This isn’t the first electric truck to receive the honor as the F-150 Lightning also got five stars.

Tesla tested its Cybertruck in-house before it got in the hands of the NTHSA safety experts. Now, the automaker explains how it got the top rating

Tesla's Cybertruck may boast a polarizing design, but the federal government says it's certainly not an unsafe one. According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration's testing, the Cybertruck has received five-star ratings in multiple safety trial crash tests — and appears even safer than most pickup trucks in at least one category.