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The UK Now Has Its Own Illegal Rubberized Cybertruck on the Road

Following the Czech Cybertruck’s example, now there’s a rubber bumper-pimped Tesla truck attempting to be certified for use on British highways. This time, however, the chances of success look slim.

To the dismay of road safety organizations, the minimally altered Czech Cybertruck passed an individual vehicle approval (IVA) test, one of the ways to legalize low-volume imported cars in the EU. No doubt aware of the IVA modifications that succeeded in the Czech Republic, the Albanian importer of Charalambous’ Cybertruck fitted similar custom-made rubber bumpers to the electric pickup’s sharp-edged panels. “These long, unbroken sheets of metal, with the sharp lines and a humongous windshield, make me think there’s going to be some real issues with potentially passing safety regulations, especially outside the US,” Mike Ramsey, an analyst with the tech research and consulting firm Gartner, told WIRED last year.

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