Space Camper’s Cap transforms the Cybertruck into a van or camper from $6,385.
The Cap increases interior height by 5 inches, offering 40 inches of total usable space.
Optional extras include roof tents, wall storage, LED lighting, and even a shower kit.
Love it or hate it, there’s no denying the Cybertruck has carved out its niche. It might split opinions even harder than its sharp angles and stainless steel skin, but that hasn’t stopped buyers from snapping them up, making it the best-selling vehicle priced over $100,000 in the first half of 2024. Naturally, those sales have fueled a growing market for accessories, with independent companies eager to cash in.
One of the more interesting offerings comes from Space Camper, whose latest product, the Cap, turns the back of Tesla’s electric pickup into either a mobile living space or a practical, enclosed cargo area.
The Cap essentially reimagines the Cybertruck’s profile, flattening the roofline to give it the silhouette of an SUV or a panel van. It also adds five inches (13 cm) of height, resulting in an interior space that stands 40 inches (101 cm) tall from the bed floor. By default, it comes in gloss black, but for anyone who’s particular about color coordination, it can be wrapped in any shade you prefer.
Functional Features & Camper Potential
When paired with optional accessories like spanner bars, mole panels, and roof bars, the Cap takes the Cybertruck’s utility up a notch. It’s especially well-suited for camper conversions as it’s compatible with most roof tents and awnings, offering buyers a solid foundation to build their dream overlanding setup.
Inside, you can fit a mattress, wall-mounted storage, LED lights, and even a projector if you’re aiming for a cozy, all-in-one mobile home vibe. And yes, there’s even an optional shower kit if you want to round out the creature comforts.
Despite its added bulk, the Cap keeps things relatively lightweight at 170 lbs (77 kg) without extras. According to the company, the aerodynamic profile reduces the Cybertruck’s range by around 4-9%, though as always, actual mileage will vary depending on how heavy your right foot is. The roof supports up to 270 lbs (122 kg) while driving, and 650 lbs (295 kg) when parked.
Pricing & Delivery Details
Space Camper plans to begin deliveries of the Cap in June 2025. Pricing starts at $6,385, albeit without the optional extras highlighted in the video. Beyond a roof tent and awning of their choice, camping enthusiasts will need to budget an additional $180 for ventilation fans, $450 for the custom mattress, $450 for bed lights, $830 for wall storage, $900 for the projector kit, and $1,245 for the shower kit.
For buyers planning to use their Cybertruck more like a work van, functional add-ons like spanner bars and mole panels are $175 each, while a set of roof-mounted crossbars costs $270.
Space Camper isn’t stopping at the Cap. The company has also developed the Wedge, a more involved camper conversion first teased through a series of renderings back in 2022. Priced at $24,000, production has been delayed due to funding issues, though Space Camper claims the final design is ready and aims to kick off manufacturing this summer.
Other Alternatives
There are also a few other options for Cybertruck owners eyeing a camper conversion. Another American company, Cybertruck Co, currently offers a similar setup priced between $9,700 and $11,700. For those who prefer something simpler—or cheaper—Tesla itself sells a branded Cyber Tent accessory for $2,975. However, compared to the aftermarket choices, Tesla’s tent seems to fall short on ease of use.
Even with reports of cooling demand, Tesla still managed to move 38,965 Cybertrucks in 2024, ensuring there’s a solid customer base for third-party accessories. As more customization options hit the market, Cybertruck owners have increasing flexibility to tailor their electric trucks for work, adventure, or a bit of both.
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Several grassroots campaigns aim to halt the privatization of county-owned nursing homes, which tend to be better staffed, have higher quality of care and draw fewer complaints than facilities owned by for-profits and nonprofits.
A for-profit company decided against buying Lincoln County’s nursing home following an organizer and board member’s lawsuit. Organizing in Sauk County has drawn federal regulators’ attention. Public nursing home supporters in St. Croix County packed a meeting where board members ultimately voted against selling.
