I looks like there was fire, but it doesn't look like it came from where the battery is. The battery runs from front to back on the bottom of the vehicle. This looks like the fire was only at the front. So perhaps whatever was impacted caught on fire but the battery never ignited perhaps?
It's impossible to tell from a single photo, but it looks like the fire was possibly localized to the wheel-well. I can't think of anything that might ignite in there, though.
on EVs as far as I understand the brakes are barely used due to regenerative braking, so they should not be running hot unless the car is being driven very hard.
This is generic knowledge and not necessarily applicable to the Cybertruck however.
The High Voltage battery has a pyrofuse that blows to isolate the battery in case of a crash.
Theoretically I guess the 12V system could short circuit, just like any other vehicle. Except there can't be any gasoline spilled for a short to ignite.
Theoretically I guess the 12V system could short circuit, just like any other vehicle. Except there can’t be any gasoline spilled for a short to ignite.
And modern Tesla vehicles, like the Cybertruck don't use a standard car lead acid car battery (which would have 48Ah or so). Instead they use a 16v small lithium battery (which has only 6.9Ah). Further, this battery system has short protection built into it with an auto resetting breaker.
So this battery, with its significantly less energy stored, has less chance of fire from a short than a standard car battery.
I've seen two in person (possible, same one just twice). It was bigger and dumber looking than I thought it would be. The style contrasts with literally everything around it. In every possible way, it looks unfinished in a way no video or photo ever conveyed.
I hate the taillights, they just look out of place makes them hard to spot somehow. theres this black one that I see pretty often on my commute and that thing seems like a safety violation on a dark morning
I've finally started seeing some in my city over the last week or so. They are just so goddamn big and awkward looking. They really look like someone put dumpster on wheels. I honestly find them pretty jarring to see out on the road.
Reminds me, it's my first day back teaching classes and the usual cyber truck I see on the commute is gone. Students and I used to make fun of it before class, I wonder what happened to it...
(Salesman) You can fit so many fingers in this here trunk! bangs metal
metal dents as if it were one of those disposable aluminum cooking pans you get at thanksgiving at the grocery store if you don’t have generational wealth
Just saw one of these for the first time this past weekend on a road trip to Chicago. It was so much bigger and somehow even more shitty-looking than I expected.
It's... 1 year old. You don't often find so many reports, news stories, and images of a brand-new $80,000+ vehicle deteriorated or self-immolated a single year later.
I try not to go to Reddit so much, but the CyberStuck sub is pretty good and not replicated elsewhere. There are so many problems with these vehicles it’s astonishing. They aren’t nearly as capable as they were touted to be, either.
EVs tend to look like this after a battery fire, and the Cybertruck is easily the most hated vehicle ever made. I wouldn’t assume that this one caught itself on fire.
I figure if you're not aware of the stupid "pranks" influencers are pulling on youtube, you just don't visit, and that's probably in your best interest.
You also don't have a ton of idiots doing stupid things to make their vehicle have issues intentionally usually either.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of YouTube videos of people purposely putting the vehicle in extreme situations and situations it wasn't intended for. Not to mention the ones just doing it because "Fuck Elon", after paying $100k for the vehicle, because they'll get the money back from YouTube ads on videos milking it as much as possible.
I'm not saying all the videos are that, many are legitimate reviews and tests. But a lot are also purposely trying to damage it.
I saw one for the first time last week. It had like a weird brownish tint to it, I'm not sure if that was the lighting or metal discoloration or what but they are ugly AF in person.
Likewise but I have yet to see one of these rust buggies in the wild. The rust will be absolutely hilarious though. I wonder how the wheel assemblies will handle the salt.
I see like 10 a day. I work in an enclave city for the uberrich where the average new home being built costs what I make in a century (and I make pretty good money money), so we've got lots of them.
I've seen a bunch getting paint jobs. The matte black ones look like what scifi Nazi gestapo would drive, but all of the paint jobs look better than the bare metal. There's a brushed-gunmetal one that I think is a pretty attractive compared to the rest. The vehicle is still ugly, but it's less-ugly with a good paint job.
There's one I see around town often enough. I was parked at a red light next to it the other day and it was remarkable how shitty the panels look up close. They're not really flat and planar. They're sort of wobbly like corrugated tin.
Yeah, I know that the super-flat planar look was the intent, but there's a reason why you don't see much in the real world that resembles the cybertruck. It turns out that the non-planar features of typical car panels are there to add rigidity. Flat sheet metal wants to bend, twist, wave, and even flap in the wind. So there are probably internal supports or struts welded to the panel backsides, in order to keep them flat. Problem is, that process tries to distort the panels due to heat from manufacturing.
