cars

I shit you not, there is no frame. They removed all of the structural components from the vehicle and instead they've made all of the parts which would ordinarily be non-structural into structural parts. This was done with the explicit stated purpose of reducing the manufacturing cost of the vehicle by making it non-repairable.

I'm talking about load-bearing Lithium-ion battery cells, structural plastic housings, even the glass window panes in the doors are considered so structurally important that rolling them down fundamentally changes the driving characteristics of the vehicle. It has a crash safety rating of Did Not Finish, it's not water-tight enough to be driven in the rain or go through any car wash.

The high repair costs and relative fragility of the vehicle are intentional aspects of the design goal for the Cybertruck, passing all possible costs onto the consumer by making a disposable pickup truck and offering OEM mod package installation and a complete factory replacement/refurbishment as the only two after-sales service options on a truck that cannot be serviced or modified by anyone other than Tesla, and will brick itself if it thinks you tried.

They built a car the way you'd build a disposable vape.