With time it seems like Tesla’s long-anticipated Cybertruck will not come out in the market this year. The vehicle has been under discussion for quite a long time now as it is said to have multiple innovative and new features that people are excited to see and experience.
A recently leaked video shows a full walkaround of an early prototype of the brutalist truck. It’s the first real closeup look of some of the truck’s design elements. The highlight of this look was the massive windshield wiper.
Perhaps the video is a way of offering consolation to Tesla’s most fervent supporters, who have been desperate to get their hands on one for over two years now, as some fans wasted no time noting on Twitter.
The first time the huge wiper was revealed in a drone video that captured the truck doing laps on a test track in November. And up close, it looks even larger and bulkier, spanning several feet of glass.
Oddly enough, as the person who is filming the walkaround video points out, it doesn’t look like it will be able to keep the rain away from the entirety of the rectangular glass pane.
“Is that the [expletive] windshield wiper?” the person says in the video, according to hardcoded subtitles — the audio track was seemingly removed. “That’s ridiculous.”
In addition, the vehicle does not have any door handles. According to the video, the door may open with the touch of a phone or keycard, like the company’s other vehicles.
We still don’t know when the Cybertruck will actually start shipping, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted in a November tweet that he will “provide an updated product roadmap” on Wednesday’s earnings call.
“Oh man, this year has been such a supply chain nightmare and it’s not over!” he complained at the time.
