Cybertruck modifications for registration in Europe explained by local EV repair shop

Back in May, Tesla started a European tour of the Cybertruck it called the Odyssey, and brought its edgy electric pickup to showrooms and automotive exhibitions in major cities.

Many people saw the Cybertruck for the first time during the Odyssey tour, and interest in importing it peaked.

Tesla's chief engineer, however, explained that it can't homologate the Cybertruck for official sale in Europe because of regulations covering things like the curvature radius of external projections that ensure pedestrian safety:

Sheet metal edges are permitted provided that the edge is folded back towards the body so that it cannot be touched by a sphere of 100 mm diameter or is provided with a protective covering having a radius of curvature of not less than 2,5 mm.

The rules and regulations for actually importing the pickup on an individual basis, however, can be more manageable. As a result, there are now registered Cybertrucks with Austrian, Czech, or Polish license plates driving around Europe.

A Polish EV repair shop has now explained the modifications they had to do on an imported Cybertruck to register it. In Europe, for instance, the turn signals have to be in a different color in order to set them apart from the brake lights.

This is not a requirement in the US, so the EV garage did some work on the Cybertruck's LED lighting to change the blinkers' hue. This is actually a very common procedure that all American vehicles imported in the EU have to go through to get a registration certificate.

The repair shop also talks about smoothing some of the front edges of the Cybertruck, but it doesn't become clear if they mean the regulation, or actual work done on the pickup's sharp stainless steel body. A separate Cybertruck registration effort in Europe, however, listed the front bumper as another component that had to undergo changes.

In any case, the garage managed to get the Cybertruck registered for sale with a Polish license plate, and now even points prospective buyers to a local dealer business that promises legal imports.

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