Listen to Addie Costello’s story from WPR.
Nancy Roppe, 64, has advice for anyone speaking at a Portage County Board meeting: Write your statement down, rehearse it ahead of time and keep it under three minutes.
As she leaves home for each board meeting, her husband Joe offers his own advice to his wife: “Don’t get tased.”
Roppe, a self-described “five foot nothing, crippled little old lady,” fiercely opposes selling Portage County’s public nursing home to a private bidder. She’s spent years causing “good trouble” in voicing that opinion to elected board members. Deputies have escorted her out of meetings “more than once,” she said.
Board members say the county can no longer afford to operate the nursing home. They see Roppe differently, describing her as caustic, extremely loud and unproductive. But it’s hard to deny the impact she and other organizers have achieved. The nursing home remains in county hands — for now.
During years of debate over the Portage County Health Care Center’s fate, organizers successfully landed two referendums on the ballot to increase its funding, both of which voters approved. And after Roppe and her colleagues in 2024 highlighted the poor reputation of one potential buyer, the board chose not to accept its offer.
Several grassroots campaigns across Wisconsin aim to halt the privatization of county-owned nursing homes, which tend to be better staffed, have higher quality of care and draw fewer complaints than facilities owned by for-profits and nonprofits, as WPR and Wisconsin Watch previously reported.
A sign paid for by members of the Facebook group Save the Portage County Health Care Center hangs on the fence at the Pacelli Catholic Elementary School — St. Stephen on Dec. 17, 2024, in Stevens Point, Wis. (Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch)
Blue hour falls beyond the Portage County Health Care Center on Dec. 17, 2024, in Stevens Point, Wis. The nursing home holds a perfect 5-star federal rating under county ownership. (Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch)
Portage County, whose nursing home holds a perfect 5-star federal rating, was one of at least five Wisconsin counties last year that considered selling, started the sales process or sold their county-owned nursing homes citing budgetary concerns.
Proponents of keeping nursing homes in county hands have created social media pages, yard signs, T-shirts, and petitions and led protests — all dedicated to slowing and stopping sales.
A for-profit company decided against buying Lincoln County’s nursing home after an organizer and board member sued the county over the sale. Organizing in Sauk County has drawn federal regulators’ attention. Public nursing home supporters in St. Croix County packed a meeting where board members ultimately voted against selling.
But some of those victories may prove short-lived. Sauk County’s board approved a buyer last year, Lincoln County is looking for new buyers, and the Portage County Board voted in December to again consider a sale.
“If I can throw a monkey wrench in what they’re trying to do, I’m going to exhaust every possible avenue to do that,” Roppe said in an interview.
But after years of fighting the sale, she might be running out of options.
Sister’s memory fuels advocacy
Roppe’s older sister Carol could make friends with complete strangers.
“That was one of her best things,” Roppe recalled. “She just knew everybody.”
Carol, a longtime nurse, was 57 years old when she began needing care following a kidney cancer diagnosis. She lived at home between treatments — until the day she fell. The cancer had deteriorated her spine, which the small slip fractured. With no way for her family to give her proper care at home, she moved into the Portage County Health Care Center.
Roppe visited her every day until Carol died in 2015.
When the Portage County Board started discussing selling the nursing home, Roppe started to speak up at its meetings, tapping her comfort with public speaking.
“I got a big mouth and I use it,” she said.
“I got a big mouth and I use it,” says Nancy Roppe, who has spent years organizing against Portage County’s plan to sell its public nursing home. She is shown making public comments during a meeting of the Portage County Board on Dec. 17, 2024, in Stevens Point, Wis. (Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch)
In 2018 Roppe and other organizers campaigned for people to vote in favor of a ballot referendum to raise taxes to keep the nursing home in county hands.
Voters approved it with 61% of the vote.
