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Being As An Ocean // Bulletproof

Bulletproof Luke Cage himself!

Elon Musk surprised us (again) with his latest creation of the next generation of trucks and a different approach on design. It looks like something out of 80s sci-fi movies, something from the Wastelands of Mad Max, but it is a good looking truck beside proposing an important aspect to the industry: practicality.

Ford leads the pick-up and truck market with their F line of vehicles that for decades has rivals chasing after. It’s a serious business in North America and Tesla wasn’t going to stay back and watch, they actually surprised the public with a radical design proposal to rattle some cages.

According the live presentation event the Cyber Truck is faster than a Porsche and comes with a pricetag just inder $40k (USD), for the single RWD engine, and then two more option for the AWD starting from $49,900 (USD) with two or more engines and let’s not forget this is entirely an electric vehicle.

Different versions will provide a range of driving from 400km to 800km, a performance 0 to 60mph from 2.9 seconds to 6.5 seconds. In short, this is a hot truck that has better specs than the Ford Raptor and it pushes the boundering of the traditional mechanics and design since the Cyber Truck is different. It’s a practical truck from the shape point of view because it belongs to the class of work vehicles, and that’s where extra loading shape is welcome along with functionality.

Tesla’s truck has a bulletproof exoskeleton frame, more or less the way a military armoured vehicle is built, keeping safe what’s inside and becoming the opposite of the standard assembly practices of other truck brands. The traditional pick-up is mounted on a steel frame with the soft parts outside, providing a relative safety standard only because of the riding height preventing passenger to get fully hit during a collision.

Even if the windows got shattered at the live presentation while testing their strenght, the door panels proved Musk’s idea on building an unconventional truck to be the right one. As of now pick-up and trucks rely on gass-guzzling petrol engine technology for their traveling and towing, often using V8 and V10 engines without the assistance of a turbo making them heavy and slow.

These types of motors are obsolete and Tesla understood it with a radical idea to build something beyond the box and available for purcahse off the internet. The revolution of commercial transactions and design approaches is in the hands of those with fresh and dare ideas, while the rest remains afloat thanks to government subsidy.

He ain’t human!