They loaded a Cybertruck to 20,000 pounds... then raced a Ram 5500 uphill

All right, so recently I took delivery of my new cyber truck and within 24 hours I'd fallen in love with this insane power while also being one of the most comfortable vehicles I've ever driven but like most of you would expect I had to make some changes I started the build by getting it wrapped with this wild military design put together by my friends down in Envision nice work, bro Thank you guys crushed it Also, I never really loved the proportions on this truck from the factory because in my opinion The body is too big for the tires that are on it Decided to bump it up to an even bigger size 37 inch Nittos, but that led me to my next question You see I'm a truck guy and truck guys pull trailers, right? Well, what about the Cybertruck? Can it pull a trailer? Can it stand up to what other modern trucks can do? I decided to put together a little test to see for myself Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to see what the most controversial truck in the world is capable of doing in the real world We're gonna be doing a towing test of my cyber beast This is the cyber truck three motor edition that they call a beast and it's an insane truck Very capable, but I have not pulled a trailer or any sort of significant load with it yet So what we're doing is pulling onto a scale here to weigh the total weight of the truck and the trailer and the payload and Everything because the truck has an 11,000 pound towing capacity, which is pretty high and then we're gonna compare it to our ram 5,500 heavy rescue truck. These trucks are fairly similar They both have 37 inch tires and they're both pretty much stock other than the ram has a fleece cheetah turbo The cyber truck is completely stock other than we modified the suspension and put bigger tires on it comes from the factory of 35s We had 37 so I'm gonna pull the trailer on now to get the full weight reading keep in mind that we have pretty much Identical trailers both triple axle trailers. I'm pulling my brand new raw max car hauler. He still days pulling our older low trail trailer Both triaxial both almost the exact same specs So they should weigh the same and we're pulling the exact same vehicles the weight of the vehicle should be almost identical So there should be a very very fair matchup The Cybertruck weighed in pretty much right at an even 20,000 pounds. The Ram with the truck and trailer weighed in at 22,620. Now the reason why that truck's heavier is because the truck in general is just heavier. That truck alone probably weighs close to 11,000 pounds, where this truck weighs closer to 8,000. So there's our weight difference right there. But it's a fair matchup as far as the load goes. The trailers and the load on the trailers weigh almost the exact same amount now. We're gonna go pull a very steep nasty hill It is literally spinning the tires I gave it half throttle just now and the front tires started slipping and spinning because it's got more weight in the back right now listen Power is not an issue. Very impressed so far. We'll see how it does on the freeway And on hills these trucks lose a lot of their power Faster you get going because the electric motors already spinning so fast So when you go to stomp on it, I mean, it's still got decent acceleration from like 80 to 100, but it's not like You know a fast car that has a big engine because electric motors most their torque is down on the bottom end and it's pretty much instant but I Literally, I can't even feel this load right now. This is pretty impressive All right, guys We are here at the base of Parley summit now keep in mind that my trailer load is actually a little heavier than his Because my Jeep has the Hellcat engine, which is a few hundred pounds heavier He does have a shell and some other accessories, but it's safe to say that the loads are pretty much identical The extra weight difference on Dave's truck is because his truck has a flatbed and it's just a heavier truck So this is about as fair as it gets, uh, if you're just looking at payload capabilities. So right now we're going to take off and race. It's about 11 miles long and we're going to climb approximately 4,000 feet. Now, one thing I got to say is I just charged the truck last night to a hundred percent. The other test we did yesterday. So I went and got the truck a full fresh battery and I'm already at about 80%. I've used 20% just getting here. So this thing is going to gobble up the battery as we go up to the top of the the hill and I'm guessing we use every bit of 20% 25% but we should gain about 5 to 7% back when we come back down this hill and head back towards the shop as you guys already know my money's on the Cybertruck because it's a monster but remember the battery is very limited so I could only do this hill you know a couple of times before I'm out of battery whereas Dave he could go all day because he's