Ohnsman, Alan (20. 11. 2019). „Elon Musk's 'Cybertruck' Will Thrill Tesla Fans, But Its Pickup Market Potential Is A Puzzler”. Forbes. Pristupljeno 22. 11. 2019. »U.S. sales of full-size pickups, the world’s primary market for such vehicles, surpasses 2 million units annually, and volume leaders Ford, GM and FiatChrysler's Ram battle to retain buyer loyalty and bragging rights in a space where median prices approach $50,000.«
Santos, Jerome (4. 3. 2019). „Tesla Blade Runner: Everything We Know About Elon Musk's 6-Seater Pickup Truck”. International Business Times. Pristupljeno 19. 3. 2019. »pickup truck … dual motor all-wheel drive, … outlet for up to 240-volts normally used for heavy-duty tools and can tow up to 300,000 pounds. … Tesla pickup truck will look like a proper truck, a design barely seen in electric vehicles so far. … will have a "cyberpunk, Blade Runner-like" look, … a futuristic design.«
Musk, Elon (29. 5. 2019). „Episode 200: My Elon Musk Interview”(offset 51:02) (intervju). Ride the Lightning. Intervju sa Ryan McCaffrey. Tesla Headquarters, Palo Alto, California. »we don't want it to be really expensive, … it's got to start at less than $50,000 dollars, it's got to be like $49,000 dollars starting price, max … ideally less … it has got to be something that is affordable … you've got to be able to get a really great truck for $49,000, or less, … it's going to have incredible functionality, from a load-carrying standpoint, look amazing, … but it won't look like a normal truck … it's going to look pretty sci-fi, … not going to be for everyone, if somebody just wants to have a truck that looks like trucks have looked for the last twenty years, thirty or forty years, then this truck probably isn't for them, going to be a truck that is more capable than other trucks … it'll be a better truck than an equivalent … better truck than an F-150 in terms of truck-like functionality, be better sports car than a standard 911 … [the teaser image] is the front … like a Bladerunner truck«
Ireson, Nelson (22. 11. 2019). „Is the Tesla Cybertruck *Really* Bulletproof?”. Motor Trend. Pristupljeno 27. 11. 2019. »'If fully hardened, 3mm of 301 stainless is more than adequate to stop any 9mm Luger round I can think of...' said Iain Harrison, editor-in-chief of Recoil as well as a competitive shooter and former British Army captain. ... Elon Musk says the laminated windshield, which appears to be completely flat, will stop a 9mm round, as well. We tested its strength by dropping weighed metal spheres from various heights. It didn't break.«
Reynolds, Kim (22. 11. 2019). „How Tesla's Cybertruck Turns Auto Manufacturing and Engineering Upside-Down”. Motor Trend. Arhivirano iz originala 22. 11. 2019. g. »The plusses for a folded stainless steel, origami truck are compelling: no paint shop and no expensive tooling. No Godzilla-scale stamping machines stomping it with multiple strikes. groove the steel where it's supposed to fold (avoiding cracks) and bend it on simple, cheap machines«
Musk, Elon (20. 7. 2016). „Master Plan, Part Deux”. Tesla, Inc. Pristupljeno 16. 11. 2019. »With the Model 3, a future compact SUV and a new kind of pickup truck, we plan to address most of the consumer market.«
Mongo (26. 11. 2019). „ALL CyberTruck discussion”. Tesla Motors Club (forum posting). Pristupljeno 27. 11. 2019. »the bed has no pass through that I see«
Ollie (24. 11. 2019). „What is Cybertruck Exoskeleton?”. Teslas Motors Club (forum post). »All modern cars except most pickup trucks have a frameless exoskeleton, AKA monocoque or unibody.«
Musk, Elon (5. 11. 2018). Johnson, Eric, ur. „Full Q&A: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Recode Decode”(full question and answer). Recode (intervju). Intervju sa Kara Swisher — preko Vox. »been iterating sort of designs with Franz … if there’s only a small number of people that like that truck, I guess we'll make a more conventional truck in the future. … the kinda thing the consumer would want to buy, even if they don't normally buy a pickup truck«
Musk, Elon (5. 11. 2018). „Elon Musk: The Recode interview”. Recode (intervju). Intervju sa Kara Swisher — preko Vox. »personally most excited about the pickup truck. … futuristic-like cyberpunk, "Blade Runner" pickup truck. … don't know if a lot of people will buy this pickup truck or not, but I don’t care. … We wanna get gasoline, diesel pickup trucks off the road. … it's the thing that I am personally most fired up about«
Reynolds, Kim (22. 11. 2019). „How Tesla's Cybertruck Turns Auto Manufacturing and Engineering Upside-Down”. Motor Trend. Arhivirano iz originala 22. 11. 2019. g. »The plusses for a folded stainless steel, origami truck are compelling: no paint shop and no expensive tooling. No Godzilla-scale stamping machines stomping it with multiple strikes. groove the steel where it's supposed to fold (avoiding cracks) and bend it on simple, cheap machines«
Musk, Elon (5. 11. 2019). „Elon Musk's Complete interview at Air Force Space Pitch Day”. Space Pitch Day (intervju). Intervju sa John F. Thompson. San Francisco. Pristupljeno 12. 11. 2019. »We're going to come out with the Tesla pickup truck which we call the Cybertruck. I mean, it looks like an Armoured Personnel Carrier from the future. Yeah, it won't look like a normal truck and people might not like it. I like it! It's going to look like it came from a movie set when it goes down the road; …what is that thing? It's literally bullet proof. … If I can elaborate on that: a lot of times people try to make products that they think others would love, but they don't love them, themselves; if you don't love the product, you should not expect that others will. … Know your own heart, and if it's compelling to you, it will be compelling to others.«
Musk, Elon (16. 1. 2014). „When will you be able to afford a Tesla?”. CNN Money. CNN (video offset: 2:08). Intervju sa Poppy Harlow — preko Youtube. »Yeah, we'd like to produce an electric pickup truck; we're not really thinking much about that, but that is part of our long-term plans. Would imagine that is probably something like 4‒5 years.«
Musk, Elon. Tesla Semi & Roadster Unveil. Tesla, Inc. — преко Youtube. „For interests sake we created a pickup truck version of the Tesla Semi. It's a pickup truck that can carry a pickup truck. By the way, you can legally drive that—it shouldn't be legal, but…—you'll be able to legally drive that with a normal driver's license. It's kind of wrong, but I like it.”
Musk, Elon (5. 11. 2019). „Elon Musk's Complete interview at Air Force Space Pitch Day”. Space Pitch Day (intervju). Intervju sa John F. Thompson. San Francisco. Pristupljeno 12. 11. 2019. »We're going to come out with the Tesla pickup truck which we call the Cybertruck. I mean, it looks like an Armoured Personnel Carrier from the future. Yeah, it won't look like a normal truck and people might not like it. I like it! It's going to look like it came from a movie set when it goes down the road; …what is that thing? It's literally bullet proof. … If I can elaborate on that: a lot of times people try to make products that they think others would love, but they don't love them, themselves; if you don't love the product, you should not expect that others will. … Know your own heart, and if it's compelling to you, it will be compelling to others.«
Musk, Elon (11. 6. 2019). Tesla Annual Shareholders Meeting. „[Musk] a car that can go in the water basically? [Questioner] On, or under, or both, the water? [Musk] It's funny you should mention that … if you make it a big bigger then you can actually have a submarine car. It's like technically possible. I think the market for this will be small; small but enthusiastic. So… we do actually have a design for a submarine car.”
