Cybertruck tow testing during winter tests? Trailer spotted

[cvalue13]

I'm pretty sure Tesla didn't come up with towing specs out of pure whiteboard speculation

I mean, in 2019 they kinda did?

More exactly, they set parameter targets on paper then had to build to it?

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[SlegMD]

EM probably dictated they park the trailer by the CT to appease the COCk. I mean COC.

 

[CyberSleuth]

Don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but I can't imagine deliveries are going to happen this year when they're still doing critical testing like this.

Happy to be proven wrong though.

 

[CT19TX]

That's what I was thinking, a little late in the game for this type of testing isn't it?

 

[FutureBoy]

This is just the first time some idiot on the internet caught a trailer nearby even.

There's positively been more testing. This is simply traction and what not.

Figuratively, literally: bulletproof.

To be fair, it is the FIRST "idiot" to catch this scenario. My expectation would be that there had been previous testing yes. Seems unlikely to start the initial testing in the snow.

So if there has been as much testing as you might expect, I'd say the true "idiot" is actually all the people who had opportunity but didn't even find it in themselves to pull out a potato cam. The person here was much more advance than those "idiots" and successfully took relevant pictures with relatively high resolution that was easy to see. Hardly an idiot in my book.

 

[FutureBoy]

Surely not everyone in here believes every test is owed visibility to the public as a 'sighting'.

Um... This is the internet. Pics or it didn't happen is the norm. And now with AI, I doubt even that would count.

 

[John K]

The picture is obviously a CT with a vinyl wrap to appear as a trailer. Subterfuge.

 

[ÆCIII]

I mean, in 2019 they kinda did?

More exactly, they set parameter targets on paper then had to build to it?

No - they already had at least one prototype at that time which means they would've no doubt tested it. Besides, the F150 spinning it's tires being pulled backwards actually verified a substantial amount of those specs, at least for short distances.

- ÆCIII

 

[Scott Beall]

it looks like the weights are centered over the tandem wheel?

Does it look like the weights are attached to a sled that moves forward and aft along those rails? May be a way to test the trailer with different weight distributions. My only experience is when I mis-loaded a trailer once and it danced me right down the highway at 60 MPH. Once was enough.

 

[cvalue13]

No - they already had at least one prototype at that time which means they would've no doubt tested it. Besides, the F150 spinning it's tires being pulled backwards actually verified a substantial amount of those specs, at least for short distances.

- ÆCIII

that prototype is m/was irrelevant to the current production vehicle. The differences are too numerous and obvious to cover

the pulling stunt also entirely irrelevant to understanding anything about either towing or payload - pulling is neither

 

[ÆCIII]

Um... This is the internet. Pics or it didn't happen is the norm. And now with AI, I doubt even that would count.

From a context where the burden of proof would be on Tesla I would agree.

But in this case, the burden of proof is on the armchair critics and they have nothing, because Tesla can do anything in secret all they want. Unless the armchair critics can absolutely prove Tesla has done nothing - they have nothing. Tesla doesn't owe anyone proof of specs at this point.

Until Tesla reveals the latest production version of the Cybertruck, it's all rumors and speculation and no one knows fully what Tesla is doing or has been doing.

- ÆCIII

 

[ÆCIII]

that prototype is m/was irrelevant to the current production vehicle. The differences are too numerous and obvious to cover

the pulling stunt also entirely irrelevant to understanding anything about either towing or payload - pulling is neither

Yes, it's irrelevant to the current production vehicle, but then so are the specs that were presented with it. So no one should be speculating about any towing specs until Tesla presents them again in a new reveal of the latest production vehicle. But aside from that, no one knows what Tesla is doing behind the scenes anyway - and that is my main point.

Yet, we've seen with Pepsico how the Semi has been performing, and it's primary function is to 'tow'. So it's kind of obvious that Tesla knows a thing or two about 'towing', and the engineering involved. Yes the Cybertruck is a totally different vehicle, but it's still designed by Tesla engineers.

So honestly, I think the 'armchair doubting' by some, shows a real lack of appreciation and attention to the details of what Tesla has been accomplishing.

- ÆCIII

 

[greggertruck]

To be fair, it is the FIRST "idiot" to catch this scenario. My expectation would be that there had been previous testing yes. Seems unlikely to start the initial testing in the snow.

So if there has been as much testing as you might expect, I'd say the true "idiot" is actually all the people who had opportunity but didn't even find it in themselves to pull out a potato cam. The person here was much more advance than those "idiots" and successfully took relevant pictures with relatively high resolution that was easy to see. Hardly an idiot in my book.

I'm the idiot fyi. i was talking about myself catching the fact that there is a trailer bearing weights sitting next to Cybertruck in its cold testing.

 

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