All of you have seen multiple photos and videos of Cybertrucks, so - most especially because I'm having trouble loading them - I'll not share mine.
Instead, here is my response to multiple Alaskan pickup owners grilling me over our two-hour tour of a CT today.
For what it is, it is astonishingly good. And both Jenny and I like it a LOT more in the flesh than in its photos or videos.
With 320-340 miles of range, it is one very capable vehicle. It is extremely intelligent, altering ride characteristics to fit every inch of road and so it acts like a Rolls Royce in armor. Very very appealing.
But: pickup truck users have quite a few decades of deciding what a pickup truck is and how it should be put to work. That back end - the bed, in other words - with those sloped sides…does not fit in that long-held preconception and it is a tough job altering THOSE to fit THIS. So to speak.
That (big thing) aside, there is much to like with a high-sided front of a bed, and with a very effective and easy to use tambour top (rollup-tonneau). And there are EIGHT concealed heavy duty tie downs on the bed floor, and truck-like slide-movable ones along each wall. And unobtrusive, effective striplighting the length of each side. A very slight fail on Tesla's part is that those slide-movable ones cannot be shifted by lifting a spring-loaded lock, as was the case in our Bowlus, but must be unscrewed and re-screwed. That gets awkward quickly.
And FOUR pairs of concealed, double bolts along the top of the truck that had me dreaming right away of an efficiency-draining roof platform.
Inside - it is immense. And the front passenger has real legroom, utterly unlike the bad joke that all Ford pickups provide and which Jenny with good reason excoriates every time she gets in one.
Viewing/visibility is unreal it is so good, esp. with the new-to-CT front bumper camera (when not blocked by snow or mud*), and those unbeatable Tesla electronics, viewscreen and incessant software updates….
* I noted and photographed the camera lens up close and found a 1/4"-wide slot above the lens. PERHAPS there is a washer concealed there? Have any CT discussions mentioned this?
Summary: this is not the F-350 or -450 dually that I need. But it is a supremely capable beast and Tesla is going to be selling them at a rate I admit I did not conceive, IF production can match demand. I've no reason to doubt it can.
And….despite the fact we bought two more Teslas at the end of 2023, I am seriously considering taking advantage of the Loyal Shareholder promotion and presenting Tesla with yet another $100K….