How is Elon Musk’s Bestial Electric Pickup

Different images spread on social networks showing a copy of the Tesla Cybertruck in the port of Buenos Aires. It is about First specimen in Argentina of this exotic electric pickup of the brand of billionaire Elon Musk.

The scene was registered in the container terminal located in Dock Sud, Avellaneda, and published by @diversitycarsargentina on Instagram, where the vehicle already loaded in a truck is seen and being transferred.

Originally presented in 2019, with a failed demonstration act, this truck broke with everything known so far in terms of style and its arrival caused a sensation, not only for its condition of electricity, but also by the perversion of its forms.

President Javier Milei had handled a Cybertruck, along with his sister Karina Milei, in April last year during a visit they made at the Tesla factory in Texas, United States, where Elon Musk themselves were received.

The purchase price in the United States for the basic model, which was not yet launched (a single motor and rear traction), is 60,990 dollars; intermediate (whole wheel drive, two engines and 600 hp), $ 82,000; and the full -called “cyberbeast” (whole traction, two engines and 857 hp), $ 101,000.

Tesla had already surprised the world when he accelerated in the creation of a whole range of electric cars when the traditional industry was just beginning to have some models in the market. But the commitment to the Cybertruck broke with everything.

The strokes of this truck They are perverse, they challenge logic and history. It is formed by angles and triangles that are not seen in another vehicle. It seems really from another planet. The images that show it on red earth return a Martian scene.

To that we must add the stainless steel body, absolutely flat glass and design tires to conquer any terrain. It has rude termination details that would not pass the quality controls of most cars brands, in terms of reborbbas, sharp edges and spaces between parts of the body.

The day of your presentation caused furor and thousands of people reserved a unit. That list grew to “between 2 and 3 million reservations”, as reported at the time, but only 3% of them were executed. And customers had to wait until the end of 2023 to receive their copy.

Tesla is not officially sold in Argentina. In fact, it is only officially present in Mexico and Chile within Latin America. In the trans -Andean country it has the particularity that sales prices are almost identical to those in the United States.

Clarion He had the possibility to try a unit of the Tesla Cybertruck. It was in the city of Miami and about the version Foundation Seriesa limited launch edition with two electric motors and almost all options included.

If it is exotic, its interior is up to it. The only analog commands are the lifts and controls on the steering wheel almost oval. Everything else is on the huge 18.5 -inch touch screen.

Even the marching selector is there: his finger is slides up in a given sector to move forward and down to connect back. It does not even have start button: once inside, the brake is pressed and the pickup is “underway.”

The two engines give it an integral traction (they are located on each axis), more than 600 horsepower, acceleration of 0 to 100 km/h in 4.3 seconds and an autonomy of up to 547 km.

The acceleration power is tremendous, although it declares more than 3 tons of weight. In addition, the pneumatic suspension filters everything that happens under: bump, donkey spine or speed reducer disappears when the cybertruck passes.

What you have to get used to is the address. It has no mechanical connection, It moves with electrical impulses And you don’t have to turn a complete turn of the steering wheel to go butt.

To that we must add the directional rear wheels, which turn a lot (it is not clarified how much but it is warned by the mirrors). That gives a radius superior to that of a fittite and gives an unexpected agility to its almost 6 meters long.

And if there was no room for surprise, we used the Autopilotthe Tesla Autonomous Driving System. It generates some vertigo, since it moves at normal speedsIt is not that it is slower. Even in parking streets. Its radars detect the signals of Stop and yield if another vehicle has the priority.