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Elon Musk speaks at the Tesla Cybertruck delivery event · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hey everybody, welcome back to the Elon Musk Podcast.
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  This is a show where we discuss the critical Crossroads, The
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  Shape, SpaceX, Tesla X, The Boring Company, and Neuralink.
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  I'm your host, Will Walden. In this episode, we're going to
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  listen to Elon Musk talking at the Tesla Cyber Truck delivery
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  event. Enjoy.
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  Welcome to the Cyber Truck delivery event, SO.
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  I'm going to do it from the back of the truck here.
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  So, so once once in a while, once in once in a, once in a
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  long while, a product comes along that is rare.
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  That is, once in once every five to 10 years, something really
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  special. A really unusual product comes
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  along and we'll remember those special moments when the special
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  moments so. But these things are rare.
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  It's very rare that. Our product comes along that is
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  seemingly impossible, that that people said was impossible.
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  That experts said was impossible.
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  And this is one of those times we have a we have a car here
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  that experts said was impossible, that experts said
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  would never be made, that it really is the most.
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  I think it's, I think it's our best product.
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  I think it's the most unique thing on the road and finally
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  the future will look like the future.
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  So, So what what we're aiming for here is something that has
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  that's more truck than truck, OK.
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  Thanks bro. That's literally my brother
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  there. So and So what we have here is,
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  is something that is a better truck than a truck while also
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  being a better sports car than a sports car in the same package.
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  So first of all let's you know, they talk about how you know
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  trucks are tough. That's one of the defining
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  characteristics of a truck. So how tough is this truck?
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  Let's find out. So we actually had to come up
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  with a special ultra strong Tesla designed steel alloy.
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  So this alloy did this, this, this metal did not exist before.
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  We needed something that you could actually manufacture, but
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  that that would be have basically no corrosion that
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  didn't need paint. But you can still make it in
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  volume. And part of the reason that it
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  has this angular shape is you can't actually stamp these body
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  panels. The body panels would break the
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  stamping machine. So oh, and I should say also the
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  because of the steel exoskeleton, it actually has
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  more torsional rigidity than a sports car.
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  It has more torsional stiffness than a McLaren P1.
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  So it's that's very, that's a big deal.
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  Now you may remember, an incident four years ago didn't
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  quite go as planned. And France?
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  Maybe we should try it again. Miss.
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  Yeah, yeah, great. I mean, I think you could we
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  could probably have a pro picture or love it out if you
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  still work. So anyway, it's the the the
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  glass is tough. Basically that's what we're
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  saying. So you don't have to worry about
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  like rocks hitting the glass and cracking the glass.
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  This glass, this glass is basically rock proof.
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  It's also makes the car very quiet.
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  So it's the the the thing that you'll appreciate when you drive
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  the car is that is how smooth and quiet it is.
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  It does, it feels, it doesn't feel like like a normal truck.
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  It's it's smooth as silk and and silent.
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  When you when you drive it and yeah, so in tough in terms of
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  toughness and then things like rollover because the center of
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  gravity is so low it doesn't roll over.
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  And if you're having an argument with another car, you will win.
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  In in movies, you sometimes see the hero heroine hiding behind
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  the car door while being shot with bullets.
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  That doesn't actually work unless you're driving a cyber
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  truck. So if Al Capone showed up with a
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  Tommy gun and emptied the entire magazine into the car door, you
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  would still be alive. So.
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  You know, and so people say like, well, you know, why'd you
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  make it bulletproof? I'm like, why not?
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  Do you want to? How tough is your truck?
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  Because the the other trucks, the bullets go through both
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  sides. So you shoot, a bullet goes
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  through both sides of the car and you know, just never know.
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  I mean, sometimes you get these, like, late civilization vibes.
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  Yeah, you never know when the the apocalypse could come come
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  along at any moment. And at here at Tesla we have the
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  finest in apocalypse technology. I was on the Joe Rogan show and
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  Joe bet me a dollar that his armour piercing steelhead arrow
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  would go through the car. It hit.
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  Now he owes me a dollar. Now what about utility?
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  So strength is great, but is this, is this like you know
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  perhaps just a show truck, just a you know a showpiece or the
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  can't do actual work. How does it work as a real
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  everyday truck? Well here we have the future
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  towing the future. So basically if you can fit.
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  Any cargo in the in the trunk or in the bed, you can basically
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  move it around so it's got over a ton of payload capability, but
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  you can really put more than that in it.
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  You can tow over 11,000 lbs and it's got a super tough composite
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  bed. No liner needed.
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  The bed is 6 foot long, 4 foot wide and you can fit 4 by 8 feet
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  4 by 8 pieces of plywood in with the with the with the back down.
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  So for those who are early into the truck world, there's there's
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  something in the truck world called a a truck pull.
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  This is really the, the, the key test of how much power does your
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  truck actually have. So you have to pull this 40,000
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  LB Sled and when we went to the track, we said well, well,
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  what's the best? That that you've seen I said
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  well it's it'd be the 4th F-350 diesel was like well let's let's
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  put our truck up against that's the guy who runs the the truck
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  pool said that's no way there's no way it's like well let's try
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  it let's see what happens it's you know bull bullet tough you
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  know like that phrase TM and can out pull an F-350 diesel.
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  Has a massive towing capacity, massive bed.
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  It's basically an incredibly useful truck.
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  It's not just some grandstanding showpiece like me, it's it's
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  actually, it's actually very useful.
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  Now what about performance? So this I should say it's it has
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  an adaptive air suspension so no matter what the load is you it
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  will you can always have the IT can set the the ride height at
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  any at low high anything. It'll automatically adjust the
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  damping according to how much load it's carrying and the road
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  conditions has a 17 inch ground clearance that that's a true 17
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  inches that typically with a truck you'll you'll get the
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  differential hanging down low, the rear differential and that's
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  what you'll high side on a rock. But this is this has a
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  completely flatbed so you could you could drive over basically
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  anything. We actually did took the Cyber
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  Truck on a Baja Rally drive. So this is insane off road
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  capability. It has locking differentials,
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  rear torque vectoring, and the crazy thing is we'll do this all
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  in comfort. It has steer by wire which is if
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  it's one of the things where most people don't know what that
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  means but it's what it's how modern jets are designed the
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  steer by wire which gives you a variable gain.
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  So if you turn the wheel a small at the steering, the steering
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  yoke a small amount in the parking lot, it will turn the
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  wheels a lot. But if you if you turn it on on
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  Hwy., it turns the wheels a small amount, so it it
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  dynamically adjusts how how much the wheels turn according to.
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  What your speed is, and this actually makes it very easy to
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  drive it actually. And it has a turning circle less
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  than a Model S, so this thing can pack practically turn it,
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  you know, rotate on a, you know, dime.
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  Basically it has incredible low speed, maneuverability, and then
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  there's a lot of advanced details under the skin.
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  It's the first time that a car is moving to a 48 Volt low
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  voltage architecture from 12 volts which has been around for
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  100 years. We have Ethernet coms,
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  distributed controllers, allows for 70% less wire in the car and
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  it's it's really the the internals are as advanced as the
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  externals. It's it's a whole new step
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  change in the technology. So let's take it to the
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  racetrack and see how how does the cyber truck perform against
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  a Porsche 9/11. And I should I should say this
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  is this is an actual Porsche. We literally just got it from
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  the dealer 2023 Porsche 9/11. So the.
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  It can. It can tow a Porsche 9/11 across
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  the quarter mile faster than the Porsche 9/11 can grow by itself.
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  I should say tougher than bullets, tow pretty much
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  anything faster than 911 while towing a 911.
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  So and delivery spring begin now.
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