CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿

[Tim 🇳🇿 @NZ_Tim93]

Some more daytime shots of the Cybercab winter test vehicle in Queenstown, New Zealand

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Cybercab spotted winter testing in New Zealand.

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

@cybrtrkguy Yeah, right! 😂😂😂

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

Yeah, right! I wished…

[Tesla @Tesla]

Come try Cybertruck for yourself

https://t.co/5vh0YQaMST

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

Most definitely winter testing at the Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds in Cardrona. https://t.co/t6o4sRcBDD They tested the Highland, Juniper, and Cybertruck down here over the last few years. Tesla is one of SHPG’s main customers and users over winter because it’s so isolated and private. SHPG has improved its security, surveillance, and boundary fences significantly over the last three years to comply with Tesla’s and other premium car companies’ demands. I will be heading up there regularly this winter, so if the Cybercap turns up, I will let you know.

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

Most definitely winter testing at the Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds in Cardrona. https://t.co/t6o4sRcBDD They tested the Highland, Juniper, and Cybertruck down here over the last few years. Tesla is one of SHPG’s main customers and users over winter because it’s so isolated and private. SHPG has improved its security, surveillance, and boundary fences significantly over the last three years to comply with Tesla’s and other premium car companies’ demands. I will be heading up there regularly this winter, so if the Cybercap turns up, I will let you know.

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

Most definitely winter testing at the Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds in Cardrona. https://t.co/t6o4sRcBDD They tested the Highland, Juniper, and Cybertruck down here over the last few years. Tesla is one of SHPG’s main customers and users over winter because it’s so isolated and private. SHPG has improved its security, surveillance, and boundary fences significantly over the last three years to comply with Tesla’s and other premium car companies’ demands. I will be heading up there regularly this winter, so if the Cybercap turns up, I will let you know.

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

@NZ_Tim93 @Tesla @aelluswamy I like how you really don’t give up hope on FSD for HW3 Teslas in NZ, @NZ_Tim93! Similar to me hoping to see the Cybertruck on NZ roads one day. 😅

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

Safe, safer, safest, Cybertruck! 📐

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

The IIHS has released a new list of the top 5 safest large pickup trucks you can currently buy.

1) Tesla Cybertruck (electric)
2) Toyota Tundra (gas)
3) Rivian R1T (electric)
4) Ford F-150 (gas)
5) Ram 1500 (gas)

The @Tesla Cybertruck just received a Top Safety Pick+ rating from the IIHS, the best possible rating, and was the only electric truck to get that rating. Earlier this year, the Cybertruck also received a 5-Star safety from the NHTSA. The Cybertruck had the lowest overall probability of injury & lowest chance of rollover of any pickup truck tested by the NHTSA.

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

Key New Zealand Statistics:
• Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) Data, 2024: Emergency services attended 1,875 vehicle fires in the previous year (2023 data). While FENZ doesn’t provide a full public breakdown by vehicle type, ongoing work is underway to improve tracking. However, verified EV battery fire incidents in NZ remain extremely low, with only 6 recorded cases since 2010 (none resulting in injuries, fatalities, or confirmed charging-related causes). This contrasts sharply with the thousands of annual ICE vehicle fires, as EVs make up only about 3-4% of the NZ fleet but account for a negligible fraction of incidents.
• Drive Electric New Zealand Analysis (2025): Citing global research firms adapted to NZ context, ICE vehicles have a 1.5% lifetime fire risk, compared to just 0.03% for EVs—making EVs approximately 50 times less likely to ignite. This aligns with NZ’s low EV fire reports and the absence of flammable fuels in EVs.
• NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) and EV FireSafe Report (2023-2024): NZTA’s risk assessment references U.S. data but applies it to NZ projections, showing ICE vehicles at 1,530 fires per 100,000 sold versus 25 per 100,000 for EVs (a 61-fold difference). With NZ’s EV fleet growing to ~150,000 by mid-2025 (out of ~5 million total vehicles), the per-vehicle fire rate for EVs remains dramatically lower, supported by local incident tracking.
• EV FireSafe NZ-Specific Breakdown (2010-2024): Out of ~510 verified global EV battery fires across 40 million EVs, NZ accounts for just those 6 incidents (0.0012% rate per EV). ICE vehicles, by comparison, show a 0.1% overall fire risk based on country-level reports cited in NZ studies—83 times higher than EVs.

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

Did we expect anything else than this journalistic pile of biased crap from ⁦@radionz⁩ ? 🤔 https://t.co/RT1m98oXXJ

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

@Aviator_Pete @TeslaAUNZ @ryanjaycowan It was stated in the email that it’s currently only available for HW4 owners, wasn’t it?

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

Would come handy down here with all our power cuts. However, the triangular “battery” is till missing, unfortunately.

[Cybertruck @cybertruck]

I can power your home for up to 3 days during an outage

Powershare Home Backup is now $510 less

https://t.co/a4pFgXwSDR

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

@NZ_Tim93 @elonmusk Although we paid a deposit for one a long time ago… 😬

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

This is definitely NOT the edge of the world @cybertruck and we all know it! You have been here before so you should know, too!!! 🤪📐🇳🇿

[Cybertruck @cybertruck]

Edge of the world

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

@NZ_Tim93 @Tesla Similar to “Closest Apple Store”! 😂

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

I agree with @NZ_Tim93, Tesla is testing their vehicles every winter at the Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds SHPG in Cardrona, just 30min away from Queenstown. They did so with the Cybertruck in 2023 before it got released, as well as with the new Model Y variants this winter. They often have sensors and add ons installed and are sometimes covered up but they do not put too much effort in disguising themselves. They often leave the proving grounds in their test vehicles to drive around the area. Very common down here. I hope this helps.

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

New Zealand has beautiful lakesides, too. However, something is missing… @cybertruck 🤔📐🇳🇿

[Cybertruck @cybertruck]

Lakeside

[CybertruckNZ 📐🇳🇿 @CybertruckNZ]

Just dreaming of where you could go with this off-road mode down here 🇳🇿 😌📐

[Cybertruck @cybertruck]

Off-Road Mode deep dive