Elon Musk reveals that he had doubts about Tesla’s Cybertruck before presenting it in November.

Telsa's Cybertruck became a sensation when it was revealed to the world in November 2019, but CEO Elon Musk had doubts about the futuristic design.

In a recent podcast, the billionaire said & # 39; if nobody wants to buy this, we could always make one that looks like the other trucks & # 39 ;.

However, he continued explaining why people could fall into unconventional design, because it is & # 39; a tank of the future & # 39 ;.

“ Many reasons why people buy vans in the U.S. UU. They are because it is the baddest truck & # 39; & # 39 ;. What is the hardest truck? He said on the podcast. & # 39; Then & # 39; What is harder than a truck? A tank. & # 39;

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The body of the all-electric truck is based on a 1976 Lotus Esprit sports car that Musk owned in 2013 and the rest of the design is inspired by the vehicles in & # 39; Blade Runner & # 39 ;, & # 39; Mad Max & # 39 ;, & # 39; Back to the future & # 39; and & # 39; Alien & # 39 ;. .

"You want to have these things that inspire people and feel different," Musk said in the podcast. "Everything else is the same, as variations on the same subject."

Now, Musk boasted that the vehicle has more than 250,000 advance orders and noted in the earnings call & # 39; we have never seen this level of demand & # 39 ;.

"A few months ago we revealed Cybertruck and that went viral," he said during the call.

"We try to build a product that is superior in every way without preconceptions about how the product should look."

What is the most bad futuristic armored personnel carrier? We wanted it to look like it came out of a science fiction movie of the future & # 39; & # 39 ;, he said.

& # 39; It's going to be pretty crazy. I think the product is actually better than people even think. They don't even have enough information to realize how amazing it is. It's just great & # 39 ;.

On November 25, 2019, Musk and his chief designer, Franz von Holshausen, took the stage at the Tesla Design Studio in Hawthorne, California, to present the long-awaited cyber truck.

The electric van was said to be shatterproof, but it was discovered that it was the opposite during the live demonstration.

Holshausen tried to prove that the crystal was unbreakable by throwing a heavy metal ball at close range and seconds later Musk was heard muttering "oh my God" when the crystal broke.

Musk looked confused and asked Holzhausen to try another window, which also broke quickly, but Musk said he "didn't go through" the glass.

"Ah, not bad," the CEO added to the audience's laughter. "There is room for improvement."

"We threw keys, we threw everything, we even literally threw the kitchen sink into the glass and it didn't break," he said about testing the resistance of the windows. & # 39; For some strange reason it broke now, I don't know why.

"We will fix it by mail."

Musk then turned to Twitter to explain why the windows of his Cybertruck were shamefully broken during a failed strength test at their launch event last week.

Musk explained in a tweet that the base of the glass window had already weakened during an earlier demonstration.

Holzhausen had knocked on the car door with a mallet to prove its hardness and, although it seemed to have suffered no damage, & # 39; broke the base of the glass & # 39 ;, according to Musk.