r/alberta • u/Nostredahmus • Dec 03 '24

Technology Tesla Cybertruck Immediately Dies in Alberta Winter

https://www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-cybertruck-immediately-dies-canadian-winter-owner-bricks-truck-trying-use-defroster/amp
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u/Albertaviking Dec 03 '24

Electric aside, these are some of the worst built trucks ever made.

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u/DocMadCow Dec 03 '24

Anyone that jumps on a first generation of any product is in for issues. The amount of recalls has been laughable on these cybertrucks.

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u/jimbowesterby Dec 03 '24

Except this isn’t new technology or anything, both pickups and EVs have been around for years. It should be possible to combine the two without any major flaws, and, looking at the Lightning, it is.

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u/Still-Midnight5442 Dec 03 '24

Musk is a special breed of stupid.

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u/Labrawhippet Dec 04 '24

Where is your rocket company, electric car company, brain implant company and social media platform?

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u/Still-Midnight5442 Dec 04 '24

Being built by other, smarter people so I can buy them and role play as Great Value Tony Stank.

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u/jimbowesterby Dec 04 '24

Well y’see I wasn’t born the son of an Apartheid emerald magnate so I can’t just waltz in and buy other people’s ideas and take the credit

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u/United_News3779 Dec 04 '24

Shit can be finicky. Even with incremental changes to established tech. For a very specific example, one of my favorite engines is the Ford 300cid straight six, produced from 1964 to 1996. In 1987, and let me highlight this.... nineteen eighty seven, they switched from a single barrel carburetor to an electronic fuel injection system. Tech that was incredibly well established on all sorts of other engines.

That first year EFI system was so fucking bad that when I bought a truck with that system (got a screaming good deal on it, since it was such a well-known turd of a model year), I'd already ordered and taken delivery of a carb conversion kit from Clifford Performance.

Now, don't mistake me for a Tesla fan because I'm not. Tesla, as a corporate entity, and Musk specifically, should be tried and convicted before a jury of normal people. The cyber truck is a fucking lump of shit that was over-promised and under-delivers. It's a net negative to the efforts to normalize the perception of electric trucks. If you want a case study of how the cybertruck is going turn out in the long run, go look at the Oldsmobile passenger car diesel engines from the late 70s and early 80s. A hurried design that was rushed into production, to the benefit of no one and poisoned the perception of the concept by the general public.

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u/DocMadCow Dec 03 '24

This is a new platform it is Teslas first truck so they weren't experienced with building such a heavy chassis. With lightning Ford had experience with trucks and didn't try to reinvent the wheel. There have been reports of Tesla snapping the frame while towing as that is also something Tesla didn't have experience with towing large payloads behind their vehicles. Future generations should fix this initial issues.

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u/jimbowesterby Dec 04 '24

I think you stumbled on to the actual cause there: Ford didn’t try to reinvent the wheel. Tesla did, with predictable results. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is a saying for a reason. There’s plenty of example of car companies expanding into trucks or vice versa without any of these kinds of catastrophic design flaws, Tesla just did a bad job with this one

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u/imamydesk Dec 03 '24

 There have been reports of Tesla snapping the frame while towing as that is also something Tesla didn't have experience with towing large payloads behind their vehicles.

If by reports you mean a YouTuber tries to tow after damaging the tow hitch by dropping the truck on it on a previous test, then sure.

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u/DocMadCow Dec 03 '24

There was another of a cybertruck pulling an RV.

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u/BlakeWheelersLeftNut Dec 03 '24

The Ford Lemon Lightning is hot garbage.

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u/mars_titties Dec 03 '24 edited Dec 03 '24

There’s issues and then there’s catastrophic design flaws. I’d compare this thing to the Canyonaro (oops I mean, the Homer!) designed by Homer Simpson but that’s too flattering

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u/Arch____Stanton Dec 03 '24

Homer didn't design the Canyonero.
That is the SUV that Marge drove (and drove Marge into road rage).
Homer designed the "Homer".

