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[Cybertruck 1974]

Nice! I would love to know more about your Basecamp towing experience. I might be doing the same once I get my Cyberbeast.

I just towed it from our home to our cabin 115 miles with a + 5k foot elevation change the last 20 miles of trip. Truck showed I used 145 miles on battery. On way home, down from 5kft elevation to 1k first 20 miles, battery reflecting miles available didn't change but I gained 4 miles after finishing cruising downhill then the remaining 95 miles back home I used 110. Did very well.

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[Cybertruck 1974]

Maybe not a 'truck' thing but a 'Cybertruck' thing. Lost power after a storm. Started with refrigerators and freezers then on to media closet and computers. Can't wait until Power Share becomes a reality. Any bets on which will come first between FSD and Power Share?

just throw a 14-50 outlet on the wall connected to subpanel and call it good. Powershare is gonna be a while. so is FSD. Anyone get their Aero covers? Or a credit for them?.........

 

[Cyber Man]

I just towed it from our home to our cabin 115 miles with a + 5k foot elevation change the last 20 miles of trip. Truck showed I used 145 miles on battery. On way home, down from 5kft elevation to 1k first 20 miles, battery reflecting miles available didn't change but I gained 4 miles after finishing cruising downhill then the remaining 95 miles back home I used 110. Did very well.

Love it! Thanks for sharing. That’s more than enough range for me to cover all the great campgrounds nearby. Enjoy your new rig. Please keep sharing your great adventures. ?

 

[Djcoolchris]

Fueling up to go flying?

yep!! We keep the airplane right at the house!

 

[Cboy7]

yep!! We keep the airplane right at the house!

What are awesome set up! That's great!

 

[Scribbious]

I'm guessing around 1,500 to 2,000 lbs of rock. The plastic probably didn't do much except make me feel better and make it easier to clean out sand but make walking around the bed a challenge.

 

[ItsDrew]

Boating

 

[OneDanik]

Trial towing my surfboat,

 

[edc]

went overlanding with my other car - absolutely fun and such a capable car!!

holy where was this at?

 

[edc]

 

[dorylee]

holy where was this at?

USAL Beach ?

 

[aadams1278]

Trial towing my surfboat,

Very interested to hear your energy consumption and opinion on view with side mirrors with this boat, as that’s my intended towing use for Cybertruck as well.

 

[OneDanik]

I don’t have good towing number yet as I just went to Costco to fuel the boat up. But hopefully soon, my local lakes are about 38miles away so this will work good. I do have Denali diesel for longer towing. Mirrors are fine, I did tend to use camera feature more on tighter turns. 4 wheel steering makes backing up any trailer a breeze.

Very interested to hear your energy consumption and opinion on view with side mirrors with this boat, as that’s my intended towing use for Cybertruck as well.

 

[swinefeaster]

Loaded her up my my gf's hardwood flooring!

 

[HaulingAss]

The Cybertruck replaces my F-150 Supercab 4x4 with a 6 1/2 foot bed. I'm trying to come up with one thing that's better about the F-150 for the kind of "truck things" I use it for, any small thing that's better about the F-150, and I'm coming up empty. The advantages of the Cybertruck are numerous and significant.

Note: Some of these comments might make more sense if you look through the pictures below first.

1. Maneuvering for loading/unloading.

No contest, the Cybertruck with its many cameras, rear wheel steering, and easy lock-to-lock steering and effortless gear shift from drive to reverse makes it easier to put it right where I want it, especially in tight spaces like my driveway. The better throttle control of the Cybertruck was much easier to back up my steep gravel driveway without worry about wheel spin. I'm always careful to try not to spin the wheels of my F-150, and I always engage 4x4 to back up my driveway with a heavy load, but wheelspin is still unavoidable sometimes. Then I have to fill in the tire divots with surrounding gravel. No need with the Cybertruck.

2. Bed height.

I used the "Entry" suspension setting for loading and unloading heavy items. It makes it a ton easier. I'm often loading rounds too heavy to pick up and I need to get creative with getting them up there. The lower bed height is a game-changer and a huge saver of my back and speeds up the process.

