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.
This video starts out so normally and ends in such hilarious chaos. I didn’t want it to end!
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!
If you missed Tesla’s Investor Day event last night, you can get the highlights of its new “Master Plan” in just four minutes, then read about what Musk did and didn’t announce.
Reuters reports that the nearly four-year-old Model Y is getting a major update. The project, codenamed “Juniper,” would follow a similar effort to refresh the Model 3. No details yet as to what the update would entail — Reuters just says interior, exterior, and powertrain, which, let’s be real, that’s the entire car — but we could get more details later today during Tesla’s Investor Day event.
Tesla’s first ‘Master Plan’ was widely seen as a success. But the second is where things started to go off the rails. In advance of the release of the third version, let’s go through the previous two with a fine-tooth comb and assign some grades.
