Tesla Model X WHIPS the Ford F150
Watch a F150 get whipped by a SUV.....
https://insideevs.com/news/387401/video-tesla-mod ... ford-f150/
Wait for the CyberTruck...
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/off-topic/43 ... war-2.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/sciencetech/vid ... phill.html
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https://insideevs.com/news/387401/video-tesla-mod ... ford-f150/
Wait for the CyberTruck...
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/off-topic/43 ... war-2.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/sciencetech/vid ... phill.html
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It is hardly news that a pickup has poor rear wheel traction without a load in the box. Much better would be to load both vehicles with a ton or so. And both two wheel drive. This only tested tire traction.
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4000 HP and 20,000 LBFT isn't worth a crap if you can't get it to the and keep it on the ground!!, There is a ton of videos of gas suv's pulling modified diesel trucks but just add a ton of so in the bed and rerun the same test! I'm sure the outcome will be different
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The Tesla may win this one but dont throw a rock at it!
Teslas trucks biggest selling point is its price. Its finally competing in price with others, but it has to be durable too. Time will tell.
Teslas trucks biggest selling point is its price. Its finally competing in price with others, but it has to be durable too. Time will tell.
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Barney, did you put in a pre-order for Elon’s pickup truck?
Someone said they come from the factory with no drivers side window installed. Weird... It must be to keep it from getting damaged or something I suppose.
Someone said they come from the factory with no drivers side window installed. Weird... It must be to keep it from getting damaged or something I suppose.
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All these supposed contests are meaningless. The Tesla car weighs over 5,000 lbs.
That being said, here mare my thoughts on the Cybertruck. Bed is tiny, maybe OK for a homeowner but not for commercial use. It's a unibody so no chassis cab, meaning no dumps, utility bodies, wreckers, stake bodies, nothing.
Then being that a Model X weighs 5,500 lbs, the Cybertruck must weigh quite a bit more. They are claiming a 3,500 lbs payload capacity in the bed. I figure the Cybertruck is going to have a GVWR of 10,000 or more. Now any commercial use and you are a motor carrier under FMCSA rules. Logging device, driver's physicals, prehire and random drug testing, USDOT#, and a whole bunch of record keeping. And you can't even carry a single beer or any alcoholic beverage in it, not ever, zero tolerance.
Good luck getting your employees to comply with all that.
That being said, here mare my thoughts on the Cybertruck. Bed is tiny, maybe OK for a homeowner but not for commercial use. It's a unibody so no chassis cab, meaning no dumps, utility bodies, wreckers, stake bodies, nothing.
Then being that a Model X weighs 5,500 lbs, the Cybertruck must weigh quite a bit more. They are claiming a 3,500 lbs payload capacity in the bed. I figure the Cybertruck is going to have a GVWR of 10,000 or more. Now any commercial use and you are a motor carrier under FMCSA rules. Logging device, driver's physicals, prehire and random drug testing, USDOT#, and a whole bunch of record keeping. And you can't even carry a single beer or any alcoholic beverage in it, not ever, zero tolerance.
Good luck getting your employees to comply with all that.
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Like NBC's GM truck crash test, this test was rigged to give a predetermined result.
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good luck getting bulk coal in the tesla or hauling a sofa or a yard of mulch.
i don't personally know one person that owns a tesla. they are overpriced crap!
i don't personally know one person that owns a tesla. they are overpriced crap!
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That Cybertruck is like the Semi, it really serves no commercial purpose. Every video or picture of the Semi that is supposed to be Proof of it hauling full truckloads is either of it hauling four 5,000 lbs cars, or about a little over 30,000 lbs of concrete blocks. My diesel powered day cab tractors pulling that same steel flatbed can haul 50ish and my tractors aren't light. That Semi must weigh at least two times what my diesels do.
Then there is the recharging of the one megawatt hour battery. To do that in 1/2 hour as Tesla claims you will need a 2+ MWh supply. That will give you the capacity to charge 48 trucks per day. We're talking large pad mount transformer, and God only knows how much powerline. It's not like there are extra megawatts of power at the street in most places. And can you imagine how much power you'd have to run to a truckstop? Normal truckstops run on less than 500 kilowatts. Super Center Walmarts have like a 500KW transformer
Then there is the recharging of the one megawatt hour battery. To do that in 1/2 hour as Tesla claims you will need a 2+ MWh supply. That will give you the capacity to charge 48 trucks per day. We're talking large pad mount transformer, and God only knows how much powerline. It's not like there are extra megawatts of power at the street in most places. And can you imagine how much power you'd have to run to a truckstop? Normal truckstops run on less than 500 kilowatts. Super Center Walmarts have like a 500KW transformer
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Barney, I could take my old 72 f-250 with the inline 6 , put a Tesla car in the back of it and drag another one uphill.... It's a matter of traction and to get traction it comes down to weight and the amount of rubber going to the ground.
If you have a heavier vehicle with more traction you could put a lawnmower engine in it with the right gearing and win... You've been fooled.
If you have a heavier vehicle with more traction you could put a lawnmower engine in it with the right gearing and win... You've been fooled.