These Are The Kinds Of Balls You Can Throw At Your Cybertruck Without Breaking The Glass

When Tesla designer Franz von Holzhausen threw a three-inch steel ball bearing at the “armored glass” windows of the Cybertruck during the truck’s unveiling event in 2019, it was a moment that will play on repeat in my head forever. If you need a refresher, the ball was lobbed at the truck and immediately smashed the driver’s side front window. Elon Musk then encouraged Franz to try again with the rear window, and embarrassingly, it broke as well. In order to test if Tesla’s glass is any stronger today than it was five years ago, Ryan from The Kilowatts threw a series of increasingly heavier balls at his own Cybertruck. The results are, uh, yeah, pretty much what you’d expect.

Starting with ping pong and working up through golf, base, pool, one-inch steel, two-inch steel, and finally three-inch steel balls, Ryan and his musclebound amigo do their damndest to prove the strength of the glass. After the fiasco at the truck’s initial unveil, von Holzhausen merely underhanded a standard baseball at the truck’s glass for the truck’s Cyber Rodeo delivery event last fall. It was a weak attempt and showed Tesla’s reluctance to have the glass break again. A low-speed baseball not breaking your window proves very little.