The Cybertruck may reach Swiss showrooms without Tesla. Revoltaris, an independent Tesla repair specialist near Zürich, plans to sell the pickup from 2027 as a free importer and is working with the Swiss engineering firm werk.lab to get it approved, auto motor und sport reported on 5 November. Tesla is not involved and has announced no European version of its own.
According to the project, the Swiss approval process is in its final phase, though work on major components continues. A Swiss approval is not an EU type approval: whether, and how, the truck could then be sold in other European countries is open.
What had to change
Revoltaris imported an all-wheel-drive Cybertruck and a Cyberbeast from the US. The changes the project team described to electrive go well beyond paperwork:
- Pedestrian protection: the stainless-steel front proved too rigid for the impact tests, so werk.lab designed a carbon front, modified the structure beneath it and added foam behind the bumper for knee impacts.
- Edges: external edges must have a radius of at least 2.5 mm. The US truck's do not, so a carbon edge protector runs around the body.
- Lighting: side turn indicators, missing on the US model, were added.
- Brakes: the roughly 3.5-tonne truck passed a stop from 100 km/h with 0.3 seconds to spare.
Electromagnetic compatibility and the steer-by-wire steering were also tested.
What a buyer would get
| Cybertruck All-Wheel Drive | Cyberbeast | |
|---|---|---|
| Power | about 600 hp | about 845 hp |
| 0–100 km/h | 4.3 s | 2.7 s |
| Top speed | 180 km/h | 205 km/h |
| Price incl. VAT | about CHF 155,000 | about CHF 189,000 |
The prices are for near-new used trucks with 5,000 to 10,000 km; new ones are available on request. CHF 155,000 is about €170,000.
These trucks will not work like a European Tesla. The built-in navigation is inactive, so there is no route guidance on the screen and no automatic battery preconditioning before a fast charge; Revoltaris says it is working on a manual solution. Charging will use adapters for CCS and Type 2. There is no Tesla factory warranty: Revoltaris plans battery insurance and warranty options through partners plus a network of body shops, and some parts will have to come from the US.
Reservations are open: CHF 175 for a non-binding pre-reservation, or CHF 2,000 for one of the first delivery slots. According to the importer, both are non-refundable, even if the project fails.
What it means
A few Cybertrucks already drive in Europe on foreign plates. Bavarian police stopped a Polish-registered one in October, and British police have seized imported trucks as not road-legal. Revoltaris is trying to turn that grey market into an approved, serviced product, but only for Switzerland for now, without a factory warranty or working navigation, and at a price above any Tesla sold in Europe today.
The project also shows how far the US truck sits from European rules on pedestrian protection, edges and lighting. Those rules are among the reasons Tesla itself does not offer the Cybertruck here, and why it cancelled the truck for Australia and New Zealand in October.