Cybertruck’s Frunk
On March 10th, Tesla investor Matthew Donegan-Ryan uploaded a video break-down of his time at Tesla’s Investor Day on March 1st - specifically showcasing the things he learned about the Cybertruck!
The event held at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas was a source of a tonne of news on upcoming company projects - but the big keynote presentation wasn’t the only info-dump during the event.
Investors like Matthew were able to tour the showroom and ask Tesla’s executives and design team some questions. And obviously, one of the biggest draws was the preproduction beta model of the company’s upcoming pickup truck.
It seems that Tesla is getting close to moving from their beta test models - the ones we’ve been catching peeks of over the last couple of months - to production candidates. The information Matthew was able to grab included things like current dimension, specifications on motor variants, seats, wheels, and doors - and finally news of a secretive Tesla Accessory Team.
This is the sort of data a company lets out only once they have more or less made some final decisions, so it’s a good bet that we won’t be seeing too many large-scale changes after this. That means we can finally dig into some solid data, more-or-less straight from the design team - and we might as well start with the Frunk.
The Cybertruck - like other Tesla vehicles - has a storage area in the nose. A front trunk, if you will. We knew that it was going to have one, but we weren’t aware of exactly how it opened.
From Matthew’s video you can tell there was a little bit of confusion on the day as well, since he originally reported that the light bar would not be lifting with the frunk lid, and it would operate very much like the Model X frunk does. However, the next day, Matthew made a correction via Twitter that the light bar and “grill” of the Cybertruck would lift - similar to the way the Ford Lightning’s front end does.
The conversation about the Frunk may have been brief, but it is the whole reason that the Cyber truck’s bed is a whole 6 inches longer than the F150 Raptor Supercrew - the popular four-door variant of Ford’s best selling pickup.
Obviously without the need for such a large nose to hold the Raptor’s high output V6 engine, the Cybertruck could afford a longer bed - so Cybertruck owners can look forward to a storage compartment in the front, and a bed that will make pickup owners envious.