But Portage County board members worry about more than just operating costs. The center was built in 1931 and hasn’t been significantly updated in 30 years. The building needs major renovations, board members and advocates acknowledge.
A 2022 referendum asked voters whether they would take on higher taxes to build a new facility. That passed, too, earning 59% of the vote.
But county leaders haven’t moved forward with construction. They say the county can’t afford it, even with the voter-approved levy, due to rising construction costs. The board rejected advocates’ calls for yet another referendum.
“Is this a business that Portage County should be in?” That’s what Portage County Board Chair Ray Reser asks. He says the county board is focused on keeping the nursing home beds in Portage County, even if the county no longer owns them. The groundswell of support for the nursing home doesn’t surprise him.
“It’s a really beloved institution in the county,” Reser said, while adding that it’s not the facility it once was.
When Carol moved into the nursing home, Roppe knew it didn’t have the newest amenities or the nicest building. But it had the best care, which the federal government still rates “much above average.”
Portage County’s only other nursing home is for-profit and rated “below average.”
Roppe now spends some entire days organizing to protect the nursing home, even though a decade has passed since her sister lived there.
Before major board votes, the Roppes post the meeting agenda and other details to their “Save the Portage County Health Care Center” Facebook group.” Nancy prints and delivers agendas to advocates without social media and crafts her own public statement. Joe sets up a livestream of the meetings for those wanting to watch at home, and Nancy arrives in-person at least 15 minutes early.
Nancy follows each meeting by typing up a colorful summary to share with those who couldn’t watch. “The Grinch is alive and well in Portage County,” she wrote in December after the board voted to solicit buyers.
“I enjoy the fight,” she said. “I wish I didn’t have to fight, but I’ll take the fight on.”
Nancy Roppe leaves a Dec. 17, 2024, meeting of the Portage County Board in Stevens Point, Wis., after the board advanced plans to sell the Portage County Health Care Center. (Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch)
St. Croix County organizers see victory
Nearly 200 miles west of Portage County, the St. Croix Health Care Campus is no longer the subject of a privatization debate.
A discussion about selling prompted opponents to flood a St. Croix County board meeting last August.
“There were more than 100 rather annoyed old people there,” said 70-year-old Celeste Koeberl, who attended.
The board ultimately voted to keep the highly rated nursing home public, determining its revenue would likely grow, aided by higher state reimbursements and a federal grant to open a dementia wing.
Board Chair Bob Long said his colleagues never seriously considered a sale. But Koeberl credits local organizers with a victory.
“I think that that’s an encouraging thing, that when we show up, when we speak up, we can make a positive difference, and we should remember that,” Koeberl said.
She doesn’t know anyone at the nursing home but joined neighbors in opposing the sale after learning about the possibility last summer — seeing the center as providing quality care that the county can’t afford to lose.
“Everybody has experience with an older person in their family who needs help, and everybody who faces that learns the dearth of resources,” Koeberl said.
In Portage County, nursing home advocates face challenges in maintaining the energy that propelled them early in their fight. They regularly filled county board meetings years ago, Nancy Roppe said, but now just six to eight attend each meeting, with additional folks at particularly important ones. Some core group members have died in recent years.
“People are going to get older and sicker and are just not going to be able to physically do it anymore,” Roppe said.
Community members listen to a discussion about selling the Portage County Health Care Center during a meeting of the Portage County Board on Dec. 17, 2024, in Stevens Point, Wis. (Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch)
Portage County Board Chair Ray Reser, right, watches the vote tally on a proposal to move forward in selling the county’s public nursing home during a meeting on Dec. 17, 2024, in Stevens Point, Wis. (Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch)
At a December board meeting, nine people testified against selling, with two speaking in favor. Still, the board voted 17-8 to move a step closer by approving a potential sale.
Roppe likes to remind her colleagues that they have a winning record so far, despite the challenges.
“You cannot now get all depressed,” she said. “The fight continues.”
