FAIL! My Tesla Cybertruck can Tow 11,000 Lbs but Not Very Far! 

Whenever I feel like I'm making bad decisions I come to your channel to watch you make worse ones. Thank you for making me feel better.

Bro. #1 rule before I drive with my kids was seat belt.

I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I am. With all the crazy stories out there about the malfunctions related to this vehicle, having your child in the truck without a seat belt is just plain crazy.

I give it about 4 more episodes before he selling it

Do you realize how hard you two are working to justify the expensive toy you just bought!

Drop down to 65-68, and your range will increase significantly. As a long haul truck driver I can tell you that boat's drag at 77 mph is massive. Drag is the product of the square of velocity, slowing down just a little has a big impact on range. Also, avoid the brake (accelerate more gradually, leave more space).

"Electric pickup" is the new "glass cannon" 🤣

Does you child not need a seat belt on when you showing off the 0-60?

85 miles an hour and he's getting poor milage. I don't understand 😅

Please mention that "Time is Money"! This applies to all EV's. All the time spent having to map out your trip, locating adequate charging stations, having to drive out of your way to get to the charging stations and then back to your trip, having to adjust speeds to maximize distance and finally, the down time you have while the vehicle charges. Add up the cost of your time and lost productivity to the cost of the electricity used and you'll find that conventional gas or diesel vehicles are cheaper to operate. Before I retired I had a large territory of properties I managed and my truck was my office. I had a full size pickup because in addition to my management responsibilities I also had the need to pick up and carry supplies to the properties as well as pulling trailers. Most days i covered about 300 miles, but some weeks I might cover 500+ miles per day. If I had to charge that truck I would've lost so much productivity and my staff wouldn't have the supplies needed to do their jobs. So the only EV I'm interested in is a golf cart to drive around my neighborhood.

I don't understand why people buy this truck!

I have a ram 3500 diesel. I have a 100 gallon tank in the truck bed. The tank in the truck holds 32 gallons. I get 10-12 mpg while towing. So i can go roughly 1,300 miles while towing before needing to refuel. Telsa has got a ways to go 😂

Craig - you can change your charge limit from the phone app. Also you don’t need the phone when you have the keycard to put it in drive, but the card needs to be placed in a very specific spot for the car to read it.

Pro tip as a Tesla owner I have found it easier to go by percentage of the battery rather the calculated miles. To do so just tap on the miles next to the battery icon it will switch back and fourth

Some people learn the easy and inexpensive way: They listen, look, search, research, and read - a lot. Some do it the hard and expensive way: Through direct personal experience; grief, tears, pain, and disappointment. Some never learn...

It was really cool that you didn't block all the chargers with your boat while you charged your truck. Not everyone would be as considerate as you are.

This guy is NJ in a nut shell.

Who doesn't know they lose range when towing? Who buys an EV for distance driving? Where did these idiots get the money?

you have money, just rent a boat slip in a marina. boat stays there and you just drive to it and have fun.

Also your speed is a big factor. If you drive 55 mph it would help

First time I charged my Tesla with the CCS adapter, I realized I needed to pull the handle out with the adapter or else the same thing happens. Simply don’t press the button that releases the hook. Eventually that won’t be a problem, since the Tesla NACS style plug is becoming the standard anyway. I believe your truck said not charging when you left it at night (I noticed it in the video). You can also check from your phone. Agree on the cable lengths of the Superchargers. V4 Tesla chargers that are coming out have longer cables. Last, if you go into charging on your Tesla’s screen, you can see what the last Supercharger session cost. It also changes in real time as the vehicle charges. You can also go into your account on the app to see the actual charges (you’ll also get a daily email with a receipt), not the charging summary screen. That has all your charging for the last month or year including your charging at home based on your KW charges that you put in. Probably includes the charging at the dealer / store. The card needs to be placed on the phone charger to activate the vehicle, or at the door pillar to open it. Tesla has great new user videos. I watched them at least once when I bought mine last year. After a year of use, 18,000 miles later, I love the tech and how it all works and integrates. When I drive my ICE vehicles, I am frustrated by how dumb they are and the need for a physical key. Agree on the towing though, seems like the only EV that tows somewhat reasonably is the Chevrolet Silverado EV. However, without towing, I like the Cybertruck better.

