We get a rare look at a Tesla Cybertruck launching from a standstill, and it looks more like a rocket than a pickup truck.
Electric vehicles, in general – and Tesla vehicles, in particular – tend to have a quick acceleration. That’s thanks to the electric motors, which can provide their maximum RPM in a fraction of a second.
Also, it’s a factor that comes with automakers trying to achieve longer ranges with bigger batteries that have more energy capacity but also more power capacity to send to those electric motors. It can result in surprising amounts of speed from vehicles that you wouldn’t expect to be fast, such as a pickup truck.
The Tesla Cybertruck should be a good example of this phenomenon, and we get a small taste of it with this video posted by Stumby on Cybertruck Owners’ Club:
We can see the Cybertruck launch from a standstill and shoot in front of all the vehicles at this intersection.
Based on the specs that Tesla originally released about the Cybertruck, the electric pickup truck can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph faster than 6.5 seconds for the base version and as quick as 2.9 seconds for the top tri-motor version.
We don’t know what version this electric pickup truck release candidate is, and even if we did, we expect that those specs, which were released in 2019, would be updated for the production version.
Tesla is expected to hold a delivery event for the Cybertruck in the near future, during which the production specs should be finally released.
Author: Fred Lambert
Source: Electrek
Top comment by Joe Real
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And this is what I’m afraid of. Many Darwinian Awardees would try it out for themselves thinking that they’re invincible with the Cybertruck and do all sorts of things that only Darwinian Awardees would do. Expect aggrandized overhyped stories from mainstream media highlighting the results of their actions. The media would be biased against Tesla for sure and the anxious owners involved in disasters would be front page for a long while.
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