The Cybertruck was supposed to be apocalypse-proof. Can it even survive a trip to the grocery store?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/14/tesla-cybertruck-durability-elon-musk

Thanks to poor engineering and Elon Musk, Tesla’s road rage-inducing street tank can’t even win over its core demographic: doomsday preppers

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Nougat@fedia.io · 15 pts · 1y

Bicycles are apocalypse-proof.

iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (2 replies)

No. Apocalypse proof = repairable. That POS is literally glued together.

hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Its a truck built for the same apocolypse that crypto will save you from, where despite the apocalypse you still have working electricity and an internet connection.

harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y

Well, that changes everything. If there's going to be no internet, I'm switching to Team Apocalypse.

spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y

The windows can't even withstand a baseball

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

No.