Cybertruck Body Prototype Casting spied uncovered!! 😲

[DPye_BC]

Just adding my two cents (or nonsense) to the discussion.
Doing a quick overlay of a 3D model (Thank you Lizard_FPV) and trying to do a camera match without being certain if anything in the frame is square, level, or parallel with anything else in the scene...

...it doesn't line up perfectly, but is close enough to convince me that the photo is legit.

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[DPye_BC]

I think that the castings you circled in red are definitely supposed to be there.
There's a couple of things they might do:
1) Provide a crumple zone for rear collisions.
2) Provide room for the air suspension towers, like in this Model S.

 

[RVAC]

Have you ever seen a body in white that was raw metal?

The problem is that it's going to look awful if that is painted.

Thinner than I hoped then.

If you look at the renderings it never seemed cavernous. It's still possible but I have doubts it will be there in the production version, unfortunately.

Just adding my two cents (or nonsense) to the discussion.
Doing a quick overlay of a 3D model (Thank you Lizard_FPV) and trying to do a camera match without being certain if anything in the frame is square, level, or parallel with anything else in the scene...

...it doesn't line up perfectly, but is close enough to convince me that the photo is legit.

Great illustration, I think you have the rear wheel well and the tailgate too high though.

 

[WheezyLex]

I have a jeep gladiator and we used to use Tundras as part of our work fleet. With that back window down or the top off, if the bed aint spotless, everything back there ends up all over the cab and its occupants.
a seal may work initially with the midgate up but imagine trying to make it work right after sand, pea gravel, mulch, dirt, hay etc has been back there a few times. What about chemical fumes?

(Sigh). Look, I’d rather have a feature and not need it than not have one and wish one did. It allows longer items to be placed in the bed. I’m not going to argue with you anymore. Maybe you’re right - it’s a stupid idea and will be disgusting a dirty. It’s amazing, if you never use it, it’s still available for those that want it. ?‍

 

[DPye_BC]

Example

The example here says "exterior", "exoskeleton", "outside", "shell", and "skin". Clearly not describing anything to do with the frame. The second photo/render (with the doors off) even shows curvy bits of metal that have to be stamped (whether out of regular steel, aluminum, or thinner SS) and we've known for a long time that there will be castings.
So, I disagree with you saying we've been led to believe the frame is SS.

 

[DPye_BC]

The problem is that it's going to look awful if that is painted.

If you look at the renderings it never seemed cavernous. It's still possible but I have doubts it will be there in the production version, unfortunately.

Great illustration, I think you have the rear wheel well and the tailgate too high though.

I agree - I was going to try and get the camera match to fit better, but there's a lot of guessing about parallel lines in the photo. You really need two clean parallel lines in each of the X and Y axes.
With a few more photos from different angles... well that's a different story!

As for your other point about the painted areas... is it possible that those parts might be stamped (or hydroformed) out of thinner SS for the production design?
No paint. Match the look of the exterior. No rust. Hmmm...

 

[SSonnentag]

That's alot of shims to hold the parts in place.

...and no midgate.

And no wing storage.

-Crissa

Yep, those are the first things I noticed as well. I’m glad about the lack of a midgate though. It never made any sense to me that there could be wing storage if the wings were structural either.

 

[RVAC]

As for your other point about the painted areas... is it possible that those pasts might be stamped (or hydroformed) out of thinner SS for the production design?
No paint. Match the look of the exterior. No rust. Hmmm...

That's what I was hoping, thinner SS that can be stamped. Otherwise it's going to look pretty bad as it has to be painted.

 

[SSonnentag]

I agree. The lines/shape of the roofline are all off. This can't be recent or legit Texas pic.

Seriously? Everything lines up perfectly with the exoskeleton skins we’ve seen.

 

[SSonnentag]

Yup... except that those weird things on the wings go way higher than the actual shape of the truck. So something is off with this concoction.

Nope. They’re perfectly in line with the slope of the rear half of the cabin roof.

 

[Dids]

I have some experience with analysing digital photos for manipulation. There are a range of things to look for, basic stuff like Exif data and signs that certain known tools were used that leave a trace like the clone tool/spot healer tool.

