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CUTTING EDGE

It began with an innocent question – or so the story goes; ‘why doesn’t the future look like the future?’ This moment of fleeting curiosity raised by Elon Musk’s son planted a seed in his father’s always-inquisitive brain. This triggered a series of uncompromising demands that would see his best engineers attempt to transform a sketch into a prototype in less than one hundred days. It’s the very characteristic that sets Tesla apart from every other automaker; the tenacity and ambition to turn crazy ideas into reality.

Four years ago, in front of an intimate gathering of press, out drove the Cybertruck and everyone’s jaw hit the floor. It was like the Falcon X rear door or the Tesla Roadster’s performance numbers on steroids. However, that event will forever be remembered when a demonstration of the

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