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One of the issues it'll face in Europe is weight. One source I found for the "cyberbeast" model claims a 6843-pound curb weight. That's 3.1 metric tons. While there are discussions for special allowances for electric cars, the current limit of what you're allowed to drive with a normal driving license in the EU is 3.5 tons of gross vehicle weight rating.

In other words, in order to allow most people to drive the Cyberbeast, it would have to be rated so that (regardless of your license) you can't add more than 400 kg to it (this includes driver and passengers!). Hope the six people it's supposed to fit are light and have absolutely zero luggage.

That would obviously make it entirely pointless.

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This weight limit is a good thing. You don't want amateurs driving such heavy vehicles around and killing people because they don't know how to handle it.

You can still drive one but you got to get another license.

Sounds like owners will end up paying higher taxes due to road damage and tire pollution.

Don't want to even think about what happens when you're hit by one of these things.

> Don't want to even think about what happens when you're hit by one of these things.

As a pedestrian? The same as getting hit by any SUV

The sharp edges look like you would fare worse compared to other SUVs. The crashtests will probably show how bad it will get

When the Cybertruck was announced, it was speculated that it wouldn't be street legal at all in the EU. Obviously, that was many years before any actually rolled out of the production line and before any objective information was available.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/12/16/tesla-cy...

And due to the weight, it needs to be speed limited to 60mph or less depending on the country.

Are pickup trucks common in Europe?

Not really. The Cybertruck would also be impractical due to its size, of course, but I'd imagine some people would want one due to its look (some hate it, some love it).

No, and especially not the ones in the size class of the Cybertruck. Usually if I've seen a pickup truck, it's been maybe a Ford Ranger or a Toyota Hilux, a mid-size pickup truck, and definitely not an F150, a full-size pickup truck. Sometimes it might also just be a Volkswagen Transporter with a flatbed, so basically a van like most all utility vehicles.

They're not but I am starting to see more and more of them on the road and I hate them

No. An F150 looks grotesque in a European city.

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