See Every Photo We Took of the Tesla Cybertruck's Interior

What Car Shoppers Need to Know

• The Tesla Cybertruck’s extreme minimalism on the outside extends into the cab.
• The Cybertruck’s cabin is less spacious than other full-size pickup trucks.
• Unconventional operation extends to basic functions like door handles and shifting.

You wouldn’t expect the Tesla Cybertruck to be normal inside, would you? It would be a lot weirder if, inside that polygonal exterior, the Cybertruck looked like, say, a Ford F-150 King Ranch. Rest assured: It does not.

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Senior Research Editor Damon Bell and a few other Cars.com staffers recently spent some time getting to know Tesla’s electric pickup. Bell summarized the Cybertruck’s design as “futuristic minimalism,” a concept that extends to the interior. Unfortunately, “minimalism” also applies to rear-seat space. While the front row is plenty spacious thanks in part to the planar roofline peaking right over the driver’s head, the backseat is rather snug compared to other full-size pickups. For a complete tour of the Cybertruck’s cabin, click through the gallery below.

Are the Cybertruck’s Controls Easy to Use?

Tesla didn’t just rethink automotive design with the Cybertruck, it reinvented nearly everything about how people interact with their cars.

That starts with simply opening the doors. There are no exterior handles; to enter the Cybertruck, you press a button on the pillar aft of each door (or you can pull out your phone and open them with the Tesla app). The door then releases, and you grab the edge and pull it open. Incidentally, the owner’s manual advises owners to “use caution around the panel edges on [the] Cybertruck, including the doors, powered frunk, tailgate and surrounding panels.”

Things don’t get more familiar from there. Drivers shift the Cybertruck between Drive and Reverse by swiping up or down on the infotainment touchscreen, tapping the display to engage Park. The turn signals are activated not by a stalk, but with buttons on the left steering-wheel spoke. You might expect those buttons to be side by side, but they’re not; they’re stacked vertically. Which button activates which turn signal makes sense if you think about it.

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Visibility

With such a wide, tall windshield and a stubby hood that’s nearly invisible from most driving positions, forward visibility out of the Cybertruck is great. The long A-pillars obstruct the view to the sides, though the triangular windows forward of the doors mitigate that somewhat.

Beyond rear-seat headroom, the other downside to the straight-edge roofline is the short rear window, just 7 inches tall by Bell’s measuring tape. With an equally dainty rearview mirror, the view aft is heavily compromised. Since the optional hard tonneau cover completely blocks the rear window, a rearview camera feed pops up on the central display when the cover is deployed, but its view is also not great.

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