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or pleasure. Okay. Now. Picture an

1:11

electric pick up. Looks. About the

1:14

same. right? For. It even makes

1:16

an electric F one fifty. The looks just like

1:18

it's gas powered models. In. The Us

1:20

companies have been making trucks for over

1:22

a hundred years and the general look

1:24

has remained pretty much the same. Tesla.

1:27

Decided to break the mold. That's

1:31

holds a strong grip on the

1:34

eve the market in the Us.

1:36

last year. it accounted for about

1:38

fifty five percent of all battery

1:40

powered vehicles sold. The company has

1:42

a market value of over half

1:44

a trillion dollars. When the company

1:46

started out on the design of

1:49

it's cyber Trump Tesla chief designer

1:51

says Ceo Elon Musk gave him

1:53

very few guiding instruction. Musk wanted

1:55

an electric pick up with good

1:57

driving dynamics and it covered bed

1:59

and. For it the quote feel like

2:01

the future. Of you as

2:03

the Journal, The Auto Colonists Their

2:06

Neil He'll tell you. Mission accomplished.

2:08

Cyber drivers in my whole

2:10

decades of are doing this

2:12

job is one a few

2:14

real. New saying

2:16

that has ever come along.

2:20

Then had to test drives has new

2:22

electric pick up and he says the

2:24

cyber trucks, Angular Flames and Steal Bodies

2:26

are showing us a glimpse of the

2:29

future of the American Easy Truck and

2:31

perhaps even in general. Talking

2:43

about the cyber. Track. Is

2:45

it a spaceship? Is it a movie

2:47

prop? Is it real? The cyber

2:49

truck is definitely real, but is it

2:52

also a sign of things to come

2:54

for easy design for trucks for Tesla.

2:56

When we come back there, Neil takes

2:58

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Colleague Journal auto columnists Daniel

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has been writing about automobiles

3:44

for over twenty five years.

3:48

Them: Are you a car guy? Or yeah I

3:50

am. I am a car guy. I started

3:52

as a car child. In. Order to

3:54

understand what makes the cyber trucks so different from

3:56

the trucks that have come before. It i us

3:58

down about the quintessential. Revive. He

4:04

took me all the way back.

4:06

The covered wagon had a configuration

4:08

known as the three box design.

4:12

One thing that unites of these

4:14

designs over the decades and even

4:16

the centuries is the general layout

4:18

or the conestoga wagon as the

4:20

horses or up front the driver

4:22

sits in a cab elevated looking

4:24

out over the horses directing the

4:27

horses and in the back is

4:29

the open cab or the Three

4:31

Bucks Design works for and has

4:33

become as static and a technical

4:35

expertise and for all buyers of

4:37

pick up and you have you

4:39

mess with these formulas at your.

4:42

Peril. The Cyber Trust is

4:44

not your typical three boxes lined with the

4:46

engine out in France, followed by the cab

4:48

with a driver and passengers said and then

4:51

the truck bed behind. The.

4:53

Shape of the Cyber

4:55

Target for his Mannix.

4:58

At of thing it's hard to break it

5:01

apart in a way that conventional cab trucks

5:03

can be. It'll never be anything but the

5:05

cyber truck you can't take the back half

5:07

and put a camper on and are some

5:10

it's is always going to look like the

5:12

cyber trust. In some ways, it's a kind

5:14

of inflexible and dedicated specific design. The

5:16

cyber truck cuts a singular silhouette.

5:19

It's. A long civil rectangle with a

5:21

scaling triangle sitting on top. You know,

5:23

one of those triangles where the three

5:26

sides are all different lengths. Anyway, there

5:28

are no curve blinds or bulging surfaces.

5:30

It makes me think of driving over

5:32

rough terrain on Mars rather than polling

5:35

supplies and the American Heartland Dance As

5:37

part of the reason the cyber truck

5:39

is different is because it can be

5:42

different. Well, one thing. Is Cyber

5:44

Truck does is it takes advantage

5:46

of these inherent opportunities in electric

5:48

design, one of which is the

5:50

compartmentalization the packaging of specific. Electronic

5:53

components such as inverters,

5:55

batteries, motors are half

5:57

sas. at powered axles

5:59

you. Do a lot of things because

6:01

the packaging spaces on the order of half

6:03

what it is for an internal combustion engine.

6:05

The engine is not up front or in

6:07

the back or underneath. It's actually hidden. They're.

6:09

Two of them. Or it, in some cases,

6:12

three. Small. Electric motors to

6:14

put out hundreds of horsepower a

6:16

piece. That's one of the advantages

6:18

of an electric vehicle, as you

6:20

can get an enormous amount of

6:22

power and torque at a relatively

6:24

small packages. Earlier. This year,

6:27

Ten.a test drive the Cyberattack. For

6:29

forty eight hours. The Twenty Twenty

6:31

Four, Tesla, Cybershot All Wheel Drive

6:33

Foundation addition to be exact that's

6:35

priced at one hundred thousand dollars.