You look for repeated sections, sections that have a separate colour space or resolution to indicate two photos were merged together. Pixel density, lighting sources shadows and reflections, simple things all illustrators can do like leading lines, where is the horizon and what is the perspective.

Now this is a screenshot from a video as far as I can tell, and has all sorts of video compression artefacts, fringing and low resolution, all of which can be used to obscure more obvious signs of manipulation, but that being said, I can't see anything giving away that this is more than one image put together, and it is certainly not a CG render.
It could be an AI generated image and i'm less experienced with those, but I don't see telltale signs of that either.

And even if it was a legit picture of a Tesla powder coating facility for authenticity, which I believe it is, merged with another image of a Cybertruck Chassis, the question would still remain: "Where the hell did the picture of the Cybertruck Chassis come from?". If we can get a second source picture of that facility it would be an excellent confirmation.

The fakest looking part of this image is that dinky looking sign that says "POWDER COAT", but even that has correct lighting, from above and in front, with some sort of structural member casting a shadow on it.

For me the deciding factor is just that it's a bad photo, which humans are excellent at taking with smartphones. It's vertical, like an idiot human would take, (with the correct lens distortion on all objects in the frame), and the composition is terrible, not even at the right angle, should be maybe 2.4 degrees clockwise.

Unless someone has been kit-bashing very detailed models together to get something that looks like a realistic structural Cybertruck frame in their spare time, (plausible), has access to Tesla or similar sized facilities to get the base photo, (possible), and has some kind of next level ninja skills with lighting and photography, BUT also the ability to resist the urge to use those skills and purposefully take an intentionally shitty photo, (in my experience with photographers that's completely impossible), I think this photo is completely legit.

I give permission for everyone to get excited.
(of course I could be wrong but that's true of everyone here)
[I don't have a degree in pixel peeping just a lot of experience]
{isn't it fun that there are so many kinds of brackets?}

What do you think of the fog for a floor inside the cabin? Or the platform that extends over the scaffold in the lower right.

 

[Robeden1]

For what its worth, naval vessels have had aluminum upper decks and superstructures welded together since the 1980’s. Consider that bi-metal quarter in your pocket as an example of explosive welding, while the US Navy has used an (mig style) shielded electric arc process fir decades. Problems do arise with embrittlement at the joint if not done properly.

Thanks,
Rob

 

[SSonnentag]

G'Day Folks, about 10 days before SEMI release to PEPSICO, I sent out numbers on some YouTube sites.
They went like this: 850 kWh battery pack with consumption of 1.7 kWh.
So last Sunday l did the same for CYBRTRK. The 175 kWh battery pack with a usable 163.3 kWh consuming 1 kWh to cover a distance of 3.1miles.
This shows an expected range of 507 miles or for the Metric Heads out there like me, ~810 kms.
MPGe 108

Squirrel!

 

[DPye_BC]

What do you think of the fog for a floor inside the cabin? Or the platform that extends over the scaffold in the lower right.

1) The "fog" is motion blur of the worker's head. Not the worker on the left, with white pants - the one on the right with blue pants.
2) The "platform" is a piece of sheet metal on a table closer to the camera than the scaffold.

Nothing to see here.

 

[flowerlandfilms]

What do you think of the fog for a floor inside the cabin? Or the platform that extends over the scaffold in the lower right.

I think the 'fog' is blurry because part of it is a slanted floor panel for the drivers foot maybe, and the part just above it is something in the warehouse background, the focus difference and the low res video are combining to make the edge very fuzzy. You can see that whatever it is continues into the front door gap a little.

That panel is odd looking. The scaffold thing should be identical to the one on the left but it has a panel ot sheet of what looks to be metal lying on it. And there is that one part in your circle where it juts out sharply, but that could be because there are two panels? Or an optical illusion.
Without knowing what this rigging is I can't say what the geometry is there.

But I can say the lines match perfectly with the perspective of everything else in the shot.
I'm still more inclined to blame our ignorance of the apparatus proportions than a mistake in shopping it at this point. One more angle would be killer.

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