"Significant passive safety concerns"
Well, shucks!
https://electrek.co/2025/09/30/u-s-army-confirms-tesla-cybertruck-cant-be-imported-in-europe/
The Cybertruck has no type-approval from the European Union (EU) due to significant passive safety concerns. Several specifications of the Cybertruck, particularly the sharp-edged, stiff stainless-steel body, violate EU safety standards, primarily for the protection of vulnerable road users.
EU safety standards do not only focus on the safety of the vehicle occupants but also on the safety of other road users and in particular of vulnerable road users such as pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists. These standards require, for example, passive safety features such as impact protection zones prohibiting sharp edges on the vehicle body and speed limiters on vehicles weighing over 3.5 tons – requirements clearly violated by the Cybertruck.
why is the US Army job to announce this?
US Army transports cars for Soldiers stationed abroad. Some Soldiers are stupid enough to buy the Cybertruck. Then the Army says "Can't bring that with you." Journalist reaches out to the Army and the Army confirms "No Cybertruck in Europe," and now we have this headline.
Plenty of Servicemembers have had to sell their Korean, Japanese, German and Italian-spec vehicles because they aren't US-spec and they don't want to pay for the transport themselves.
In an online culture where people read no further than headlines, I can see that this headline might be construed as misleading. But it really isn't that bad. Perhaps "Army confirms its servicemembers cannot import their Deploreans into Europe" was rejected by Electrek's editors. Nevertheless, the WankPanzer is a dangerous piece of Swasticar shit full stop, and that ought to be the takeaway here. Thus my post's title to reflect that sentiment.
Sorry, wasn't a dig at you, Cybertrucks should be used like the dumpsters they are.
It's all right. I didn't take it that way. Looking at the comments on this post, it's clear that the headline had misled some people. I can also see that it's a bit click-baity. Normally click-bait headlines annoy me, but since this community is all about mocking Tesla and Musk, I gave it a pass.
I probably could have done a better job with the post's title and the excerpted text, but even so some people are going to see the image/headline and run with that info instead of diving into the article for context.
Anyway... no concerns here.
Do the soldiers pay for this or is it a perk? That sounds like it would be really expensive .
It's a perk. DOD forces you to move to Germany, they'll ship your car, couch, whatever but it has to meet import/export restrictions so in this case they would pay to store your car while you're gone.
The US army is testing them for military purposes, no?
…which is also equal parts fucking hilarious and depressing, but c’est la vie.
I thought that was as targets, though.
Even if it was legal – it would fail because most people aren’t allowed to drive it. You need a truck license, not a car license, for anything above 3.5 tons.
The main reason is that the front is not pedestrian safe for EU standards.
Is that actual 3.5 normal tons or freedom tons, in which case we should say 2756.1 hamburgers?
These are some heavy-ass hamburgers.
Ooh, I get it. They’re freedom burgers.
I’ve seen cyber trucks on the road in Spain
There is at least one (with California plates) roaming around the roads of Spain: https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/06/21/heads-turn-in-puerto-banus-as-tesla-cybertruck-banned-in-europe-cruises-past/