Cybertruck for rent

 A Tesla Cybertruck ute is offered on Australian electric car rental service Evee – the catch is customers must wait about two years.

Alan was the first Australian Tesla Model 3 owner to list his Model 3 on Evee, and as soon as he ordered a Cybertruck he put that up to share as well – from 2022 for about A$360 daily compared with A$290 daily for his Model 3.

Evee says the Cybertruck has polarised the public, but the best way to test your feelings is to rent one for a few days.

“Many have said that it’s grown on them… so perhaps try looking at it until you like it.”

Tesla chief executive officer Elon Musk says pre-orders have exceeded 200,000, and he’s also provided some explanation for the smashing of two supposedly unbreakable windows during the ute’s launch.

Lead designer Franz von Holzhausen broke two of the Cybertruck’s ‘armour glass’ windows with a metal ball during the reveal.

Musk says he knows what went wrong, with von Holzhausen whacking the door with a sledgehammer prior to prove its durability – the impact cracking the glass base, according to Musk.

The metal ball bounces off in an earlier test, although von Holzhausen didn’t appear to sledgehammer the rear door where a window also broke in the ball biffing.

Musk tweeted the steel ball demo should have been done first, followed by the sledgehammer.

The smashing display sure got viewers’ attention with plenty talking about it.

Musk is continuing to tweet updates on the Cybertruck models which can be ordered in single motor rear-wheel drive (US$39,900), dual motor all-wheel drive (US$49,900) or tri motor AWD (US$69,900), plus US$7000 for full self-driving.

Configuration can be completed closer to production in late 2021, while tri motor AWD production is expected to start in late 2022, Tesla says.

Roof solar panels to charge the Cybertruck while driving and other measures are also planned, Musk says.

The reveal also has a video of a tug-of-war with a Ford F150, the Cybertruck pulling it uphill.