Photo: Tesla CyberTruck via Facebook, Petersen Museum | collage
This weekend, Tesla Cybertruck made a memorable appearance at the Petersen Museum. Before the truck could be isolated from the curious crowd, people were already busy peeking inside and taking pictures. Some of them revealed exciting details, such as the sliding sun visors of Tesla's electric pickup.
With more than 1.5 million reservations, Tesla Cybertruck is probably the most popular vehicle in history. If only 10% of those reservations convert into firm orders, Tesla will have a busy production line for the next three years. You'd imagine the level of anticipation this popularity entails and why every piece of information about the upcoming electric pickup truck is carefully analyzed.
Sometimes this leads to discoveries, and everyone learns new things about the Cybertruck. Until Tesla releases the full technical specifications, this crowd-sourced intelligence is the only tangible information that fans can rely on. This happened over the weekend at the Petersen Museum when Tesla's chief designer Franz von Holzhausen arrived in the Cybertruck. As Franz courteously agreed to pose with the fans, others took pictures and videos of the Cybertruck from inside, outside, and even underneath.
Like precious memorabilia, those pictures were thoroughly analyzed, and some pointed to exciting new details that were not immediately obvious during previous Cybertruck sightings. Some of them were obvious, such as the perforated seat upholstery, which indicates that the Cybertruck will feature ventilated seats. The transparent roof is another detail, although the Cybertruck was always expected to have a panoramic glass roof.
There's another detail revealed by the interior shots made before the Tesla Cybertruck was locked and surrounded by ropes. The sun visors are mobile, sliding on a rail in the A-pillars. This helps a lot, considering how high the roof is. If they were fixed, the sun visors should've been huge to extend low enough and block the sun during sunrise and sunset. With the sliding rails, the sun visors can be adjusted according to the sun's position. We still don't know how these rails work, but I'm sure someone will check this out the next time they hop inside the Cybertruck.
Another interesting detail that people noticed was the absence of handles in the cockpit, a staple feature in pickup trucks. This suggests that the electric pickup is not expected to tackle any serious off-road course. This was obvious after the groundbreaking ceremony at Tesla's lithium refinery in Corpus Christi, TX, when the Cybertruck got stuck in a cornfield.
Even though this is not technically a feature, another detail strikes us in a video taken as Franz was preparing to leave the Petersen Museum. As he closed the rear door, it revealed an uneven gap, as if the door were crooked. This is somehow unexpected, as this Cybertruck example appears to be very well put together, just like a production vehicle. You can see it in the video below at 0:25.
Sometimes this leads to discoveries, and everyone learns new things about the Cybertruck. Until Tesla releases the full technical specifications, this crowd-sourced intelligence is the only tangible information that fans can rely on. This happened over the weekend at the Petersen Museum when Tesla's chief designer Franz von Holzhausen arrived in the Cybertruck. As Franz courteously agreed to pose with the fans, others took pictures and videos of the Cybertruck from inside, outside, and even underneath.
Like precious memorabilia, those pictures were thoroughly analyzed, and some pointed to exciting new details that were not immediately obvious during previous Cybertruck sightings. Some of them were obvious, such as the perforated seat upholstery, which indicates that the Cybertruck will feature ventilated seats. The transparent roof is another detail, although the Cybertruck was always expected to have a panoramic glass roof.
There's another detail revealed by the interior shots made before the Tesla Cybertruck was locked and surrounded by ropes. The sun visors are mobile, sliding on a rail in the A-pillars. This helps a lot, considering how high the roof is. If they were fixed, the sun visors should've been huge to extend low enough and block the sun during sunrise and sunset. With the sliding rails, the sun visors can be adjusted according to the sun's position. We still don't know how these rails work, but I'm sure someone will check this out the next time they hop inside the Cybertruck.
Another interesting detail that people noticed was the absence of handles in the cockpit, a staple feature in pickup trucks. This suggests that the electric pickup is not expected to tackle any serious off-road course. This was obvious after the groundbreaking ceremony at Tesla's lithium refinery in Corpus Christi, TX, when the Cybertruck got stuck in a cornfield.
Even though this is not technically a feature, another detail strikes us in a video taken as Franz was preparing to leave the Petersen Museum. As he closed the rear door, it revealed an uneven gap, as if the door were crooked. This is somehow unexpected, as this Cybertruck example appears to be very well put together, just like a production vehicle. You can see it in the video below at 0:25.
A quick peek inside the Cybertruck as Franz drives it off pic.twitter.com/Fly2XxWugP
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