Exact dimensions of Cybertruck? Will it fit in 19 ft deep garage?

[FutureBoy]

My Silverado 2500HD with a 6.5' bed is 20 feet long. I hope Elon has not shrunk the CT to where it WILL fit in a 19 ft. garage ...

Where have you been? There have been multiple arguments/fights here over the garage vs non-garage and the resizing to fit in said garage.
Currently it seems to be shrunk to fit unfortunately.

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[SentinelOne]

It’s an EV that needs to charge. My set up is in the garage, can’t run cables out to the street.

My Charger is between the garage doors so I can reach any garage spot and any driveway spot. Gen 1, longer cable and have a path through the wall for the cable to charge outside vehicles. Basically I knew my CT would be in the driveway (my current Tesla is in the garage and my current truck is outside bc it doesnt fit in garage) and planned for it.

 

[wtibbit]

If the CT is a hair short of the 19’, and the garage is 20’ depth, that’s one problem set - tennis balls, self-parking, etc., are all practical options.

But if the CT is a hair shorter than 19’ and the garage is 19’ deep as the OP posited, none of the usual and discussed solutions will be practical on a daily basis for a lot of people. (And self-parking wouldn’t abide.)

My neighbor has that problem and she came up with a pretty gutsy solution. I'm not suggesting it as a general solution, but maybe it would work for the courageous types with a short garage - it has so far, for her.

Her car is a 7 series BMW, about 17' 4" overall length. Her garage is 20' deep, but has a permanent base cabinet built against the back wall. The cabinet is 2' deep, leaving about 8" of clearance for the car.

She put a large piece of foam (from a foam mattress I suspect) against the face of the cabinet and idles the car's bumper against the foam until it stops. The foam is crushed down to a few inches thick. Then she gets out, walks around the back of the car and lowers the garage door. It clears the car by about 4 inches. I cringed when I saw this, but it appears to work for her.

I wonder if the idling uh, I mean creeping, torque of the Cybertruck would drive that cabinet right through the wall.....

 

[Crissa]

That's a great solution, if you don't intend to use the garage with the vehicle in it ^-^

My mom has some cheap shelves that will knock over if you go an inch past the tennis ball mark!

-Crissa

 

[PilotPete]

Saw a novel solution...

Ring camera mounted to look at the gap between the wall and the car. Open the ring app as you drive into the garage and get a perfect overhead view of the gap in realtime.

MUCH more tech (and therefore fun and better) than a ball on a string.

 

[cvalue13]

She put a large piece of foam (from a foam mattress I suspect) against the face of the cabinet and idles the car's bumper against the foam until it stops.

Saw a novel solution...Ring camera mounted to look at the gap between the wall and the car.

These are both good examples of what my original comment was getting at.

On one hand, it’s just math that a <19’ truck can fit in a 19’ garage - and there’ll be a set of people who are content to do daily garage gymnastics.

On the other hand, there will be a set of people who - after a week of those gymnastics - decide life’s too short.

 

[PilotPete]

These are both good examples of what my original comment was getting at.

On one hand, it’s just math that a <19’ truck can fit in a 19’ garage - and there’ll be a set of people who are content to do daily garage gymnastics.

On the other hand, there will be a set of people who - after a week of those gymnastics - decide life’s too short.

On the other hand...


You have five fingers...

 

[CyberGus]

I just pull into the garage and stop when I see the fridge move

 

[HaulingAss]

She put a large piece of foam (from a foam mattress I suspect) against the face of the cabinet and idles the car's bumper against the foam until it stops. The foam is crushed down to a few inches thick. Then she gets out, walks around the back of the car and lowers the garage door. It clears the car by about 4 inches. I cringed when I saw this, but it appears to work for her.

I wonder if the idling torque of the Cybertruck would drive that cabinet right through the wall.....

Electric motors don't idle, therefore they have no "idling torque".

 

[Crissa]

Electric motors don't idle, therefore they have no "idling torque".

But Teslas have 'creep'. If you want it to. I don't. I hate it. It's the dumbest idea for cars to ever have had it. Clutches are better. So why simulate creep on an EV?

-Crissa

 

[WHIZZARD OF OZ]

That's a great solution, if you don't intend to use the garage with the vehicle in it ^-^

My mom has some cheap shelves that will knock over if you go an inch past the tennis ball mark!

-Crissa

' You cannot be serious ' (John McEnroe)

 

[wtibbit]

Electric motors don't idle, therefore they have no "idling torque".

Of course.

I was using the term idle to equate her process of driving her ICE car forward with engine idling and in gear, as slow as possible into the barrier, with a similar process in an EV.

Maybe you would have been more comfortable with “creep”. I’ll change it.

 

[HaulingAss]

I wonder if the idling uh, I mean creeping, torque of the Cybertruck would drive that cabinet right through the wall.....

Do people really use the "creep" option? It does not come enabled by default and is only designed to make the car feel more familiar to people who think an ICE automatic defines the ideal way all cars should behave. It's for people who can't seem to understand that not all cars have such undesirable movements that are not the result of a specific input to the throttle. Sometimes it easier to placate the people, rather than try to teach an old dog a new trick.

I'm guessing a Tesla that had "Creep" enabled would "see" the cabinet and would stop creeping before it runs over the furniture. But I don't know, it could be Tesla programmed it to behave just like an archaic ICE car and therefore it would mow the furniture right down with the momentum of the car's forward motion, like a mindless beast that would plow through anything if you didn't put your foot on the brake.

I'm just having a hard time believing anyone sets their car's settings so the default behavior is drive slowly forward, constantly applying power until the brake is applied to restrain it. If any of you are using this feature, I invite you to join the 21st century and turn it off.

 

[CyberGus]

' You cannot be serious ' (John McEnroe)

 

[CyberGus]

Do people really use the "creep" option? It does not come enabled by default and is only designed to make the car feel more familiar to people who think an ICE automatic defines the ideal way all cars should behave. It's for people who can't seem to understand that not all cars have such undesirable movements that are not the result of a specific input to the throttle. Sometimes it easier to placate the people, rather than try to teach an old dog a new trick.

I'm guessing a Tesla that had "Creep" enabled would "see" the cabinet and would stop creeping before it runs over the furniture. But I don't know, it could be Tesla programmed it to behave just like an archaic ICE car and therefore it would mow the furniture right down with the momentum of the car's forward motion, like a mindless beast that would plow through anything if you didn't put your foot on the brake.

I'm just having a hard time believing anyone sets their car's settings so the default behavior is drive slowly forward, constantly applying power until the brake is applied to restrain it. If any of you are using this feature, I invite you to join the 21st century and turn it off.

I tried "creep mode" but then I just ended up stalking all my ex-girlfriends

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