While in Cabo San Lucas on the hunt for a winter home to escape his Colorado icebox, Autopian reader Mario found himself blocked into his hotel parking lot by multiple Tesla Cybertruck prototypes. “Funny thing, they blocked me in so I couldn’t leave this morning,” he told me. “But when your rental car is a base model Kia of some sort, your man card doesn’t allow you to go out and say ‘excuse me, can you move your tundra and Cybertrucks, I have places to be.’”

There were two Cybertrucks and one white “chase/support truck,” as Mario put it via email. “I didn’t want to interrupt their photo shoot and prep but here are the best I could do,” he said, attaching the following photos that he took early this morning (check out the cool paint schemes, and the RC “Release Candidate” branding on the nose:

I’ll crop in a bit more to get some extra detail.

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Here you can some Maxxtrax recovery boards on the tailgate, plus there’s something dangling under that rear bumper.

Here you can see what looks like a pretty standard tailgate cable, and a tie-down rail on the inside of the beside:

Here you can see some door panels, a rack on the tilted roof, and some instrumentation:

Here’s a rear shot. Hmm, what is that in the bed? [Update: Looks like it’s a wheel cover! -DT]. 

I’m not sure. It looks like some kind of cover? It’s large:

“Funny part for me,” he said. “I stay in this development frequently and have never seen any Tesla model here. I assumed it was because of the EV charging infrastructure trying to get one to Cabo San Lucas from the US. You’d basically have to pay shipping from San Diego ($2K) and then put a charging station in your home/rental as I don’t ever see public chargers.  When I arrived last Thursday, there were 3 Tesla charging stations at the hotel (where you saw the vehicles) but the cars parked there were other cheap ICE rentals.  Only this morning did I see actual ‘Teslas.’”

Very interesting.

Mario says he’s a Daily Autopian reader, so between that and these photos he sent, let me just say: THANK YOU!

All Images from Mario