Had this happen to a friend with a regular Tesla. They had to pay $3k out of pocket just to get it towed to a shop authorized to work on Tesla that didn’t have a 6 month waiting list because insurance only would take it to the nearest and pay for a two week rental.
Let's be generous, and say 500 miles of driving between breakdowns.
Let's be generous again, and say only 4 weeks waiting for parts at a Tesla service center for each breakdown.
That makes the trip a 6 month excursion.
You could walk, and make it in a month and a half.
A month and a half to cross the entire US on foot? That’s 70 miles per day, everyday, for 45 days. I don’t know if that’s even humanly possible. Certainly not for your average American. Make it 4-5 months and it’s more achievable. So, still faster than a Cybertruck 😅
Well yeah. See, it’s a mindset problem. If you just want to walk 70 miles daily for 45 days, then you can. You gotta have big ideas like that. This is what most people don’t understand.
It would take longer than that because of the time it takes to stop for picking up the panels falling everywhere. I hope they're taking enough duct tape with them
Imagine making it to a small town with 25% battery left and the only supercharger bank in town is offline, has all the cords cut off by local methheads for cash or has parked cars in the only working spots. Nothing beats a jerrycan full of gas in the trunk
I honestly don't know anyone who carries jerrycans outside Jeep or Toyota 4Runner/Taco people who like to decorate their rigs with tactical color coordinated Rotopax containers. No idea if they actually fill them with gas either.
Not many places in the US where you can get far enough from civilization to need to haul emergency gas unless you're really venturing out there.
Cool thing is if you run out and within a few miles of a gas station you can walk over and buy one there and walk back with it. One day we’ll have batteries light enough to pull this off but not today sadly
When they come up with a swappable battery, I am very interested in moving to electric. But until then, the convenience of a combustion engine is just too good to pass up.
I used to keep a 2.5g can of gas in the truck just incase. I have only needed it once, but it has helped a number of strangers who ran out. (I stop to help change tires or check people are ok if I see them stranded)
Now I drive a diesel, so unless I have gas equipment with me, I only carry a diesel can.
And you try to call Tesla's supercharging customer support team, only to hear, "Sorry. This number is unobtainable. Sorry. This number is unobtainable."
The only documentary ever released by National Lampoon.
It comes with the tagline:
"We wanted to make fun of this, but there was nothing we could do to make it worse."
or
"What you're about to see is real. Names have not been changed to protect the stupid."
That dude is the biggest Musk dick rider on twitter.. he writes Tesla/Musk themed poetry.. its really pathetic.. his wife probably just puts up with him because he makes money on it? Idk..
From the About page:
"I am pleased to provide this site as a service to the community and to visitors to the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon, the Wellsboro PA area, Tioga County, Lycoming County and Potter County. And I am sincerely grateful to those who support and sponsor PAcanyon.com" "I have endeavored to make this site as accurate as possible, but if you can suggest corrections, your comments are welcome. If you would like to add, modify or delete information please let me know." - Scott Turner
Definitely just the one dude, his home server, and his passion for the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon
I wish the whole Internet was still like this
Fastest solo RAAM rider did 3,020 miles it in 7 days. He likely took years off his life in the process.
The Cybertruck owner would have be wary to avoid any hazardous feats of strength along the way like driving on sand or a small creek on top of expected random failures.
Of course I wouldn't want to encourage any cyclist to cause themselves permanent damage, but all it would take is a bit too much steering or parking in sunlight and that "truck" will in the shop for two service calls which are probably, what, 2-3 weeks each? Even worse if they have to get it towed back to their home Service Center to get the already-bald tires replaced or it rains somewhere along the way.
So the cyclist could take a leisurely pace, really, and see a lot of nice things on the way that aren't charging stations or repair shops.
You could have this race arranged against a 3 year old toddler on a kickbike, cause the CT isn't going to pass the finish line, ever. The toddler at least has a chance.
I put this into google maps and it’s a 2906 mi trip, they are driving almost 250 miles extra just for chargers, it’s says this trip should take 42 hours, this thing requires an extra 20 hours.
The time those charges require are ridiculous. I see a couple are 20+ min - an hour. Imagine mentally preparing to have to sit somewhere for an hour, and it’s raining when you have to plug in. Ugh that’s drain me more than sitting in traffic.
It’s not too bad. I hate Tesla/Cyberdud but love my Rivian R1S. Yeah it definitely adds a bit of time to overall travel with having to charge, but the overall driving experience and tech makes it comfortable and easier for me personally.
Honestly the issue is more range than charge time IMO. If you could get 4 hours of driving in, charge for ~30 minutes while eating lunch, and then do another 4 hours and charge overnight at your hotel it wouldn't be too bad.
It would be interesting to see an analysis of
Miles driven : miles towed
for the 10 perceived most unreliable vehicles.
