Tesla Engineers Hated the Cybertruck So Much They Started Secretly Designing an Alternative

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Tesla Engineers Hated the Cybertruck So Much They Started Secretly Designing an Alternative
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Some Tesla staff hated the design of the Cybertruck so much that they created a secret alternative design for the all-electric truck.

Some engineers at the company hated the Cybertruck so much, in fact, that they started to put together a secret alternative design for the Cybertruck in 2019,"A majority of the people in this studio hated it," said Tesla design leader Franz von Holzhausen, as quoted in the book. "They were like, 'You can't be serious.' They didn't want to have anything to do with it. It was just too weird.

But that design apparently never gained traction, because the futuristic armored-looking demo Musk had unveiled back in November 2019 hews quite closely to the factory production model that has been recently seen in

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