New videos of Tesla Cybertruck off-roading appear to show it struggling to climb up a steep dirt hill
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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.
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Crap article that doesnβt even have the video in question. Here it is. The Cybertruck sure does look unimpressive in the video. Itβs making weird rattling sounds too. This thing looks like a shit box.
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.
Thanks for the direct link, saved me needing to visit the article.
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.
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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