Tesla Cybertruck: Did the World Need an Electric Hummer?

The lines of the pickup that Tesla has just presented never cease to arouse the most diverse reactions. For months, Elon Musk had warned that the machine would have a very special line. Beyond the style, it is the footprint that challenges, making it undesirable in European cities.

Poncin shaped

Cut with a billhook, the body of the Tesla Cybertruck does not seem to have been designed to seduce. Yet, at the time of writing this article, the Automobile Propre poll indicates that over 40% of the 800 participating readers find it "S3XY".

Many comparisons have been made with other vehicles with such steep lines. It seems that these are amphibious Poncins with 6 or 8 wheels to which the American pickup is the closest. A form studied, for Ardennes models, in order to navigate on water.

A length of minibus

With a length of 5.8 meters, the Cybertruck easily masks the Hummer H2 (5.15 m) and H3T (5.40). The Model S is 83 cm shorter than the pickup. For a little shorter than the latter, the Chinese manufacturer JMC knows how to embark in its minibuses 28 people of which 18 will find a seat.

In width, the Tesla pickup fits between the Hummer H3T (1.90 m) and the H2 (2.06) with its 2.03 m, or 7 cm more than the Model S.

Against the direction

As a professional machine, and due to various qualities including its equipment in sockets for the operation of portable electric devices, the Tesla Cybertruck pickup: why not?

But if it is a question of including it in the SUV race to make them, in a way, differentiating and / or statutory passenger cars, it would be a drift at the antipodes of the philosophy of the LOM law, and of the orientation that mobility should take from now on.

Many Tesla enthusiasts, moreover, denounce a vehicle that runs counter to the American manufacturer's original global program, which is to make the automobile more virtuous and more accessible.