Dumbest vehicle ever built. Seems like the focus was to entertain and provide useless gimmicks rather than offer a practical vehicle for everyday use. There doesn't appear to be any benefit or need for this vehicle that can't be met by any other on the market. You've lost time, it's costing you more money, you are presented with constant limitation, you are experiencing constant anxiety, etc. The headache is not worth it.

Majority of the times semi trucks are in traffic? Whomever said that doesn’t have a clue about trucking industry. Come to Midwest to see those semi trucks fly at 75 mph.

It's hilarious that people argue about how much money they save on gas or how much time they're saving by not having to go to the gas station. But then they do shit like this where they spend hours waiting for the thing to charge. There's this Supercharger location at my local mall in CT and every single weekend I drive by there, without fail there will be at least 1 Tesla driver sitting in his car, waiting for his POS to charge. What a wonderful way to spend the weekend!

I get the Jetsons and the Flintstones theme songs mixed up. Both are perfect for this episode

Lol, you bought a cyber truck. There really is a sucker born every minute.

I have a Rivian with over 10k miles of towing have an open car hauler that weighs 7k loaded which gets way better efficiency then my boat which weights half. Aerodynamics matter way more then weight for ev towing.

Tell that kid in back to put her seatbelt on properly.

I sold my 8 year old Tesla Model S 90 D due to the battery warranty expiring and grabbed a 2023 Jayco Terrain Sprinter Campervan (Diesel). People who know me were shocked because I was always a big EV fan boy. When my kids got into motocross, we went all electric until I realized gas is way faster (for 50cc at least). Although I'm now diesel with the van, I can tow no problem and my mileage is pretty close to my friend's Toyota 4Runner SUV. I also have 10 kwh of battery which is bigger than the battery in my Mitsubishi plug in hybrid and I'm able to charge the van house battery really fast (often way over 30 amps) with the 2nd alternator while driving. I was on the waiting list up here in Canada for the Cybertruck but I'm glad it's simply not a truck that you could use effectively for something like motocross. I was worried my Van would be outdated really quickly, but I think it will take another 10 to 15 years before EV tech really advances to the capabilities of today's best ICE trucks.

Craig Never reads a manual or watches a video on how the car works. lol .

Thanks for sharing your experience. Nice that you’re taking time with your family!

When towing with a Cybertruck make sure your always going downhill with the wind at your back the range is still 1/3.

1:23 Why isn’t that kid in a seatbelt? He is standing up! Are you testing how well CyberTruck will hold back a flying kid with the giant windshield? And where is your seatbelt? Come on man, be a better example.

You are averaging 1k views of this an hour. You will make your money back on this You Tube content. Brilliant move Craig. These poor fools who are getting so upset do not realize they are hate watching paying for a Tesla. Gotta love it! Keep churning out the Tesla videos and watch your viewership go through the stratosphere!

18:20 up here in Muskoka, what a lot of the Toronto people do is instead of hauling their boat up every weekend, they will rent a spot in a local storage yard, park the boat there when they are done for the weekend, then haul it home at the end of the season. The issue is you are limited to only boating up here BUT with 10,000 lakes, you never run out of options. Sure you incur the storage fees per month, but the whole month ends up costing the diff in gas bringing it up and back home in 1 weekend.

He literally could have changed his charge limit from 80-100% from the app.

Light show, fireplace, fart sounds.....I am comfortable with my Power Wagon and Ineos vehicle choices.

As long as Craig is COMPLAINING about something or UPSET about something, I'm LOVING his content! THAT is what I come here for! Craig's odd choices, misadventures, and problems makes me feel better about my life and that my decision making maybe isn't so bad after all!😂🤣 (Will he ever sell the GOLD car that was SUCH a great deal?😆) Thanks for the therapy, Craig! I watch ALL your videos cause I know there will always be SOMETHING going wrong! (Deep down I truly wish you the best!😊)

Rookie mistake: You forgot to put a diesel generator in the boat.

This video is the epitome of not reading the manual. So many complaints that would take 3 seconds to fix by reading the manual. OR ironically enough, watching a RU-vid video on all of the features.

Life is hard when you don't know your equipment.

You can charge to 100 % for long trips.

EVs, especially the CyberTruck, are straight hot garbage….just laughable all around. EVs are many years away from being viable, practically speaking, and being comparable to internal combustion engines. They are a novelty at best at this point. Love the content as always!