And since they opted for stainless, this adds additional problems. In this case: you can't hide imperfections with bondo and paint. The panels have to be perfect, every time. It requires tolerances that belong on a sports car, not a pickup.
Yes, all the little wobbles stick out and they always look dirty. And while other Teslas can look nice with a wrap, for some reason CTs with a wrap look extra plasticky
For those of you that can not see it immediately, look more carefully at the dripping at the top of the tire, the deformation at the middle of the side skirt trim, and the darkness on the inside of the glass, not to mention the view inside the broken glass.
Hah! First one I was over near Holt off I-10. Honestly, it seemed pretty cool, guy had some low-key black graphics on it. But after seeing the fail-train these things are, they can't look cool to me anymore.
Also, I'm practical with my purchases, or try to be. I have a beat up 2004 F150 that actually runs, can get wet and hauls 5x what a Cybertruck can. I get buying stuff for the cool factor, but what's the use case here?!
It was always, shall we say, polarizing, but the production version managed to nudge every iffy design note in the concept car in the wrong direction. It ends up looking less Mass Effect and more like a Pontiac Aztek in DeLorean cosplay.
I think the design is neat, though wildly impractical. And "impractical" doesn't begin to cover the engineering and manufacturing flaws. Impractical, fragile and falling apart day-1? Sign me up!
Figure they'll be like Deloreans some day, a few monied collectors keeping them going for nostalgia.
Wow, that Cybertruck is holding up great! Looks like the flames were limited to the front quarter, and the seats haven't rusted through the base of the car, yet. That's better than most!
I see them more often in the SF bay area. They look clunky and ridiculous, plus they draw so much attention (when you should probably being trying to avoid attention).
I've seen probably a dozen. My neighbor's bf has one actually. No idea why he got one other than he might be highly invested in Tesla. He also has a Model 3. But then his other car is a late 70s F-150.
From the damage present in the picture, it almost looks like they tried to drive it.
Can't be, driving it voids the warranty
Buying probably voids the warranty
It proves they’re mentally unfit to operate a vehicle.
Buying one of these things proves you're mentally unfit.
(your joke but worse)
Yup, I was tired
Was it left outside in the rain?
I think they tried to drive it through a car wash and it started on fire.
There is the problem, you're not supposed to drive them
Nah, it was just a late summer day with middling humidity
What a pile of garbage.
It was once a flaming pile of garbage!
a dumpster fire
Before that a rolling pile of garbage.
And unlike the Millennium Falcon, the garbage will not do.
She's worth .5 of the original price. At most.
Yikes. Appears that this one might have caught fire?
I looks like there was fire, but it doesn't look like it came from where the battery is. The battery runs from front to back on the bottom of the vehicle. This looks like the fire was only at the front. So perhaps whatever was impacted caught on fire but the battery never ignited perhaps?
It's impossible to tell from a single photo, but it looks like the fire was possibly localized to the wheel-well. I can't think of anything that might ignite in there, though.
Brakes yo. They get HOT
on EVs as far as I understand the brakes are barely used due to regenerative braking, so they should not be running hot unless the car is being driven very hard.
This is generic knowledge and not necessarily applicable to the Cybertruck however.
Spot on if it has regen braking. I haven’t had to change brake discs/shoes for 5 years.
The system is only so useful and the cybertrucks absolutely have a hydrolic system with rotors and pads:
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/cybertruck/en_us/GUID-6DD1AA33-2FE0-44B0-93EA-17CF5BB80F76.html
It's
completely disabled"significantly limited" limited when towing.I never denied the presence of brakes, I just mean for regular driving they are barely used, mostly with hard braking.
the battery can provide the energy to start a fire somewhere else in the vehicle via short circuit connection
Tesla's have a pyrofuse that blows on impact detection which disconnects the battery:
It works so well https://youtu.be/Dfx4JZiSeHI?si=AEEnZZWMChtV6vWo
Not sure what you're expecting that fuse to do when the battery is on fire from crash damage?
The High Voltage battery has a pyrofuse that blows to isolate the battery in case of a crash.
Theoretically I guess the 12V system could short circuit, just like any other vehicle. Except there can't be any gasoline spilled for a short to ignite.
And modern Tesla vehicles, like the Cybertruck don't use a standard car lead acid car battery (which would have 48Ah or so). Instead they use a 16v small lithium battery (which has only 6.9Ah). Further, this battery system has short protection built into it with an auto resetting breaker.
So this battery, with its significantly less energy stored, has less chance of fire from a short than a standard car battery.
