--- title: "First Cybertruck Ambulance Has One Small Problem: Nowhere to Put the Patient" description: "There's a new volunteer emergency vehicle on the streets of South New Jersey: the first Cybertruck ambulance. Yes, you read that right." date: "2024-08-03" modified: "2024-08-03" authors: - name: "Maggie Harrison Dupré" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/mharrison" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-ambulance" categories: - "Advanced Transport" tags: - "cybertruck" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # First Cybertruck Ambulance Has One Small Problem: Nowhere to Put the Patient ![There's a new volunteer emergency vehicle on the streets of South New Jersey: the first Cybertruck ambulance. Yes, you read that right.]() *\Image: shita\_hakdosha via TikTok\* ## Cyberambulance There's a new — and deeply questionable — volunteer ambulance on the streets of Lakewood, New Jersey: the Cyberambulance. Yes, you read that right. Per [*Jalopnik*](), Lakewood is now home to a Cybertruck ambulance. The $100,000 Tesla vehicle was donated to the Hatzulas Nefashos, a Jewish volunteer EMT organization that operates in South Jersey. It's definitely... something. As seen in a [viral TikTok](), the truck has been given a red, white, and blue wrap, and is indeed affixed with emergency sirens and ambulance insignia. But as all Cybertrucks are, it's extremely blocky; and sadly, in this case, that blockiness coupled with the paint job unfortunately makes it look like a life-size [Pinewood Derby]() car. And looks aside, there seems to be another major flaw in using the Cybertruck as an emergency vehicle: where does the patient ride, especially if they're in a stretcher? https://www.tiktok.com/@shita_hakdosha/video/7397166186619833630?embed_source=121374463%2C121442748%2C121439635%2C121433650%2C121404359%2C121351166%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%3Bnull%3Bembed_blank&refer=embed&referer_url=jalopnik.com%2Ftesla-cybertruck-ambulance-lets-you-die-of-embarrassmen-1851610975&referer_video_id=7397166186619833630 ## Doctor Musk The Cybertruck's bed space [isn't terrible](), as far as your standard truck goes. But hauling normal stuff like groceries, or luggage, or even carrying heavy machinery or cargo is a very different ask than being able to soundly transport a patient, a gurney, a vast array of emergency equipment, and the medical personnel themselves. You could put someone in the backseat, we guess, if their injuries aren't too severe. So if you have, for instance, an emergency sprained ankle and don't feel comfortable driving, or perhaps a cut that needs a few stitches, this might be the vehicle for you. Even so, that would render this Cybertruck more like a hospital car service than anything. We weren't the first ones to notice the vehicle's apparent limitations. On the [r/teslamotors subreddit last week](), several Redditors questioned how effective a Cyberambulance would be in action. "Is that really beneficial as an EMS vehicle?" wrote one user. "Don't you need more cabin space?" Another user, more curtly, simply asked: "Why?" But others were a bit more optimistic, arguing that the electric vehicle's power source could prove useful. "Nice," wrote one such Redditor. "You can jump-start a heart straight from the battery pack." And sure, you could feasibly hook a defibrillator up to the Cybertruck. But if you've gone into *full cardiac arrest*, you'd probably want a real ambulance where your feet wouldn't be dangling off the bed. Still, not everyone's worried about the truck's efficacy in emergency situations. Some folks are mostly just worried about appearances. "If they pull up on me in something that ugly," one Redditor quipped in the r/teslamotors thread, "I'm telling them to let me die." **More on the Cybertruck:** [*Cybertruck No Match for the Fury of Hungry Raccoons*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've reported extensively on the rise of AI as a cultural and business force shaping the media industry, and more broadly how those dynamics are changing how we all consume and share information and relate to one another. I'm also fascinated by public health policy and ethics, the role of emerging tech in politics and governance — and the powerful people and forces at those intersections — climate change, and the environment. My investigation on Sports Illustrated's use of AI-generated authors with fictional biographies won a 2024 Mirror Award for "Best Story on Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and the Media" from Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School, I contributed to Niemen Lab's 2025 Predictions for Journalism series, and I've discussed my work for Futurism during appearances on NPR, CNN, the BBC, the CBC, and more. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I played Division I field hockey for the Minutewomen as a midfielder. Since then, I've lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and Manhattan, New York. I spend my free time running, reading, perusing archival fashion, and searching for the world’s best negroni. I also have a debonair tuxedo cat, Westley, who's named after "The Princess Bride." ### Author social links [Bluesky]()