Road to Cybertruck | Baja

We do a lot of testing at Proving Grounds and Proving Ground is a very controlled situation. You know what the circuit is, it's designed to be something specific, but the difference for this trip is that it's a real-world test. I think it is considered one of the best. Road Proving Grounds, the most dangerous race, the most difficult race has many names, but the Baja 1000 is a challenge at the very least. I think we're all very excited, a little nervous more than anything, but I think everyone's eager to get started tomorrow, uh, checking each voltage. It's loose but it's okay, we can tighten them, try again, how about this is stronger now?

I think the answer was that the microphone should be inside your esophagus and then try to minimize your stops as much as possible. Let's all stay together, we want to. I'm sure that everyone is safe, that everyone is having a good time, but that we all know where everyone is at all times. Well, we'll see how it goes. It's an exciting start. Oh yeah, did you get a SA phone somewhere? Yes, I still have it here. to go to ct2 when you're ready, are we all good?, okay, ct1 is good. The first day we took a steep trail towards the coast, which was very loose with embedded rocks, but clearance for the Cyber ​​Trucks and Overland mode plus great traction.

The control really boosted our confidence enough that we relaxed a little on the beach when we got to the coast, you can see the whole coast for miles, you can see that there is no one, there is no one around and that is the feeling you get that Alright. We're about to be alone, we've got a lot of traffic right now, basically a traffic jam off the

road

, oh man, watch out for that, watch out, yeah, keep going, now cut it good, yeah, the back tire's going to fall. the ditch and you're fine, we're trying to make sure that these trucks are really prepared for the off-

road

use cases that we expect our customers to use them in.

You could go straight from a sandy track to something nice and rocky. Straight into a water crossing, it's impossible to predict it one way and we have to be prepared for that. This is the best real-world test there is. If we ran right on the margins, we could go out now and probably get there with zero s, so basically any charging we do from here on out is like our MH buffer, so I guess we'll charge for another hour. Yes, we drove through a Soro forest. Some of these Soros were huge, they're 80 feet tall, 200 years old, pretty huge.

The road is super wide, it opened up and we were able to turn off the traction control. We were able to pick up speed and really test the truck despite driving super fast across some of these really rough surfaces. The adaptive damping really upped the game and kept the vehicle super smooth when off-road, we expend energy much faster than on the road, it's a lot more fun, but it will be a challenge to go the whole distance. Yes, in fact, we have been quite impressed with Cyber ​​Trucks. efficiency on this trip so far on the roads at least we're getting really good hours per mile um on the ground we're definitely doing it a little bit faster but we're planning for it and you know taking the time to charge and we've got such a great destination charger set up. that you know we're just going to stay in a hotel for a couple more hours at night and hit the road in the morning and it's been pretty amazing.

So far we had some challenges getting all our spare parts across the border. In the end we were able to sort out the paperwork and they sent it here ahead of us as we headed down. We talked to the front desk and they said, "Oh yeah, this morning someone left you parts and they brought us here and it's a little dark in a room full of Tesla parts and this is an old industrial freezer that apparently is now a closet. Ross was asking if there was a power outlet we could plug into, oh I just have to make an adapter that goes from a 1450 which we have a UMC plug for to an L 1530 that plugs into the local network. trucks are fully loaded because we have to hit.

Basically, we will use every ounce of energy we have to move on to the next load and luckily we have very good data quality from Starlink, so everything will be ready, hey, a big one is coming. berm we broke the glass we might have to stop and do a quick inspection oh guys okay yeah yeah that's a big burp yeah big well the windshield still broke the glass oh it broke , oh yeah, a lot of it broke, oh there, I was surprised we didn't have bigger airbags, so we came to get the The trail had some pretty significant and unpredictable damage from the recent hurricane, which meant driving fast was really difficult because you would come to a section that was flat and level and you could drive 50, 60, 70 mph, but suddenly there would be a wash. the size of the car is solid underneath everything below is empty okay, it's like buried in me oh ouch oh okay that's why we don't fix one, two, three oh yo, that's what they have some knife hooks on the back, friend Edge, I think Slow and steady is, oh yeah, the watermelon that grows on the vine, it's a small watermelon, yeah, you guys are hungry considering we didn't bring much food, take a bite.

I won't do it. I'm not going to do that right. Do they know what they do? You're eating, that's not good, let's see what you got, oh wow, two bumps, really tall baby bumps, try not to fall off the cliff, please come up to you right there, mhm, that's 25 miles of mostly, with lucky yeah um fire road gravel so I think we would be. less than 500 W hours per mile, yes, I think we could, I think we could definitely do that, yes, as we moved south the predictable hurricane damage really increased and the road became rockier, we often had to slow down the pace, but the Cyber ​​trucks keep going I have no problem, uh, with the unexpectedly challenging conditions, there's no way to know what's coming in a section, it's rocky, it's soft, it's washed out and you don't know what's there around the next corner, uh, if I'm honest, I'm being very picky, the cruise control doesn't work, are you kidding me?

Then we entered the sand section, it was very open and given the comfort of the equipment, we really let loose, started doing jumps, got sideways and reached speeds up to over 100 mph. The washboard and bumps were really intimidating at those speeds, but the chassis and suspension just soaked it up and it was a great ride. We didn't have any problems all day. What time is it? It's too early. I'm not stressed, guys. Alright, let's go up to now. We spent 5 days driving through Baja. The trucks have done very well. They were really impressed. Both on road and off-road.

Sand, gravel. Rocks. He has excelled in all cases. We have a huge adjustment lever on our adaptive suspension, an air-suspended ride height, EES-only torque availability, and of course our drivetrain is particularly powerful, plus dual starlink for added reliability in the Cabo deserts for a live broadcast that will reach tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. Millions, yes, we found out yesterday, we will come to you live from B Baja California, sir in Mexico, since with anything on a live broadcast the success is uncertain, but the excitement is guaranteed, what we have really learned is how It's the real world. very different from the proven terrain, it has allowed us to really close the loop on our design cycle.

We have designed for these conditions. We've gone to the testing ground for these conditions, but now being able to see it in the real world has really helped us. Check the last box to make sure this is a truly amazing product for our customers. This is the border of Los Cabos. this sign here, so we just crossed into Los Cabos to