Elon came up with the Cybertruck when Tesla was deep in production problems. It's basically the result of Elon solving production problems at day, and dreaming

Elon came up with the Cybertruck when Tesla was deep in production problems. It's basically the result of Elon solving production problems at day, and dreaming of an easier to make car at night. That's why the bodywork looks like you could make it by just taking a big sheet of metal, put a couple of straight bends in it, weld like 4 seams and you're done. The rest of the car follows a similar design philosophy of making it stupid easy to manufacture and assemble, and leaving as much as possible to software. Turns out they didn't execute that idea very well. They should have probably spent a couple more months testing prototypes. Or maybe the design philosophy just doesn't make for very good cars, it's hard to tell.