Never wrap a strap around the towing ball. That is extremely dangerous and has killed people on many occasions as the ball can easily break off and become a high speed projectile. They are not designed for that type of load.
Great point, especially from Harbor Freight! Hmmmm, spent 100k on a battery operated adult toy but skimp on straps and not using the proper hooks to do this useless test. Diesel blows away anything when it comes to hauling.
Crazy we are going backwards in technology and cant see it why would i want something i have to charge for hours that’s powered by A plant somewhere thats powered by oil 🤡🤡🤡
@sham_iziofficial7827 You can't escape the oil. Either you carry the oil product with you to generate heat and mechanical motion, or you have the the electric company generate electricity and you carry it in batteries.
No, because there's no power going to the motors when it's in park. It's probably just neutral + e-brake when it's off. When you're hitting the gas pedal in this situation there's power going to the motors, but if the motor can't actually turn and the draw shoots through the roof it likely cuts the power to the motors to save them from heating up and burning out.
For real whi the fuck thinks of that???😂. Like the power shuts off when its too heavy??? Sounds like a fucking over glorified golf cart😂😂😂 what a joke. Stay gas
Well, that would mean you overloaded the truck, and that could happen to any truck that's overloaded. I've seen plenty of trucks get pushed by their loads going down the mountains in AZ to where they jack knife, so is that the trucks fault or the owners?
So, here is a real life question to this situation with the Cyber Truck. In this video they proved that the software of the truck shuts down the propulsion to the drive wheels under extreme resistance to prevent motor burn out. How is a Cyber Truck going to pull out a large heavy boat at a boat ramp where it is slippery and is under a steep grade with a heavy load pulling back on the Truck?
Its not going to be able to because the people making them dont haul things😂. They are nerds who dont go outside or any of that shit. Just a bunch of dreamers
@@user-xh4hy9np4i You forget why the Cyber Truck was made though. Originally was made to be better than a truck at an affordable price. They then just decided to make it an iconic vehicle at an expensive price. They don’t want broke people buying it, people buying it buy it for looks. All it is
Simple solution. You need to plug trailer lights & brakes into the trailer plug, so that cyber truck thinks you towing a trailer and switches into a trailer mode or manually enable trailer mode.
Wouldn't mounting the trailer hitch be a better point for that to enable? A lot of things I've had to pull didn't have an electric plug so it seems like a bad design if there is no way to manually toggle it.
Regardless of a silly tug of war I would pick a diesel every single time period. This was supposed to be entertaining or at least mildly interesting but it’s just another example of how RU-vid has become flooded with talentless “creators” trying to get rich without working a real job
This is what happens when you have clowns playing with big boy toys! If any of these guys worked for a living this video would be good. The only thing that looks bad is the people in this video. I cant believe they even published this for the world to see!
If you guys get it figured out, You better do the right thing and add weight to the truck that is going against the cyber truck to equal it in weight, typically whoever has the most weight wins.
I’m not driving anything that favors nothing more than a trash can they could have at least made it look like something that you would want to be seen in.
Thing is because of the looks you are seen in it. In any other truck no one notices you. I think that was the idea behind this design. It was for fun and people that like having fun.
Well it seems you don't want to be seen at all. All other trucks look the exact same, so no one notices your very cool boring F150 since it is the same as all other trucks. You see someone in a cyber truck and you will notice them
Imagine driving a cyber truck and thinking your cool that people are looking at you drive it? I could see it if yiu are driving some exotic car or an old hotrod but a cybertruck? Seems more like an ego boost.
@@uniqueperspective9078 awe did somebody get triggered... It's called humor btw, maybe you should try it sometime, might help not be so sensitive and getting offended by every little thing.
The bros opened their mouths and proved that between them all they knew less about everything they “tried” to do than my dog… the one who is on my mantle as ashes now.
Imagine, pulling a trailer that weighs 2x more than your pick up up hill, and because of that your truck starts losing power due to a safety feature there’s a reason why the tug-of-war video from Tesla, was filmed at a certain angle to to hide the downhill slope😂😂😂
I see you guys didnt put a tester in the trailer socket and try it in trailer mode but the way i feel why they disabled it is because they did break thr truck in the test...........
This may not be traction control, this may just be a load governor on the motors to make sure there's not so much resistance that they just heat up and burn out. The same way an engine (with direct mechanical drive, such as manual or DCT transmission) will stall out if you are able to hold the crank still, an electric motor's draw on the battery will just sky rocket and turn to heat if you hold the shaft still, and will burn out eventually instead of stalling out. So I think it makes sense to put a governor on it for this reason. They probably disabled the governor in software for that test/ad they did, but the motors probably got hella hot while doing it (just like the Ford's engine was probably at peak load). Of course, once the Ford broke traction it likely got a lot easier to pull. So yea, IMO it's likely a motor controller cap on the amperage draw, not a traction control issue. Current crosses a threshold and it just cuts the power and it rolls. IDK if there will be a simple fuse or anything like that to disable it, I imagine not because there's no reason for an external circuit and there's no real reason to disable it.
