Talk:Tesla Cybertruck

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Tesla Cybertruck article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: 1: 4 months

Trucks Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Trucks, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of trucks on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.TrucksWikipedia:WikiProject TrucksTemplate:WikiProject TrucksTrucks
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale.

Environment: Green vehicle Mid‑importance

	Environment portal This environment-related article is part of the WikiProject Environment to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the environment. The aim is to write neutral and well-referenced articles on environment-related topics, as well as to ensure that environment articles are properly categorized. Read Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ and leave any messages at the project talk page.EnvironmentWikipedia:WikiProject EnvironmentTemplate:WikiProject EnvironmentEnvironment
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Green vehicle task force.

Automobiles Mid‑importance

	Cars portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Automobiles, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of automobiles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AutomobilesWikipedia:WikiProject AutomobilesTemplate:WikiProject AutomobilesAutomobile
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

United States

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Warning: active arbitration remedies

The contentious topics procedure applies to this article. This article is related to post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people, which is a contentious topic. Furthermore, the following rules apply when editing this article:

You must be logged-in to an autoconfirmed or confirmed account (usually granted automatically to accounts with 10 edits and an age of 4 days)

Editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behaviour, or any normal editorial process may be blocked or restricted by an administrator. Editors are advised to familiarise themselves with the contentious topics procedures before editing this page.

The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Is the Cybertruck the Electric Pickup That Tesla Promised Us? by Motor Trend for independent reliable fact-checking information

Comment: It's already cited in the article under the ref name "kierstein", so can be re-cited by simply adding that to a ref name tag per WP:REFNAME without having to create a new full citation.

The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Video takes viewers behind the scenes of Tesla's Cybertruck construction, including shaping steel door panels by Business Insider for independent secondary analysis of the Munro video

Archives: 1

This page has archives. Sections older than 120 days may be automatically archived by when more than 6 sections are present.

Negative bias in Reception section

Other than the first paragraph, which mentions a high rating from the Car and Driver magazine, the rest of the points listed in the section are all negative, including some utterly insignificant points not worth including in the article, such as "Fortnite users quickly pledged on social media to target in-game anyone who used the virtual Cybertruck vehicle."

There is no mention of CT being the best-selling ev-The truck and nearly outselling all other EV trucks combined. There's been quite a lot of praise for the technological upgrades. CT has been seen in use by many notable celebrities, which I believe is noteworthy. Owner reviews are also mostly positive, despite what the article seems to convey. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IlyaHolt (talk • contribs) 11:00, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Best selling isn't the same as well received.

The cyber truck can sell a million units a day but the mechanisms are still faulty and dangerous. 49.180.1.98 (talk) 07:54, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The thing has been recalled several times for a reason. 49.180.1.98 (talk) 07:56, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Best selling isn't the same as well received." - am I really reading this? How biased Wikipedia has become? 87.17.241.189 (talk) 19:33, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's worth pointing out that 49.180.1.98's comment reflects their own bias, not Wikipedia's, as they have made no contribution to the actual Tesla Cybertruck article. Largely Legible Layman (talk) 21:14, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sales numbers and use by celebrities are not evidence of negative bias in the article - the sourcing situation is. Cortador (talk) 07:16, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I completely agree. Best selling $100k+ vehicle. Best selling EV truck. And 3rd best selling EV overall currently. These are incredible good trends for ANY ev and implications for the switch to EVs from ICE. It seems this would be applauded for any other car manufacturer. Instead this section is overtly reporting negative aspects. Which every product has, but to not include much else, is an issue. TheSteven97 (talk) 04:01, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Recalls

How many recalls has Tesla cyber truck had so far? 2600:6C48:6800:2F6:6C58:AEF0:A78F:9092 (talk) 04:09, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did you read the article? There is a table describing 5 recalls. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 05:18, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

'low-resolution' definition

Tesla Cybertruck #Design / 2nd paragraph / 3rd to last sentence reads:

"I had this simple idea right in the beginning: this exoskeleton idea, a low-resolution-looking type of truck"

Neither in wikipedia nor in wiktionary could I find a definition which seemed to fit.

Where can one find THE definition?

2A02:3100:5EF4:E100:19E:C552:261:3464 (talk) 05:14, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It comes from computer image resolution where an image is made from a low number of pixels and therefore has no extraneous details. Stepho talk 06:17, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Stepho .

So "having no extraneous details (in-dependant of pixels)" is kind of a *new* usage/definition.

I think if one would just link "resolution" to image resolution (without your explanation), this would still leave (at least some) readers in a puzzle.

So your explanation should be added to the article,

as well as the new meaning to Resolution (disambiguation),

but I don't know a reference, in case someone would insist on a reference.

