Photos show Elon Musk and a Cybertruck prototype visiting the automaker's under-construction Gigafactory in Texas
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Grace Dean
Apr 16, 2021, 18:22 IST
Tesla CEO Elon Musk.Chris Saucedo/Getty Images for SXSW
Tesla CEO Elon Musk visited the company's upcoming Austin Gigafactory Thursday.
Musk drove a Tesla Cybertruck, which is still in prototype stage, and spoke to construction workers.
Photos suggest it wasn't a new prototype because it had door handles, unlike the planned final version.
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Elon Musk took a prototype of Tesla's Cybertruck for a drive on Thursday at the automaker's under-construction Gigafactory in Texas, which will be the home of its Cybertruck production.
Musk replied to a tweet about the Cybertruck visiting the Gigafactory, saying: "I was just there, driving Cybertruck around the site where it will be built!"
This is the first time a prototype of the vehicle has been seen in more than six months, electric-vehicle outlet Electrek reported.
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The publication added that this could be the same prototype that Musk was seen driving around Los Angeles in December 2019 - partly because of the presence of door handles.
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