this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025

157 points (97.6% liked)

Cyberstuck

751 readers

648 users here now

A place to post your Cybertruck fails! We're here to make fun of this hunk of shit and throw as much shade as we can to that garbage bag of a human elon.

No doxxing No slurs No racism And no fucking nazis!

founded 2 months ago

MODERATORS

Punchshark

157

elmo built a truck as strong as himself (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by Punchshark to c/Cyberstuck

17 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 17 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago

The problem is that this happens within normal spec. He explains it in the video.

So you're probably fine towing at the rated limit... as long as you stay on flat ground. As soon as you crest a hill, all that weight becomes vertical for a few seconds.

Additionally, aluminum stresses over time, like bending a piece of plastic. The first time you do it, it might be fine. The tenth time it might not.

The Cybertruck is not for serious towing.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"What do the regulations state..."

Musk: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! I fired all the regulators and Trump is deleting all the regulations. Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Built Fascist Tough!

BTW, the "truck" in the picture is totaled. This is because the entire frame of this piece of shit is polycarbonate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Wait a minute… This thing is built with the same materials as that Titanic mini sub that imploded?

[+] [email protected] -30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This really isn't a dunk on cyber trucks based on the comment (no actual numbers). Things tend to get damaged when you overload them in a way they aren't designed to handle.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In the video, they did the same to a 2004 Dodge Ram and it would not break at all.

The cybertruck is just built cheaply, it would be fine if it wasn't advertised like it's comparable to an actual vehicle made for towing.

[+] [email protected] -31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That still really doesn't matter. They're applying an order of magnitude more force in a direction the vehicle wasn't designed to handle. This test doesn't speak to towing capacity.

A 900% safety margin isn't awful. There are so many reasons to hate on Teslas that we don't need to invent fake ones.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

It wasn't supposed to be a scientific test. There have been cases of the cybertucks back end being ripped off from towing. We are laughing at it's failure because it's just a showcar that just falls in bits, but advertised as an actual "truck". You should never tow with a car made with cast aluminum frame, it's going to break sooner rather than later. The cybertruck shouldn't even have an option to attach a hitch.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Not sure why you're getting down voted. If people here actually watched the video alluded to in the OP, theyd realize your point is spot on.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SsnYvAU3kfA

I'm an automotive engineer and I work at a proving ground. This sort of "lets just strap an excavator to single sample and start torturing it in an extremely atypical way!" is exactly the sort of dealership, bunk "engineering" that muddies the waters. For starters, comparing a body on frame dodge pickup to the unibody cyberyruck is unfair as hell. That comparison means nothing. At the minimum, compare to another unibody pickup. He glosses over dynamic vs static loads, makes huge hand waves about tongue forces you'd expect, and does almost no math.

Minor nitpick: not sure why Jerry rig everything wasn't using their 950 loader to load down the back of the cybertruck. Take off those forks, and you'd get 20k lbs on that hitch, easy. I suppose they may have not had a 950 bucket available.

This test doesn't really say much, and OPs video corroborates. There are so, SO many reasons to shit on cyberyrucks, but a video showing tongue weight going 9x over the safety factor isn't really a knock against it. It's fairly impressive, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Did you even watch the engineering explained video? Doesn't seem like it.

At 18:45 he reiterates that there ARE situations where the maximum towing load would be transferred to the hitch.

While yes, it is a rare occurrence, it's far from impossible to see 10,000lbs on the tongue when PROPERLY towing a load.

Also, comparing a brand new cyber truck to a 20 year old rusty Dodge isn't a fair comparison. If they wanted fair, they'd have used a brand new Dodge instead of trying to rig things in favor of the cyber truck.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 hours ago

Engineering explained:

Final question: should cybertruck customers be concerned about towing at capacity with a tesla cybertruck? To be honest - I don't know.

This was a junk test that meant nothing. EE is putting that politely. EE actually invokes real engineering.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

people have stuff to tow so test is legitimate imo

[–] [email protected] -5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not, because sheer force on a part not meant to handle that much sheer force is irrelevant to towing which is force in a different direction.

That's the problem with the video. The test they did has nothing to do with towing capacity. If they strapped the truck down and used a tractor to pull on the hitch, that would be a legitimate test.

But they did something that seems like a legitimate test to people who don't really know much about physics, which gets views and has people spread misinformation.

When you lie to prove a point, you're just cheapening that point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Nah dog, the presence of people with intention to tow somehow gives credence to this test, and all other towing tests in general, it seems.

*drops a pallet of bricks on a Tonka truck

"Well, people have things to tow, so this test is valid."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)