More from Tesla Cybertruck: all the news about Elon Musk’s futuristic pickup truck

Tesla’s angular pickup truck won’t be in full volume production until next year, but Not A Tesla App points out the electric car company revealed this Cybervault in China.

We here at The Verge are heavily invested in the greatest debate of our time: what kind of windshield wiper Tesla will eventually install on its hilariously impractical Cybertruck. Previous versions include comically large and comically undersized. Now, according to Electrek, it appears Tesla is toying with the idea of no wiper at all. Just naked and free. The EV version of Drew Barrymore joyfully dancing in the rain.

And yes, that’s wiper, singular. We also talked about the new Spotify design, streaming boxes, Gigi Sohn, weird wearable cameras, and everything else happening this week.

Here’s Tesla’s head of design Franz von Holzhausen with a Cybertruck prototype that’s clearly been out in the rain. You can see that Tesla is just going with “a lot of the windshield will be dirty” instead of the complicated extend-o-wiper ideas that have been floating around. I can’t get enough of this.

It’s huge but still not nearly tall enough to cover the entire windshield in one swipe, so it has to extend (as Elon has previously tweeted about). But... how? Extending once means it will go over the top of the car on every swipe, and extending and retracting on every swipe at high speed just seems... well, yeah, that’s going to break real fast. Someone spill the secret!

Here’s a video of the long-delayed Tesla Cybertruck “off-roading” over some bushes in front of Tesla’s new engineering HQ in Palo Alto. Check out that giant windshield wiper! (For more on the Cybertruck’s wiper woes, click here.)

Elon Musk’s decision to use stainless steel for his long-delayed Cybertruck could push steel development forward, as one metallurgist told The New York Times. Or it could be a death trap for drivers and passengers alike.

I’ll believe the $24,000 Space Camper is real when I see it ship. Nevertheless, I do love the idea of an add-on that transforms Tesla’s Cybertruck into a giant off-grid solar generator, complete with bed, kitchen, and toilet. Someone has to be the next Landrover, so why not Tesla?

Reuters reports that Tesla’s plant in Austin, TX will start mass production of the Cybertruck by the end of 2023.

After opening the Austin-based plant back in April, Tesla announced on Twitter that the location built its 10,000th Model Y electric SUV. We’re still waiting for the “future home of Cybertruck” to actually start building the thing, though, and that isn’t expected to happen until next year.