---
title: "Watch This Hacked-Together Tesla “Pickup” Do Wicked Donuts"
description: "To carry their dirt bikes into the desert, an electric car conversion company chopped off the back of a damaged Tesla Model S to turn it into a pickup."
date: "2019-08-15"
modified: "2019-08-15"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/hacked-together-tesla-pickup-donuts"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Tesla"
tags:
  - "electric pickup"
  - "model s"
  - "tesla"
  - "the digest"
---

# Watch This Hacked-Together Tesla “Pickup” Do Wicked Donuts

![To carry their dirt bikes into the desert, an electric car conversion company chopped off the back of a damaged Tesla Model S to turn it into a pickup.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/hacked-together-tesla-pickup-donuts.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Hoonigan Daily Transmission via YouTube\</em\>*

## The Teslamino

To carry their dirt bikes into the desert, the people behind an electric car conversion company chopped off the back of an already-damaged Tesla Model S to turn it into a "Teslamino" — a nod towards the open back truck variant of the Chevrolet El Camino.

And it can burn some rubber doing gnarly donuts as well.

https://youtu.be/LlOUPJp3Xmg

Owner Eddy Borysewicz worked with California-based electric car parts company EV West to complete the project.

Needless to say, the Model S required a ton of modifications, down to cardboard rear windows repurposed from old baby diaper boxes.

"Epiphany! Let's go chop off a Tesla," Borysewicz said in the video. Underneath the hood, a rat's nest of loose wires and hydraulic suspension parts reveal that the Teslamino lacks quite a bit of "finish" — to say the least.

## Lacking Finish

YouTube star Simone Giertz also [recently converted](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/youtube-simone-giertz-model-3-tesla-pickup>) a Tesla Model 3 into a working electric pickup truck. Her "Truckla" however does feature a fully finished truck bed and a closed cabin that will shield her from the elements.

"Do people get mad about this car?" the man holding the camera asks Borysewicz in the video after seeing the state the car is in. "Yes, there's a lot of pissed off people," Borysewicz replies. "To each their own."

**READ MORE:** [Watch a Tesla El Camino pickup destroy some tires](<https://electrek.co/2019/08/15/tesla-el-camino-pickup-drifting/>) \[*Electrek*\]

**More on Tesla pickups:** *[Watch This YouTuber Mod Her Tesla Model 3 Into a Pickup Truck](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/youtube-simone-giertz-model-3-tesla-pickup>)*

## 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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