Anyone see the whistling Diesel video where Tesla's so call "advanced castings" ripped the back of the vehicle off and is in no way safe for towing heavy loads? I mean look at how tiny the mounts are that connect hitch to frame of the vehcile. This is insanity and people are gonna get killed because of it!
"2 months ago" ... a coon's age in Tesla software versions. Slack tow chain broke it: This is how they did it. Nothing is indestructible and snapping a tow line or chain is notorious for overloading structures. The vehicle being towed should have had the brakes on to prevent slack from overloading or even running into the tow vehicle. It is called an impulse load. So then they drove on: In fact, they continued "testing" a truck they'd already broken. More "testing" of an already broken truck: Funny video while more Cybertrucks rolled off the line into the hands of customers: "In June 2024, Tesla announced that it had reached a production record of 1,300 Cybertrucks per week". So in the two months, 8 weeks, since the video was released, a minimum of 10,400 trucks came off the line. Munro was pointing out the speed of production of body casting is what makes production numbers like this impressive. Regardless, this first model year is going to have "infantile" problems. Only Tesla doesn't wait a model year to implement them. I'm not in the market for a Cybertruck or an F150. But that is not why I sold my Tesla stock. Bob Wilson
Funny how you intentionally left out the part that the Ford F150 went through all the same tests as the cybertruck and wasn't destroyed but was still functional? I mean towing 11K pounds with those thin metal castings is no different than the thick forged steel beams on the ford truck, right? Lol... Tesla fanboys are hilarious... Almost as bad as Trumpers, but not quite.
Did you miss the explosive and mob attack? Now if the F-150 had a slack chain attached to an immovable object or another F-150 and spun the wheels like the dust kicked up by the Cybertruck (go see the video), it would be a more equal test. But they didn’t do that. I no longer own Tesla stock and my last job at General Electric was integration and test. So like the old Top Gear ‘test’ of the roadster, I know the difference between a clown show and engineering testing. Bob Wilson
Yeah... There's many reasons it's an apples to oranges comparison and I bummed the cybertruck failed so quickly because I bet they had lots of other even more hilarious tests. But the point of this thread is the inferiority of their casting method when it comes to securing and safely hauling an 11K pound load. Casting may lower production costs, but it's the wrong material for that job.
I did not see a test against an 11K tow load. Where was it in the video? There is something called a mechanical fuse. The Cybertruck drove off which is how a mechanical fuse works. BTW, there is a video of a Cybertruck at a tractor pull contest. Do you need me to look it up for you? Testing seeks facts and data. Max acceleration with a slack chain has nothing to do with an 11k tow test. Bob Wilson
Well this explains a lot: Ford Motor Co. plans to stop building its F-150 Lightning from mid-November through the end of the year amid lower-than-expected demand for the electric pickup. Bob Wilson
Looks like an actual ev work truck is spanking both Ford and Tesla. Bonus: it's rear bumper won't rip off under load
Yeah... The numbers don't add up in terms of cost of operation for a work truck... In the future when we got power walls in every garage and solar on every roof the cost of operation numbers would be great, but not until then.
From what I can tell the Ram Charger plug-in hybrid pickup (deliveries starting in a few weeks) will be the first of plugin pickups designed to support 5th Wheel Towing. Looking forward to seeing how that works out. Oh, Plus, 600 Mi range & DC quick charging. On a different note, the EV Silverado with its 460 Mi range looks like a real eye-opener, but with that 6 figure price? What are they going to do start doing car loans for 10 years? .
