Elon Musk Says Cybertrucks Can "Serve Briefly as a Boat"

Elon Musk likes to tweet about future Tesla products and features. Sometimes, those products and features are real things that eventually make their way into the world exactly as initially described. Other times, they go onto the ever-increasing pile of things Musk has announced that have simply never happened. There is no way of knowing which way the Tesla CEO's latest short-form feature announcement is going to end, but the idea is certainly outlandish.

Musk says the Cybertruck, still not in production despite being completely unveiled in 2019, will be "waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat." How briefly, you ask? Musk says the truck needs to be able to cross the channel between SpaceX's Starbase launch facility and South Padre Island in southern Texas, a distance of about 3/10ths of a mile at its shortest point.