{"id":18815,"date":"2025-05-14T17:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/the-cybertruck-was-supposed-to-be-apocalypse-proof-can-it-even-survive-a-trip-to-the-grocery-store\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T17:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:38:24","slug":"the-cybertruck-was-supposed-to-be-apocalypse-proof-can-it-even-survive-a-trip-to-the-grocery-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/the-cybertruck-was-supposed-to-be-apocalypse-proof-can-it-even-survive-a-trip-to-the-grocery-store\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cybertruck was supposed to be apocalypse-proof. Can it even survive a trip to the grocery store?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to poor engineering and Elon Musk, Tesla\u2019s road rage-inducing street tank can\u2019t even win over its core demographic: doomsday preppers<\/p>\n

The Cybertruck answers a question no one in the auto industry even thought to ask: what if there was a truck that a Chechen warlord couldn\u2019t possibly pass up \u2013 a bulletproof, bioweapons-resistant, road rage-inducing street tank that\u2019s illegal to drive in most of the world?<\/p>\n

Few had seen anything quite like the Cybertruck when it was unveiled in 2019. Wrapped in an \u201cultra-hard, 30X, cold-rolled stainless steel exoskeleton\u201d, the Cybertruck was touted as the ultimate doomsday chariot \u2013 a virtually indestructible<\/a>, obtuse-angled, electrically powered behemoth that can repel handgun fire and outrun a Porsche while towing<\/a> <\/em>a Porsche, with enough juice leftover to power your house in the event of a blackout. At the launch, Tesla<\/a>\u2019s CEO, Elon Musk<\/a>, said the truck could tackle any terrain on Earth <\/em>and possibly also on Mars \u2013 and all for the low, low base price of $40,000. \u201cSometimes you get these late-civilization vibes [that the] apocalypse could come along at any moment,\u201d Musk said. \u201cHere at Tesla, we have the best in apocalypse technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThanks to poor engineering and Elon Musk, Tesla\u2019s road rage-inducing street tank can\u2019t even win over its core demographic: doomsday preppers
\nThe Cybertruck answers a question no one in the auto industry even thought to ask: what if there was a truck that a Chechen warlord couldn\u2019t possibly pass up \u2013 a bulletproof, bioweapons-resistant, road rage-inducing street tank that\u2019s illegal to drive in most of the world?
\nFew had seen anything quite like the Cybertruck when it was unveiled in 2019. Wrapped in an \u201cultra-hard, 30X, cold-rolled stainless steel exoskeleton\u201d, the Cybertruck was touted as the ultimate doomsday chariot \u2013 a virtually indestructible, obtuse-angled, electrically powered behemoth that can repel handgun fire and outrun a Porsche while towing a Porsche, with enough juice leftover to power your house in the event of a blackout. At the launch, Tesla\u2019s CEO, Elon Musk, said the truck could tackle any terrain on Earth and possibly also on Mars \u2013 and all for the low, low base price of $40,000. \u201cSometimes you get these late-civilization vibes [that the] apocalypse could come along at any moment,\u201d Musk said. \u201cHere at Tesla, we have the best in apocalypse technology.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to poor engineering and Elon Musk, Tesla\u2019s road rage-inducing street tank can\u2019t even win over its core demographic: doomsday preppers The Cybertruck answers a question no one in the auto industry even thought to ask: what if there was a truck that a Chechen warlord couldn\u2019t possibly pass up \u2013 a bulletproof, bioweapons-resistant, road …<\/p>\n

The Cybertruck was supposed to be apocalypse-proof. Can it even survive a trip to the grocery store?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18815"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}