Add one other hyperlink to Elon Musk’s long ball-and-chain of lies and broken promises: Tesla’s smooth tenting tent of the longer term designed for the Cybertruck has turned out to be a tragic hodgepodge of flaccid cloth in actual life. Stunning. This new Tesla tent is one step faraway from overlaying a damaged window pane with trash baggage and 5 layers of Scotch tape. And it’ll value you $3,000.
For Cybertruck house owners who’ve already shelled out wherever from $81,900 (baseline value) to $102,000 (high of the road value) an additional $3,000 won’t look like lots for some grey cloth to cowl the truck’s bum whereas tenting. And but, it’s arduous to not really feel prefer it’s one huge cheat while you examine the render to actual life.
An early idea rendering of the tent. [Rendering: Tesla]
The Cybertruck Basecamp promised to be the end-all be-all of tenting on 4 wheels. Its web site says that this collapsible tent can “inflate in minutes” on the truck’s mattress utilizing a guide pump “with none structural poles.” Made out of “tactical grey kaleidoscope-patterned nylon inside,” the corporate’s web site continues, it’s designed to maintain you “protected from the weather whereas display home windows enable for airflow to maintain you snug” on its “ultra-soft mattress.”

[Photo: Tesla]
However all of the Jetsons was flotsams when the tent lastly made it to clients. One Tesla Cybertruck fan who goes by the nick Townbiz, posted some photographs on the Cybertruck Owners Club, and let me inform you: This factor doesn’t take a look at all just like the smooth polygonal quantity that built-in seamlessly into the Cybertruck aesthetic.
It simply appears to be like like saggy junk, as a mess of Tesla fans and observers have pointed out. From the inside and outside, the Basecamp appears to be like like some other tent you can buy for a fraction of the worth—even tactical gear that retails for less than $500. (Tesla up to date its Basecamp website with new hero photographs that extra precisely depict the tent.)
What distinguishes the Basecamp out of your common Amazon.com tent is that it’s customized to suit straight on the again for the Cybertruck. And whereas photographs do present that it suits snugly on the tushy of the truck, it’s apparently neither straightforward to put in or function every day. First, it’s good to go to a Tesla Service Heart to connect the brackets that safe the tent to the truck’s vault aspect rails. After which, each time you need to exit tenting, you’ll need a buddy to raise it and place it into place, until you may raise a big 90-pound construction from the bottom and place it atop your Cybertruck. Then repeat that course of when you’re again at residence.
Nevertheless, regardless of the apparent dissonance between promise and actuality, Townbiz appears to be okay along with his flabby tent. Not sufficient to advocate it but, although: “As a result of the wet climate hasn’t allowed me to do a full setup [and] takedown greater than as soon as, I nonetheless can’t definitively say whether or not or not I like to recommend the $3K Basecamp.”