--- title: "Watch This YouTuber Mod Her Tesla Model 3 Into a Pickup Truck" description: "YouTuber Simone Giertz bought a Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck in her latest video." date: "2019-06-18" modified: "2019-06-18" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/youtube-simone-giertz-model-3-tesla-pickup" categories: - "Advanced Transport" - "Tesla" tags: - "electric pickup" - "elon musk" - "Model 3" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # Watch This YouTuber Mod Her Tesla Model 3 Into a Pickup Truck ![YouTuber Simone Giertz bought a Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck in her latest video.]() *\Image: Simone Giertz via The Verge\* ## Truckla You may know her as the "[queen of shitty robots]()," but her newest project is very impressive. YouTuber Simone Giertz, known for building [bizarre and pointless bots](), turned a Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck in her latest video. Luckily she got plenty of help from friends, including rogue Tesla mechanic and fellow YouTube celeb Rich Rebuilds, to turn the luxury sedan into a small but fully functional electric pickup. After some hiccups with the Model 3's electronics and steel reinforcements, they finally got it to work. Watch the results of her project below: https://youtu.be/jKv_N0IDS2A ## Model 3 Pickup Tesla CEO Elon Musk has actually been hyping up a pickup truck model for years now. In November of last year, Musk described the upcoming model as "a really futuristic-like cyberpunk, ‘Blade Runner’ pickup truck" in a Recode [interview](). "My goal is to never own a gas car," Giertz said in the video. "I feel like I should pad this a little bit, but I’m not going to. Fuck oil companies. Seriously, fuck them." But Giertz' DIY pickup won't have the ability to haul a Ford F-150 pickup truck in its own truck bed — something that [Musk promised]() the new Tesla pickup will be able to do in 2017. Nonetheless, she's very happy with the outcome. "This process has destructive steps but the end goal is constructive," she said in the video. "And I’m doing it because I really, really want this car. This is truly my dream car." **READ MORE:** [YouTuber Simone Giertz transformed a Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck]() \[*The Verge*\] **More on Tesla:** *["Fully Sleeping" Tesla Driver Cruises 30 Miles on Autopilot]()* ## 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. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()