Tesla’s Cybertruck electric pickup may soon have the ability to operate as a ship, Elon Musk revealed.
“We’re going to offer a mod package that allows Cybertruck to traverse at the least 100m of water as a ship,” Musk shared to X on Monday night in response to a video excerpt from an episode of “Jay Leno’s Garage.”
Within the clip, where Leno takes the long-awaited Cybertruck for a spin, Tesla’s vp of car engineering Lars Moravy tells the TV host that the steel truck could possibly be made right into a boat with some easy tweaks.
“The vehicle almost floats, perhaps you may have so as to add just a little bit of additional buoyancy simply to stick with it,” Moravy told Leno.
“In the event you’re creative, and you would like, you might determine find out how to put an outboard motor, plugged into your outlet there, turn it on out of your screen, and go boating,” he added.
Musk chimed in with an X post saying: “Mostly just must upgrade cabin door seals.”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to a clip from “Jay Leno’s Garage” featuring the Cybertruck, revealing that the vehicle will soon have the ability to “traverse at the least 100m of water as a ship.”
Musk suggested that drivers could take their Cybertruck for a spin with some easy tweaks. “Mostly just must upgrade cabin door seals,” he tweeted. AFP via Getty Images
Tesla fans will “consider it after we see it,” as one X user put it, especially following Musk’s long-delayed reveal of the Cybertruck on Nov. 30 — two years after the stealth bomber-like vehicle was initially imagined to go into production.
Meanwhile, a video of the vehicle failing to climb a snowy hill has gone viral, which doesn’t bode well for Cybertruck’s foray into the water.
Within the video posted to Instagram and earlier reported on by Business Insider, a Cybertruck hauling a pine tree can’t seem to achieve traction after sliding off the Corral Hole OV off-roading trail in California, per the caption.
A Ford pickup truck had to come back to the rescue and pull it up the hill and onto a dust road.
Ford CEO Jim Farley has since insisted that the video wasn’t a publicity stunt. “NOT promoting. Glad a @Ford owner was there to assist,” Farley tweeted in response to the viral video.
Apart from the snowy snafu, fans also weren’t impressed by the truck’s sticker shock-inducing price, which reportedly left them fuming in “disappointing rage” as Musk announced one other 12 months of delays before the stainless-steel trucks would rumble off assembly lines.
The entry-level, rear-wheel-drive version of the Cybertruck costs $60,990 and isn’t expected to ship until 2025. The mid-tier Cybertruck with all-wheel drive costs $79,990, and the top-tier “Cyberbeast” costs $99,990.
Only a handful of deep-pocketed executives were capable of nab a Cybertruck upon its debut last month, including Reddit cofounder Alex Ohanian and enterprise capital billionaire Phillip Sarofim.
The truck’s angular, stainless steel-clad exoskeleton has safety experts concerned that it could hurt pedestrians and cyclists and damage other vehicles on roads.
The Cybertruck dropped on Nov. 30 — and shocked fans with its price. The entry-level version of the Cybertruck costs $60,990 and isn’t expected to ship until 2025. The mid-tier costs $79,990, and the top-tier “Cyberbeast” costs $99,990. Tesla
Safety experts have warned that the truck’s angular design poses a greater probability of injuring pedestrians, cyclists and other cars on the road if it’s involved in a crash. ZUMAPRESS.com
“The massive problem there’s in the event that they really make the skin of the vehicle very stiff through the use of thick stainless-steel, then when people hit their heads on it, it’s going to cause more damage to them,” Adrian Lund, the previous president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), whose vehicle crash tests are an industry standard, told Reuters.
Tesla, nevertheless, has touted that the structures of the truck absorb impact during a crash.
Musk even said on social media that he was “highly confident” the Cybertruck could be safer than other trucks for occupants and pedestrians.
Representatives for Tesla didn’t immediately reply to The Post’s request for comment.