How Far Can a Tesla Cybertruck ACTUALLY Tow? We Compare It To a Diesel Truck!

Ok, I expected the Tesla range to be horrible, which it was, but I did NOT expect it to cost more to recharge than to refill the Ram with diesel. What a joke 🤣

Wait until the govt starts adding road taxes to each recharge at the same rate they tax gasoline.

The Ram is the right tool for the job, the Cybertruck is the right job for a tool.

Having to unhook the trailer just to charge is crazy

The Tesla is a truck designed by people who have never driven a truck for people who have never driven a truck

"we're low on power captain. 10 miles until next charging station" "Kill the lights and radio, divert all power to the main engine" "I captain, on your mark" "Engage"

The cyber truck is made for showing off on sunset boulevard, where the bullet proof qualities come in too.

What have we learned today? The cybertruck isnt a truck.

So from San Francisco to LA it takes 14 hours with a Cyber truck. Takes a Cummins 7 hours. So not only are you saving time. You’re saving money. And you’re towing safer.

Your "Trip cost comparison" at the end should include "time to refill/recharge" to 100%. I don't know many people who place absolutely ZERO value on their time. In fact, for many of us, our time wasted is not simply income lost - but opportunities lost as well. Great job though guys - as usual. 👍🏻

Looks like it's gonna take longer to charge than it did to get there.

My wife said it best, "might as well go back to horse and buggy." lol.

Excellent reporting, now do that test at -30C and see how far it will go

So every hour I drive towing, I gotta stop another hour to recharge....Im gonna get so Fat and broke eating at Service Stations....😂

I own a 1998 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins. It's a regular cab, 8 foot bed, 2WD. The engine is the 24 valve, pushrod 5.7 liter with the Bosch VP-44 injection pump (not common rail). It's pre-Catalytic Converter, pre-DPF, pre-DEF, with a NVG-4500 5 speed manual transmission and a 3.54 posi rear end. The power curve on this engine gives it 400 lb-ft of torque at 1,800 rpm, and 225 hp at 2,200 rpm. So, this isn't a super-fancy truck, basically just 1 trim level above the cheapest "work truck" that Dodge sold in the late 90's. I've mostly used it to tow a 25 foot sailboat. With the boat's trailer weight, the full towing weight is 7,600 pounds, so almost as much as your ATC toy haulers, although my boat is a little more streamlined. I generally tow at 55 mph, which takes 1600 rpm in 5th gear, or 2100 rpm in 4th gear. Red line is 3200 rpm, but that's well above the best-performance part of the power band, so I never push the engine that fast. Fuel burn on level terrain in 5th gear at 55 mph with this trailer is 13 mpg, so I can go about 400 miles to 1/8 of a tank, without risking the fuel intake sucking in air bubbles (air in the fuel intake is not good for these VP-44 diesel systems). At the current price for diesel fuel, $4.80/gallon, it costs about 37¢/mile to tow the boat with my truck. The truck was fully paid for in 2002, and because it's so old, it only costs about $250/year for DMV and insurance. So, if I had an EV truck, say a Cybertruck (122 kW-hr), Rivian R1T (135 kW-hr), or F-150 Extended Range Lightning (131 kW-hr), these trucks go about 85 miles towing large trailers at freeway speed. Charging them at public DC Fast Chargers costs 49¢/kW-hr, so $64 for a full charge. That's 6400¢/85 miles = 75¢/mile. Literally DOUBLE the cost per mile to tow with a 3/4 ton diesel pickup. Now, if you are considering the relative costs for purchasing a brand new pickup, and you never need to tow big trailers, and you rarely take long road trips, so that you can charge your EV pickup truck at home for 10~15 cents per kilowatt-hour, an EV pickup will be on par or a little cheaper to run than a diesel pickup. The least expensive F-250 or Ram 2500 with diesel engines cost in the mid-50,000's now, the F-150 Lightning with the extended range battery is $60,000. But consider this: the Cummins diesel engine in the Ram 2500 will last at least 300,000 miles if it's properly maintained, but it's very unlikely that the battery in any EV truck will last much past 150,000 miles, and replacing a 120 kW-hr lithium battery is going to cost way more than a rebuilt short-block Cummins engine for a pickup truck.

Last week I saw a cyber truck on I70 going from Ohio into Indiana towing a Airstream camper. I thought to myself at least they have a nice place to sit while it charges.

Cool, so if you take a family trip from the east coast to say…Yellowstone and back is 3,400 miles. 85 mile recharges means 40 stops @ 1.5 hours each = 60 hours of charging, and 40 times hitching and unhitching your trailer. Fun !

1 hour of towing and over an hour of recharge. Pioneers moved faster. TFL thank you for your honest reviews.

That Semi setup near the end of the video was so sick. 😂 It would be a dream to have something like that to live in

I don't own a truck yet, but I really enjoyed this video. I liked the way the hosts communicate their moment-by-moment experience and compared in real-time.