- I was one of the lucky few to get a ride
in the brand new Tesla
Cybertruck at the unveiling,
and it was a pretty unique experience.
So, after going through all
the footage from the event,
I found my unedited, raw test ride,
and I thought it was really
cool, really interesting.
So, I want to share that with you
and then afterwards we'll
just talk about everything
that I saw and how it felt
and really kind of future
thoughts about this vehicle.
Let's go.
(upbeat music)
- [Zach] Go ahead, which one you want?
- I can do middle, I don't care.
Hold on, hold on.
- [Zach] Hold on, hold on.
- [Woman Passenger] It was awesome!
- Alright, I'm going!
- Hey, welcome up.
- Hey, what's up man?
- How you doing?
- You got the cool job tonight.
- [Driver] Yeah, fun job tonight for sure.
- Whoa!
- Welcome to Cybertruck!
- Yes sir.
Look at that.
- [Zach] A rear view.
- [Back Seat Passenger] This is insane.
- [Driver] All right,
everyone's in, ready to go?
You got some seat belts on?
- [Back Seat Passenger] Yeah.
- [Zach] Yeah, sure.
- Cybertruck.
Let me play this demo for
you so you guys can see it.
- [Passenger] This is awesome.
Glass roof and everything.
- [Back Seat Passenger] Wow.
- I'm gonna call your attention here
to the 17-inch TV display.
This is the navigation
route that we're taking.
I'm just gonna go directly
up to Jack North, 5th Avenue.
Do a little bit of a zero
to 60, then come back
and let some other people have a chance.
- [Zach] Which one is this?
The 2.9 how fast is zero to sixty?
- [Driver] This is the dual motor car.
- [Zach] Dual motor?
It's still quick.
Haha yeah!
Yeah buddy
- [Back Seat Passenger] Feels
like your truck there Zach.
- It's smooth.
This is twice as fast as my truck.
(laughing)
- [Driver] Easy right?
- [Zach] Easy.
- [Driver] So super low center of gravity.
the battery's directly below us.
The highest concentration of mass
and then you've got multiple ride heights
as well as multiple damper settings
to allow us to either
soak up all the bumps
or, you know, make it a little bit stiffer
so it handles more like a 9-miff.
A 9-11 and adapts directly
to your driving style.
Notice huge amounts of glass above you
and if you look behind
you, you can see the bed.
Directly between us here,
you can see we are
sitting pretty far apart.
That's because there's a seat between us.
- Oh cool.
- [Back Seat Passenger]
That's where that seat is.
- [Zach] Yeah, cause it
said it was a six-seater.
- That's right.
- [Back Seat Passenger] Is
that real marble, the dash?
(laughing)
- Put some D Brand skins.
(laughing)
Oh they're gonna love that!
(laughing)
- All right.
Cool I hope you guys had fun thank-
- So this was a unique experience,
so thank you first off
to Tesla for inviting me
and giving me media access because
now I can tell the story
with all of you guys here
and it is a pretty cool story.
So the thing about this vehicle
is that you can't really
get a sense of the size
of it just from pictures.
When it pulls up and you're standing there
you realize this is a
Hummer sized vehicle.
It's massive.
Whereas on stage and all
the other shots of it
it was hard to kind of tell
so that was kind of telling
and really lead to what the
interior of the car felt like.
So in the interior, it was really big.
Easily the biggest Tesla
that I've ever been in
and I think at this point
I've been in them all.
And that was refreshing because definitely
even in the Model X it can
feel a little cramped sometimes
especially in those back seats
but here we had three, you
know, full sized adult males
in the backseat and it
didn't feel crammed at all.
Now in the front seat we had the two
and then there was the third
seat right in the middle
that folds up and honestly looking at it
it looked like it would be fine.
If you were on a job site
or I don't know camping
or something using this
truck for something.
You could totally do that.
I could see it totally working
for 3 full size adults
fitting in that front seat
along with the three full
size ones in the back.
So this gives them a six
seater with only two rows.
Not a third row.
So really, cool really good
design and I think a lot
of people are gonna
like that aspect of it.
The glass roof was incredible
and this is coming from a
guy that drives a Model X
on a daily basis which has that full size
kinda monorail glass roof.
This one seemed just
infinitely larger and more open
so I sat in the back
and that's where you can
get a really good sense
of what this brings and
how it makes you feel.
Almost like you're not
in the cab of a vehicle
but you're just kind
of out in the open air.
So this was really unique and really cool.
Now there is a pilar right above
where the kind of angle
of the triangle roof.
I don't know if it's called a roof
but the triangle part of the roof is.
But because of the position of it
and because the windshield goes
so far back you can't really tell.
It's kind of out of your what
we call, foveal view point.
Now if you look up obviously it's there
but in general it felt very
open and spacious inside
and that was a really
cool and really great job
by the Tesla team.
