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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1631 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.

    • @nodsocket
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      • @NOT_RICK
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        321 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

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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          141 year ago

          Feels like very few trucks and “offroad-ready” vehicles nowadays are actually cut out for real offroading

          • FiveMacs
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            121 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 🐧🗡️
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            31 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.”

            • @[email protected]
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              51 year ago

              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.

        • @Not_Alec_Baldwin
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          81 year ago

          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.

          • @bigmclargehuge
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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

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

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

        • AlphaOmega
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          71 year ago

          It kinda looks like a golf cart wrapped in foil

        • toofpic
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          11 year ago

          cut-out, hah

    • @ilinamorato
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      381 year ago

      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.

      • @daed
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        21 year ago

        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.

    • @Dippy
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      111 year ago

      That jeep is awesome.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        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!

      • @postmateDumbass
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        11 year ago

        Pretty sure it’s ability is what everyone is trying to recreate with their modern rogs.

    • toofpic
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      41 year ago

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

      • @vind
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        181 year ago

        I mean that is the source.

    • @OrteilGenou
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      31 year ago

      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

  • @thorbot
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    661 year ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      It’s kind of cool in a retro futurism kind of way but no shot I’d be rolling around in that thing.

      • @[email protected]
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        171 year ago

        I unironically like it.

        However, it does need to have an automated machine gun turret to actually tie the aesthetic together.

        • @Not_Alec_Baldwin
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          61 year ago

          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.

          • @Synthead
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            41 year ago

            Don’t hate him enough to not fork over a ton of cash to his pocket for the uglymobile

      • @postmateDumbass
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        121 year ago

        It looks like it came from the Battlestar Galactica 1980s tv series prop collection. Should come with a robot dog.

    • @Synthead
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      91 year ago

      It has worse aerodynamics than a Jeep Wrangler, too.

      • @anon_8675309
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        111 year ago

        It has worse aerodynamics than a double wide getting pulled down the freeway.

      • @Hoomod
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        61 year ago

        How do you have worse aerodynamics than two bricks stacked on top of each other

  • @[email protected]
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    It’s not even “off road”. It’s struggling to climb a steep, dirt road. Also, anyone who buys a Tesla at this point is a moron.

    • @soEZ
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      81 year ago

      I mean what do ppl expect, it looks like it has normal road tires and weighs probably at 5 k pound… Any truck with that weight/tire setup would struggle…not defending tesla but the expectations are quiet off…

      • toofpic
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        41 year ago

        I had Skoda Yeti, which is 4k pounds, I had road tires, and the car is not even considered a true off-road vehicle. But I climbed hills like that easily, sometimes on cruise-control (I’d disabled it here because of a sharp turn)

    • @SinningStromgald
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      21 year ago

      Definitelt ain’t winning any style or beauty awards.

  • @Bell
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    171 year ago

    Uhhh check the difference in the tires on the two vehicles, pretty sure that makes a difference

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      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

    • @TenderfootGungi
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      01 year ago

      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.

  • @ikidd
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    171 year ago

    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.

    • Jamie
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      31 year ago

      Driver definitely didn’t look confident in their ability or seem to have any kind of plan.

  • Yer Ma
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    81 year ago

    It looks like the driver was struggling more than the vehicle

  • Dojan
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    21 year ago

    Didn’t it struggle climbing a curb? What makes them think it can off-road?

  • @[email protected]
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    -41 year ago

    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.

    • @Duamerthrax
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      81 year ago

      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.