View Tesla Pickup Glass Breaks Pictures. Ordinarily, glass shattering after being hit with a steel ball would not be sledgehammer impact on door cracked base of glass, which is why steel ball didn't bounce off, musk tweeted. Tesla on thursday unveiled its electric pickup truck with a futuristic angular body in gunmetal gray that looked like an armored vehicle, as the california company took aim at the heart of detroit carmakers' profits.

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#cybertruck becomes number two trending in the demo, tesla chief designer franz von holzhausen initially took a sledgehammer to the truck. Not the point here, though. For some weird reason, it broke now, musk said, drawing laughs.

Elon musk unveiled tesla inc.'s eagerly awaited electric pickup truck on thursday but it didn't go as truck's armored glass shatters, twice, in metal ball test.

Should have done steel ball on. For some reason it broke now… Consumers and a major profit center for manufacturers. Tesla made electric passenger cars mainstream with the model s and model 3 sedans and the model x crossover, and now its turning to one of the most important segments out right now—pickup trucks.