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Tesla Cybertrucks Keep Getting Stuck In Snow (jalopnik.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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We all know that Cybertrucks have had a less-thank-lackluster release. Not many of these trucks could have been made yet.

Nonetheless, video-after-video of these beasts keep getting stuck in the ~~mud~~ snow in this case, now with snowy weather blanketing part of the north-east. Jalopnik is blaming tires, which sounds like a possibly valid issue.

But given the failures in the mud last month, I'm now wondering how much of this is perhaps a bad traction-control algorithm, or other feature of the cybertruck? Maybe its just the shear mass alone that is wrecking the traction.

In either case: the Cybertruck has no staying power in mud or snow. I can't imagine this going well in any offroading event or other similar trucking duty. If the cybertruck loses traction in these simple snow cases, there's no way it could be used as a plow for example.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

18 inches? 12 at most and I would be laughing my ass off going through that in my XC60.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I would probably put on 4wd in my Jeep but that kind of snow doesn’t even merit 4lo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

The ground clearance on the cybertruck is about 17 inches and change, and it appears to be brushing against the snow even with an inch or so of compacted snow under the tires. I could be wrong, though.