Hey passenger guy, semis are NOT sitting in traffic a majority of the time. They are always on the Interstate until they reach the delivery point or city and at that point maybe they sit in traffic a half an hr or so, so yea completely wrong what u stated

Tbh, I love your show... but as a Tesla owner, you look silly! 😢

I watch your videos for pure entertainment..... I can't imagine a single person that would want to learn anything from you except losing money

Go back to what got you here. Do buying and selling at the dealership. That was some good stuff

If you decide to pull 11,000lbs learning to own it I’d suggest buying a small gas generator to charge it somewhat defeating the purpose of electric power but to un necessarily tow massive amounts of weight that’s a great option….

1:23 Yes very good Craig showing your youngest son the performance of that crappy Tesla without him wearing a seat belt😨😨

Enjoy learning from your experience and the way you speak plainly and share like it is!! Thank you!

Wait till winter it'll be even worse!

It's the same with gas vehicles when towing or speeding. All the safety features deemed an "inconvenience" are actually very cool and useful for doing other than creating youtube content. I like the video, though.

Your videos are a breath of fresh air, always enjoy watching

Your CT is 0-60 in 4.1s, the CB CT is 2.6s The key card needs to be placed in the wireless charging spot to use it how you wanted to use it.

Think of it as not a range issue, but a cost issue. You towed 63 miles and it cost you $50. With a diesel, fuel is what? $4 a gallon max in NH? Figure 15 mpg. Maybe 5 gallons, overestimating. So $20 for a diesel tow and $50 for electric. So how's an EV cheaper than diesel or gas?

7:15 huge YIKES at the child in the back not wearing her seat belt properly. I’m sure he didn’t notice but it’s very irresponsible to let a child (or anyone) to wear a seat belt like that, with the strap under your arm If you get in a major wreck, that could seriously injure you when you would have been just fine if you wore it correctly

There is NO point, whatsoever, in buying/owning one of these. I don't like anything about them !!

As a Ford Lightning owner (and the fact that numerous videos have shown the EV range loss) this is a Capt Obvious moment. I tow a 21 ft pontoon and a pontoon is a parachute for any vehicle. I will say my pontoon brings the highway range on Lightning from 260 mi to about 125 mi.

I tow my Sea Doo with my Model Y to the lake a few times a week. Of course not at my max towing capacity which is 3,500 lbs. Im only seeing a 10% reduction in efficiency.

So because of all the charing stops the trip took 5 times longer ?

Towing is definitely going to impact range, but speed’s going to be the killer for long distances. Like someone else said, set your charge % limit to 100% either on the screen or thru the app next time and you won’t cap at 80%, and you’ll avoid the idle fees. Same thing as the other person said, there’s a spot you stick the keycard for the car to read that it’s there and function. See if you can find someone with a 3D printer to get yourself some center caps. I’m down the road in MA, probly print some for you if you don’t know anyone.

My fifth wheel 42 ft pull my 2007 Ford F-550 6.8 V-10. 385,000 miles No problem for that for my truck.

Good video, but….. you exaggerated a bit. You didn’t charge correctly the night before. Subtract that first charge from your trip. Then, at the end of the video you said it would have taken you two charges to get home. One charge to 100% is all you needed

Actually a pretty good plan. Juat leave your boat so that you don't have to tow it. I love it!

Seat belt on kid !

Well, I’m just gonna say it, I would rather spend $80 to fill my gas tank and now I can go 300 miles and not worrying about waiting for a supercharger to charge me 100% and taking an hour. The electric vehicles are not there yet, it’s gonna be sometime before they replace the gasoline engine

Wonder how many of your viewers can even afford one of those trucks.

Geez, is it me, or are there a bunch of haters commenting. I am a fuel hauler, and I'm still curious about what is possible with electric vehicles. Cool video looked like you'll had a good time at the lake.

Welcome to “I’m going to do everything Hoovie does instead of what I do”. First, we go to Barrett Jackson and do what Hoovie does in front of said Hoovie. Second, we tow something with an electric truck and expect to be surprised by the same results. Please tell me next video is you buying a vehicle and taking it to a mechanic to inspect???

He needs it fully charged, but no just complaining, give this man an ice cream

While it's charging lets go have a 4 hours lunch.

