Tesla’s long-awaited Cybertruck electric pickup truck is bulletproof, according to the electric car maker’s CEO. However, critics were not so convinced by Elon Musk’s statement, Business Insider reports.

Musk made the announcement after Tesla’s official car club in Silicon Valley posted a video on “X,” formerly Twitter, last Friday showing a Cybetruck driving down a road with bullet marks on the left side of the car. truck.

Just 10 minutes after the video was posted on the social network he bought last year, Musk responded to speculation about the footage, saying in a post that:

“I dumped Tommy’s entire magazine out the door Al Capone-style. Not a single bullet was left in the cabin.”

While some of Musk’s more than 160 million followers on X expressed excitement over the apparent innovation Tesla didn’t reveal about its electric truck, others weren’t entirely convinced by his statement.

One user, X, asked Musk to post a video of the moment Tesla engineers fired a machine gun at the car, saying otherwise “this would never have happened.”

Others were quick to point out that the now-surfaced video of the Cybertruck on the road shows no bullet marks on the truck’s windows, suggesting that the vehicle isn’t actually “bulletproof” unless its body can be penetrated by bullets. .

Some also recalled Musk’s unveiling of the Cybertruck in 2019, when a video of the unveiling went viral on social media after the truck’s reinforced windows shattered when hit by a metal ball meant to show just how durable they were.

Musk, who spoke seconds after the incident, later tried to explain that the reason was the order in which the demonstration was held, but critics remained wary.

Elon Musk said about the Cybertruck that it will also be amphibious

The fact that the Cybertruck is bulletproof isn’t the first questionable claim the South African billionaire has made about Tesla’s electric truck. In addition to the many missed delivery deadlines, Musk said last October that the Cybertruck would be amphibious for a short time.

“The cyber truck will be waterproof enough to serve for a short time and as a boat to be able to cross rivers, lakes and even not too rough seas,” he promised.

However, the journalists of the technical site Cnet noted at the time that “for a short time” is a very receptive expression. Many cars and other objects can float “briefly”, but this may mean that they float for a second or two before they begin to sink.

Cnet also wondered what would happen if the Cybertruck’s battery died or, worse, broke while in motion, recalling Tesla’s lackluster history when it comes to the safety of its vehicles.

Last week, Elon Musk told Tesla investors that the company had “dug its own grave with the Cybertruck,” announcing that the goal of delivering 250,000 trucks a year, set just months ago, would not be met in the near future.

“We dug our own grave with the Cybertruck,” he noted, adding that the vehicle is “one of those special products that comes along every now and then.” “And the specialty products that come out every now and then are just incredible to bring to market in large volumes,” Musk said.