Stefen 🌿🦑

Really proud of all of us at @KelpAgency for winning the Americas 2023 @WooCommerce Innovators Award 🏆🥰

Robotaxi now in Tampa & Orlando!

@EZebroni No spare tire?! 😆

Not letting a tire issue ruin our staycation out in Virginia Beach! Never seen a tire do this before but fortunately my Ford Lightning had a spare unlike the Cybertruck! Time for a drink!

@rhensing I wonder if it’s big enough for a spare

😮😮😮. It’s so clean and tidy. No air compressor. No cooler.

umm... @goodyear your next.js site is borked... do you need some website help? I know a guy 😅

@vad3rt3sla I’m still waiting on the spring update!

Who’s excited for the 2026.26 Summer update!? Last year it was announced on July 12th

@itskyleconner @CompFpv TFA 😆

Guy who lives like the 1800s drives one of the most advanced vehicles @CompFpv

Truck stuff. Putting the @marsagco cross bars to work.

@contractorsPOV It’s fairly easy to add power to your frunk: stefenphelps.com/blog/cybertruc… I agree it should be there default

Don't like... That's easy! - No grab handles - Glovebox is too small - not enough interior storage - USB and power ports, not enough and locations - lighting control is limited - no power in the frunk - tire pressure warnings when following tire spec - no rear view mirror when tonneau is closed - no pass-thru from cabin to bed Still the best truck I've owned... Yes, for a whole list of different reasons.

@wholemars 20k miles on my 2024 with just 1.5%… our 2022 Model X on the other hand…. batteryhealth.app/s/bhts_FBDfU8z…

I’ve had my Cybertruck for 2 and a half years now, and the battery is still looking great. 120 kWh out of 125 kWh originally. These 4680 packs have great longevity!

@Mattlinn01 My 2 year old cybertruck is 2% degradation at 20k miles

"10% is totally normal for all EV batteries in the first year! It'll level off and degrade much slower after that." Nope.

Cybertruck noise levels at highway speeds with light bar, crossbars and spare tire mounted over glass roof.

@jcart01 @cybertruck The Rubicon trail on a stock full size truck will never end well. That’s mainly due to the large wheelbase imo.

I doubt it’s enough. There’s a YouTube video of some guys that took a CT on the Rubicon trail. They broke soooo many tie rods. Front and back. Also the entire steering rack broke apart. All from having to use wheel spin because they didn’t have a “low range”. When you have wheel spin that then suddenly gets traction things break. I’m not crapping on the CT. I think it makes an amazing vehicle for a lot of use cases. Anything over basic off-roading is not one of them.

Casual stroll

@jcart01 @cybertruck it actually does have "Trail Assist" which is cruise control for as low as 1mph — would have made this a bit smoother.

@cybertruck You really need to figure out a low range feature. You shouldn’t need all that wheel spin

@Jones1 Probably not

Will It Work With My Spoiler

First test drive with the cyber tailgate mirror that my friend printed for me. Works great at 1.25x and good enough at 1x. I wonder how hard it’d be to make it slightly bigger so it fills up the 1x zoom 100%…

how to guide and links to the things I used here: stefenphelps.com/blog/cybertruc…

Installed an outlet into the Cybertruck frunk and I’m pretty happy with the results. I used the 48v frunk power feed with a sine wave inverter mounted below the trim. It’s limited to 300w draw or so but there’s always the rear outlets if I need more power.

@mehul @maticrobots a physical one would be amazing if the ball was just slightly bigger than the vacuum hole and it could bring me the ball back like a real dog 😁

@stefen @maticrobots lol. We got to build virtual one. Like Easter egg hunt. :-)

@maticrobots @mehul can you sell a "ball" that let's me play fetch with my Matic? 😅

It is easy to talk about progress like it is a weather pattern. Technology gets better. Science advances. Innovation happens. The future arrives. But none of that is automatic. Progress is not some background process running on its own while everybody else gets on with life. Better tools, better medicine, better software, better rockets, better machines, better anything only show up because real people decide to spend a ridiculous amount of time and energy making them happen. That part gets flattened when we talk about history. We remember the headline. We forget the years of study, the long meetings, the failed tests, the boring documentation, the broken prototypes, the exhausted families, the missed weekends, and the people who kept showing up anyway. When people ask, “Why didn’t we go back to the moon?” it can sound like progress just stopped. It did not stop. The smart people were busy building a freaking space station. They were designing robotic spacecraft that landed on Mars. They were putting telescopes in space, maintaining satellites, improving launch systems, studying Earth, building computers, writing software, and solving thousands of problems most of us will never even hear about. That is not a lack of progress. That is progress pointed in a bunch of different directions. And that is the point: progress has a direction because people give it one. There is no law of nature that says rockets get safer, computers get faster, bridges get stronger, or diseases get easier to treat. Those things happen when educated, disciplined, curious people decide the work is worth doing. They happen when someone takes the time to learn the math, run the experiment, read the manual, write the code, check the work, and try again after the first version fails. We do ourselves a disservice when we act like innovation is inevitable. It makes the work invisible. It makes it feel like the next amazing thing will arrive whether we invest in people or not. It will not. The future depends on whether we are willing to build the kind of people who can build it. That means education matters. Training matters. Mentorship matters. Funding matters. Culture matters. Families and communities that encourage kids to be curious matter. Workplaces that give people room to solve hard problems matter. It also means people have to think seriously about what they are giving their lives to. Choosing a career cannot only be about what will make the most money. Money matters. Providing for your family matters. But if the only question is, “What can I do to get rich?” then we should not be surprised when fewer people are prepared to work on the problems that actually need solving. We need people learning things that matter. We need people spending their time on work that heals, builds, repairs, teaches, protects, and creates. We need people who are willing to aim their ability at making the world more like it should be. Christians pray, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” If we really believe what we are praying, then “bring heaven to earth” cannot just be a nice phrase. It has to shape what we study, what we build, what we fund, and what we encourage our kids to become. And yes, it also takes blood, sweat, and tears. Amazing things happen because people choose to become capable, then choose to use that capability on problems that matter. They study longer than they feel like studying. They work through confusion. They become useful. They join teams. They carry tiny pieces of giant projects until, one day, the world calls the result “progress.” We need more of that. Not more passive belief that technology will magically improve itself. Not more cynicism that nothing impressive is happening because the exact milestone we imagined has not happened yet. We need more people who are educated, serious, curious, and willing to put in the work. Progress does not happen by itself. Somebody has to make it happen.