Reaching a bit there, what's located at the right/passenger side that would burn?
A Samsung tablet
I've seen two in person (possible, same one just twice). It was bigger and dumber looking than I thought it would be. The style contrasts with literally everything around it. In every possible way, it looks unfinished in a way no video or photo ever conveyed.
Have you seen the windshield wiper being used yet? It looks like something out of a crappy 'art' film.
I have not... now I gotta find a video of this
I kinda like the look of the headlight strip or whatever. That's about it though.
I hate the taillights, they just look out of place makes them hard to spot somehow. theres this black one that I see pretty often on my commute and that thing seems like a safety violation on a dark morning
I've finally started seeing some in my city over the last week or so. They are just so goddamn big and awkward looking. They really look like someone put dumpster on wheels. I honestly find them pretty jarring to see out on the road.
Reminds me, it's my first day back teaching classes and the usual cyber truck I see on the commute is gone. Students and I used to make fun of it before class, I wonder what happened to it...
It probably got wet.
😂😂😂
you pick up your students?
Ah no, there's just two roads people take to get to class because it's in a weird position. The cyber truck was on one of those paths.
Tow driver: Damn this thing looks like it went through the Iraq war.
Owner: I've had it for three weeks.
(Salesman) You can fit so many fingers in this here trunk! bangs metal
metal dents as if it were one of those disposable aluminum cooking pans you get at thanksgiving at the grocery store if you don’t have generational wealth
Just saw one of these for the first time this past weekend on a road trip to Chicago. It was so much bigger and somehow even more shitty-looking than I expected.
I wish I could go back to those days when these things were rare where I live.
That's in pretty decent shape, actually. The metal is usually more rusted, especially if they tried to wash it in a car wash.
I hate this truck as much as the next guy but, isn't this what any and every car looks like after a fire?
It's... 1 year old. You don't often find so many reports, news stories, and images of a brand-new $80,000+ vehicle deteriorated or self-immolated a single year later.
I try not to go to Reddit so much, but the CyberStuck sub is pretty good and not replicated elsewhere. There are so many problems with these vehicles it’s astonishing. They aren’t nearly as capable as they were touted to be, either.
EVs tend to look like this after a battery fire, and the Cybertruck is easily the most hated vehicle ever made. I wouldn’t assume that this one caught itself on fire.
Is there a reason the car looks like it's giving up its physical body and becoming a spectral?
Water. Best way to put out an EV fire is to keep dousing it with water until it cools down enough to not be on fire.
I'm sorry, are you suggesting that people are spending 6 figures purchasing, then destroying these vehicles... as a meme??
Continue to stay away from youtube. It's a dark place.
I think you replied to the wrong comment.
I figure if you're not aware of the stupid "pranks" influencers are pulling on youtube, you just don't visit, and that's probably in your best interest.
No but could be a fire unrelated to the trucks electronics, or one that was well contained either by design or more likely a lucky accident
But yes I've also seen videos of people shooting at cybertrucks so who tf knows maybe???
In case you’re not being sarcastic, Whistlindiesel…
But they’ve also been the target of some vandalism.
You also don't have a ton of idiots doing stupid things to make their vehicle have issues intentionally usually either.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of YouTube videos of people purposely putting the vehicle in extreme situations and situations it wasn't intended for. Not to mention the ones just doing it because "Fuck Elon", after paying $100k for the vehicle, because they'll get the money back from YouTube ads on videos milking it as much as possible.
I'm not saying all the videos are that, many are legitimate reviews and tests. But a lot are also purposely trying to damage it.
The aftermath of a dumpster fire
In its natural environment.
Should be towed outside the environment where nobody can see it.
I don’t quite think the front fell off though
I saw one for the first time last week. It had like a weird brownish tint to it, I'm not sure if that was the lighting or metal discoloration or what but they are ugly AF in person.
I love around Chicago.
Can’t wait to see what all the salt on the streets does to these things over the winter.
Be sure to use protection.
Chicago women are the best.
Likewise but I have yet to see one of these rust buggies in the wild. The rust will be absolutely hilarious though. I wonder how the wheel assemblies will handle the salt.
Considering how thin the control arms are for such a heavy vehicle, I think we’re gonna see a lot of 3 wheeled cyber trucks in the next 6 months.
I see like 10 a day. I work in an enclave city for the uberrich where the average new home being built costs what I make in a century (and I make pretty good money money), so we've got lots of them.
