New videos of Tesla Cybertruck off-roading appear to show it struggling to climb up a steep dirt hill::One video showed a 1946 Jeep CJ-2A successfully navigating the same hill that the Cybertruck struggled to summit.

  • Joker@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    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.

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        1 year ago

        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

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            1 year ago

            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

          • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Yes, but very few other trucks also have Elon Musk’s stupid ass going up on stage claiming they’ll “Have the best approach angle and the best departure angle,” and “You’ll basically be able to run the Baja 1000 rally in it.”

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              Wh… the approach and departure angles are atrocious, just look at it. The man really will piss on your leg and tell you it’s raining.

              Looked like the driver was sweating balls just trying not to get beached on camera.

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          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.

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            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

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              Yes lower RPM of the tires and some sort of electronic locker front and rear would probably make this perform much better.

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      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.

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        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.

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      Uh… where are the headlights on that thing?

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      Criticizes the “no-video article”. Posts Meta link :/
      But yeah, that’s a bucket-o-bolts!

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      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