- It’s possible you’ll quickly have the ability to take your Tesla Cybertruck for a swim.
- Elon Musk mentioned Tesla plans to introduce a “mod package deal” that might permit it to operate as a ship.
- Musk mentioned the package deal would permit the truck to “traverse at lesat 100m of water.”
Tesla’s Cybertruck could have had bother scaling a snow hill final week, however CEO Elon Musk says the truck could quickly have the ability to thread water.
“We’re going to provide a mod package deal that permits Cybertruck to traverse no less than 100m of water as a ship,” Musk wrote in an X post on Monday. “Principally simply must improve cabin door seals.”
Musk unveiled the upcoming operate while replying to a post by one other X person, Sawyer Merritt.
Merritt had posted a video excerpt from the newest episode of “Jay Leno’s Storage” that featured the Cybertruck. Within the video, Tesla’s vice chairman of auto engineering, Lars Moravy mentioned the Cybertruck might be souped up into a ship.
“Elon did need to make it a ship. The automobile virtually floats, possibly you need to add slightly bit of additional buoyancy simply to stick with it,” Moravy informed Leno.
“For those who’re artistic, and also you need, you could possibly work out the best way to put an outboard motor, plugged in to your outlet there, flip it on out of your display, and go boating,” Moravy continued.
We’re going to provide a mod package deal that permits Cybertruck to traverse no less than 100m of water as a ship.
Principally simply must improve cabin door seals.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 19, 2023
Musk first introduced the Cybertruck again in 2019, however deliveries for the truck solely started in late November. The automobile’s angular design has been divisive, with individuals both loving or deriding it.
Musk appeared conscious that the automobile may face challenges when he talked concerning the it throughout Tesla’s newest earnings calls in October.
“We dug our personal grave with Cybertruck,” Musk mentioned then. “Particular merchandise that come alongside as soon as in an extended whereas are simply extremely troublesome to deliver to market, to achieve quantity, to be affluent.”
Representatives for Musk didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider despatched outdoors common enterprise hours.