6:38

So. We chatted about it, starting with

6:40

it's iconic a thing which until

6:42

recently only came in and unpainted

6:44

silver. The thing. Is made out

6:46

of the most amazing allies. steal the

6:48

almost like a tool steel almost like

6:51

a drill bit steel and it's on

6:53

the outside of the same. Why?

6:55

Bother making it out of this steel

6:57

years. The argument: A lot of outdoor pickup trucks

6:59

are too fancy to go off road because we

7:01

take them off road to get him scratch and

7:03

the it then depreciation and people don't wanna. Make

7:07

Love. Hundred are months' payments on truck that's worth

7:09

half that. The Cyber try, however, comes back and

7:11

there's not a scratch on it. You get hit

7:13

it with a million shopping carts and it would

7:15

never dame. Okay, take me inside the

7:18

car. Damn you. Open the door, You

7:20

sit down. What do you see? The

7:23

interior of the cyber Truck

7:25

Ah Ah shares with other

7:27

Tassos his spare design. eat

7:29

those spare to the point

7:31

of air listeners. It's

7:34

hyper hyper hi Janet and

7:36

like other tassels, it has.

7:40

Almost. No physical switches are controls

7:42

beyond the steering wheel and a

7:44

rotary that selectors on the wheel.

7:46

Oh it's like, and it's like a knob

7:48

instead. Yet has two cats do it

7:50

of mobs ago this way that way but

7:52

mouse controller type thing on his the A

7:54

turn signals are integrated into the steering wheel

7:56

which as i left hander took me a

7:58

moment to or be. Era of every

8:01

single time I use it practically

8:03

so. What was it like to? drive? So

8:05

you get on the highway and or

8:07

the cyber target sits up tall for

8:10

you. have a lot of verb cameras

8:12

to is to rely on is pretty

8:14

easy on level ground to see out

8:16

and down his i'm great at the

8:19

rear quarter visibility and he has a

8:21

very little tiny, an adorable little rear

8:23

view mirror. Just the tiniest most adorable

8:26

thing. But it is bristling with cameras

8:28

and bristling with sensors and their argument

8:30

is that say you have a better

8:32

visibility. With. All

8:34

the sensors and cameras in so for

8:37

than you would with a conventional truck

8:39

using just line of sight. The suspense

8:41

is very soft very sophisticated very since

8:44

set it because it has air springs

8:46

with adaptive suspension that has a very

8:48

high frequency loop to adjust their damping

8:51

and the tires themselves or giant and

8:53

their blown up to fifty one be

8:55

a sites It's just like a life

8:58

raft of your have life for after

9:00

a inflatable raft units that doubt that

9:02

it that floaty inflatable feeling. Seen as

9:05

like that. And then it's It's dead

9:07

quiet. It the damn thing is dead

9:09

quiet. Unbelievable. Know

9:11

I was gonna ask you like

9:13

what is it So like I

9:16

have all these links move right

9:18

Very muscular sounds in my head.

9:20

It won't make yummy engine sounds

9:22

is that's what you're thinking. And

9:24

ago it was a piano your

9:26

mom added as gets tested and

9:28

play that right right? Because it's

9:30

electric so. Thrilled! With the

9:32

cyberattack a good driver. he

9:34

has. Oh. My. God. It has

9:36

a couple of very, very odd driving

9:39

characteristics. One is the steering rack response

9:41

is one hundred and eighty degrees. so

9:43

it turns one way this way it

9:46

turns one way this way. locked a

9:48

lot, but it doesn't go over. Oh.

9:50

So it's like right, You know how we turn my

9:52

head of her hand? When you're like in a making

9:55

a raid one hand over the next and go almost

9:57

the holy rounds of you do that. You're just a

9:59

right and. Do you know you'll go into

10:01

the desk as the same site? really twitchy

10:03

and the first five minutes of the having

10:05

all that steering gain with that little input

10:08

the was the had that takes a little

10:10

getting used. it's ramos I could go kart.

10:12

Well, it's almost like Tesla wants us

10:14

to physically change how we are inside

10:16

of a car. I mean the way

10:18

I operate a steering wheel and the

10:20

way I like collect the blinker up

10:23

and down and mean this is this.

