What is an Electric Truck? I Was Getting Closer to a Supermarket, Squinting at a Window Wise

Sure, some influencers get to drive the Tesla Cybertruck before anyone else, and that’s fine for them. But I’m happier here, stuck behind a rope at a Manhattan showroom, squinting at a very large windshield wiper because my boss has developed an unnatural fascination with it.

I don’t want to confirm Nilay’s idea that it’s two (or even three) windshields stacked on top of each other. I don’t wish to be arrested for attacking the Cybertruck. Nilay promises to bail me out if it came to it, but despite these assurances, I chicken out.

Yep, there it is: the Cybertruck. It is very difficult to make an electric truck. The design team of the company was able to convey what Musk was looking for in the Blade Runner movie. Apparently it’s also bulletproof (and arrow-proof, even one fired by Joe Rogan and his extremely meaty arms) and it can maybe even float, because of course these are the features most people want to see in their trucks.

But this Cybertruck looked really tight. “Dialed in,” as Verge pal Patrick George said in InsideEVs. I am not going to say it looked bad as Dave Tracy did. It looked like a Cybertruck.

It seems that it is working. At 5PM on a Tuesday, the Tesla gallery is sort of bumping. It didn’t have anywhere near as many people as the Apple store up the street, but it definitely had more than the Fisker showroom, which was totally empty.

The eager employee asked what was here to see, as if it was a real question. I tell her the Model Y, for funsies, and her eyes light up for a second. But then I laugh coldly and say, no, I’m here for the truck, what else, and she stares blankly off in the distance while I fill out a form on her iPad.

There are men filming with their phones and girlfriends waiting for their boyfriends to finish filming. (I was one of the dudes filming, but it’s literally my job, so I feel a little exonerated but also a little embarrassed.) There is an old man flirting with the young Tesla employee. A nice couple doesn’t agree with my theory that there are two or three blades.

The Cybertruck, of course, is sitting there with its ultra-hard cold-rolled stainless steel glory. No one can buy it yet. You can just look. This will likely be the case for a couple of years. The object at remove is intriguing to some and not available to all.

Two cops walk by in the cold. One notices the cybertruck and asks his partner if they should look at it. Maybe snap a few selfies. Naw, the other says. The window lets us see it. That’s close enough.

Tesla Fined for Air Pollution Violations Associated With a Steel Embedding in the Outer Parts of its Paint Shop

The vehicle’s outer panels are made of steel, which likely created production obstacles not present in vehicles made of conventional materials finished with a coat of paint. Stainless steel resists corrosion and allows Tesla to avoid the pricey, complicated, and environmentally damaging process of painting. The US Environmental Protection Agency fined the company last year for air pollution violations related to its paint shop.