The Cybertruck’s hood would also need to flex and there should be no protrusions to get a good NCAP pedestrian safety score.
“The big wiper and boss (of the Cybertruck) would be a dangerous area,” Avery predicts.
According to transport NGOs, the modified Cybertruck was registered in the Czech Republic in July. The individual vehicle approval system of the Czech Republic was used for registration. The Czech Transport Ministry said that all vehicles in category N1, in which the truck was registered, have weight ratios calculated from formulas in the 2018 EU regulations. But the vehicle data it provided show that The Cybertruck does not comply with the formulas when it carries four passengers.
In order to drive it legally in Europe, a Cybertruck customer would need to have a Category C license. This is a truck license and is intended for driving vehicles that have a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) of more than 3.5 metric tons or 7716 pounds.
Norton Slovak, co-founder of Cybertruck.czsaid the company that owns the imported Tesla truck. the guardian was aware of the discrepancy between vehicle weight and the regulations, but that “the calculations may not fully reflect how the Czech authorities apply or interpret these regulations.”
The Czech Transport Ministry did not see the discrepancy as a problem because the registration was “an individual approval of a vehicle at the national level only on the territory of the Czech Republic” and not a type approval for the EU as a whole.
However, the truck, which its owners rent for advertising campaigns, has already been driven to other EU Member States, including Slovakia, where in a instagram post The company can be seen testing “Wade Mode” on the Cybertruck at a lake near Bratislava. Things don’t go as planned and the electric all-terrain vehicle gets stuck in the water, requiring bystanders to help it out and place boards under the wheels.
Tesla, Norton Slovak and the Czech Ministry of Transport were contacted for this article, but none responded.
In their open letter, the transport NGOs argue that if the European Commission does not act, the import of this single rubber-edged Cybertruck could lead to the “massive import of Cybertrucks to Europe”, which they say would prove dangerous . to pedestrians, cyclists and those motorists who are not in similar armored motor vehicles. Euro NCAP seems to agree with that conclusion.