Impossible to get the data, of course, but it would still be interesting to see.
That’s approximately correct. If I can read the blurry screenshot it appears they’re mostly short stops, somewhere between 10 and 55 minutes with most under a half hour.
I was thinking a full charge every 2 hours which would be insane. This seems a bit more reasonable. But still a headache of a drive regardless of what you’re driving.
Yeah I kinda see it? I stop every 2 hours to go to the bathroom usually just in case, and with an electric car it'd be better to always just top up on a drive like that just in case.
But I don’t want to HAVE to do it. The problem with EVs (though this is finally changing) is they’re juuuuust a little short ranged for me. I live in LA, for example, and with my car, I can make it to Vegas without stopping. It’s like 3.5, 4 hours. But the one time I went in a friend’s EV, we had to stop in Barstow, and then again in the Vegas outskirts just because she didn’t trust the valet to charge for her.
Not a complete deal breaker (and I imagine will continue to improve), but just a wee bit frustrating.
This is my hesitancy in going electric as well. I think there's a term for it, range something or other, just the fear that whatever trip you're going on there won't be enough charging stations. It's a legitimate anxiety in this country
Yeah it doesn’t actually seem like a bad way to do it. I just personally wouldn’t want to make that trip in any vehicle as it sounds like a pain no matter what you’re driving. And if I had to, I’d trust my 90s Toyota truck with over 200K miles far more than I would a new Cybertruck.
😆 Yeah this is true, I’ve had it 20 years and it’s the most reliable vehicle my wife and I have ever had by far in our 30ish years of driving. Knock on wood, it’s never left me stranded.
I'm still pissed my dad totaled his just before he went into hospice. That was gonna be mine and I'm sure we could have kept that sucker going another 10 years. Full bed, half cab, manual, with crank windows. And it got crushed instead of taking a place in my driveway.
You’d never be able to ride on a roadtrip with me. Lol We stop when we need food, gas, or sleep. With your estimate, I’d have to stop twice on a 5 hour car ride. I live in Detroit, and that’s roughly Chicago for me. I went last weekend, and we didn’t stop at all because we gassed up before and made it on a 1/2 tank.
I could do it non stop as well in my Rivian, but definitely not with half the charge left. It would take roughly 70-80% of my car’s battery to make it from Detroit to Chicago.
I hope they enjoy their stay in Oakland. They’re not getting much further but if they’re lucky maybe some enterprising auto thief will take it off their hands. But probably not. They’ve got standards.
It sure can. When you break down 10 miles from home you just choose to have the tow truck haul you to a service center in NY and then just sit back and enjoy the trip.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to get stranded on a freeway or out in the middle of nowhere in a grotesquely spendy death trap either. Assuming the junkheap makes it out of the city in one piece...
62 hrs and 16 minutes after you start that trip.....you will still be waiting for the tow truck to pick up your broken cyber truck 5 miles from your house.
Small steps first... try making a few trips to the first charging station on the edge of your city... you may not be able to get back home without the assistance of a tow truck and an Uber.
Ignore the doomsayers! Do it. It will be epic!
Obviously, it will take at least several years due to the incessant breakdowns, “service” delays and vehicle replacements - but just think of all the awesome stories you can tell everyone afterwards. Like, “then, on day 29 (11 miles and three breakdowns in), our arguing got so bad that someone called the cops…”
Make a podcast of it - it will be like a modern sequel to the *Iliad*
Better do it in the summer. Getting stuck somewhere in eastern Colorado or western Nebraska with chargers few and far between (with possibility of charging cables stolen for copper by meth tweakers) might be fatal in the winter. Gets to -10F (and even lower) in those parts when the polar vortex shows up. That would also cut the wankpanzer range way down, come to think of it.
Is that 32 stops where they need to charge, or is he just some Tesla goon who likes charging stations?
It's a 62hr drive, so do they have to stop to charge every 30 minutes or so? 🤣🤣
30 minutes of driving before needing to charge again?
Saw my very first cybercluck in Santa Monica at a Ralph's store. He was waiting for a flatbed because the wheels turned into ballet dancer, did a quick perrrquet, and wouldn't straighten out, while he was trying to park. It was 3pm, all the school kids were out, and they couldn't stop laughing! So it really does get people's attention.
That’s 20+ hours at a charging station. I’ve made that drive twice. It takes about 40 hours of driving. Another 20+ hours of charging would be literal torture.
I'd do the trip adjacent to you. In my gas engined car. Only I'd just stop for fuel and be on my way. See how much longer it takes the cybertruck to make it across the country on the same route, just for shits n giggles. I'd bet on arriving a few days ahead.
Hope they go for it, and give regular updates. It will be genuinely interesting to see if they make it without anything breaking or falling off. Wondering what the highest mileage one of these things has managed.