I've seen a bunch getting paint jobs. The matte black ones look like what scifi Nazi gestapo would drive, but all of the paint jobs look better than the bare metal. There's a brushed-gunmetal one that I think is a pretty attractive compared to the rest. The vehicle is still ugly, but it's less-ugly with a good paint job.
There's one I see around town often enough. I was parked at a red light next to it the other day and it was remarkable how shitty the panels look up close. They're not really flat and planar. They're sort of wobbly like corrugated tin.
Yeah, I know that the super-flat planar look was the intent, but there's a reason why you don't see much in the real world that resembles the cybertruck. It turns out that the non-planar features of typical car panels are there to add rigidity. Flat sheet metal wants to bend, twist, wave, and even flap in the wind. So there are probably internal supports or struts welded to the panel backsides, in order to keep them flat. Problem is, that process tries to distort the panels due to heat from manufacturing.
And since they opted for stainless, this adds additional problems. In this case: you can't hide imperfections with bondo and paint. The panels have to be perfect, every time. It requires tolerances that belong on a sports car, not a pickup.
Yes, all the little wobbles stick out and they always look dirty. And while other Teslas can look nice with a wrap, for some reason CTs with a wrap look extra plasticky
For those of you that can not see it immediately, look more carefully at the dripping at the top of the tire, the deformation at the middle of the side skirt trim, and the darkness on the inside of the glass, not to mention the view inside the broken glass.
Can't see what, the fire damage?
What a complete sack of shit
They weren't talking about the product...
take a drive by the Tesla service center in Pensacola... you can see a bunch of them parked there.
Hah! First one I was over near Holt off I-10. Honestly, it seemed pretty cool, guy had some low-key black graphics on it. But after seeing the fail-train these things are, they can't look cool to me anymore.
Also, I'm practical with my purchases, or try to be. I have a beat up 2004 F150 that actually runs, can get wet and hauls 5x what a Cybertruck can. I get buying stuff for the cool factor, but what's the use case here?!
My son LOVES Cybertrucks.
He's 7 though, so I imagine not the market Musk was targeting
Musk drew up the original sketch for the cyber truck on his notebook in class when he was 7.
You need to get him on Back to the Future. The OG Delorean is way superior.
Way ahead of you there, he loves himself a Delorian
I've seen one nearby and every time I've seen it I've been like "found the dumbass"
I’ve only seen one and was shocked at how much worse it looks in person.
It was always, shall we say, polarizing, but the production version managed to nudge every iffy design note in the concept car in the wrong direction. It ends up looking less Mass Effect and more like a Pontiac Aztek in DeLorean cosplay.
Wow, even worse than the pictures that are already super ugly? Yeesh.
I was surprised!!
I see them a lot and am still shocked at how bad they look.
I think the design is neat, though wildly impractical. And "impractical" doesn't begin to cover the engineering and manufacturing flaws. Impractical, fragile and falling apart day-1? Sign me up!
Figure they'll be like Deloreans some day, a few monied collectors keeping them going for nostalgia.
Never had any love for the man, never cared, but if you haven't seen this video, heysus christos, this tells you all you need to know about Musk in a few short seconds.
It's Cyber Fucked. 🤔
It came off the assembly line cyber fucked
That’s about what they look like from the factory!
Wow, that Cybertruck is holding up great! Looks like the flames were limited to the front quarter, and the seats haven't rusted through the base of the car, yet. That's better than most!
So it's authentic you're saying?
My nephew has one, it actually works pretty well and we've played with it a ton.
I like to say they look like if a regular vehicle had a full diaper.
That looks badass! They lowered it! Can it jump?
They drove it over the curb, through a fence, across a golf course, and into the water hazard by the 12th hole.
Nah I'm just kidding. It just hit a speed bump at 15 mph in a light rain.
I've seen them maybe 10 times so far, though some of them were probably the same one again since it was during my commute.
I see them more often in the SF bay area. They look clunky and ridiculous, plus they draw so much attention (when you should probably being trying to avoid attention).
Was this the Whistlin Diesel Tesla?
Where’s the cuck it came with?!!
I think that cuck's name is Whistlin Diesel.
TIL about whistlin diesel
It comes with a cuck? Sign me up
Really? I've seen a few of them around Portland, here. Most of them are wrapped.
And that one just rolled off the production line a month ago.
Those are not bad looking rims.
Then for one day for no reason at all the cyber trucks rose up and...
I think a local business owner has one because it's regularly parked on main street around here
IncEl Camino
I've seen probably a dozen. My neighbor's bf has one actually. No idea why he got one other than he might be highly invested in Tesla. He also has a Model 3. But then his other car is a late 70s F-150.
NGL, that looks rad.