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The Big Dumb Businesses Hoping Tesla Makes Its Big Dumb Truck
The Big Dumb Businesses Hoping Tesla Makes Its Big Dumb Truck-August 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:12:10

A Tesla Cybertruck fitted with the Cybercat accessories.

The Tesla Cybertruck is a pretty easy vehicle to poke fun at. and too non-existent for anyone to actually take it seriously. Oh, it also looks really dumb. But regardless of its ridiculousness, a whole cottage industry has sprung up around its possible release, whenever that might happen.

The truck was first unveiled in 2019, , design and famously not indestructible windows. It was fun to behold as this ungainly, angular truck was being touted as the future of American motoring.

But, in the years since, the only official updates we’ve had from Tesla about the truck’s release have been delays. First it was going to come out in 2021, and now it looks like .

Regardless of the truck’s transition into the realm of vaporware, budding engineers have seemed ever since it trundled on stage in 2019.

A render of the Form Camper attached to a Tesla Cybertruck

In fact, a quick browse through most crowdfunding platforms will bring up countless campaigns to fund of the Tesla truck to a campaign for to review for an English project.

But aside from these brazen attempts at swindling a free truck, there are also companies that have built their business models around the truck’s launch.

Recently, we covered a Seattle-based engineer that . For upwards of $20,000, Cybercat will sell you a pair of floatation devices and a motor that can attach to your Cybertruck to turn it into an amphibious truck or hydrofoil, depending on which options float your boat.

Then, there was the Cyberlandr camping pod. This rivals and fits in the bed of the gargantuan EV.

A render of the Cyberlandr camping pod.

Despite being designed for a truck that does not exist yet, and reached pre-orders of more than $110 million. Huh, looks like people that will happily put down a deposit on a truck that doesn’t exist are also happy to splash out on a camping pod that doesn’t exist.

Well, if that’s the case, you’re in luck as there’s yet another camping accessory . This time it’s the Form Camper, which echoes the truck’s dumb angular stylings.

But the big difference between the Form Camper is that it is also being constructed to work with other electric trucks. So I guess even the maker of a Cybertruck accessory pack is . Weird.

It isn’t just useful accessories that have tried to get off the ground in time for truck’s launch, oh no.

A render of the Cybertruck Nutz.

If you’re so inclined, you might one day be able to get your hands on a set of , which crowdfunders claim are “bigger than other truck nuts with a lower polygon count too.” Gross.

Then, , a fashion accessory styled like the Cybertruck. And there are Tesla’s own stupid accessories, ?

With Tesla set to continue developing the for at least another year, it looks like budding entrepreneurs have ample time to continue developing other big dumb businesses around the big dumb truck.

Just wake me when someone is peddling a kit to turn your into a helicopter, then I’ll be interested in all this farce once more.

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