3. Bed shape.

The square shape of the bed, without wheel wells intruding through the bed floor, makes load placement and stacking of items much easier. With the F-150, I always had to work around the wheel wells, and they were always the wrong height for stacking unless I got lucky. With the Cybertruck I can roll the rounds straight in. The way the Cybertrucks bed slopes forward is perfect for loading rounds of firewood without wasting space. In the F-150 I would roll the rounds in and turn them 90 degrees to make best use of the front of the bed, which just created more work loading/unloading, it took more time.

In the F-150, I'm often tying the rounds together with a light rope to keep them from rolling off the side on corners, potholes and side-slopes. At least with my first load of rounds in the Cybertruck, I found it wasn't necessary, the tall bed sides and the orientation of the rounds saved me about 1/4 hour of securing the load. Smaller rounds would still require securing ropes for a large load though, just like the F-150. The taller bed sides of the Cybertruck can minimize this.

4. Driving dynamics.

I had about 1800 lbs. of wood and well over 2100-2200 lbs. total (including tools and driver) my F-150 maxes out at 1750 lbs. so I was often over the rated capacity and the Ford drove like you would expect an over-loaded truck to drive, caution was necessary, the hood pointed upwards while the rear sagged no matter how hard I tried to keep the load as far forward as possible. The Cybertruck with over 2000 lbs. of payload felt awesome, I could feel the weight but it wasn't very obvious, and the ride was very natural and smooth, perhaps a little nicer even than with no load.

As I loaded the bed it would periodically automatically air up to compensate for the added weight. It maintained a steady bed height (within about an inch) My F-150 would just sag lower and lower, the more I put in it. That meant it became easier to load, the more I put in it. But even when overloaded, it was still higher than the Cybertruck in entry mode.

5. Tool storage and access.

Even though my F-150 was 6 inches longer overall, it only had a Supercab, not a full crew cab. I had the rear seat area stacked high with two chainsaws, a peavy, large breaker/pry bar, an axe, a maul, wedges, gas, oil, helmet with face and hearing protection, lunch and drinks, tape measure, etc. Accessing it was problematic through the little half-doors because everything was on top of one another. This kept the bed ready to load wood (plus the bed was too tall to be constantly accessing it for tools, especially if they had slid forward), but tool access sucked.

The Cybertruck has a large flat floor in the rear passenger area that makes tool access much better and the frunk can hold my saws and gas and oil, reducing clutter and making it easier to access whatever tool I need. Also, I keep my emergency truck gear in the trunk area below the bed, freeing up more cab space.

The frunk fits two saws, a Stihl 261 C-M with 16" and 18" bars, fuel, oil, chain oil, sharpening tools, spare chains, tools, etc. in the hard orange case and a Husqvarna 350 Poweraxe electric chainsaw with 18" bar, spare chain, two batteries and 120V fast charger in the black soft case. There are also assorted ropes, soft shackles, tow strap, gloves and a stiff hand brush for cleaning bark.

The frunk is an ideal height for easy tool access.

Having the 120V outlet meant I didn't even need to fire up my gas saw. This was an all-electric firewood cutting trip. The electric saw surprised me with it's fast cutting, I only went through 2 1/2 batteries and one battery charges in the time it takes the other to deplete. The Cybertruck reported it was supplying 500 watts to the charger, I used a little over 1 mile of range charging the batteries.

Taking a rest break laying in the bed.

9 rounds on the base layer (rounds average 110 lbs. each, mostly water). You can see the entry level height puts the bed not very far above the round I use as a step. I can also make one large step from the ground into the bed, don't try that on my F-150, it's not going to work.

16 full rounds (9 +7 on the second layer) and one 1/3 round rotated sideways (plus some splits). This nice Douglas Fir was a windfall that had split up the trunk as it fell. I just cut the split section into 17" lengths.

All tidied up. If there were two more rounds available, I would have put them in also (without tie-downs). That would have put me well over the rear axle load rating but the route back never exceeds 30 mph. With tie downs I could have fit 5 more rounds this size.

Easy tool access. I brought a ramp but didn't need to use it.

Time for a beer! Cheers!

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