A gun-toting Cybertruck proprietor took it upon himself to check out how bulletproof the electrical automobile is — and it didn’t go as anticipated.
Grownup movie star Dante Colle posted a video to his X account pointing a handgun on the $100K truck in the midst of an open area.
Within the viral video, Colle fires a shot into the again of the Cybertruck, with the spherical producing a large gap within the exterior and, at first look, seems to penetrate the automobile.
“F–okay!” the grownup movie star shouts, dropping his handgun onto the bottom and placing his hand over his head in shock.
“I don’t assume it’s bulletproof, Dante,” the girl filming says whereas playfully laughing at his disappointment.
However after inspecting the truck, whereas the spherical might have turn out to be lodged contained in the Cybertruck, certainly one of Colle’s buddies revealed the bullet didn’t undergo.
Colle once more assumes a firing stance together with his pistol, this time on the aspect of the truck on an angle, for a second take.
In the course of the second try, the spherical appeared to ricochet off the aspect of the Cybertruck, leaving a dent and scrape, but in addition didn’t penetrate the electrical automobile.
“It labored!” Colle proudly says to the digicam after the second strive.
Since its launch, a number of on-line personalities have tried testing the $80,000 Cybertruck’s sturdiness.
YouTuber Zack Nelson, who runs the favored channel JerryRigEverything, uploaded a video of him unloading rounds from an arsenal of firearms into the truck In Might, which included an AR-15 and a .50-caliber rifle.
Throughout Nelson’s take a look at, the truck withstood photographs from a 9mm and a .22-caliber rifle, however rounds fired from a .17-caliber rifle, an AR-15, and a .50-caliber gun inflicted actual harm.
Musk, 53, has lengthy boasted that his Cybertrucks are bulletproof and may defend towards gunfire.
The Tesla CEO botched a take a look at in entrance of a stay viewers in Los Angeles when he first revealed the corporate’s electrical pickup truck in 2019.
He requested his chief designer to throw a steel ball by way of the “bulletproof” glass, however the glass cracked, drawing groans from the group.
Nevertheless, in a redemption take a look at launched by the corporate in December, Cybertruck lead engineer Wes Morrill uploaded a video to Tesla’s YouTube channel of his crew firing totally different calibers of bullets on the automobile’s 1.8mm thick stainless tremendous alloy exterior.
They began with a Tommy Gun, a .45 caliber spherical, and fired a hail storm of rounds into the aspect of the truck.
Whereas the rounds laced the aspect of the pickup truck with dents, not one of the bullets reached the inside of the automobile, and a slow-motion shot confirmed lots of them shattering upon influence.
The crew then fired rounds from a 9mm Glock and an automated MP5-SD into the truck, with all of the rounds once more not penetrating the automobile.
Subsequent, they fired 00 buckshot from an M4 Shotgun, which usually holds a 2 3/4-inch shell containing 8 steel pellets, into the aspect of Musk’s creation.
Whereas the glass barely cracked, not one of the pellets penetrated the pickup.
In March, Morrill took to social media to implore some Cybertruck house owners to cease abusing their autos.
“Cybertruck has lived a tortured life for leisure – Jumped on, kicked, burned, overwhelmed, and shot (a number of occasions), Morrill wrote on X.
“To cite the black knight, it’s only a flesh wound, I’m invincible! Now we’ve confirmed is hard, possibly Cybertruck can roam freely on and off-road in peace?”
