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‘Love or hate Musk, Cybertrucks are the future,’ says one digital wizard who tweaked the shardy EV into an overlander that roams free in the badlands of hypothetical certainty. Don’t lapidate me for this absurd syntax – after all, we have a fully working concept called ‘virtual reality.’ Everything is possible in the land of the binary-hexadecimal duality, including an acceptable-looking Tesla Cybertruck with a diesel generator on it.
Yup, that big, aerodynamically offensive lump on the flat, horizontal roof is a power supply for when the stainless-steel Tesla truck reaches the outer limits of its battery pack autonomy. And the jerry cans on the top will save the electric sensation from towing. The pixel tamer has been cautious enough to add a pair of towing hooks on the front, just in case the diesel runs out during the night.
Why, specifically at night? Because that’s when ‘the sun don’t shine,’ and the solar panels strapped to the driver’s side rear quarter and atop the windshield of the reinterpreted Cybertruck will become useless. Going back to that opening statement of this story, the author of the digital body tuning adds – in his defense – that the straight-edged truck is ‘maybe not the future we wanted, but slap a diesel generator on the roof and you now have the fastest truck in the world AND unlimited range.’
No, we don’t – the generator (apart from taking around 8 hours to turn fossil fuels into lightning bolt essence) will extend the 100%-state-of-charge range a few times over, but not endlessly. A hybrid Tesla is not something we haven’t seen before – a science-fixated YouTuber has actually put a gasoline generator in his Model S Plaid and successfully drove it 1,800 miles/2,900 km without stopping at a charging station. (He later revised his engineering project and refitted the same car with a diesel generator, which got him 2,600 miles / 4,200 km).
That’s a very short ‘unlimited range,’ to be honest, but let’s give the visual artist his due: his personal view of the Cybertruck makes sense from a pickup truck user-friendliness perspective. Also, it is manageable to gaze at without having to go for an eyesight transplant afterward. The best feature is the horizontal roof; the rack is a bonus that goes well with the fat tires. About those rubber donuts: the keyboard-yielding car visualist didn’t add an engineering filter to his ideas.
So, we ended up with a Cybertruck with the turning radius of a hot air balloon, given that the wheels are too big for their arches and won’t change direction for dear life. But they make the envisioned Tesla look properly cool, even with the desert sand paint job on. However, here’s the flaw in the mechanics of this proposed alternative body kit: bigger tires are impossible due to the suspension bushing being bolted right above the tire, which yields roughly one inch (25.4 mm) of clearance. And those rubbers require at least 2"spacers.
With the body panels made from stainless steel, drilling holes to install attachments is cringe-safe, and the ladder rungs would make climbing on the roof rack all the more facile. But – there is one big but (pun intended) – the departure angle is not something this hatchback Cybertruck overlander would write to Elon Musk about. Even so, it still beats the original in terms of visual appeal – if only in color and overall shape, if not in practicality.
Why, specifically at night? Because that’s when ‘the sun don’t shine,’ and the solar panels strapped to the driver’s side rear quarter and atop the windshield of the reinterpreted Cybertruck will become useless. Going back to that opening statement of this story, the author of the digital body tuning adds – in his defense – that the straight-edged truck is ‘maybe not the future we wanted, but slap a diesel generator on the roof and you now have the fastest truck in the world AND unlimited range.’
No, we don’t – the generator (apart from taking around 8 hours to turn fossil fuels into lightning bolt essence) will extend the 100%-state-of-charge range a few times over, but not endlessly. A hybrid Tesla is not something we haven’t seen before – a science-fixated YouTuber has actually put a gasoline generator in his Model S Plaid and successfully drove it 1,800 miles/2,900 km without stopping at a charging station. (He later revised his engineering project and refitted the same car with a diesel generator, which got him 2,600 miles / 4,200 km).
That’s a very short ‘unlimited range,’ to be honest, but let’s give the visual artist his due: his personal view of the Cybertruck makes sense from a pickup truck user-friendliness perspective. Also, it is manageable to gaze at without having to go for an eyesight transplant afterward. The best feature is the horizontal roof; the rack is a bonus that goes well with the fat tires. About those rubber donuts: the keyboard-yielding car visualist didn’t add an engineering filter to his ideas.
So, we ended up with a Cybertruck with the turning radius of a hot air balloon, given that the wheels are too big for their arches and won’t change direction for dear life. But they make the envisioned Tesla look properly cool, even with the desert sand paint job on. However, here’s the flaw in the mechanics of this proposed alternative body kit: bigger tires are impossible due to the suspension bushing being bolted right above the tire, which yields roughly one inch (25.4 mm) of clearance. And those rubbers require at least 2"spacers.
With the body panels made from stainless steel, drilling holes to install attachments is cringe-safe, and the ladder rungs would make climbing on the roof rack all the more facile. But – there is one big but (pun intended) – the departure angle is not something this hatchback Cybertruck overlander would write to Elon Musk about. Even so, it still beats the original in terms of visual appeal – if only in color and overall shape, if not in practicality.
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