ELON MUSK – THE MODERN DAY INNOVATION WIZARD (THE CYBERTRUCK)

Readers would be wondering by now what this article is trying to communicate. Well I want to discuss one of the greatest innovators of our century and how much he is contributing to mankind.

I have been fascinated by Elon for over 3 years now since the release of the world-famous Tesla Model X. In case you don’t know, it’s an electric vehicle with the Falcon Wing back doors. This man has contributed so much when it comes to innovation than we realize. Before I discuss about the latest breakout in the internet now, lets first know some intriguing facts about Mr. Elon. 

• He is originally from South Africa
• He founded the most popular online payment platform; PayPal
• He is the founder and CEO of the worlds most popular sustainable car company; Tesla
• He founded and controls the disruptive space exploration company; Space X
• He is on a mission to transform planet Mars as a second habitable planet after Earth
• He built the Falcon rocket which he believes will make space tourism much more convenient and affordable.
• Hyperloop is a company he founded with the mission of shortening the time to travel between cities in minutes. It's basically a tunnel with a train-like looking vehicle.

These are just the tip of the iceberg because there are so much more things to his achievement which I can’t list out here.

The main purpose of this article is to talk about the latest trend from his Tesla company. After a series of announcements about the release of his anticipated electric truck officially tagged as the “CyberTruck”, people have been so keen to know what he has to offer. Tesla is mainly known for its stylish sporty SUV and saloon cars and hearing that Tesla is entering the truck business was quite fascinating.

Tesla isn’t the first company to make an electric car. The first company to produce a commercially successful electric car is Toyota with the hybrid Prius. The Toyota Prius was a groundbreaking piece of innovation that graced the automotive industry due to its fuel efficiency, affordability and electric inclusion. This car was introduced to combat the rising high fuel prices and Toyota did an excellent job in taking advantage of this golden opportunity. However, as fuel prices began to decline, demand for these hybrid vehicles began to fall. People wanted more muscle fast cars which could offer more range. Ever since, there haven’t been any electric car by any company as people lost interest in electric powered vehicles.

However, Elon took up the mantle to make electric cars great again which he finally achieved after the success of the Tesla Model X, Model S and Model 3. That isn’t the end though because Elon have bigger ambitions for the company.

He announced that he’ll be launching an electric truck, and this was after the reveal of another new company called Rivian which took another approach to launch an electric truck instead of a saloon car as most car companies would do. The Rivian truck have been on the news for quite some time now and Tesla is more interested to see more companies venturing into the electric car business. This can be observed as Elon congratulates companies like Porsche when they launched their own electric hybrid. 

Let’s talk about the CyberTruck. The CyberTruck have finally been unveiled and fans seems to be having mixed reactions about it. Mainly because of the design that Tesla have chosen for the much-anticipated truck. There have been several renders of how people perceived the CyberTruck would look like but unfortunately, Elon blew everyone’s mind by giving them something unexpected. The vehicle defied the odds of how a truck should be like by boasting of features such as the following:

• 250kW+ Supercharging capability
• Autopilot
• Adaptive Air Suspension
• Stainless steel unibody rather than the traditional curved truck
• 0 to 60 miles per hour
• Transparent metal glass which could resist hard pressures

And so much more features which the best-selling truck in the market right now The Ford F-150 can’t come close. Considering these features, the expected price by most reviewers was at least $60,000. Yet Elon is offering the car to the market at a starting price of $39,900.

At first sight I couldn’t describe how I felt about the vehicle but after a day I feel like buying one if I had the funds. Well, a lot of media companies have talked down about the new car and speculated that the car would be a huge failure after the launch due to the glass test on stage which didn’t live up to its hype, but Elon have disclosed reasons for the failure which we could all accept as true. However, after a day of the release, Elon tweeted that the car has received about 146,000 pre-orders which is mind blowing. People seems to be very much interested in this new mobility design. The number of orders has reached 200,000 currently according to Elon’s latest tweet.

Truck design have been relatively the same over 30 years and its time we re-imagine what a truck should look like. This was Elon’s statement during the unveiling as he displayed various pickup trucks by different brands to clarify the fact.

Well, I personally think that Elon is doing to the car industry what Steve Jobs did to the mobile phone industry.

It's time to start a new era of car design and thanks to Elon for his innovative thinking and also thanks to the excellent Tesla team.