it was over three years since Tesla launched The Cybertruck pickup truck is all-electric, and since then its design has been divisive and difficult to put into production. It was for that reason that it was besieged by the allowed delay a bunch of other automakers to get new electric vehicles on the market while we wait for Tesla trucks. One area where engineers seem to be struggling is how to keep that expanding windshield clean.
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So far, we’ve seen a few different wiper designs used on a number of devices different Cybertruck prototypes. There is one of them there are some that look quite ordinary wiper blade as well as another that comes with a single, large wiper blade.
That’s the design Tesla seems to be sticking to, as a budding drone pilot spotted the EV maker testing a wiper blade near some kind of wind generator at its base in Texas.
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The footage, which was first gets Electrek’s attention, showing an engineer watching the Cybertruck’s absurdly large wipers operate. From the overhead shot, it looks like the single blade does a pretty good job of keeping the driver’s side clean, but leaves a large area in front of the passenger to collect dirt from all that. which the truck definitely has to do. Electrek reports:
“The truck appears to be undergoing some aerodynamic testing, parked on a rotating platform in front of an airflow simulator built from shipping containers. It was spotted in the same spot yesterday, but the video isn’t nearly as good.
“But this could at least help verify the function of the wipers at high speeds, which seems to be what’s happening here.”
Whether or not this is the final design for truck wipers, we can all agree that looks a bit funny. It looks quite heavy and long from the bottom right corner to the top left when skimming through the windshield.
So far, Tesla has also been followed with prototypes with smaller wipers and even a model without wiper blades at all. Obviously, windshield cleanliness is just one of the problems that Tesla will have to fix before the truck goes into mass production “sometime next year.”
