Nearly All Tesla Cybertrucks recalled for being sharp metal held together by glue

I have to be honest with you guys, I struggled to reacquire and maintain the motivation to keep writing on this blog after my thyroid cancer diagnosis and subsequent thyroidectomy. But, also let me level with you guys, seeing the Tesla Cybertruck being a flaming piece of garbage, and the subsequent reactions, has been some of the funniest shit I’ve ever seen in my life.

Videos of Cybertrucks attempting to off-road and getting stuck. Cybertrucks with the metal frame peeling off or just showing apocalyptic levels of rust and wear, making the car look 10+ years old when it’s barely been available for one year.

I was following closely the story of the Cybertruck’s development and as an engineering project, well, it wasn’t one. In Engineering we do this thing called iterative problem solving. Where you try something, see what’s wrong with it, and make some tweaks and adjustments, and you keep doing that over and over until the project is what you want it to be. But the Cybertruck comes out of the gate with several glaringly obvious problems. Problems that could have, would have been discovered in any kind of testing at all.

The stainless steel exterior, marketed as an “exoskeleton,” is really just some stainless steel panels glued onto the interior frame of the truck which is made of aluminum (which is also a source of problems in and of itself, aluminum being weaker than the typical truck frame body.

Basically instead of making the internal structure out of one solid piece of strong metal they made the interior out of a weaker metal and then glued some individual thin wafers of some metal that might have been stronger if it wasn’t so wafer-thin, glued some of those to the outside, and called it an “exoskeleton.” Kinda like the engineering equivalent of painting flames on the car to make it go faster.

This is probably why most car insurance companies are now starting to drop coverage for Cybertrucks, noting how needlessly expensive it is to maintain or repair even for minor things. This is leaving a lot of Cybertruck owners unable to drive their expensive stainless-steel-plated aluminum cans around town. But even if you did try to do truck stuff with your Cybertruck, you might find that having stuff in the truck bed warps the truck bed.

And all of this wishy washy subjective stuff is on top of the broken promises about the truck’s range capabilities, missing features that the cheaper models have, and hidden drip pricing involved in the purchase process.

And it would be one thing if people had been stopped buying these things but they haven’t. This is a hundred and twenty thousand dollar electric truck that routinely gets the charger stuck. Seriously look up “Tesla Cybertruck charger stuck” and see how many results you get. But it’s as if the negative press is actually serving as marketing somehow for this, again, hundred and twenty thousand dollar pickup truck that, you can’t haul stuff in, it doesn’t drive as far as it’s supposed to be able to, it literally can’t do offroading without getting stuck, the charger gets stuck in the charge port, it doesn’t have Tesla’s new flagship feature offering of “self driving.” Instead of fixing stuff like that, Tesla is working on getting the illegal “light bar” delivered, which, because of its illegal road status, requires you to go to two separate locations to have it installed in some shady process where the mechanic doesn’t plug it in and after you leave you get a phone call with an address where they’ll set it up.

Anyway, the latest piece of actual news on this topic is that Tesla has now publicly acknowledged one of the known issues with the Cybertruck, the metal body panels coming unglued from the body. Peeling off, sometimes falling off altogether. The company is issuing a recall on nearly 49 thousand Cybertruck units to re-glue the exterior panels. Needless to say this is going to cost Tesla a neat chunk of change, and it remains to be seen if the new glue they use will be much better. This is among the many reasons that stainless steel has scarcely been used as an auto body material.

Also this is the company headed by Elon Musk, the guy who’s basically presiding over the current presidency. This is the guy talking about cutting wasteful unnecessary government spending. He thinks he is an absolute genius and this is the first car they let him design and this is what he makes. He replaces the steel truck body core with aluminum. Nice soft pliable aluminum. Genius level problem-solver.