We all know that Cybertrucks have had a less-thank-lackluster release. Not many of these trucks could have been made yet.
Nonetheless, video-after-video of these beasts keep getting stuck in the mud snow in this case, now with snowy weather blanketing part of the north-east. Jalopnik is blaming tires, which sounds like a possibly valid issue.
But given the failures in the mud last month, I’m now wondering how much of this is perhaps a bad traction-control algorithm, or other feature of the cybertruck? Maybe its just the shear mass alone that is wrecking the traction.
In either case: the Cybertruck has no staying power in mud or snow. I can’t imagine this going well in any offroading event or other similar trucking duty. If the cybertruck loses traction in these simple snow cases, there’s no way it could be used as a plow for example.
That’s a stupid truck, and it probably has a billion flaws in addition to poor traction control.
But that’s more snow than anyone should be trying to drive through. It’s at least 18 inches of uncompressed powder, judging from the tire tracks which are probably compacted ice.
Snow tires might help, but that should be plowed or shoveled before you drive over it.
Edit: Jesus fucking Christ, I don’t give a shit if you go rally racing in the Himalayas in a Ford Pinto. Congratulations, you win the Golden Shut the Fuck Up. This is a 5 second clip of a cybertruck spinning out because they pulled into an unplowed driveway. My point was just that you shouldn’t do that. Shovel your fucking driveway. Would a proper 4wd vehicle handle that? Probably. But ice is ice, and you shouldn’t expect a car that’s still loading polygons to have magical friction powers.
but that should be plowed
Pickup Trucks are traditionally the vehicle you hook up snowplows to.
Cybertruck fails at one of the most basic, and assumed, pickup-truck duties. Driving through the snow reliably. Now yes, bigger trucks (F250 or F350) are used, but F150 class (roughly where Cybertruck competes in) can handle light-duty plowing. But it has to be able to drive in the snow reliably first.
Unless you plow the snow in front of the truck a snow plow would also get stuck in the snow.
Snows plows work by removing large deposits of snow so the vehicles don’t bottom out and have less snow to get through to get traction.
You don’t seriously think trucks are magically immune from getting stuck do you? They require the right gear and equipment first, like anything else.
There’s literally footage of a Toyota Tundra towing the Cybertruck in the snow here. Toyota Tundra. Nothing special or crazy here.
Cybertruck (possibly due to the tires) is failing here. Now hopefully we can see some news and get to the bottom of this bad performance, but its not looking good right now. I recognize that snow can be complex and a bunch of little decisions mess things up. But as other commenters put out, extra-hard tires are better for efficiency (which is horrifying, as Cybertruck’s range has turned out to be awful as well). So it looks like this thing is a piece of shit all around.
Upgrade the tires to something with more snow-traction, and bam, there goes your “efficiency”. Cybertruck will likely lose another dozen miles or more from its already abysmal 250ish mile range.
Cybertruck just has awful specs all around, any changes now to be more practical or pragmatic (ex: with better snow tires) are going to hamper its specs.
18 inches? 12 at most and I would be laughing my ass off going through that in my XC60.
Hahahahaha, fucking idiot that Muskrat is, so is anyone who bought this POS
Hold on, I thought the truck was a joke, a publicity stunt like the robot… Did people actually pay real money for one? PS1 nostalgia?
I wonder why Ford never designed a cyber truck…
Probably because they’re pieces of trash that way a bajillion tons.