Las Vegas-based analytics company Stream It has stepped well and truly outside its normal operating parameters and announced the CyberLandr, an add-on to Tesla’s Cybertruck which does a credible job of creating an effective, if cramped, camper or overlander out of Tesla’s popular yet polarising electric ute.
How and why an analytics company like Stream It ventured into the world of electric vehicles and adventuring is unclear, but the resulting CyberLandr follows in the same design style as Tesla’s polyhedral Cybertruck and is designed to furnish the EV truck/ute with everything including a kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom, and office.
The CyberLandr can stow away completely within the bed of the Tesla Cybertruck – allowing the bed’s cover and tailgate to close, meaning that the addition of the CyberLandr results in a low centre of gravity, zero aerodynamic drag, and subsequently minimal effect on electric range.
In turn, the combined Cybertruck and CyberLandr are able to venture onto terrain and locations often too difficult to pull a traditional overlanding trailer.
Designed around a deep appreciation for adventure and recreational vehicles, the CyberLandr expands upwards out of the Cybertruck bed and transforms into a cramped multifunctional camper – although it is difficult from the video and photos to work out exactly how everything folds back small enough to fit into the bed of the Cybertruck.
A kitchen including sink, fridge, countertop, and invisible induction cooking is accompanied by “living room” which includes two chairs that not only transform into a queen size bed but can also be repositioned around the interior of the CyberLandr or even moved outside for some reclining sunbaking.
A “spa-inspired bathroom” (really?) includes a radiant-heated porcelain one-piece tile floor, recirculating shower with 4-stage filter, and a dry-flush toilet with self-cleaning bowl.
An included StarLink satellite dish (not including subscription) also provides high-speed internet, while a 32-inch TV can also act as a second monitor for when you want to turn the kitchen/bedroom into an office with a corner view.
The CyberLandr also comes with a dolly to make it easy to remove it from the truck of the Cybertruck, meaning that the car is not locked into being a campervan for those times when you want to head to Bunnings.
Adventuring isn’t the only use-case for the CyberLandr, however, though the company’s suggestion that it would help people be “better prepared for emergencies like fires, floods, earthquakes, and social unrest should they need to leave on a moment’s notice” seemed a little too on the nose.
Launched in late 2019, Tesla’s Cybertruck was immediately polarising, and remains so, with its polyhedral shape, making it look more like something out of a low-budget sci-fi movie. But since then, the Cybertruck has become hugely anticipated.
In the first few days after launch, interest in the Cybertruck led to over 250,000 pre-orders, and has since increased to pre-orders of over half a million.
Designed primarily for the American market – given its size and dimensions – Elon Musk suggested at the company’s September 2020 “Battery Day” that a smaller Cybertruck might be made for international markets.
For Australians, this is good news, as Musk followed up later in the month by confirming that the full-sized Cybertruck would come to Australia, but only if it passes Australian vehicle regulations.
Joshua S. Hill is a Melbourne-based journalist who has been writing about climate change, clean technology, and electric vehicles for over 15 years. He has been reporting on electric vehicles and clean technologies for Renew Economy and The Driven since 2012. His preferred mode of transport is his feet.