Sitting in the back,
looking forward you had
a very plain white seat back.
Which was an interesting choice.
I'm not sure why that was.
The door handle area
seemed pretty standard.
Common to what you'd find
in say a Model S or Model X
but then up front you had this marble dash
which looked kinda bizarre
and when I asked the guy about
it he was strangely silent.
- [Back Seat Passenger] Is
that real marble, the dash?
(laughing)
- Put some D Brand skins.
(laughing)
- [Back Seat Passenger] Ah,
they're gonna love that!
(laughing)
I think he was actually on the phone.
He had an air pod in and
as we were getting out
of the car we hear him talking to someone
so I imagine the comms team
and him were kinda going back
and forth about who's
getting in, what's happening,
et cetera et cetera.
Hey you know maybe you need
to go charge, maybe you need
to do this, whatever, just
constant communication.
So I think that's what was happening there
but it was funny that
Zach mentioned putting a
D Brand skin on it because
it definitely felt like
that would be possible to do here
and make it whatever you want.
So D Brand, if you're listening
what's up lets do this.
I would love to to check those out
if you ever get a chance to do it.
So that was kind of an odd feature
but maybe one that was
kinda cool and unique
and I imagine that when they release this
they'll have a bunch of
different options for you
or you know, at least ways to customize it
that aren't crazy.
Another weird quirk that I
noticed from the interior
but I didn't get to drive it myself
so maybe it's not a big deal,
was the missing top and
bottom of the steering wheel
where you had this very
much roadster looking
race car steering wheel.
It did have knobs on it
just like the Model 3 knobs
so you can see they basically borrowed
all those design queues
and probably just the exact same parts
to make that happen but that
seemed a little odd to me
and I'm not sure what that
would be like after driving it
for a week or a month.
So down the road when I get
a chance to actually have one
and drive it and all that
and maybe experience it
it will be a different story
but right now it seemed
a little strange to me.
However the guy driving it didn't seem
to have any ,you know, any
problems with it or anything.
So maybe it's a non-issue.
Now the touch screen was interesting
because it was the
Model 3 landscape layout
but it was bigger.
It was 17 inches instead of
15 inches so that is good.
Especially in a vehicle this big.
Why would you need a small screen?
And granted it is a big
screen in comparison
to a lot of other vehicles
but compared to say
the Model S and Model X
it seems relatively small.
So good job there.
And it also had an
updated operating system.
Which I'm not sure if this
is gonna be version 11
which I assume we'll see
next year around the fall.
Which is kind of the cadence
of when they release new major versions
but there's some little
interesting quirks about it
and mostly what I notice though
is just a different font.
So more to come on that obviously
and maybe we will do a deep
dive into that if I can sit down
and spend some time
really kinda picking apart
what was in there but as of now, you now,
that was kinda the interior
layout from the front side.
From what I could tell
given my vantage point.
Now when we pulled out on to the road
and he floored it we, it pulled,
the car was definitely going fast
but it didn't feel like the
more performance style Teslas.
Now the guy did say that this
wasn't the performance model.
So that would be that.
Obviously there's only one in existence.
So I'm not sure, you know,
where Teslas getting some
of these other numbers from
because they don't have an actual vehicle
to test at this point it's
just an estimate or guess
or maybe a target.
I have no doubts that they'll
be able to hit those numbers
but the acceleration in there
while was great for a truck,
it didn't at all feel like a Model SP100D
or my Model XP90D or even
a Model 3 performance.
So it doesn't really, you know,
hold up to those other ones
but we'll see what it's like
once the actual performance
model, the tri-motor design,
comes to market.
Now in the drive he did say
it had a low cg for center
of gravity but given that
this truck is 16 inches
off the ground, which is way
above anything else you can buy
on the market today as a
standard production car,
I'm not sure that I would agree with that.
Maybe for a truck it is
but it definitely felt a little floaty
when we were turning there.
Again, when you're comparing
this to say a Model S
it's just not even in the same ballpark.
So compared to other trucks, yeah,
this was incredible driving feeling
but when he was kind of talking
it up I was a little bit,
you know, like, okay, okay whatever.
It's not actually what you
would normally experience
or expect in a performance Tesla.
But compared to another
truck, this thing is gonna
be an absolute monster on the road.
So that's it for my first ride
and my impressions of
getting a test drive in this.
I really can't wait to get one
and see what it's like
on a day to day basis.
I did not order one,
but I'm gonna rent one
or if you guys have one
and wanna let me borrow it
for a week to do the impression.
Hit me up, let me know
because I really want
to get my hands on it
and experience it more
than this little two minute
test ride that I got.
So that's it for now
and always don't forget.
When you free the data,
your mind will follow.
'Ill see you guys back
here in the next one.
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