2A02:3100:5EF4:E100:800D:636F:DBE4:D5C6 (talk) 07:15, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dealership fire?

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/12/31/cybertruck-catches-fire-dekalb-county-tesla-dealership/

Might be added to the "Safety Concerns" section? Tim Vickers (talk) 15:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rm loaded word in the intro

It described the body design as "controversial" which is a loaded word and distracts a casual reader so I changed that to "unusual", conveying the same idea without the overtones, as well as being more objective as opposed to a matter of opinion. 93.92.55.244 (talk) 18:23, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not too fussed either way, but the body style polarises opinion. Some love it for being different. Others hate it for being weird. Polarised opinion sounds controversial to me. Stepho talk 05:43, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I like "unusual"; it seems safe, neutral, objective and provable. "Polarisation" seems to me more of a media invention because "drama sells". Anyway, if the vehicle came with a GPMG mount or it was built by child labour that would certainly be "controversial" and "polarising", but it's just aesthetics, it doesn't need loaded words. 37.188.179.181 (talk) 21:35, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Incidents

I removed mention of the use of the Cybertruck in the Ukraine war, and also a report of an accident (perhaps the first?) from the "Incidents" section as, simply, these aren't "incidents." Sure, they are sourced; that's not the point. Perhaps these are interesting or unique, but that's not inherently encylopedic. Looks like someone reverted me, and then my edit was restored. Others can certainly provide their thoughts. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 16:00, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. On no other vehicle page do we list the first fatality. Also while the use in the Ukraine/Russia War is interesting, there’s little to suggest it’s notable. Lots of pickup trucks and SUVs from many manufacturers have been used in the Ukraine/Russia War, yet we don’t include that on their pages. It’s not a notable part of the war fighting effort like the Toyota Land Cruiser has been in other conflicts. RickyCourtney (talk) 17:50, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gross weight, driving licence

In the EU the passenger car driving licence is limited to a gross vehicle weight of 3500kg (7720 lb). So most of the people arr not allowed to drive the car. Is that something worth mentioning? Schrauber5 (talk) 06:31, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not. Practically all current American style pickups would be classified as small trucks in the EU, so this would be common knowledge for those that need to know and irrelevant for other readers. Perhaps it would be worthwhile mentioning in the articles about vehicle classifications. Stepho talk 06:39, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not so sure. The Maxus eTerron 9, for one, has a maximum weight of exactly 3.5t.^[1] That can't be a coincidence.

I don't think it's worth mentioning, though. Tesla is expected to have to modify the vehicle design if they want to meet European safety standards,^[2] so they could reduce its weight as part of the process. Until then, it doesn't much matter what driving licence you have. Aoeuidhtns (talk) 02:00, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Specification of eTERRON 9" (PDF). SAIC Maxus. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
^ "Will the Tesla Cybertruck be legal in Europe?". Motoring Research. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

Reservation numbers

The article asserts that there is a backlog of 2 million reservations. However, the number comes from a Forbes article that redirects to an "inside evs" article that explicitly presents the number as highly uncertain. It was estimated through crowdsourced data and "clever math" (literally). Other sources cite an optimistic announcement of 1 million reservations, and even that seems to be too optimistic as the truck now sales directly on demand while fewer than 60k have been sold : https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-2024-deliveries-growth-might-hinge-musks-unorthodox-cybertruck-2024-12-20/ Judemonde (talk) 21:07, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. It's very much an estimate based on unknown/unpublished variables.

Reservations are a funny thing. From the customer's viewpoint, they can reserve a vehicle for $100 - which they can get back if they change their mind. From the company's viewpoint, they get a big pile of cash as an interest free loan - which is then used as development capital for the vehicle. Stepho talk 21:57, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Odd inclusion of recalls

Very strange to include a separate section dedicated to recalls, when other recall-heavy vehicles lack it. The G20 3 Series has for example been recalled 7 times in 2024 (UK, src), yet has no mention of it in its article. While 5 recalls puts it high up in the list of recalls/model/yr, it is not praxis to include in its own section and should either be appended to all automotive articles or omitted as per WP:CONCISE. 85.230.98.109 (talk) 03:34, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. With the exception of the unintended acceleration, the other recalls are run-of-the-mill type of stuff that every new car has. Stepho talk 09:14, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting point. Potential counterpoint: the number of recalls has garnered significantly more media attention than any other new vehicle's recalls that I can think of. Does that count as notability? Not actually taking a position but looking for feedback. EllieDellie (talk) 17:24, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Specification of eTERRON 9" (PDF). SAIC Maxus. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

[2] "Will the Tesla Cybertruck be legal in Europe?". Motoring Research. Retrieved 30 January 2025.

[1]

[2]