10:25

Is of a muscle memory? Your

10:27

so old? So old? No, no,

10:29

you've just gotta change. Well I'm

10:32

not sure I'm ready to fans

10:34

But Dances! Besides, what maybe the

10:36

vehicle of the future the who's user

10:39

is It doesn't mean for Tesla and

10:41

it's competitor. We get into those questions

10:43

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Er I den. After delays and much

11:27

anticipation of the cyber truck hit the

11:29

market late last November. How

11:31

are people? generally? Reacting to it

11:34

Feeble dabs garcon believe lived out

11:36

by. Give you try and design

11:38

a truck that doesn't look exactly

11:40

like a truck that the conversation

11:42

that will emerge we know in

11:44

our mind would attract supposed to

11:46

be of course a cyberattack breaks

11:48

that in every possible way in

11:50

a very deliberate and and I

11:52

would say insolent way they wanted

11:54

to kick sand. Interface is a

11:56

big boy on the beach of

11:58

know. But a lot of people. Three,

12:00

Don't call it. Ugly. or I know,

12:02

end of. This. Just

12:04

goes to show how culturally determined this

12:06

opinion is. You know it's just the

12:09

shock of the new. And. Overall

12:11

I would say that is a

12:13

luxury experience top to bottom. And.

12:15

Eight If you want to be the center

12:18

of attention is attention is your thing. A

12:20

homemade this is your truck. With

12:24

the saboteur is it a very aspiration on

12:26

products as what and he be pick up

12:28

might be if it had no parents and

12:30

all the money in the world. August recess

12:32

gets. Again, if you're considering buying a

12:34

cyber. Tracks and. What are

12:36

you comparing? a tail? There's only one

12:38

real competitor of have read the reveal

12:40

isn't. So the reveal. Our One T

12:42

pickup truck starts at around seventy thousand

12:44

dollars and then the cyber track and

12:46

run you anywhere from sixty two hundred

12:48

thousand dollars depending on the features. If.

12:51

I'm comparing these two. What am I going to

12:53

get from Arabian versus a cyberattack? Is Alpha

12:55

and Omega right is completely. It's

12:57

Apollonian, the dionysian that the thing

12:59

about the Cyber Truck is that

13:01

it is Apollonian the sense that

13:04

it expects more of humans that

13:06

humans are necessarily prepared to give

13:08

it as a rationality in a

13:10

rectitude and and appropriateness that is

13:12

beyond the can a mortal man,

13:14

whereas the more dinesen Arabian with

13:16

the soft eyes you move. It

13:18

has a humanist, a humanistic a

13:20

face, a humanistic vibe, Of and

13:22

a more than just a viable. The Revisions

13:24

range isn't the same as the Cyber Track

13:27

according to test last. The Cyber Truck has

13:29

a range of as much as three hundred

13:31

and forty miles on a single charge. and

13:33

then if you top up at a supercharger

13:35

for fifteen minutes, you get a one hundred

13:38

and thirty six. Now more and really and

13:40

says they're easy pick up has an estimated

13:42

two hundred and seventy miles of range with

13:44

the higher and really and that goes up

13:46

to three hundred and sixteen miles. Why Is

13:48

there is a big difference? The. Big

13:51

problem is which. They. Caught

13:53

Mass Optimization of the point

13:55

is that the ribbon for

13:57

all it's technical achievements. Give.

14:00

That something in terms of it's

14:02

manufacturing, which translates to it's a

14:04

bit much heavier. So if I

14:06

were to summarize, some. Of your Big

14:08

Take lasts the Cyber Track. Get.

14:11

Some high marks for engineering and drive

14:13

and it's it's the boy to beat

14:15

and terms of other easy pick ups,

14:18

but you're also making it sound like

14:20

kind of of so piece. What?

14:22

Does that mean for the future of electric truck

14:24

designed. To Cyberattacks what you would

14:26

call or in other companies other

14:29

parts of the the industry's I

14:31

Halo product. It is the most

14:33

expensive, most extreme, most desirable, most

14:35

aspiration almost out there version of

14:37

a look and a technology that

14:40

could have come down to a

14:42

more mainstream mass a markets a

14:44

solution. For example, when I look

14:46

at the cyber Drug I see

14:49

trouble for domestic automakers because it

14:51

does a lot of things that

14:53

they will never. Do and does

14:55

it in a very very cool way.

14:57

They also speak to younger consumers and

15:00

away the Detroit. They're just not speaking

15:02

to them in that book that love

15:04

language if you will. I think that

15:06

subject move the ball on design in

15:08

a way that we haven't really seen.

15:11

Fifty years Mr. Ball on technology. Ah

15:13

as a piece and apart from the

15:15

cars are it has a marketing and

15:17

promotion value that is incalculable I think

15:19

is a. Word: How might we see

15:22

the influence of the Cyber Tracks design?

15:24

In future ease, the cyber truck

15:26

broke the mold I can eg

15:29

and expect more unorthodox shapes. Are

15:31

visually unorthodox in and and provocative

15:34

A designs in a segment that

15:36

that is traditional and are slow

15:38

to move, slow to adopt new

15:41

things is was such as such

15:43

in an earthquake. visually that it

15:46

opens the opportunity for a lot

15:48

more. Are Five Things. The

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Future of Everything is a production of The

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Wall Street Journal. This episode with produced by.

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Mean. Charlotte Gartenberg. Thanks.