Lightbar accessory spotted on Cybertruck! 💡

[MikeF]

I'd like to see a better cord management solution then through a window jam.

There is a little door above the passenger's side front door that has a wiring loom access for the Lightbar. You can feel it and see it while standing beside the CT if it is at Entry Height. The images I added are frrom Jay Leno's Garage YouTube Channel during a recent video with Jay, at the link. It is at about 29 minutes in the video where Jay is once again joined by Tesla's Head of Design, Franz von Holzhausen who along with Tesla's Vice President of Vehicle Engineering, Lars Moravy, they lookmat the little spring loaded port.

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[Cybertruck26]

Man, I am glad this is included with FS Beasts. What's your price estimates? I say $4500 or greater

 

[CyberTruckeeTheOne]

People claim they are good for avoiding kangaroos. But they just stare at the headlights so why wouldn't they just stare at the lightbar too.

We would have to import kangaroos to justify the light bar then.

 

[MikeF]

Man, I am glad this is included with FS Beasts. What's your price estimates? I say $4500 or greater

It's about 1/10 of that. It's made by Hella
https://myhellalights.com/product/black-magic-led-40-slim-lightbar/

 

[agordon117]

It's about 1/10 of that. It's made by Hella
https://myhellalights.com/product/black-magic-led-40-slim-lightbar/

Apples to oranges. That's an led light bar. Tesla has claimed (recently) that theirs is a laser light bar. This means they are using LEP modules (Laser Excited Phosphor) instead of LED .

 

[Cybertruck26]

Apples to oranges. That's an led light bar. Tesla has claimed (recently) that theirs is a laser light bar. This means they are using LEP modules (Laser Excited Phosphor) instead of LED .

Exactly, I was going off the LEP (laser) nomenclature, as opposed to LED. I don't think you would get 500 yards full illumination off 48V LED, tbh.

 

[Cyber Man]

The wires are probably for the Starlink

In one of the Sandy Munro videos with Tesla engineers, they said it’s for lightbar or any other accessories that need power outlet. I’m glad they thought this through.

 

[Crissa]

A LEP is just a fancy name for a type of LED. LED lasers are still LEDs.

White LEDs work because you have directed photons from a blue LED into a layer of phosphorescent paint. The width and intensity of the LED semiconductor determines the angle and spread of the photons emitted as electrons shift state in the diode.

They may or may not be brighter, but they're mostly just tinier semiconductors.

-Crissa

 

[flowerlandfilms]

We would have to import kangaroos to justify the light bar then.

I could not possibly in all good conscience advise it.

 

[CyberTruckeeTheOne]

Arriving at a public campground at night made me appreciate the importance of the lightbar.

i might install one since my use case is an RV puller for our road trips.

I was able to have it attached to my overhead rack but I don't plan to have a rack so waiting for Tesla to have it as accessory could be my only option.

 

[Demonvial]

It's about 1/10 of that. It's made by Hella
https://myhellalights.com/product/black-magic-led-40-slim-lightbar/

There’s no shot it will be under 1k. It’s Tesla and people need to be prepared for some massive sticker shock when they announce the price.

 

[MikeF]

Apples to oranges. That's an led light bar. Tesla has claimed (recently) that theirs is a laser light bar. This means they are using LEP modules (Laser Excited Phosphor) instead of LED .

agordon117, I would prefer the 50" Hella Lightbar at about 7% of the cost of the BajaDesigns Laser LEP Bar that has a 1 degree spot beam versus the more useful wider beam of the 50" Hella at 300 meters.

 

[agordon117]

agordon117, I would prefer the 50" Hella Lightbar at about 7% of the cost of the BajaDesigns Laser LEP Bar that has a 1 degree spot beam versus the more useful wider beam of the 50" Hella at 300 meters.

I'm not arguing the benefit of lep vs led (though I would say an array of both would probably be most ideal), just pointing out that tesla said theirs is a laser light bar, and there's really only one close point of comparison to that.

Also, offroad lights that are floods are everywhere. Projecting a flat bar of light far into the distance isn't something as easy to do with everything else on the market. Given the downgrade they took on looks (it looked great under the windshield), they probably kept it to LEP modules so they could keep the price high with technology rather than with integration.

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