“At Tesla, we always want to have the production car be better than the show car,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk. “It always drove me crazy when manufacturers would come out with this cool looking show car and then the actual production car would be way worse. You’re like man you got us all excited about this sweet looking car and then the production one was terrible. We’re five percent too big. We (plan to) just take all the proportions and drop them by about five percent (for the actual production version of the Cybertruck). It’s got to fit in a normal garage.”
“There are lots of little details that people wouldn’t necessarily pick up consciously,” says Musk. “Just improving visibility and having the glass like this is actually quite hard because it’s so sloped. We are going to be using effectively a form of armored glass for the car. The door panels of the car are 300 series stainless steel and it’s so tough that it’s bulletproof to a handgun. It’s badass and super cool. When the apocalypse comes you should be glad it’s bulletproof. We want to be a leader in apocalypse technology.”