2024 Tesla Cybertruck Review: This Is Just Plain Cool

this is the Tesla cyber truck and it's

the most talked about most anticipated

most hyped car so far this decade it

looks absolutely insane it has insane

performance it comes from a company run

by an insane person there is nothing

else like this on the planet and today

I'm going to review the Cyber Tru and

show you all of its quirks and features

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right time for the quirks and features

of the Tesla cyber truck I am so excited

for this that I'm going to skip all the

basics most people already know about

this truck and dive right into the

quirks and features starting with the

absolutely ridiculous design of this

truck It's All About Angles sharp angles

at everywhere you look there are no

curves on this truck it's all intended

to be angular and sharp and futuristic

and totally different from everything

else on the road which in fact is true

the only curved thing on the outside is

the wheels and even then the wheel

arches are angular as you can see just

like the rest of the truck in fact the

angles of this truck are so sharp that

there are places where you can clearly

cut yourself on it you can see right

here that's a pretty sharp angle looks

kind of scary if you walk Too Close same

deal up front this angle of particular

looks like if you walk too close it

might actually draw blood the Cyber

truck is just that brutal now the other

interesting thing about the cybertruck's

design is its material because the cyber

truck is almost entirely made of

unpainted stainless steel this is

totally different than the painted sheet

metal you see in basically every other

vehicle it gives it a totally different

appearance and it wears a little bit

differently in fact the early reports

about premature wear on the stainless

steel panels of the Cyber Tru have

already caused a lot of early cyber

truck owners to wrap their trucks in a

different color or just to protect the

body panels regardless it is totally

different just like the way this truck

looks now at first glance when you look

at the Cyber truck it seems like it's

just one giant silver monolith a totally

minimalist exterior design without any

adornments to break up the big triangle

that this truck is but as you start to

look closer you start to notice all of

the little things peppered throughout

the exterior that do break up the

monolithic shape but only if you notice

them we'll start with most obvious the

rear view mirrors which borrow the

angled design from the rest of the truck

they're triangular instead of well

anything else because they mimic the

look of the truck itself next you move

on to the windshield where you can see

the mono wiper the giant windshield

wiper that is tucked on to the very side

of the windshield as you can see now

this is a massive windshield and it is a

massive windshield wiper and according

to Tesla the reason for putting it here

along the side of the windshield is

actually increasing the truck's range if

you mounted the wiper horizontally it

would break up the aerodynamics of the

truck and so mounting it here allows for

better air flow over the truck and it

lets Tesla hide the wiper a little bit

better so when you look at the truck you

don't see it you just see one giant flat

plane of glass next up in terms of

hidden exterior adornments let's talk

badging there is no Tesla badge anywhere

on this truck but if you look closely

you can see it says Foundation series

right here on the front fender you got

to look very closely cuz it's kind of

silver on Silver but it is in there on

the early Foundation series trucks like

this one you also have Foundation series

printed on the tailgate you can see it

right here but again you got to look

very closely you wouldn't necessarily

notice it otherwise but again there is

no Tesla logo anywhere front back wheels

none no Tesla branding on this truck

then again you don't really need it if

you see this truck you know what it is

next we're talking exterior stuff so

let's talk Wheels how do you design

wheels for a monolith the answer is well

these weren't the wheels that the Cyber

truck was shown with in fact they're not

the wheels the Cyber truck has generally

been shown with and that's because the

Cyber truck has been mainly seen with

wheel covers on top of these wheels that

look weird and futuristic and kind of

match the look of the truck only problem

is the wheel covers didn't actually work

Tesla tried them out and they would

impact the sidewall of the tire and so

Tesla has recalled the wheel covers and

apparently there will be a future

different design that means these wheels

are the Cyber truck wheels with no cover

frankly I don't really love how they

look they're fine they look nice enough

but they're kind of generic to sit on

such a special crazy looking body those

wheel covers really did add to the air

of Mystique this truck had and these

wheels I don't think really look that

great but it's what the Cyber truck has

and next up on the subject of exterior

features you might not notice take a

look at the back of the front wheel Arch

you can see right here there's a little

cut out for the blind spot camera put on

the turn signal a blind spot camera

turns on in the center screen I'll show

you that later but the camera is mounted

right here and I love the fact that the

little cutout for it is triangular to

match the truck again no circles if they

could avoid it now go to the rear wheel

Arch and you can see right here there's

a panel that appears to be cut out that

is your charge port you tap on that and

it pops open automatically and that's

where you plug in the Cyber truck it's

hidden quite well but it's there and

when the panel's open you can see a cool

profile image of the Cyber truck lit up

inside the charge port area next up

another interesting exterior item with

the Cyber truck is lighting how do you

put lights on a monolith well up front

