Video: Engineer makes her Tesla Model 3 a ute

Simone Giertz says she “got tired of waiting for Tesla to release their pickup truck, so I made my own”.

A popular YouTuber, Giertz has posted videos of herself and a team of up to 14 working on the project to make “Truckla” which took more than a year of planning and design work, hailed as the world’s first Tesla ute.

“My goal is to never own a gas car,” Giertz says. “I’m a part of a new generation of drivers that will only drive electric.”

She’s also taken to Twitter to show the work, seek support and even offer Truckla t-shirts, along with a fake ute commercial.

Giertz and her team cut into the back half of the Model 3 to make a true full Tesla pickup.

Parts came from friends’ no longer useful utes and wreckers.

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk says he plans to release an electric ute later this year, but it’s yet unknown what he thinks of this one.

Giertz has about 1.6 million subscribers on YouTube and is known for her robots that spill milk, brush your teeth, and slap you in the face.

Both her latest YouTube videos have gone viral.