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