--- title: "Elon Musk: Tesla Is Making An “Armored Personnel Carrier”" description: "Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla's Cybertruck will be more like an \"armored personnel carrier from the future\" in between jokes about his sex life." date: "2019-10-14" modified: "2019-10-25" authors: - name: "Jon Christian" job_title: "Executive Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-tesla-pickup-armored-personnel-carrier" categories: - "Advanced Transport" - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "Tesla" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "tesla" - "tesla pickup" - "the digest" --- # Elon Musk: Tesla Is Making An “Armored Personnel Carrier” ![Mercurial Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeting that the upcoming vehicle will be "closer to an armored personnel carrier from the future."]() *\Image: Elon Musk via Twitter\* ## Cybertruck Mercurial Tesla CEO Elon Musk issued a rare update on the company's in-development pickup truck Sunday night, [tweeting]() that the forthcoming vehicle will be "closer to an armored personnel carrier from the future" than any images we've seen publicly. Musk also gave the truck, a new name: the "Cybertruck." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1183583315263131648 ## Heart Stopper A [terrific explainer]() by *Electrek* dives into the history of the Tesla pickup — or, er, the Cybertruck. The vehicle has often seemed like something of a pet project for Musk, who's previously [hyped it as having]() a "really futuristic-like cyberpunk, 'Blade Runner'**"** design. "This will be heart-stopping," he [gushed to *Recode*]() in November 2018. "It stops my heart. It’s like, oh, it’s great." ## Close Read As with all things related to Musk, though, it's important to interpret the CEO's latest comments through a hazy lens of eccentricity, self-promotion, and online humor. Case in point: In the same Twitter thread where he called the Tesla pickup an "armored personnel carrier," Musk [dropped a brutal self-own]() about his own sex life. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1183580078518743041 **READ MORE:** [Elon Musk: Tesla Pickup looks like ‘an armored personnel carrier from the future’]() \[*Electrek*\] **More on Elon Musk:** [*Court Documents: Elon Musk Called Himself a “Fucking Idiot”*]() ## Author I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()