While Tesla’s new Cybertruck model attracts attention with its claims of high durability and towing capacity, an information about the vehicle has become a subject of ridicule on social media. A detail in Tesla’s official user manual has fuelled discussions about the Cybertruck’s towing capacity.
Tesla Cybertruck can pull 72kg load!
In the emerging manual of the vehicle, it is stated that the towing connection of the vehicle can only carry a vertical load of 160 pounds (approximately 72 kg). This weight is even less than the weight of an average adult woman. These figures once again raised questions about Cybertruck’s durability.
While the durability of Cybertruck was tested in a video published on YouTube on the channel named ‘WhistlinDiesel’ and watched millions of times, the video content spread rapidly on social media platforms. Marc Thomas Sessa, a member of the Tesla Cybertruck group on Facebook, was one of the first to notice this limitation.
Sessa suggested that Tesla may have copied this limit exactly from the Tesla Model Y and that it may not be realistic. Stating that the Model Y has a similar limit, Sessa claimed that it is not possible for a pickup truck to have such a low load limit.
Considering the towing capacities of competing models such as the Ford F-150 and Chevrolet Silverado, this limitation of the Tesla Cybertruck is quite low. The tongue weight limit, which is usually 10 per cent of a vehicle’s towing capacity, is set at approximately 500 kg for the Cybertruck. However, this limit contradicts the 72kg vertical load limit announced by Tesla.
While other major manufacturers usually do not specify the vertical load limit separately, Tesla’s approach to this issue has been criticised on social media. Some users think this limitation may be a typo. Another group claims that the aluminium gigadump technology used by Tesla in its vehicles may be the reason for this limit.
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