Cybertruck has become Tesla’s rolling engineering laboratory
With Cybertruck, Tesla introduced and scaled technologies that rethink how a modern vehicle is designed from the ground up:
• 48V architecture — 4× lower current, enabling lighter and simpler wiring
• True steer-by-wire — no traditional steering shaft, with variable steering response
• Rear-wheel steering — tighter low-speed maneuverability and greater high-speed stability
• Structural stainless-steel exoskeleton — exterior structure carries crash loads and increases body stiffness
• Full-hard stainless air bending — Tesla-developed tooling bends ultra-hard body panels without touching or scratching the visible surface
• Etherloop — gigabit vehicle networking that eliminates roughly 70% of cross-vehicle wiring
This is what makes Cybertruck much bigger than its design
Tesla used one vehicle to rethink electrical architecture, steering, structure, networking and manufacturing all at once
Cybertruck is a preview of the engineering architecture Tesla is carrying into its next generation of vehicles