Tesla has simply 5 weeks left earlier than it begins buyer deliveries of the long-awaited Cybertruck and shortly after taking two prototypes down the Baja peninsula, the carmaker has put the truck’s bulletproof physique panels to the check.
A member of the Tesla Homeowners Silicon Valley membership not too long ago stumbled throughout a Cybertruck prototype that had been riddled with gunshots. Social media shortly went right into a buzz after the video was shared on-line and it didn’t take lengthy for Elon Musk to verify that this was certainly a prototype it had used for bulletproof testing.
“We emptied your complete drum journal of a Tommy gun into the motive force door Al Capone type,” Musk mentioned on X. “No bullets penetrated into the passenger compartment.”
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Neither Musk nor Tesla have mentioned what rounds had been used for the check but when it did certainly use a Thompson submachine gun, then it will have been firing .45-caliber ammunition. It’s fully potential that the rounds of a extra trendy gun would have simply pierced the cold-rolled stainless-steel pores and skin of the Cybertruck.
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When Tesla first unveiled the Cybertruck 4 years in the past, it additionally confirmed it will launch with armored glass. The energy of this glass stays unclear they had been infamously cracked by a metal ball in 2019 and it doesn’t seem as if this prototype had any rounds fired at its home windows.
Does driving round in an armored pickup truck make sense for 99.9% of shoppers? No, it doesn’t. Nevertheless, these with a Cybertruck on order will in all probability be happy to know that it could be tougher to dent than a traditional automobile. The trade-off for that added safety may very well be a lot greater restore prices if the stainless panels are broken.
