Tesla Cybertruck Dominated by F-150 Lightning In Sand Drag Race Since first hitting production at the end of last year, the Tesla Cybertruck has had a rough go of it – especially when compared to the Ford F-150 Lightning, one of its main competitors. Last month we reported that the Cybertruck lost badly when it comes to sales, and now it’s losing badly in races. Read more…

Cybertruck Reportedly Draws Blood Before New Owner Can Even Drive It The Tesla Cybertruck’s launch has been far from smooth, to say the least. We’ve heard about the time a car wash bricked a Cybertruck, the frunk’s taste for fingers and that coolant leaks aren’t covered by the warranty even if you’ve only driven 35 miles since taking delivery. Those are all legitimate problems that… Read more…

Tesla Cybertruck Breaks In New, Innovative Way Things aren’t going well at Tesla. The stock is currently down more than 40 percent year-to-date, analysts expect the Texas-based automaker to announce a 40 percent drop in profits, more than 20,000 people are expected to lose their jobs, and Tesla’s flagship product, the Cybertruck, is already on its second recall,… Read more…

All The Tesla Cybertruck Screw Ups Since Delivery (So Far) When Elon Musk launched the Tesla Cybertruck, a brutalist stainless steel monstrosity doubling as an electric pickup truck, there were plenty of signs that things were not, um, going well. First and foremost were its ridiculous looks, but then came the claims that this truck would be a bulletproof off-roading legend… Read more…

Tesla’s 35-Second Fix For The Cybertruck’s Slippery Gas Pedal Is To Just Bolt It On Tesla was forced to issue a recall for the futuristic Cybertruck last week after it emerged that the accelerator pedal could come loose and jam the car on full power. Not good for a truck that’s meant to be so rugged it can survive the apocalypse. Now, Tesla has revealed the fix for the issue is a very futuristic… Read more…

This is Tesla’s riveting fix for recalled Cybertruck accelerator pedals Tesla’s drilling holes in Cybertruck accelerator pedals. | Image: Tesla (PDF)Tesla temporarily halted deliveries and recalled every single Cybertruck after a viral video showed how the pad on its accelerator pedal could slip off and get stuck in the interior trim, leaving the pedal depressed “down 100 percent, full throttle.” Now, video from a T…

Tesla Cybertruck Slippery Pedal Recall Caused By Soap Tesla issued a recall for every single Cybertruck built thus far, as well as a stop-sale that lasted nearly a week, and it’s something that can’t be solved with an over-the-air update. Apparently assembly line workers used slippery soap to get the truck’s throttle pedal pad onto the pedal, and leftover soap was… Read more…

Tesla recalls Cybertruck over ‘trapped pedal’ issue seen in owner’s viral TikTok video Tesla has issued a voluntary recall of 3,878 of its Cybertruck vehicles to repair a “trapped pedal” issue seen in a viral TikTok video.

Tesla Cybertruck Gets A Recall For Pedals That Get Cyberstuck The Tesla Cybertruck, a truck so rugged it can only be defeated by a car wash, was reportedly hit with a stop-sale recently because problems with its accelerator kept causing unintended acceleration issues. Don’t worry, though, just because a Cybertruck could attack at any time doesn’t mean it necessarily will. Also, T… Read more…

Tesla Cybertruck No Match For Car Wash After just a couple of months and a few thousand miles of ownership, Tik Tok user @captian.ad’s Tesla Cybertruck was effectively a several-thousand-pound paperweight for several hours. After taking his truck to the beach and stopping off at a car wash to clean it up, he parked the truck in his garage, where it decided… Read more…

Tesla Cybertruck Hit With Stop-Sale Because of Unintended Acceleration: Report It sure looks like Tesla has issued a stop-sale order of new Cybertrucks to address a serious problem with the truck’s accelerator pedal which could lead to unintended acceleration issues. A number of forum and social media posts on X and TikTok have brought up the issue. Read more…

Tesla Cybertruck Is Significantly Worse At Towing Than Model X: Report Bowlus, manufacturer of ultra high-end luxury towables, has been testing the tow range of popular electric trucks and SUVs since the Tesla Model X first launched in 2015. The company’s top-of-the-line Volterra model is an all-electric camp trailer with 17 kWh of onboard power, which can provide an emergency charge to… Read more…

Tesla Cybertruck Teardown Finds Massive Battery Pack Looks Only Half Full You never have to wait long for another story about the odd engineering choices of theTesla Cybertruck. A new teardown videois going to show that even the angular truck’s massive battery pack seems half finished. Read more…

Watch A Tesla Cybertruck Drive Into The Ocean Back in 2020, Elon Musk promised that the Tesla Cybertruck would “float for a while” — long enough to “serve briefly as a boat.” Now, it seems, Tesla is testing that capability in the smallest ways possible. Read more…

You’ll Be Able To Legally Resell Your Cybertruck, If You Ever Get One Following a public flogging by the press, Tesla quietly removed the clause from its Vehicle Purchase Agreement that gave it the right to sue any early Cybertruck owner who attempted to resell their motoring monstrosity within the first year of ownership, and potentially forfeit the right to buy future Teslas. Read more…

Is the Cybertruck’s wiper actually multiple wipers in a row? An investigation One big wiper, or three wipers in a trench coat? | Image: Parker Ortolani / The VergeAs Vergecast listeners know, I am deeply and forever fascinated by the Tesla Cybertruck’s wiper — it is one of the silliest design compromises in automotive history on a vehicle that is itself a rolling design compromise. I love it so much. Anyway, I’ve been ask…

Even In Matte Black, The Tesla Cybertruck Still Looks Like Crap Allegedly, production of the Tesla Cybertruck will begin before the end of the year. At least that’s what Elon Musk says, and you know you can always trust a Musk timeline. As more videos come out showing pre-production prototypes, though, including quite a few broken ones, it’s starting to look like Elon Musk was… Read more…

It Looks Like The Tesla Cybertruck Is Going To Get A Little Cybertrunk In Its Cyberbed Unless you’re an Elon Musk fanboy who is convinced there’s nothing wrong with him platforming bigots, spreading white genocide nonsense, making anti-semitic comments and just generally being a terrible person, you probably think the Tesla Cybertruck is going to be an extremely dumb truck. Still, it’s coming. One of… Read more…

The Cybertruck’s Bulletproofing Is Garbage, Actually Since day one, Elon Musk has touted the Tesla Cybertruck’s bulletproofing. That bulletproofing, however, has always proven to be kind of bullshit. Now, both on Joe Rogan’s podcast and the site formerly known as Twitter, Musk is fessing up. The Cybertruck, he claims, is bulletproof — just against vanishingly few… Read more…

Video Shows Tesla Cybertruck Appearing To Struggle With Some Light Off-Roading If you believe Tesla, it’s really super duper close to being ready to begin production of the Cybertruck. Assuming the company actually manages to start building Cybertrucks before the end of the year, it sounds like the only version it will be making is a $100,000 version that has some people canceling their… Read more…