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Benzinga
Benzinga
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Jeannine Mancini

Tesla's $61,000 Cybertruck's Armor Glass Shattered After Getting Hit With 2 Steel Balls — But Designer Says 'Didn't Go Through… So You're Still Safe'

Tesla Cybertruck

It was supposed to be bulletproof. Or at least, ball-proof.

Back in 2019, Tesla's big Cybertruck debut turned into a PR faceplant when chief designer Franz von Holzhausen hurled not one, but two steel balls at the vehicle's so-called "armor glass"—shattering both windows onstage.

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