Presenting VIN Zero — the very first production Cybercab built at Giga Texas. pic.twitter.com/8bXo4CJAlr

— TechOperator (@TechOperator) April 23, 2026

They really are building these things to be the checkered cabs of the 21st century.

The Tesla Cybercab achieves this glossy finish without a paint shop in its production line.

Instead, Tesla injects color directly into the plastic panels during injection molding. This eliminates the need for a paint shop entirely, which in turn speeds up production while… pic.twitter.com/YJcc9U9iO9

— Nic Cruz Patane (@niccruzpatane) April 24, 2026

No paint shop is wild, even though the look is not my cup of tea. Elon has gone on and on over the years about how/why he sees manufacturing (not just related to TSLA) as vastly more difficult vs. design/tests/other engineering challenges etc.

Elon emphasized that the Cybercab goes far beyond revolutionary car design - its manufacturing process is equally transformative.

He noted we probably don't talk about that enough.

The Cybercab line doesn't look like a normal car manufacturing setup at all.

Instead it… pic.twitter.com/1O4SwCCAS8

— XCorpHub (@XCorpHub) April 22, 2026

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Random question, but has anyone else noticed that the lock chime is much quieter after the latest update? I have a custom one in mine, and after the update, you can barely hear it. I tried to amplify the clip itself and then reinstall, and it worked marginally better. It's like they nerfed it or something.

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I actually feel like mine got louder.

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MW03 said:

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Random question, but has anyone else noticed that the lock chime is much quieter after the latest update? I have a custom one in mine, and after the update, you can barely hear it. I tried to amplify the clip itself and then reinstall, and it worked marginally better. It's like they nerfed it or something.

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I actually feel like mine got louder.

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Mine is different volumes and happens at different distances from the cars. Ours is the quack and sometimes it's ultra loud and sometimes it is barely audible. Not sure what the deciding factor in the software is.

do yall use a standard sound or a custom one?

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do yall use a standard sound or a custom one?

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standard

Charging starts at around 42:30 in video. I know Tesla's NACS connectors can do 1MW charging, will BYD's expansion of quick charging across Europe, Asia, and Africa start to push Tesla rollout of V4 and newer cabinets, or is CyberCab and Robotaxi service expansion where most of the resources are going

Really don't see a need for anything over 350 kW for cars/crossovers and 500 kW for trucks/SUVs in terms of power. That's ~10 minutes of sustained charging for an 80% charge. 120v 15a at your residence is enough charge for a normal person to go a month or more without having to public charge. Then a single fast charge session gets you back to full in <10 minutes. Three 350 kW chargers is better than 1MW charger. Road trip charging for a 10 minute stop is more than fast enough.

What 1 MW charging does is convince people that "it's just the same as gas" to get them to buy it, but in actual use it's overkill. Wildly unnecessary for Cybercab.

I don’t think people realize how revolutionary the Tesla Cybercab is.

Everything about this vehicle is optimized for purely for autonomy at scale.

Cybercab isn’t manufactured using traditional methods, instead Tesla created a new approach called the "Unboxed Process" by which… pic.twitter.com/r5J2DcftRV

— Nic Cruz Patane (@niccruzpatane) April 27, 2026