got big fuel tanks. Let's race. We're about to party, about to test the old Cybertruck versus his Ram 5500. Pulling two of the baddest Jeep Gladiators on the planet. Right, Annie? You wanna party? Yeah. Alright, ready, set, go. There he goes, just a 360 from him. Put your battery life out there, Dave. Not good Guys this is absolutely bananas. We are doing 80 miles an hour When typically when I climb this Canyon with any other truck with the trailer, we're talking like 40 50 Which is probably about what diesel Dave's doing Our average speed has been 72.6 miles an hour and we've gone about 6 miles so far. We've got another 5 to go until we get to the summit and I haven't seen Dave in a minute pretty much since we left. The comparison is like... there's really no comparison as far as power getting up this hill. This truck absolutely dominates. However, we've already used 20% battery. We started at about 70 at the bottom of the hill, and now we're at 51, so we'll probably get to the top around 45% because we're about to get to the steepest part of the hill now. Whoa, that guy's at a dead stop. Holy smokes. It's a good old cruise, huh, Annie? Fortunately, our Insta360 camera decided to flop over right as soon as we started, so the footage is probably really weird right now. and the drone couldn't keep up. It's only like a 40 mile an hour drone and we were immediately doing 70. So the drone is back there somewhere, just kind of loitering over the highway. We're hoping that it finds a safe spot to land unlike last time when it didn't find a safe spot to land and got run over. Can't turn back now. We're stuck with this. And that last 5% of battery since I was talking just went. Bye bye. So we just used 5%, 6% now. I'm only at about 60% throttle. Right here, there's that bar, that white bar, that shows you how much power I'm using. When I accelerate all the way, you'll see that bar goes maxed out. And it was still pulling, which is insane. This isn't practical for everyday driving because if you're driving with a trailer like this, you're just gonna run out of juice immediately. So you would wanna drive a little bit more conservatively, but we are almost to the exit. I'm gonna stop the timer here. All right, so the time shut off there now, we're gonna start this timer to see how much we beat them by That was nuts no warnings no temperature Everything seems pretty happy. So I hear a fan going. That's the first time I've ever heard a fan That's probably the cooling fan for the battery pack and the motors because I guarantee we just created some serious heat the batteries at 40% So that climb used 30% of our battery. Dave's pulling in, passing the exit sign, and boom. Just shy of a minute 30 was what we beat him by, and I guarantee his temps aren't happy. I beat you by a minute 30. Nice and straight down the freeway. We're just gonna go up the hill to my house, which I live on a pretty steep hill up on the mountain here. It's about a thousand foot climb from down here, where we're at by the shop, up to my house. We're gonna climb from about 4,500 feet to just a little over 5,500, so a little over 1,000 foot of climb. And this is a road that, you know, all of our trucks notoriously struggle on, even our big semis and stuff, just because it's so steep. Right now, driving around town, I mean, we're on a decent little hill right here. I can't even tell there's a trailer back there. This thing's riding really, really well. I think I love that cameras because they're like HD, really nice. So I can see my tie-down straps, make sure everything on the trailer is good. I only charge this truck to about 90%, 80 to 90% every day because you're not supposed to go all the way to 100% for just everyday driving. And so I'll leave my house and let's say it's at 90%, which is what max charge was that I allowed it to go to. By the time I get to the bottom of the hill to shop, I'm at like 92 or 93 because the truck is building power as it regenerates all the way down the hill, which is cool because it also saves my brakes. So my brakes don't get hot and it charges my battery for me. That's one thing I do love about electric vehicles. We are pulling up to the hill that leads up to my house. We're gonna come to a dead stop up here and have Dave pull up next to me. And then we're gonna just from a standstill, accelerate to the top of the hill and see who makes it there first. Ready, set, go. We just got to the top of the hill and it's been 15 seconds I started a stopwatch as soon as we pulled to the top, I mean we just walked away from them and we went maybe half a mile. We beat them by over 30 seconds on a maybe quarter mile run. I'd say it's comparable. We beat you by 40 seconds. We're still spooling up. What else, what else you got? We didn't have breakfast. They didn't have breakfast? They didn't have breakfast? That's alright, I'll be lucky to have enough battery to get to the shop. So we just came down the