Gary Zhou 
The Tesla Cybertruck has been spotted in a company showroom in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, ahead of CEO Elon Musk’s Saturday Night Live appearance tomorrow evening.
Steven Brennan spotted the Tesla Cybertruck at the company’s Manhattan showroom, 860 Washington Street, and took several photos of the all-electric pickup.
Musk confirmed that the Cybertruck would be on display at the NYC showroom until Sunday.
Since its debut in November 2019, the Cybertruck has made many public appearances. Some have been anticipated, such as the Cybertruck’s presence in 2020 at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles and, more recently, at Tesla’s Giga Texas construction site just outside of Austin, Texas.
The Cybertruck arrived in New York City, just in time for Musk’s highly awaited appearance on Saturday Night Live. The CEO has been in New York since Monday, when he arrived at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and probably made his way into Manhattan within hours. However, in traditional Musk fashion, the appearance and week in New York were far from routine. He seems to have arranged for the Cybertruck to make an appearance in New York ahead of his SNL hosting gig with Miley Cyrus.
The Cybertruck, one of the most hotly debated prototypes in automotive history, is made up of a stainless steel “exoskeleton,” bulletproof glass, and many other extremely rugged features that make it one of the most robust and heavy vehicles available to the general public for purchase. Though Musk and other Tesla engineers have been tweaking the Cybertruck, he briefed the world on the changes the company plans to make during a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast.
Although the Cybertruck will be nearly identical to the vehicle Tesla unveiled on stage in Hawthorne, California, in late 2019, the company has expressed reservations about the vehicle’s sheer scale following a taping of Jay Leno’s Garage in 2020. During the episode, Leno, a car enthusiast who has previously visited Musk to discuss the original Tesla Roadster, decided to drive the all-electric Cybertruck through the Boring Company tunnel in Los Angeles. Musk seemed to be second-guessing the truck’s size due to a tight squeeze, as well as questions from potential customers who worried the vehicle wouldn’t fit into a residential garage or parking space. As a result, Musk told Rogan on the podcast that Tesla had reduced the vehicle’s size significantly.
Musk said:
“That’s pretty much what it [the Cybertruck] will look like, with very small differences. You know, we adjusted the size a few percent. Like around 3% or smaller. You don’t want it to be a couple of inches too big for the tunnel.”
The Cybertruck is also expected to start production at Giga Texas later this year. Musk predicts that if Tesla is “lucky,” it will be able to make a few deliveries before the end of 2021. However, he estimates that volume production will begin in 2022.
