A compilation of the Rivian R1T, F-150 Lightning, and Cybertruck going up the same trail in Hollister, CA.
I’ve gone up worse in a Renault Zoe, seriously.
That cybertruck looks like a damn toy though, but kinda makes me want one even more because of how ridiculous it looks.
Should have had the same driver for all three.
So what you’re showing me is that the cyber truck is a glorified city suv with a bed barely big enough to take a bath in
Lmao the sound of the Cybertruck going up just made my day …fn pathetic 🤣 Great compilation!
For something labelled as a truck the Cybertruck sure seems to not be very good at doing truck things.
CyberTrucklet
Rivian FTW
I’m very much looking forward to the R2 series. The R1s are still too big for what I want. I drive an old 98 4Runner, and keeping about that size would be great.
I wonder how the Hummer EV would do.
Add in the Silverado EV
The Hummer EV would walk it with zero drama
Hummer EV would stand still and the hill would move under it
this is just the smallest thing to complain about, but I hope some Ford engineer sees it:
what the hell is up with the low speed PWM on the LED drivers? who made that dumb decision? now every recording of a Lightning is going to be marred by strobing light effects when it clashes with the shutter.
literally everyone in the world is walking around with video camera these days. it would cost nothing to choose good LED driver.
/rant
Hmm, all three are rather slippy… I wonder if they aired down? I think the lack of a truly locked powertrain kind of hurts the current EVs off road. I mean, you’ll get up things with traction control slipping/gripping individual wheels but only after you’ve thrown the trail around a bit.
You lock lock front and rear in the Hummer EV
The Lightning has a physical rear locker.
Ok so the cyber truck was slipping a bit, regardless of driver skill wouldn’t there be a “craw mode” that would keep it in low speed, lock the differential, etc? I have a 8 year old T4R that can craw at low speed without engaging the throttle doesn’t the cybertruck have any similar off-road tech? Not throwing shade just want to know because it’s not obvious in the vid.
As cool as it is, it’s not really that informative. You can chock up much of the difference to a driver skill differential.
I think this is my takeaway. This isn’t an apples-to-apples comparison. Also the Cybertruck has been undergoing tons of testing (note that there are pictures of it with a Starlink satellite on trails, so they’re likely sending/receiving diagnostic data). It’s very likely that they’re driving in a certain way to tune the final production vehicles.
The biggest difference on these videos is drivers skill on choosing a line and managing the throttle.
It’s also an extremely easy obstacle that anything could go up with tire pressure lowered a bit.
We need real off-road trails to test these on, not a steep concrete hill.
I think they all did equally shitty. 100% a tire issue and too much pressure, on all of them. These guys need to try 25lbs or so and watch how much better the grip is even on crappy skinny road focused tires.
I know nothing about off roading. Is it common that the “trail” is a concrete hill? Seems pretty ironic to me and was the first think I noticed in the video