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

[charliemagpie]

My enthusiasm deflated a tad yesterday when I considered that maybe the 'pricey' boat Mod is reserved for the high-priced Plaid.

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[JBee]

So long your buoyant dreams haven't sunk yet, you'll be fine.

I can't see there being anything more substantially different than the door seals between models, if at all there will be a different model. I can see a water jet propulsion as an optional add on though to cover extra cost. But it might just be paddle wheel caps.

Easy to do with torque vectoring with a motor on each wheel, and 4WS. You can even maneuver on the spot.

Or maybe just the hub pops out of the prototype wheel and pushes the slats of this wheel cover out to create paddles. They might even extend to create spikes! Lol. EM obviously watched to much Bond as a kid.

 

[gc2488]

When using my Cybertruck as a boat I think I'll close the tailgate and vault cover.

 

[firsttruck]

When using my Cybertruck as a boat I think I'll close the tailgate and vault cover.

Then you would have to do fishing out the door window. How you going to get the sailfish in through such a small opening

 

[SwampNut]

More importantly, how will you connect the electric eels to the charge port to recharge on the go?

 

[Ogre]

I think it would be pretty nutty taking your truck out swimming more than absolutely needed. I am a little concerned folks will get themselves into trouble with this.

That said, I see lots of snorkel mods on Off Road vehicles and I would love to be able to ford a creek with confidence.

Also… worth pointing out that the train station is down river from Giga Texas. Maybe Tesla just rolls their newly minted trucks into the river and they float down to a collection pond like they used to do with log harvesting.

 

[Rutrow]

I'm pretty sure the water-tightness is a by-product of air-tightness (for air quality features). I have a hunch they drove it into a tank to test for many aspects of the design and happened to notice that three days later, it was still floating.

Reminds me of the joke:
Mercedes did quality checks on the air tightness of the door seals of their cars by putting a cat in their test vehicle Friday evening. If the cat was dead by Monday the car passed inspection.
Chrysler heard about this and decided to test one of their cars. They put a cat in on Friday, when they checked it again on Monday, the cat had escaped.

 

[Rutrow]

I wasn't paying real close attention when the salesperson was describing all the features of my Model 3, but I think I remember them saying something about "Dock Mode".

 

[teslamaniac]

Won't 'Boat Mode' likely increase the spread of invasive species like the Zebra Mussel? And wouldn't this likely result in all Cybertrucks having to stop and be inspected in the same way that boats are in many states?

 

[charliemagpie]

I can understand opposition sprinkling doubt across the net... A lot of their potential customers would be thinking of holding off right now.


We have EM Twitter to suggest the truck will be watertight.

A. The truck will go a few knots.... sounds like 5-10 Km an hour to me. That does not sound like faux cork ready to slowly sink.

B. You can mount an electric motor on the Tow Bar to go faster.

WTF ? He just disclosed ITS a boat.

1. Plug in an ELECTRIC ? the plug won't get wet ?
It is therefore feasible to maintain itself above water travelling faster than just a few knots.

And why would EM suggest an electric motor if it is only a short distance.

I think sandbagging is to discourage anyone from misinterpreting what he might otherwise say. Some would dream of taking it down raging rivers and across oceans.

Of course, the Darwin awards will one day have some new interesting entries.

 

[Crissa]

Won't 'Boat Mode' likely increase the spread of invasive species like the Zebra Mussel? And wouldn't this likely result in all Cybertrucks having to stop and be inspected in the same way that boats are in many states?

I wouldn't plan on leaving the Cybertruck in the water long enough for them to attach.

But it's a good reminder to hose down your truck between dips. This is important for white-nose disease and sudden oak death, too. Get the mud off before you come home.

-Crissa

 

[SwampNut]

I'll take mine to the boat yard to get bottom painted.

I have a funny story about the CA agriculture stop station going nuts when they found one dead mussel on my boat which the pressure washing had somehow missed. The punchline is that when they finally got me on the phone with the QM expert and he asked where we were going (Catalina Island), he was livid that they woke him up or something. Those are freshwater mussels, perfectly fine to dump them into salt water, they will die.

 

[Rizonline]

Well…the Cybertruck doesn’t yet exist so can’t really say. But I did use the Cyberbackpack as a boat and it floated perfectly.

 

[Crissa]

I'll take mine to the boat yard to get bottom painted.

I have a funny story about the CA agriculture stop station going nuts when they found one dead mussel on my boat which the pressure washing had somehow missed. The punchline is that when they finally got me on the phone with the QM expert and he asked where we were going (Catalina Island), he was livid that they woke him up or something. Those are freshwater mussels, perfectly fine to dump them into salt water, they will die.

The inspectors don't know where you're going ^-^

-Crissa

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