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

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  Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Elon Musk
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  Podcast. This is a show where we discuss
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  the critical crossroads, the Shape, SpaceX, Tesla X, The
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  Boring Company, and Neurolink. I'm your host, Will Walden.
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  In this episode, we're going to listen to Elon Musk talking at
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  the Tesla cyber truck delivery event.
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  Enjoy. Welcome to the cyber truck
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  delivery event SO. I'm.
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  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 long
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  while, a product comes along that is rare, that is once in
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  once every 5 to 10 years, something really special, a
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  really unusual product comes along and we'll remember those
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  special moments when indeed special moments.
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  So, but, but these things are rare.
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  It's very rare that a product comes along that is seemingly
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  impossible that that people said was impossible, that experts
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  said was impossible. And this is one of those times
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  We have a we have a car here that experts said was
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  impossible, that experts said would never be made.
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  That it, it, it, it really is the most, I think it's I think
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  it's our best product. I think it's the most unique
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  thing on the road. And finally, the future will
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  look like the future. So So what what we're aiming for
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  here is something that has that's more truck than truck.
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  OK, 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, let's 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 mantle did not exist before.
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  We needed something that you could actually manufacture, but
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  that would be have basically no corrosion, that didn't need
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  paint, but you can still make it in volume.
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  And part of the reason that it has this angular shape is you
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  can't actually stamp these body panels.
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  The body panels would break the stamping machine.
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  So oh, and I should say also the because of the steel
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  exoskeleton, it actually has more torsional rigidity than a
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  sports car. It has more torsional stiffness
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  than a McLaren P1. So it's that's very that's a big
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  deal. Now, you may remember an
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  incident four years ago didn't quite go as planned.
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  And Franz, maybe we should try it again.
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  Yeah, Yeah, great. I mean, I think you could, we
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  could probably have a pro pitcher or love it if you still
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  work. So anyway, it's the, the, the,
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  the glass is tough, basically that's what we're saying.
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  So you don't have to worry about like rocks hitting the glass and
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  cracking the glass. This this glass is, is basically
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  rock proof. It's also makes the car very
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  quiet. So it's the, the, the thing that
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  you'll appreciate when you drive the car is that is how smooth
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  and quiet it is. It does, it feels, it doesn't
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  feel like, like a normal truck. It's, it's smooth as silk and,
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  and, and silent when you, when you drive it.
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  And yeah, so in tough in terms of toughness and then things
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  like roll over because the center of gravity is so low, it
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  doesn't roll over. And if you're having an argument
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  with another car, you will win. In in movies you sometimes see
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  the hero heroine hiding behind the car door while being shot
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  with bullets. That doesn't actually work
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  unless you're driving a cyber truck.
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  So if Al Capone showed up with a Tommy gun and emptied the entire
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  magazine into the car door, you would still be alive.
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  So you know, And so people say like, well, you know, why did
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  you 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, you just never
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  know. I mean, sometimes you get these
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  like late civilization vibes, you know, you never know when
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  the apocalypse could come come along at any moment.
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  And at here at Tesla, we have the finest in apocalypse
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  technology. I was on the Joe Rogan show and
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  Joe bet me a dollar that his armor piercing steelhead arrow
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  would go through the car it hit. Now he owes me a dollar.
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  Now, what about utility? So strength is great, but is
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  this is this, you know, perhaps just a show truck, just a, you
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  know, a showpiece or the can't do actual work.
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  How does it work as a real everyday truck?
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  Well, here we have the future towing the future.
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  So basically if if you can fit any cargo in, in the in the
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  trunk or in the bed, you you can basically move it around.
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  So it's got over a ton of payload capability, but you
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  could 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. The bed is 6 foot long, 4 foot
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  wide, and you can fit 4 by 8 feet 4/4 by 8 pieces of plywood
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  in with the with the with the back down.
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  So for those who are really 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 I, when we went to the track, we said, well, well,
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  what's the best that that you've seen?
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  I said, well, it's be the 4th F-350 diesel was like, well,
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  let's let's put our truck up against that.
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  The the guy who runs the the truck pool said that there's no
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  way. There's no way.
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  It's like, well, let's try it, let's see what happens.
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  It's, you know, bolt bullet tough, you know, like that
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  phrase TM and you can out pull an F-350 diesel has a massive
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  towing capacity, massive bed. It's basically an incredibly
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  useful truck. It's not just some grandstanding
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  showpiece like me, it's it's actually it's actually very
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  useful. Now what about performance?
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  So this I should say it's it has an adaptive S suspension.
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  So no matter what the load is, it will you can always have the
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  IT can set the the right height at any at low height, anything.
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  It will automatically adjust the damping according to how much
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  load is carrying and the road conditions has a 17 inch ground
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  clearance that that's a true 17 inches that it will typically
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  with a truck you'll you'll get the differential hanging down
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  low, the rear differential and that's what you'll high side on
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  a rock. But this is this has a
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  completely flat bed. So you could you could drive
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  over basically anything. We actually took the cyber truck
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  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 they'll do this
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  all 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 is how modern jets are designed.
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  The steer by wire which gives you a variable gain.
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  So if you turn the wheel a small in 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 on Hwy.
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  it turns the wheels a small amount.
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  So it dynamically adjusts how much the wheels turn according
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  to what your speed is. And this actually makes it very
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  easy to 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 basically.
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  It has incredible low speed maneuverability.
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  And then 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 comms,
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  distributed controllers, allows for 70% less wire in the car.
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  And 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 is this is an
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  actual Porsche. It's we literally just got it
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  from 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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  1/4 mile faster than the Porsche 9/11.
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  Can grow by itself, I should say tougher than bullets.
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  Tow pretty much anything faster than a 9/11 while towing a 911.
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  So and delivery spring begin now.
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