the answer seems pretty obvious there's

a light bar going across the front end

but there's actually more lighting than

that you turn on the lights and there's

a hidden Set of Lights below the light

bar that come on additionally to the

light bar and that lower hidden set is

where the turn signals are located as

you can see in the rear the lighting is

even more unusual let's say it comes

from this giant bar going across the

rear of the truck and in normal

operation the lights are normal but

small the main brake lights are on the

very edges of the rear of the truck as

you can see they also include the turn

signals and then the third brake light

is in the center it's fine it's a little

small concern size of the truck but it

works perfectly the weird part is what

happens when you turn on the headlights

then the tail lights come on in the form

of a giant light bar across the whole

rear of the truck but when you put on

the brake the light bar turns off and

instead your traditional brake light

setup turns on it's strange because when

the tail lights are on and you put on

the brakes less light actually comes on

than when you weren't breaking it's

certainly an odesign one that I have

never seen before but fitting a rather

odd vehicle now also worth pointing out

in back another hidden exterior

adornment you wouldn't notice unless

you're looking is this camera you can

see mounted right in the middle of the

rear this is not a backup camera but

your rear view mirror that is how it

works in the

cybertruck let's talk about that so why

does the Cyber truck need a camera for a

rearview mirror well the answer is

obvious you can see it right here

there's no rear window actually that's

not entirely true this is a Tano cover

that covers up the bed of this truck so

if you have stuff in here you don't want

to get wet or damaged or stolen you can

cover up the bed with this cover if you

want the cover off you just come back

here push a button and then it

automatically slides itself back it's

actually quite neat and Nifty and quick

and it's a pretty cool design it rolls

itself back and suddenly the bed is

exposed now when the bed is open like

this you do have a rear window and you

can see out the back of the truck but

apparently keeping the tunnel cover in

place adds about 10% of range when you

drive so I suspect most owners will

close the too cover most of the time to

maximize their range unless they're

actually using the bed with larger items

of course if you want to close the tel

cover that's no problem you just press

another button back here and then it's

slides closed very easy very simple to

do and now your bed is secure once again

it's really a pretty cool feature now in

addition to the Tano cover situation

back here you do have one other button

mounted the back of the Cyber truck and

that is the tailgate opener button you

push that and then the tailgate

automatically opens itself that's pretty

straightforward it gives you access to

the bed where there's a lot of cool

features so let's start when you first

look inside the bed to the left there's

this little panel here you open it up

and it's a series of outlets you have

household outlets in here or you have a

heavy duty one where you can plug in

your washing machine and run it from

your your cyber truck now the other

interesting thing in the bed of the

Cyber truck is this giant panel in the

bed floor actually lifts up and you have

a trunk back here where you can store

well whatever you would normally store

in a trunk it's not as big as a

traditional trunk in a sedan but it's

decent sized where you can put stuff if

you don't want to keep it in the bed

rolling around or whatever you have this

extra space and there's even a drain

plug at the bottom of this space so if

you wanted to use this extra trunk for

like a cooler with ice you could do that

and then just pull the plug at the end

and all the water will go out now one

drawback of this bed situation is the

tailgate is quite large it's quite tall

which means that when it folds down it's

quite long and so it's pretty hard to

reach past it to access this bed trunk

or the rest of the bed and sadly Tesla

didn't give us a bed step situation like

you have in basically every other

full-size pickup where you can pull

something out and then step right into

your bed to access it it's pretty hard

actually to access the bed because of

the tailgate and of course the height of

the truck no big deal but worth pointing

out other stuff in the bed there's a lot

of cargo tie downs like you would expect

to see in well most pickup trucks

frankly one cool feature is you have bed

lighting as you can see lights on both

side that actually illuminate what's in

the bed more pickup trucks could use

this feature the Cyber truck has it and

it's pretty nice and I'll show you how

to operate it from inside the the truck

in a little bit by the way one other

interesting item back here the tailgate

it is not power operated to go back up

so you do have to lift it into place but

it does have soft cloes which means you

don't have to slam it you can just kind

of get it near where it latches and then

it will automatically close itself which

is a nice touch and finally the last

hidden adornment on the outside of this

truck the door handles doesn't look like

there are any door handles how do you

get into this truck well the front one

is is mounted here on the b-pillar at

the base it's actually pretty simple you

just push the door handle and then the

door kind of pops out a couple of inches

for you to grab and open up the rest of

the way so next up we climb inside the

Cyber truck you open up the door get in

and you discover it's not quite as

insane in here as it is out there the

design is such a slap in the face that

it would be hard to replicate that in

the interior and indeed it doesn't but

there are some very interesting and

crooky things inside this truck let's

start with well the general minimalism

vibe in here just like other Tesla

