Any resources people could share about the engineering of the cybertruck? I don’t know too much about cars in general but I want to know if there is anything interesting in this one.
Most trucks are body-on-frame, i.e. there's a structural frame with a non-structrual body on top. Tesla claims to use an "exoskeleton" approach, which is either a fancy name for unibody or something that goes beyond the unibody approach.
They're also using unpainted 3mm stainless steel directly on the exterior. Painted thin sheet surfaces are much easier to fix when dented (since you can use filler and hide it with the paint).
One downside is that these two things make any damage to the Cybertruck expensive or impossible to fix.
Their production method (relying on massive die cast presses) isn't specific to the Cybertruck, but the presses that were supposed to be meant for Cybertruck apparently were setting new records.
EuroNCAP has a standardized 'Vulnerable Road User' (VRU) test protocol since at least 2012. [0]
This vehicle will absolutely fail every single specified test.
Anyone buying this should first come to terms with the fact that it is not a rational purchase, rather than trying to post-rationalize reasons to do so.
