Crap article that doesn’t even have the video in question. Here it is. The Cybertruck sure does look unimpressive in the video. It’s making weird rattling sounds too. This thing looks like a shit box.
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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The noises are someone in the background, not coming from the truck
I think you’re right; seems like it’s coming from the guy putting his car on a trailer. Cybertruck still looks like it’s not cut out for off roading though
Look at the tires, they are pretty suboptimal.
I switched to an EV 3 years ago and there is way too much torque at low rpm. The power curve just probably isn't designed for loose dirt. Not to mention the cyber truck weighs a billion pounds.
The torque issue would be really easy to fix. The beauty of EVs is everything is computer controlled, so it'd be as simple as programming in a "low" mode by making the motors deliver power/torque on a much more gradual curve relative to pedal input (emulating a traditional gearboxes low range gears). The weight might be less of an issue at that point, although it's still going to be a problem no matter how you slice it
Yes lower RPM of the tires and some sort of electronic locker front and rear would probably make this perform much better.
It kinda looks like a golf cart wrapped in foil
cut-out, hah
Feels like very few trucks and "offroad-ready" vehicles nowadays are actually cut out for real offroading
They should 100% be able to handle that offroading...my Elantra would be able to get up that hill better then that deformed junk pile
My only defense of the Cybertruck will be that it isn't the thing making the rattling sound (or the squeaking noise). That's the sound of the tilt-bed trailer you see toward the end of the video, that some guy is putting his jeep onto. However your assessment that it looks unimpressive is spot on. It looks like a lumbering, inelegant heap (more so than most pickups) and it moves like a Power Wheels.
Honestly, it is! It's big, it's lumbering, it's heavy AF. Somehow, with small-arms resistant steel for doors, it's 2000 lbs lighter than the Hummer EV and I would still have expected the Hummer to have less trouble with that hill. Hard to tell from this video though honestly - an inexperienced off-roader in a Jeep/Raptor/whatever could have had just as much trouble as the Cybertruck did here.
I think Tesla is struggling with the cybertruck. They have a lot of skills and lessons learned from their other vehicles, but a truck is completely different in use case. They seem out of their depth here.
Disclaimer: I'm not an Elon/Tesla hater. I want to see them succeed for a number of reasons. I want to like the Cybertruck. It ain't there yet.
That jeep is awesome.
I had a guy on one of my old delivery routes that had a WWII jeep he restored a drove everywhere. That thing was absolutely amazing!
I think the closest modern equivalent is the Suzuki Jimny. This small car goes anywhere.
Pretty sure it's ability is what everyone is trying to recreate with their modern rogs.
Uh... where are the headlights on that thing?
It doesn't need them, it uses the reflected light of other cars to see.
It is designed so brilliant lights are redundant.
Criticizes the "no-video article". Posts Meta link :/
But yeah, that's a bucket-o-bolts!
I mean that is the source.
They're super heavy, not something you want over rough terrain...
Last year a woman driving a Honda EV got stuck in the snow near me. My nephew, my brothers, myself and two of my sisters tried to push it out of the snow bank. We barely managed with a lot of shoveling and traction aids.
With any other car two of us would have had it out in five minutes. The weight of those batteries is a problem
God damn is that thing ugly as fucking sin. It’s like they went out of their way to make it as fucking ugly as possible.
It's kind of cool in a retro futurism kind of way but no shot I'd be rolling around in that thing.
I unironically like it.
However, it does need to have an automated machine gun turret to actually tie the aesthetic together.
I hate Elon Musk and I still like the cybertruck.
I'm ashamed but I'd probably buy one and be happy with it, 100% in the city, doing mostly light hobby work, towing a boat, or locally camping.
Don't hate him enough to not fork over a ton of cash to his pocket for the uglymobile
It looks like it came from the Battlestar Galactica 1980s tv series prop collection. Should come with a robot dog.
It has worse aerodynamics than a Jeep Wrangler, too.
It has worse aerodynamics than a double wide getting pulled down the freeway.
How do you have worse aerodynamics than two bricks stacked on top of each other
Here you go
And the Jeep Gladiator. Combined. lol
Funny if true. Have a source?
That is one stupid ugly vehicle.
Definitelt ain't winning any style or beauty awards.
Uhhh check the difference in the tires on the two vehicles, pretty sure that makes a difference
I think that the most difference is the weight of the two vehicles.... Most modern cars are way too heavy, and the cybertruck is an extreme example of bloat
It comes down to having tires sized to carry the weight. A heavy vehicle would need tires the size of those Russian off-road vehicles to match the light Jeep. Also why light offroad vehicles like a Polaris side-by-side are so popular now with people that drive trails. And why you would never want to take those lifted full-sized trucks off road even though they are popular on the highway.
While it's pretty pathetic that a modern 4WD system can't control wheel slip quicker than that, those drivers obviously don't have a clue what they're doing.
Driver definitely didn't look confident in their ability or seem to have any kind of plan.
It looks like the driver was struggling more than the vehicle
Didn't it struggle climbing a curb? What makes them think it can off-road?
The only difference is that when it comes to repairing the clutch on the jeep, you can just go get a coffee with your Tesla because it doesn't have one. I bet that the Tesla just needs a lower gear to win that competition. The jeep wins because it's very light and has a low gear.
Repairing a clutch in a jeep like that isn't a big deal. Those things were actually designed to be repaired in the field easily.