Cybertruck is waterproof enough to serve as a boat to cross rivers, lakes & calm seas -- confirms Musk 🚤

[jlatino]

Will you be using your Cybertruck's boat-like features, and in what way??

Just tweeted this morning by Elon Musk.

"Cybertruck will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat, so it can cross rivers, lakes & even seas that aren’t too choppy"​

Reddit poster stated he works at Tesla and guarantees this is the first time the design engineers have heard of it lol.

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[firsttruck]

Reddit poster stated he works at Tesla and guarantees this is the first time the design engineers have heard of it lol.

That is kinda odd to not have heard about it before when this is not the first time he mentioned it.

Elon also has a James Bond movie prop used for the James Bond car underwater scenes.

 

[Crissa]

Reddit poster stated he works at Tesla and guarantees this is the first time the design engineers have heard of it lol.

Let's just point out Reddit posters are not very reliable.

https://electrek.co/2020/04/20/tesla-cybertruck-float-elon-musk/

This isn't the first we've heard of it.

-Crissa

 

[CyberCFP]

First thing I thought of when I read Musk's "Cybertruck will also be a boat" comments.

 

[Cybertruckee]

Now all we need is mid-gate passthru so we can get to the bed to be able to fish from the bed.

No more loss of range towing a boat.

There is money to be made with hydrofoil mods, stabilizer and gyroscope for CT, lol.

 

[JBee]

There is money to be made with hydrofoil mods, stabilizer and gyroscope for CT, lol.

Hydrofoil I get. But what's the stabiliser and gyroscope for?

 

[slomobile]

Would you prefer if it sinks?
Do you want the James Bond Plaid Submarine feature as well?
You'll have to wait until 2024'.

I think the military Humvee was designed to take on and drain rapidly to maintain tire contact with the riverbed during crossings. If you plan to drive out of the water anywhere but a boat landing or rocky beach, that traction is important to prevent simply bouncing off the bank.

I like the floating feature. Wonder if it relies on a tailgate seal? It would be nice to use the deployable ramp as a gangway for exting onto a soil bank to set winch anchor points to pull itself onto land again.

Floating feature gets useful for Floridians if it can stay dry long enough for storm surge to recede. Have a truck again in a few days rather than another insurance claim. That ought to reduce premiums in flood prone areas.

 

[Cybertruckee]

Hydrofoil I get. But what's the stabiliser and gyroscope for?

And I thought that's obvious for a CT not shaped as a boat or the distinct possibility of stopping momentarily, deliberately to drop a line, in the middle of a lake.

 

[JBee]

I think the military Humvee was designed to take on and drain rapidly to maintain tire contact with the riverbed during crossings. If you plan to drive out of the water anywhere but a boat landing or rocky beach, that traction is important to prevent simply bouncing off the bank.

I like the floating feature. Wonder if it relies on a tailgate seal? It would be nice to use the deployable ramp as a gangway for exting onto a soil bank to set winch anchor points to pull itself onto land again.

Floating feature gets useful for Floridians if it can stay dry long enough for storm surge to recede. Have a truck again in a few days rather than another insurance claim. That ought to reduce premiums in flood prone areas.

Somewhere in the 13 pages of this thread I describe that the water line is very close to the tailgate height, and that its likely that it needs to remain closed in boat mode, as do the doors to avoid interior water damage. I also go on about how the handle less doors already have actuators that can compress the seals to make them water tight, and there's also a discussion in there on how best to facilitate both good wading capability and flotation. I should really start a CT wiki to put all this stuff...

I like the insurance perspective.

 

[JBee]

And I thought that's obvious for a CT not shaped as a boat or the distinct possibility of stopping momentarily, deliberately to drop a line, in the middle of a lake.

Its flat enough, and has a very low center of gravity from the battery pack etc, so I don't think you will need a gyroscope/stabiliser to keep it upright at all.

Of course this depends on just how large the fish is you are going to catch.

 

[slomobile]

I should really start a CT wiki to put all this stuff...

I'd read that.

 

[firsttruck]

......
Floating feature gets useful for Floridians if it can stay dry long enough for storm surge to recede. Have a truck again in a few days rather than another insurance claim. That ought to reduce premiums in flood prone areas.

That means if you park the Cybertruck and leave for awhile or are in your house/apt and go to sleep, besides making sure you set the parking brake on the truck you better remember to have thrown out an anchor or if there is a flood your 30x cold rolled stainless steel with armor glass Cybertruck might be undamaged but it might also have floated to miles away.

 

[firsttruck]

Its flat enough, and has a very low center of gravity from the battery pack etc, so I don't think you will need a gyroscope/stabiliser to keep it upright at all.

Of course this depends on just how large the fish is you are going to catch.

Out to catch a big sailfish of course so I can mount it on the sail panel.

 

[FutureBoy]

Just thought of a new off-road adventure for CT: re-enacting the Huckleberry Finn story of floating down the Mississippi River. That could be fun actually. And one might be able to do it on a single charge. Most of the way would be using no propulsion. But you could drive up a riverbank each night to camp. Use power to cook dinner. Then drive back into the river the next day to keep going. If you hit a sandbar, just drive over it.

That could make for one very lazy summer trip.

 

[charliemagpie]

I'd read that.

I would prefer his CT for dummies condensed version.

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