The Cuber truck is not the most aerodynamically efficient vehicle. Couple that to a towed boat that also has poor aerodynamic efficiency and then drive at 80 miles an hour and you are using a lot of energy to push air aside. If you are getting 1/3rd the range at 80mph you will get 2/3rds the range at 56mph. It’s simple maths; the energy being used is proportional to the square of the speed, 80 squared is 6400. To double the range you need to reduce the energy consumption by half. Half of 6400 = 3200 and the square root of 3200 is just over 56. I would bet that the Cummings ,without a trailer, has gas milage of about 24 mpg at 55mph. When towing the heavy boat at 80mph it will be lucky to achieve 8mpg. Towing is equally destructive of gas milage and battery range.

Is your boat shaped like a "brick" rather than the aerodynamic styling of your CyberTruck? Wind resistance above 55mph will make a big difference.

You never show how you got the adapter out of the charge port, how did you.

Another reason NOT to get one of these wastes of money.

I think semi is initially going to be for people like Amazon and USPS and companies that use day cabs on daily "point to point" deliveries. For instance us mail has a truck going Chicago to Detroit and back in 8 hours. Or auto parts factory makes daily delivery from plant to plant. Not over the road drivers, yet.

Tesla the business that does what it wants, not what its customers want, and they will be happy 😂

3:20 reminds me of Eddie Murphy, Delirious "you can smell it" hahaha IYKYK!

Wait…. How did you fix the little charging door and get the plug out?! 😅

Range goes down when towing? What a shock. This is physics. If you can go 230 miles with a given power source (in this case a battery) in a vehicle weighing 7,000 pounds, how far do you think you can go in a vehicle weighing 18,000 pounds using the same power source?

Supposedly electric vehicles can drive deeper in water than gas ones. Look at some of the videos in Florida last week. Teslas were cruising in deep water.

I have heard that truck companies in America can't go full electric, because the electricity companies won't be able to make the demand.

Guy walks away for dinner and realises literally 10s later that it will only charge to 80%, and decides it's too much effort to walk back 10s to fix it, and in doing so incurs an overage. Life is harder when you don't take 60s to fix something that would be to your own benefit.

LOL, what semi's are driving in traffic and not on the interstate the majority of the time? 🤣

In addition the child sitting behind you is wearing jer 3 point belt incorrectly. She puts the shoulder belt under her arm. I know a family whose child did the same thing, upon impact of a severe crash, the child almost died because ALL the force went directly to the hips and abdomen. Her pelvis was crushed, massive internal bleeding. PLEASE MAKE SURE ALL PASSENGERS WEAR THEM CORRECTLY!!

No seatbelts??

Monday was headed for the Walm and what pulls out in front of me out of the Dutch Boys drive through...a raised hi Tesla CT. We were both next to each other waiting for the intersection green light. It was a weird out of this planet experience for this gr-gr granny. This barrio in albuquerque is the last place I would have ever thought seeing the TCT. LOL

0 to the next Charging station.

Towing range is this truck’s Achilles Heel. Other than that, I think Tesla will definitely improve on this truck in the near future.

So the whole trip took 8 chargings ?

Tow a gas generator with you and charge it while boating lol

Cybertruck = polishing a 💩 its still a 💩

As a truck driver, that has to be THEE worst assumption that semi just sit in traffic. Tesla Semi will never make it

$50 to go 150 miles ?

My 2021 Silverado 3500 diesel gets about 300 miles of range while towing. Enough time for the pancakes 🥞 to ask for a break! Diesel fuel easily obtainable. I will submit my idea for the cyber truck fix that will probably reward me with $1 mil dollars. It will save the truck so it can tow with better range and pride.

First off, get a Tesla charger at your house. You own a $100k+ cyber truck but not a $450 charger? If you left home @100% you would have had ~20% charge at the boat launch. A quick super charge in Meredith and you would’ve been heading home after 15min of charging one time.

You can up the charge limit to 100% in the app while it's charging. But agree WE NEED more pull thrus.

in the app you could have changed it to 100%

I can see Honda Ridgeline owners being prospective Cybertruck buyers. I know the truck will improve in future models.

Your friend is correct, in town is the best use for an EV Truck. The highway mileage kills the range. But in town, you can run around all day and then charge once home. VT247