hill from my house. We're about halfway to the shop and most of the steep hills are behind. I started coming down the hill at 58% and we're at 61% now. So the battery regened 3% in how far was that? Three miles. So we were getting 1% per mile regen with the load that we have on there which is really really impressive. This thing just Absolutely rips Just thinks there's semis everywhere Yeah There's a lot of ghost vehicles that this thing sees and people creepy things people should be driving late at night like parked at a Stop sign and all sudden a person that's not there in real life walks by your screen Well guys, you saw the results now, obviously, there's a lot of factors here that contribute to this But overall if you look at my speed my top speed was 84 miles per hour Diesel Dave's top speed was 83 miles per hour. My average speed was 75 miles per hour diesel Dave's average speed was 62 miles an hour it took we both did the exact same length 9.6 miles and It took me 7 minutes and 30 seconds and it took diesel Dave about 9 minutes and 16 seconds So we beat him by a little over Like a minute 45 somewhere in there and it shows you just how fast the Cybertruck was actually accelerating which is insane You can see this clip right here when we start going. This is a fully loaded truck. Just Launching as we're merging onto the freeway pulling uphill. So I'm very impressed now. Let's talk about the bad I have 25% battery left when I left my house this morning. I had a hundred percent I used about 20% to get from the shop to the bottom of the hill I used another 25% to get up the hill and then I actually gained about 5% coming down the hill and then the rest I Gobbled up driving from the bottom of the hill back to the shop So it shows that I have gone 63 miles since my last 100% charge and I have about 25% left That has been while consuming an average of 1.2 watt hours Well, we're 12 1.2 kilowatt hours per mile So 1290 watt hours per mile where this truck normally gets about 590 watt hours per mile So way better economy when it's not towing obviously So right now with the 25% that I have left if you times that by you know, the average of 500 watt hours per mile, that means I've got approximately So looks like I'm gonna have Approximately 42 miles left on this charge if I just drove normally which sounds about right so the reason why this is Interesting is because obviously the truck has significantly more horsepower to get up the hill and it's instant torque availability but the drawback is To run out of power like almost immediately now keep in mind a lot of these new trucks Only get like five to seven miles of the gallon once you get them fully loaded and you know DPF systems and all the depth and things like that So you got to have bigger fuel tanks on your diesel trucks to be able to make the distance work But overall, I mean we would have had to stop and charge first of all we would have had to try to find a supercharger at the top of the hill if we were to try to keep going and then we would have had to sat there for roughly 30 minutes to an hour to get a full charge back on a Lot of people when they do cross-country road trips and stuff like that They'll go to a supercharger and sit there for maybe 10 15 20 minutes and it's just kind of like throwing You know 10 15 gallons of fuel in your vehicle So when the charging network gets built out that's gonna be you know a game changer also battery technology hydrogen fuel cell Technology all that stuff is gonna make a difference when you're talking about how far an EV can go While under a tremendous load like towing as we just were so this is not a truck that I would try to take Tow a trailer really anywhere other than just around town. It was more of a Comparison to see what the power was like uphill under you know, extreme demand. I'm still very impressed with the truck So now I'm gonna go plug it in and we're gonna get ready to do our next test Which I would love to hear your guys input. What do you guys want to see this thing do real-world applications? How do you want to see us work it? What do you we've got a whole list of stuff we plan on doing but if you guys have ideas Drop in the comments below and let us know what you think. I'm not becoming just an EV guy That's such a stupid like just a ignorant mindset. Like I can't I'm not just gonna choose one or the other I'm always gonna have my diesel pickups always gonna have my semi trucks. I'm always gonna have you know gas and Combustion engine powered vehicles, but I like playing with this Evie stuff, too Especially for driving around town like that's a cyber truck has been one of the most enjoyable vehicles I've ever driven around town so I think there's room for both broaden your horizons and do your best to try to Embrace new technology and new ideas because ultimately that's how we advance as a society and as a civilization You have that mentality Thanks for joining us you