In December, Tesla-founder Elon Musk announced that he was working on an innovative car charger.

'[It] automatically moves out from the wall and connects like a solid metal snake. For realz,' he tweeted.

Now, the company has revealed the creepy prototype in action – and it looks like something out of a science fiction horror film.

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Tesla announced earlier this year that it was developing an automatic charging system that it described as a 'solid metal snake'. Now the electric car maker has provided a short video of how it works

A video posted on Tesla's Twitter account today shows the probing metal snake slithering its way to the car before beginning the charging process.

It hasnot yet been announced when Model S owners could own the snake charger, or how much it would cost.

But it seems Tesla has to address a few things on its Model S first.

Earlier today Tesla said it had sent a software patch to address security flaws in the Tesla Model S sedan that could allow hackers to take control of the vehicle.

Cybersecurity researchers said they had taken control of a Model S and turned it off at low speed, according to a report by the Financial Times.

In December, Tesla-founder Elon Musk announced that he was working on an innovative car charger. '[It] automatically moves out from the wall and connects like a solid metal snake. For realz,' he tweeted

Tesla confirmed elements of the story and said it already has issued a software patch to owners.

The hack was undertaken by Kevin Mahaffey, chief technology officer of cybersecurity firm Lookout, and Marc Rogers, principal security researcher at Cloudflare.

They said they decided to hack a Tesla car because the company has a reputation for understanding software that is better than that of most automakers, the FT said.

'We shut the car down when it was driving initially at a low speed of five miles per hour,' the newspaper quoted Rogers as saying.

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'All the screens go black, the music turns off and the handbrake comes on, lurching it to a stop.'

Tesla said it had developed and deployed an over-the-air update to Model S owners to address the 'vulnerabilities'.

In a statement, Tesla said the hackers did not turn off the car remotely, but from inside the vehicle.

The hack will be detailed at cybersecurity conference Def Con in Las Vegas on Friday, the FT said.