Advocates take case to state officials
Portage County’s nursing home debate has swirled for the majority of Grace Skibicki’s 14 years living there. She can’t recall any board members seeking her opinion.
“What’s their beef with us?” Skibicki asked. “Is it because we’re old and we don’t count?”
She moved into the nursing home following a stroke in 2011. Without an easy way to join meetings from the nursing home, she relies on friends for updates.
Skibicki worries public pressure won’t be enough to persuade the board to tap the brakes on a sale. Board members won’t be up for reelection until 2026.
But selling the facility would also require state approval.
That’s why the Roppes and more than a dozen public nursing home advocates from Sauk, Portage, Lincoln, Marathon and Walworth counties met with state officials in January in Madison — a two-hour trip from Stevens Point in Portage County.
It was the organizers’ first meeting after years of advocating in individual counties.
Opponents of privatizing county-owned nursing homes led by Nancy Roppe, left, walk past the Wisconsin State Capitol en route to a meeting with state officials on Jan. 9, 2025, in Madison, Wis. “I wish I didn’t have to fight, but I’ll take the fight on,” Roppe says of her effort to keep Portage County’s nursing home public. (Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch)
“We were working more in our own little backyard, where now we’re branching out to say, ‘Hey, we need help from the state,’” Nancy Roppe said.
The organizers rehearsed questions in a hotel conference room before meeting with officials at the Department of Health Services and the Office of the Secretary of State.
The state can block individual sales based on a buyer’s financial instability or poor past performance. But the state can’t force a county to keep its facilities.
No matter what happens in Portage County, Roppe considers all of her effort worth it. Delaying the sale this long matters for residents who have relied on the nursing home in recent years.
Last year she received a reminder of that impact in the mail: a card from a former neighbor whose late husband Paul spent his final years at the Portage County Health Care Center. If not for the facility, she could not imagine where he would have ended up, the neighbor wrote.
“If we did nothing else, there was a place where Paul got the best possible care in his last days,” Roppe said.
Want to advocate on an issue locally? Organizers offer these tips
Capitalize on early momentum. Nancy Roppe recommends collecting emails and phone numbers when a local issue first gets attention.
Don’t duplicate work. Check with other residents about whether they plan to appear at specific meetings, said Celeste Koeberl. That way more local meetings can get covered with advocates’ limited time.
In considering big asks, like urging residents to call or email officials, wait until the most critical moments. Avoid using up folks’ energy too soon on smaller votes, Roppe said.
Engage with officials when votes are still being discussed in committee. Mike Splinter of the Portage County Board said most members decide how they feel on the issue before a vote goes before the whole board. They may be more persuadable when smaller board committees are still hashing out details.
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With the launch of the Home Efficiency (HOMES) rebate program, Wisconsin is the first state in the country to begin utilizing IRA funds to help homeowners increase the energy efficiency of their homes. Focus on Energy launched the program in August 2024. This groundbreaking initiative is designed to help homeowners improve their home’s energy efficiency in a more accessible and cost-effective way.
How to Get a HOMES Rebate
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While renters are not eligible to receive a HOMES rebate, you can encourage your landlord or building owner to participate in the program.
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Reducing Energy Burden
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A Cleaner, Healthier Wisconsin
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The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin is committed to preserving their environment and fostering sustainable growth. In the face of a rapidly changing climate, investing in clean energy isn’t just about harnessing the power of the sun and wind—it’s about empowering their community, protecting their sacred lands, and ensuring a vibrant future for generations to come. With increased clean energy funding opportunities, such as those provided by the Inflation Reduction Act, the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin is creating new opportunities, enhancing economic resilience, and supporting the Tribe’s cultural values.
Special thanks to Isaiah Ness (Sun Bear Industries) and Zoar Fulwilder (Mavid Construction Services) for their work to advance clean energy in Tribal communities and for inviting RENEW to witness the transformation.
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