Excitement for Elon Musk's hotly-anticipated Tesla Cybertruck is continuing to grow, even though the futuristic concept has been repeatedly delayed over the last few years.
Earlier this month it was revealed that Tesla had quietly removed the promise of 2022 production from its website, having originally pushed back the vehicle debut from 2021, but a new video has now emerged appearing to show a prototype of it.
The leaked walkaround clip doesn't appear to impress whoever filmed it, however, as they describe it as looking 'like a stainless steel refrigerator'.
It is also called 'fragile', although the person recording does praise the storage space to the rear and the 'ridiculous' giant windscreen wiper.
The video, which posted to the Cybertruck Owners Club forum, offers the closest glimpse yet of the Tesla prototype, which generated a lot of buzz when it was brought to New York City ahead of Musk's Saturday Night Live appearance in May last year.
It provides a 360° look at the vehicle as the person walks around, giving viewers a look at the wheels, tailgate, and storage bed of the cybertruck.
Earlier this month it was revealed that Tesla had quietly removed the promise of 2022 production from its website, having originally pushed back the vehicle debut from 2021, but a new video has now emerged appearing to show a prototype of it
Whoever filmed it praises the front but is not impressed with the whole truck, saying it looks 'like a stainless steel refrigerator'
It is also called 'fragile', although the person recording does praise the storage space to the rear and the 'ridiculous' giant windscreen wiper
The video provides a 360° look at the vehicle as the person walks around, giving viewers a look at the wheels, tailgate, and storage bed of the cybertruck
The video, which posted to the Cybertruck Owners Club forum, offers the closest glimpse yet of the Tesla prototype, which generated a lot of buzz when it was brought to New York City ahead of Musk's Saturday Night Live appearance in May last year
It provides a 360° look at the vehicle as the person walks around, giving viewers a look at the wheels, tailgate, and storage bed of the cybertruck
This version doesn't have any door handles, unlike the prototype shown during Tesla's 2019 announcement event, but the recording appears to suggest you can tap your phone or a keycard on a sensor to open the door.
Although the video appears to show the prototype, because it is a concept there is a good chance that the final version will end up markedly different when it hits the road for consumers.
The leak of the clip comes just a month after the new Cybertruck design was caught on video at a Fremont, California, test track, prompting an outpouring of ridicule on social media over the vehicle's appearance.
It showed the electric truck had a wiper that extends from the hood to nearly the sunroof, visually dominating the aesthetics of the vehicle.
'Literally nobody will buy that,' tweeted @PMack1224. 'It looks like one of my son's Lego cars. That's actually doing a disservice to the cars he makes, they look better than this.