models you don't have all sorts of

swoopy trim everywhere and buttons all

over everything instead very minimalist

very few buttons and switches basically

anywhere in this interior again like

other Tesla models so it's not that

radical but it is radical compared to

other vehicles just how minimalist and

basic and simple it is in this interior

and the other interesting thing is that

the angular theme has been carried over

to the interior not just outside for

example the steering wheel is not in

fact a wheel you can see it's more of

like a collapsed hexagon there's no real

curving to it and it's all pretty

angular and certainly unique compared to

other vehicles now I'll cover more

unorthodox angled things in this

interior in a second but first I want to

talk more about the steering wheel

because steering is undoubtedly one of

the most interesting things about the

cybertruck that's because it uses

something called steer by wire which

sounds very kind of boring and

mechanical Hightech but the interesting

part is you barely turn the steering

wheel to turn the truck so in your car

you turn the wheel like hand overand

three times and then you're all the way

Locked In One Direction in the Cyber

truck it's only half a turn and the

entire steering is as far over as it

goes half a turn the other direction the

steering is as far as it goes totally

unorthodox compared to other vehicles

we'll see how I like it when I get

behind the wheel of the cybertruck in a

little bit but one clear immediate

benefit is it really works with Tesla's

Yol steering wheel there was a lot of

complaints about going hand overhand

turning a Yol well you don't have that

complaint if you don't ever have to go

hand overand because of the way the

steering is set up and that's the case

in this truck it solves that problem

with a similar steering wheel to the Yol

also worth pointing out the Cyber truck

has rear wheel steering in addition to

front wheel which dramatically improves

the maneuverability of this giant truck

a lot of new luxury cars have rear wheel

steering but this does too and it helps

but back to the interior weird angled

stuff the cup holders are not circular

as you can see they are octagon even

though your cups are circular in the

cybertruck your cup holders are not take

a look over at the door panel and you

can see a bunch of different angles on

basically every surface there is no

attempt to smooth anything out with a

Curves in fact there really is basically

nothing round anywhere in this interior

even the dog in dog mode in the

infotainment system you can see he's

like an angular pixelated dog instead of

a usual circular curved dog which just

adds to the cyber truck hilarity and I

really like it the only thing I really

found in here that is circular the thumb

controls on the steering wheel you can

see these are well traditional circles

and wheel dials that turn like a circle

that's because Tesla borrows these from

other Tesla models to put in the Cyber

Tru and I guess they decided they didn't

want to make specific hexagon shaped

steering controls just for the

cybertruck would have been too expensive

so those remain circles although it is

worth pointing out the camera icon con

to switch on the cameras on the steering

wheel that is a hexagon and same deal on

the infotainment screen a hexagon for

the camera so they did put some

attention to details like that which is

pretty cool to see most people probably

wouldn't notice now beyond all of the

angles and the minimalism in this

interior once again just like on the

outside there's no Tesla logos inside

this truck on the steering wheel you

have that profile image of the truck

sort of the Cyber truck Tri Ang Le and

on the door cill you have cyber truck

written in the cool cyber truck font

that Tesla's used in some marketing but

again you won't find Tesla logos

anywhere in here just like on the

outside it is very

unorthodox just like the windshield so

let's talk about that next the

windshield in this truck in order to

make the shape work it goes basically

all the way to the front of the truck

now this is weird you're not used to

driving a car the windshield that looks

like this and it creates actually some

issues one is cleaning the windshield I

don't know how you're going to get in

this area to clean the bottom inside of

the windshield or to dust off the top of

the dashboard it looks like hell for

detailers good luck the other issue that

a long windshield like this creates

we've seen it in other cars is the a

pillar becomes very large to support the

windshield that blocks your visibility

now to Tesla's credit they put windows

inside the a pillar to make it a little

easier to look out but it doesn't really

entirely solve the problem you can

clearly tell there's a lot of stuff

blocked by this large a Piller going

pretty far into your line of sight and I

have a suspicion it's going to cause

some cybertruck pedestrian issues

because you won't be able to see

everything that's there next up also on

the subject of the windshield the sun

visors are very interesting because the

windshield is so massive it almost goes

over directly where you're sitting the

visors are not mounted on the ceiling

but instead they're stuck to this

plastic panel that comes out for the

sensors for this truck that in itself is

unusual but the strangest part is when

you put down the sun visor to cover up

the sun on the windshield they actually

reveal more windshield you block some

part of the windshield but you get

another part of the windshield it is

very unusual the good news is there is

extra sun visor that comes down from the

visor in the form of an extra panel to

block out even more sun if you like now

also worth pointing out you have up here

the button to turn on the hazard lights

it's worth mentioning the hazard lights

being a separate button is a regulatory

thing you can't put the hazard light

button in the screen and so that's why

all these cars with minimalist interiors

