---
title: "Elon Musk Wants to Add “Fold Out Solar Wings” to Cybertruck"
description: "Musk's mind is already racing far ahead, imagining a bright, renewable energy-fuelled future featuring a cybertruck cladded in solar panels."
date: "2019-11-22"
modified: "2019-11-22"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-solar-wings-cybertruck"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Energy"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Renewable Energy"
  - "Science & Energy"
  - "Solar Power"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "cybertruck"
  - "elon musk"
  - "tesla"
  - "the digest"
---

# Elon Musk Wants to Add “Fold Out Solar Wings” to Cybertruck

![Musk's mind is already racing far ahead, imagining a bright, renewable energy-fuelled future featuring a cybertruck cladded in solar panels.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/elon-musk-fold-out-solar-panel-wings-cybertruck.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Tesla\</em\>*

## Cyber Goes Solar

During a Thursday evening event near SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calf., Tesla CEO Elon Musk [finally showed off](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-elon-musk-unveils-blade-runner-cybertruck>) the company’s long-awaited "Cybertruck."

And while we're all still trying to digest its [extremely polarizing design](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/reactions-tesla-cybertruck>), Musk's mind is already racing far ahead — imagining a bright, renewable energy-fueled future with his much-beloved truck in the middle of it.

## Extra Miles

In a [Friday tweet](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1197889310550216704>), Musk revealed that the Cybertruck is getting "an option to add solar power that generates 15 miles per day, possibly more." And he didn't stop there.

"Adding fold out solar wings would generate 30 to 40 miles per day," he wrote.

## Radical Design

The brand new truck's design is arguably already radical enough, with or without solar panels. But the truck could probably incorporate solar panels without much of a design departure.

And any future Tesla truck owner will likely need it. Tesla is aiming the truck squarely at an outdoors crowd, even including its very own all terrain vehicle as a future option. While Tesla's Supercharger network is second to none, electric car chargers still aren't nearly as ubiquitous as gas stations.

**READ MORE:** [Tesla’s electric ATV to come as option for Cybertruck pickup, says Elon Musk](<https://www.teslarati.com/teslas-electric-atv-to-come-as-option-for-cybertruck-pickup-says-elon-musk>) \[*Teslarati*\]

**More on the truck:***[Tesla’s Cybertruck Is a Killer Deal and Nobody Is Talking About It](<https://futurism.com/telsa-cybertruck-deal>)*

## Author
I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida.

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