You know, if you want an electric pickup truck, you can buy one. There's a bunch of different kinds out there now.

There is a Ford F-150 Lightning. There's an electric version, an EV version of the Chevy Silverado.

There's an EV version of the GMC Sierra. There is an EV version of the Dodge RAM.

The company Rivian has a cute electric pickup truck that's called the R1T.

Even the Hummer.

The Hummer comes in a gigantic electric pickup configuration if you want to, if you want to drive a Hummer.

So, you know, you have a bunch of choices.

If you want to buy one of those vehicles, you will have all the convenience and capacity and

sort of swag that a pickup truck gets you without ever having to go to the gas station.

Or you can buy a Tesla cyber truck, which is meant to seem very different than all the other

electric pickup truck options in the United States.

And that is in large part because the Tesla cyber truck is not supposed to be just tough like a pickup truck is. It's supposed to be super duper,

like inhumanly tough. For example, the head of Tesla, a man you may have heard of named Elon Musk,

he unveiled the Tesla cyber truck.

First time the whole world was getting a look at it.

He unveiled it by regaling this whole big room of assembled journalists and Tesla superfans.

They're all going crazy for everything he said.

He regaled them with this story that one of the most amazing and distinguishing and totally unique things about his electric truck was that it was basically indestructible.

He explained that Tesla, in its wisdom, had created an armored exoskeleton for the truck.

What other truck has that?

Because it has this armored exoskeleton,

basically nothing can harm this truck. He said it was literally bulletproof. And then he said he would show everybody just how indestructible, how impermeable, how undentable his magic truck was,

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