Actually, since a tug of war isnt an unrealistic thing to try, the fact that tesla used it as an advertisement was ballsy and pretty much forced them to do something like this to prevent lawsuits.
I still don't know how that stupid unpainted milk float got past the rules for pedestrian safety. All those sharp edges would cripple a pedestrian even at the slowest speed impact.
The electric motors would probably overheat if full power is initiated under that amount of stress. It's more of a toy. Diesel is just better as a workhorse
@claudenormandeau9211 It's a rich kid's toy. My diesel bmw is 16 years old, still working, never spent more than £900 on it at one time, has enough torque to tow. Meanwhile I have friends with 2018 electric cars that need £5k in repairs and no way around it because the tech is too new. You'll have a lesson to learn when you're handed a 10k - 20k repair bill on that big lump 🤣
@@elijahcarr4137 I have a Ford power stroke diesel truck and it's great. I've driven them since 1996. But, you are wrong about electric vehicles and their capabilities. Both are needed and always will be. Also, diesel electric workhorses have been around for a very long time and they always will. Many trains and heavy mining equipment use that technology.
Cybertruck is so powerful that it needs those safeguards to prevent it from killing its own powertrain with torque. Not a concern with teucks normally because they have about a TENTH of the torque.
The CyberTruck might have some programming to limit max force pulling in this situation, but it didn't even spin a tire and it's not like it struggled for 20 seconds then gave up. It really didn't even try. I would not be happy with this. The reality is this behavior by the CyberTruck is a weakness. No excuses about electric motors overheating. For reference, modern trains are electric drive and they apply massive torque for considerable amounts of time. Sure, the CyberTruck isn't a train, but it should be able to pull like an ICE at a minimum.
After you disabled the traction, why TF would you not do what you came to do? Instead you just let the truck pull the Ford in park with no one in it. What is even the point of this video if you are not even going to bother to do the test after you disabled the CT's block.
There's nothing unnatural about that, I've used my truck a number of times to pull out someone else that was stuck and to pull stumps, and if my truck cut power every time I started pulling a stump I would be pissed. And by the way, what's with all the pulling one pavement, don't any of you guys ever get your truck dirty? I challenge someone to an offer pull and they declined. 🤣
Unnatural as in the car starts experiencing a resistance out of nowhere in which this car did. So it would be an unnatural force. You can also just disable this feature so it doesn't happen so what is your point
@@wubnix3979 Don't use your truck for work and do you? As I said, when I hooked up to a stump, I start at 0 mph, apply throttle, and slowly pull stumps out. It's the same tried and true method a lot of old farmers use.
@@henryherron36 and when you start driving the car experiences an unnatural resistance. Normally when you step on the accelerator, the car moves. When you step on the accelerator and it doesn't move, there is something unnatural that happens. The Tesla can sense this and react accordingly. You can totally disable this, but there are things that can automatically change this such as hooking up a trailer will put the truck in trailer mode where the truck expects resistance and changes it's settings accordingly by itself. Or if you would like, you can change it manually.
Tesla renamed this trait 'degenerative braking'. But seriously, I have seen this same thing on every CT vid where they can't climb, also. On one, a Subara zipped up this not-so-steep incline and the CT was stalled out. Then they back up and make a run at it and are able to keep momentum up and make the hill. I'm not a mechanic so I don't know the terms, but it seems like when driving an electric forklift with a load, and it bogs down on the incline, then 'kicks down' into a lower gear and you scoot right up the slope. It seems the CT (and I believe the Rivian) is missing the 'kick-down' capability. I'm assuming this is either an oversight with specifying motors not capable of this operation or some sort of overheating protection for the motors and batteries. Or the low-end torque was sacrificed in order to get better highway mileage out of an obese vehicle that is only getting 2 miles/kWh in normal driving conditions. Using $0.50/kWh supercharging rate, this = $0.25/mile fuel cost for CT. An ICE F-150 at 20 MPG with fuel at $3.00/gal = $0.15/mile fuel cost for Ford. This makes the Ford 40% cheaper to fuel than the CT.
So I'm heading up the mountain range with my 4 ton excavator on a trailer you are saying don't stop cause it will disable the power train and freewheel back down. Sounds like fun.
It most certainly is if the vehicle you're going against is lower to the ground. It pulls you down into the ground, giving you more traction while simultaneously lifting the rear end of the other vehicle, making their traction worse. It's almost as if your vehicle gets heavier and theirs gets lighter.
