Rolled into the Temecula Tesla showroom for the first time and walked straight into a Cybertruck meet. Empire Customs and Temecula Tesla put this cars and coffee together, and the lineup that showed up was wild, DIY wraps, full off-road builds, and a coffee trailer being powered straight off a Cybertruck’s V2L outlet. Met up with socal_teslaruns at the Corona Supercharger first, then convoyed down. Rain came and went, but the turnout did not care.
The Showroom and the Juniper Inside
The Temecula service center has an Optimus on display, a 2023 model, sitting there like it’s there to replace the Model S and Model X. Inside the showroom, they had a Model Y Juniper set up with the darker interior. I usually spec my cars in light beige or white seats, but the black seats with the darker headliner on this one looked clean. Customer lounge had accessory displays, the Model S/X yoke, wheel covers, charging cables, adapters, key fob. Coffee while you wait. Not bad.
If you’ve been on the fence about the new Y, my 48-hour Juniper test drive goes deeper on whether it’s an actual upgrade.
Empire Customs Lineup and Halo Blk Disc Covers
Out front, Empire Customs had their banner up and the trucks rolling in. Caesar from Halo Blk was there testing prototype Halo disc covers on a Cybertruck, they’re a few months out from release, still sizing them up, but yes, Cybertruck Halo discs are coming.
Eric’s Orange Cybertruck: Wrapped in 12 Hours
Found the owner of the orange Cybertruck, Eric. Asked who did the wrap, expecting a shop name. He did it himself. Ordered the wrap off the AliExpress app, waited for it to ship, and laid it down in his garage. 12 hours, solo, in his garage. That is hilarious and impressive in the same breath. Came out clean too. Not what I was expecting.
Side panel art is straight graffiti, “CYBERTRUKK” hand-drawn down the door. Whole thing reads more like a build than a wrap.
Jabari’s Model Y Juniper: “Hello, Starlight”
Jabari rolled up in a stealth black Juniper with a voice-controlled sun shade. Says “Hello, Starlight” and the thing wakes up. “What can I do for you?”, “Open sunshade.” Done. “Brightness nine.” Done. Quick to respond too. The build is in progress: lights on the back, lights underneath the body, lights in the bowl, yoke dashboard display, LED outline around the wireless charger, footwell underglow, performance seats, and an electric sunshade. He wanted Tesla to swap the headliner to black but the VIN didn’t match the build code, so that’s on hold.
He also gave me grief for not bringing the Juniper. Today was Cybertruck day. The pink and white CT had to come out.
Fauna Coffee: Powered by a Cybertruck
This was the best moment of the meet. Fauna Coffee ran their entire trailer, espresso machine, pump, the works, off a single 120V cable plugged into a Cybertruck. Three or four things on the same line, and the truck handled it without breaking a sweat. This is the V2L use case Tesla put on the marketing page, and here it was actually doing the job. I grabbed a honey lavender latte and watched the truck do power station duty for an hour. Fully sold on this.
Charging Up and a Few Shoutouts
Pulled into Lake Elsinore at 12% to charge. Hit 250 kW there but I was hoping for 325, so we kept moving and ended up at a stall pulling the full 325 kW from 39%. While we were sitting there, quick shoutouts. Edward, who took delivery of a Model Y back in March using my Tesla referral, congrats, thank you. Erlin and Edwin, referrals are pending, came in within minutes of each other on April 8th, so let me know if that’s you.
Also just learned Tesla referrals work outside the US, Abby’s cousin Joy ordered a Model Y in the Philippines and used my code for the discount. Apparently anywhere except China. If you’re picking up your first Tesla, anywhere in the world, the link’s there.
Wrap
Cybertruck day in Temecula was a reminder of why these meets keep getting better, DIY garage builds running next to shop-grade wraps, voice-controlled accessories, and a coffee trailer literally powered by a truck. Empire Customs and the Tesla community put on a good one.
If you came up and said hi at the event, appreciate you. Next time we cross paths, hopefully I can get you on camera for some EV Confessions. Drop your thoughts below.
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