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

[GlockandRoll]

Surely he is joking.
The thing will weigh nearly 4 tons, and what will it use for thrust?

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[SwampNut]

Besides it seems awfully inconvenient to lap it out of the middle console like a puppy dog.

 

[ColoradoBlah]

Surely he is joking.
The thing will weigh nearly 4 tons, and what will it use for thrust?

He hasnt announced the rocket pack and new base price of 200k yet lol

 

[SwampNut]

Who said that is the purpose?

 

[FutureBoy]

Does this thing fit in the bed? Just in case something goes wrong while crossing the sea.

 

[bill.french]

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.

 

[bad61]

He hasnt announced the rocket pack and new base price of 200k yet lol

Iv been hoping for three, three quarter inch hitch inlets for front and back. Canvas air bag in front and back for floatation. On the front and back you could put a propeller on the left and right side. As you turn the steering wheel it will speed up and slow down the propellers. The canvas air bags can also be used to push cars. I live in Colorado, and it would be really handy for pushing snow stuck cars, hoping for the first Three that were first ordered to start Robotaxi in Colorado If you could hook up two or more together, for towing or for pulling. I think would also be a nice feature.

 

[firsttruck]

Elon is signaling us.

The fit, finish, panel gaps of the Cybertruck will be so good that any random Cybertruck taken off the line will pass certification for use as a boat.

They are going from the hodgepodge Fremont factory to the machine that builds (Austin) the machine (Cybertruck).

Here Elon & Tesla are again disrupting another industry - small tow-able boats.

Ford better do a bang-up (price, features, production scale) job on the generation 2 (2025/2026) F-150 Lightning or Ford is toast.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Something I haven’t seen anyone realize yet… Elon also stated crossing the channel between south padre and Starbase…. That’s a salt water crossing… a large (for a car especially ) crossing. We still don’t know the exact chemical make up of the SS body but outside of 316 levels of corrosion resistance, I find it interesting he references that crossing as a goal/ need for regular use. That still leaves the control arms, cv joints, steering arms, brake compenents etc..also requiring equally strong corrosion resistance.
I guess my thoughts are… is this hinting at every exposed component being either aluminum castings or SS.
-im still hosing the thing down asap after salt water exposure for the record.

 

[swengl]

Does anyone put any faith in the statement regarding the order of builds for the CT (Quad first at the very end of the article)? I know that has been a source of a lot of discussion in other threads.

As far as the waterproof statements: maybe one of the after-market accessories will be an add-on under chassis impeller unit (I'm only half joking).

 

[bad61]

Who said that is the purpose?

If you lived in Florida right now you might see it

 

[SwampNut]

See what?

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