and giant screens still have the hazard

light button separate as you do here

this probably irked Tesla they wanted to

make it as minimalist as possible but

they still had to do a button for the

hazard lights nonetheless they did away

with climate vents you can see in this

interior there's no obvious climate

vents they are obviously there because

you get air conditioning and heat in

this truck just like any other vehicle

but they've completely made them

invisible which is an amazing effort

towards minimalism that Tesla's really

committed to next up on the door panel

you can see this button here you press

to electronically open the door it kind

of Pops it open and then you open it the

rest of the way this latch is a manual

backup in case the electronic door

popper fails and then you also have your

window switch here the owner of this

truck told me that the switches are

mounted pretty far back and they're kind

of in an uncomfortable place to reach

which is a little annoying but worth

pointing out speaking of the windows the

front windows in this truck are crazy

the design of them has this crazy kinked

angle to fit with the angle of the truck

it looks like no other front window I've

ever seen very unusual but next we move

on to the controls in this truck

starting with the steering wheel there

are no stocks coming off the steering

column for your turn signals your

windshield wipers like in most normal

Vehicles instead your turn signals are

mounted on the steering wheel you can

see them here arrow to the left arrow to

the right you also have a button here

where you can Flash the headlights over

on the other side you have your wipers

here as you can see and you have your

voice control feature here you can

activate from the steering wheel and

this button turns on the camera system

opens it up in the center screen like I

mentioned before but no stocks on the

steering column at all so you're

probably wondering how do you shift this

vehicle into gear how do you put it in

drive or reverse the answer is it's on

the screen so let's talk about the giant

screen in the Cyber truck shifting into

gear is over on the left side of the

screen and it's a function where you

slide your finger in the direction where

you want to travel so you slide up

forward for drive you slide back for

reverse and then Park will turn on if

you tap the center or if you just open

your door it's actually pretty intuitive

it works reasonably well and you don't

really think about how it's odd or

unorthodox after just a little while

using this truck but beyond the gear

swipey situation there's a lot of other

interesting items worth pointing out

with this screen now this screen in

general will be pretty familiar to

anybody who spent time in a recent Tesla

Model the cybertruck has a very similar

screen interface setup to other Teslas

there's just a different font that's

supposed to be more futuristic and

there's a few features that other Tesla

models don't have I'm going to cover the

most interesting so let's start with the

main screen you see a side image of the

truck and check this out if you double

tap the window on this image well take a

look oh my

god oh man it didn't go through yes

that's right the glass breaks just like

it did when Elon Musk first showed and

demonstrated this truck four years ago

it's very cool to see that they've

integrated that feature kind of a stupid

little hidden Easter egg but I'm all

about the little cirks and features next

up here's an interesting item you can

open the glove box in the center screen

that's not different from other Teslas

but the glove box itself is you open it

and you can see it's actually a glove

tray or a glove drawer if you will

that's where you keep your stuff that

you'd keep in a glove box when you want

to close it just press the button but on

the screen again and it goes right back

into where it belongs a standard glove

box would be too normal for the Cyber

truck now next up also interesting in

this screen this is where you find the

rear view mirror for this truck like I

mentioned in the toot cover is closed

you can't see behind you so the rearview

mirror is shown on the screen instead

now worth pointing out the cybertruck

actually does come with a rear view

mirror that's regulatory but the owner

of this truck told me he removed this it

blocked his forward visibility and he

didn't really plan on driving with the

tunel cover open and so he'd rather use

the mirror inside the screen which makes

sense and also worth pointing out you

can move the rearview mirror on the

screen to a more convenient place if

that's what you want to do you can kind

of choose where it is also worth

pointing out another cool cyber truck

feature in here you can raise and lower

the suspension all cybertruck models

come with height adjustable suspension

and you can see various different

options here from the entry height

height which is the lowest to make it

easier to get inside all the way up to

the highest height which is for

off-roading and you can see right now

the truck is going into its highest

height and boy does it get high it can

go from very low to very high that

highest setting is something like 17 in

of ground clearance to maximize its

off-road capability now beyond that the

rest of this screen is mostly your

typical Tesla fair and I did an indepth

look at the latest Tesla infotainment

system in my recent review of the new

Tesla Model 3 so you can watch that for

a little bit more details on this

infotainment system but you do have the

basics for instance you control the

mirrors using the screen and then also

the little thumb dial on the steering

wheel you can see it puts the mirrors up

or down same deal with controlling the

position of the steering wheel you

navigate over to steering and then you

can move the wheel up or down using the

dials just like in other Tesla models

it's a very cool trick but again I've

mentioned it in other views you also