Tesla’s Bulletproof Windows Get Shattered

It was this week that electric vehicle giant Tesla revealed its very first electric pick up truck, the Cybertruck, which starts at $39,900.

The unveil took place on Thursday night in Los Angeles and during an on-stage demo, CEO Elon Musk was in for a major surprise.

In an attempt to show that the glass is break proof, it instead shattered when Tesla Chief Designer Franz Von Holzhausen demonstrated how much of a beating the Cybertruck could take.

Von Holzhausen took a sledgehammer to the body and a metal ball to the side window of the Cybertruck. He shattered the window but fortunately the metal ball did not go through the glass.

“Oh my f—— God!” Musk said. “Well, maybe that was a little too hard.”

According to Musk the truck is bulletproof against a 9mm handgun.

Production of the Cybertruck begins in 2021. This is the sixth vehicle model since Tesla was founded in 2003.

Prior to the unveiling, Toni Sacconaghi, senior technology research analyst at AB Bernstein, said on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” that “the pickup market is really big, it’s about 3 million units in the U.S., and that’s about 65% of the size of what we think the addressable market is for the Model 3 and Model Y.”

In a research note out Friday morning, Sacconaghi said: “Tesla’s Cybertruck looks weird … like, really weird. Musk had warned investors that Tesla’s pickup would be “really futuristic, like cyberpunk Blade Runner,” and he wasn’t kidding. Add a little bit of dirt, and you could even say it gives off a retro-future vibe a la Mad Max.”

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