‘Bulletproof’ Tesla Cybertruck Riddled By Machine Gun — How Did It Do?
The stainless steel Tesla Cybertruck is stronger than lead.
A Cybertruck test vehicle was caught on camera this week that appeared to have been dented by dozens of bullet shots.
The vehicle was spotted by several people cruising the roads near Tesla’s Fremont, Calif., factory.
Elon Musk commented on a video of the pickup posted to X and essentially confirmed the damage was done by gunfire.
“We emptied the entire drum magazine of a Tommy gun into the driver door Al Capone style. No bullets penetrated into the passenger compartment,” Musk said, without specifying what kind of firearm or caliber of bullet was used.
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When the Cybertruck concept was first revealed in 2019, Tesla said its “Ultra-Hard 30X Cold-Rolled stainless-steel†could resist small arms fire and showed images of what a 9mm round shot from 10 meters would do to it.
Tesla also boasted about it having “armor glass” that shattered, but wasn’t penetrated, by a steel ball thrown at it during the reveal event.
All of the shots fired at the Cybertruck seen on the road were at the body, not the windows.
If it’s all true, Tesla will likely show video of the Cybertruck being shot at the delivery event scheduled for November 30th at its Austin, Tex., factory.
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