Tru the ridge wallet you've seen but also the key case they have a pen my personal favorite is the commuter backpack I've been using this backpack traveling the past couple weeks and it basically holds everything exactly that I want and nothing more I just did an international trip it's got this nice little air tags holder and a passport sleeve it's great and right now they're doing a they're doing an 11year anniversary sale so if you go to Ridge / MKBHD you can jump in there and there's a ton of stuff that's I think 30% off and also if you buy during the sale you can return things up to 365 days after you get it no questions asked instead of the normal 99 days which is already super generous but hey Ridge is clearly feeling generous cuz they're letting me try their cybertruck for a while so I'll leave it at this there's only four electric trucks out there they all struggle with truck things Towing hauling long-term range but they all are pretty nice large SUV type Vehicles which one's your favorite if you could drop one in your garage right now would it be the attention grabbing cyber truck or would you float towards something like F-150 Lightning a little more traditional rivan r1t a little more off-road a little more Adventure or are you uh are you a Hummer at heart let me know thanks for watching catch you guys in the next one peace

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Length: 23min 59sec (1439 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 19 2024