Charging the Cybertruck at a Supercharger Will Require Patience and Great Parking Skills

If you're one of those nearly two million people who patiently wait for Tesla to start delivering the much-hyped Cybertruck, you could use all this time to get much better at parking. Hooking the vehicle up to a Supercharger stall will likely become a skill test whenever the owner desires to recharge the battery faster than at home or work.

A Cybertruck was spotted in a Las Vegas parking lot wearing manufacturer plates and no camouflage. The pickup truck was extracting some electrons from the grid at high speed, allowing a couple of curious people to take a closer look at it. They noticed that it was an engineering prototype because of the decals and the exposed wires and sensors, but some took their phones out to give the world yet another look at the all-electric unit.

Tesla appears to be making some last-minute adjustments to the Cybertruck. The testing unit shown in the footage available below looks identical to the models we have seen hauled around the country. That indicates the Cybertruck design is completely finalized and hints the deliveries should start soon, even though the automaker is actively looking for engineers capable of delivering an impeccable fit and finish. Elon Musk's desire for sub-10 micron accuracy isn't an easy feat to achieve.

The video shows that the charge port is located on the left side of the vehicle, on the polycarbonate fender liner, and right above the rear wheel well. That means existing Tesla owners won't have any issues finding it because that's where it's located on all the other vehicles made by the Texas-based company.

But what this video reveals is that Tesla needs to bring stateside those V4 stalls it launched in Europe boasting longer cables as soon as possible. The V3 cord appears to be too short for this pickup truck. It's pretty stretched out in this recording, and that's despite the driver managing an impeccable parking job.

They backed into the Supercharger bay and neatly tucked the Cybertruck's tow hitch between a bollard and the charging stall, and it still wasn't enough to leave the cable comfortably alongside the vehicle.

Not all drivers will be as patient as the person responsible for gathering data with this engineering test vehicle. And that might lead to future owners damaging stalls or the charging cables on the pickup truck's sharp surfaces. Stretching the cord out won't do any good for its longevity. But Tesla is taking proper care of the Supercharging network, so it might fix relatively fast whatever some other driver could do to the stalls.

If you're ready to configure and buy a Cybertruck, starting training for great parking could be a good idea. It might be a necessary skill for accessing the Supercharger closest to you that doesn't have pull-through spots like the one that recently opened in Arizona.

Lastly, Tesla's first pickup truck is expected to reach its first customers very soon. The EV maker already created an offer for those wishing to spend their referral credits to attend the handover event, so we expect it to take place sometime in October after the Q3 results are announced.