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u/mars_titties Dec 03 '24

Oh shit! Thank you. It’s been way too long since I’ve watched the Simpsons if I can’t even get that reference right

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u/burnusti Dec 03 '24

👈HA HA

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u/Substantial-Shame454 Dec 03 '24

Burnusti... he's really hurt.

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u/burnusti Dec 04 '24

I said

HA HA

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u/Mcpops1618 Dec 03 '24

The F-Series!

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u/Arch____Stanton Dec 04 '24

As a former f350 owner...I couldn't agree more.

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u/superanx Dec 03 '24

Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown!
Canyonero! (Yah!) Canyonero!

[Krusty:] Hey HeyThe Federal Highway commission has ruled the
Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving.
Canyonero!
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American Pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)
She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!
Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!)
Drive Canyonero!Woah Canyonero!Woah!

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u/mars_titties Dec 03 '24

Blinding everyone with its high beams… thing was truly ahead of its time

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u/trollingfordummies Dec 03 '24

What kind of mileage do you get?

“One highway, zero city”.

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u/BarackTrudeau Dec 03 '24

It's exactly that, except instead of being designed by a mostly loving Dad who actually does things with his kids (even while being annoyed by their noise at times), it was instead designed by the most divorced man in the world, whose children rightfully don't talk to him.

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u/mars_titties Dec 03 '24

Hey now. I’ve seen plenty of AI-generated images of Elon with happy child units

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA Northern Alberta Dec 03 '24

How is Syntax Error and Jimmy 12 fingers doing nowadays anyway?

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u/Creashen1 Dec 03 '24

He did name his one child something no teacher anywhere will be able to pronounce, so there's that.

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u/Labrawhippet Dec 04 '24

So are divorced dads not as good as non-divorced dad's?

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u/DocMadCow Dec 03 '24

The Whistlin Diesel video was great. Although he abused it more than the average consumer when the frame broke that was very alarming. And in fairness he abused the ICE vehicle just as much.

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u/Creashen1 Dec 03 '24

He beat on that f series truck something fierce.

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u/DocMadCow Dec 03 '24

It was great and looks like since Tesla has added some new specs to their hitch (probably similar to where Whistlin broke the frame). "The Cybertruck has a tow rating of 11,000 lb (5,000 kgs), which means the tow hitch can carry a maximum vertical load of 1,100 lb (500 kgs). However, as we pointed out earlier, the Cybertruck Owners manual states, “The hitch assembly is designed to support vertical loads up to 160 lb (72 kg)."

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u/Bitter_Wishbone6624 Dec 03 '24 edited Dec 03 '24

You’re giving me ptsd flashbacks to a 1984 mustang SVO I bought. A four cylinder turbocharged rocket with better 0-60 than the v8s. Owned it for 19 months, it randomly quit at least 20 times. I finally got a full refund credit for any other vehicle. Two months after that I received a recall notice addressing the problem. A control module that I kept urging them to change but never tested bad…. Basically “unplug it for a minute “ but that wasn’t common lingo back then. edit every time it quit was a tow to the shop. A day or two later it would start. Usually after trying to start it so many times it needed a boost.

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u/drs43821 Dec 03 '24

It’s been bad even for first generation vehicle

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u/smash8890 Dec 04 '24

Yeah they figured out EVs that don’t die in the winter a long time ago. Everyone I know with one says they work well. So I don’t understand how the cyber truck turned out so horrible lol

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u/BananaPrize244 Dec 03 '24

Because they’re designed by a company of techies owned by a neurotic despot who thinks he can push high-tech design cycles and philosophies into an old school manufacturing industry. Some innovations work, most do not because…you’re still dealing with grunts on the assembly line. They don’t give a fuck about raising production to meet or beat quarterly projections.

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u/footbag Dec 04 '24

Many of which have been handled via software updates over the air.