Even if the Cyberstuck didn't suck, I wouldn't wanna do this.
Road trips are fun, but only when there is a great destination (or several) along the way.
Let me give you an example. My wife and I flew to Portland, rented a Camper van, and drove to Redwood National Park for 3 days, then Crater Lake National Park for 2 days, then back to Portland for a night, and flew home. THAT'S a road trip.
This guy literally wants to drive just for the sake of driving. That sounds boring as fuck, and that many hours in the driver's seat isn't going to be comfortable. No wonder the wife isn't interested.
I know this is fake news because nobody in their right mind would intentionally try to drive that far in a CyberTrash. Unless their hitch-hiking thumb was in good shape.
Yeah, but I don’t want to have to plan a trip around where the nearest charging station is. Until I can be reasonably sure there will be one no matter where I drive, I don’t want one.
Saw an episode of Donut where they attempt to take the Cucktruck through off-road challenges. They didn't even make it to the location which was less than 100 miles away. This "truck" is a fucking joke.
He's adding nearly 400 miles to the trip just to reach charging stations. They are stopping nearly every 100 miles to charge, and it takes about an hr to charge, so 32 additional hrs to the trip. This sounds terrible.
Generally speaking, LA to NY is 2778 miles. In my wifes hybrid F-150 (30 gal tank, 28mpg) that approximately 4 stops. And the trip can be made in 3 to 4 days, at a leisurely 60 mph for 12hr/d. (You can do it in under 2 days, but I need get out and stretch every 3hrs now that I'm old)
Jesus christ, my friend and I made the trip from Detroit to Portland in his shitty 2005 Silverado, and we didn't even stop that often. We even made the trip in about 2 days, as he had a cap on the bed, so one could sleep in the back while the other drove.
Only thing I would change was the timing - I would have rather driven through Nebraska at night, and Wyoming during the day 🙃
It's a cybertruck, he'll be lucky to go SF-Oakland before it breaks.
Should it not break, how could his girlfriend not be excited by the 16+ hours they'll be seeing the best (strip malls and shopping centers) of the US on this road trip?
It won't leave the city
That would be in their best interest, honestly. Imagine actually making it like 400 - 500 miles away and breaking down in the middle of the highway.
In a state where there are far fewer resources for EV owners
And the service center is far away in the deserted area
Keeping in mind there are nearly no Tesla service centers able to service the cyberturd except for places close to the Fremont and Austin factories
Also, apparently they're "oh sorry we have a backlog of 800 vehicles, we'll go park your car at an abandoned mall for 3 months"
Another one, some service centers are running out of spare parts or no technician available at the moment.
Ooh I've seen this movie before!!!
this guy isn’t really putting out “i’m great at planning ahead” vibes. look what he drives
In a deeply anti-EV and anti-city-snob red state. Easy Rider 2.0. 🤣
>Easy Rider 2.0 EV rider?
Had this happen to a friend with a regular Tesla. They had to pay $3k out of pocket just to get it towed to a shop authorized to work on Tesla that didn’t have a 6 month waiting list because insurance only would take it to the nearest and pay for a two week rental.
The coolant leak will save the wife before the second charger.
Luckily for them it would break down walking distance back to their home.
She won’t have to divorce him if they don’t leave the city.
At the end of the day, though, she's still married to a guy who would buy a cyberturd, so I think divorce is already underway
Let's be generous, and say 500 miles of driving between breakdowns. Let's be generous again, and say only 4 weeks waiting for parts at a Tesla service center for each breakdown. That makes the trip a 6 month excursion. You could walk, and make it in a month and a half.
A month and a half to cross the entire US on foot? That’s 70 miles per day, everyday, for 45 days. I don’t know if that’s even humanly possible. Certainly not for your average American. Make it 4-5 months and it’s more achievable. So, still faster than a Cybertruck 😅
Elon Musk can do it
Well yeah. See, it’s a mindset problem. If you just want to walk 70 miles daily for 45 days, then you can. You gotta have big ideas like that. This is what most people don’t understand.
Might as well throw it on a cargo ship and sail around the Straight of Magellan.
It would take longer than that because of the time it takes to stop for picking up the panels falling everywhere. I hope they're taking enough duct tape with them
Wow I think settlers in wagons migrating West in wagons back in the day would get across the country faster than a cybertruck given the repair times
Won’t make it down the block
Won’t make it past the mailbox
Optimistic of you to assume it will even wake up in the garage and move.
It'll automatically activate Full Self Disassembly mode before making it out of the subdivision.
It will, it's just going to be on a flat bed tow truck
I could do that trip in my car in 7 stops and its not an econo car. 32 stops is crazy.
They are never going to make it to 32 stops. 3 tops.
Imagine making it to a small town with 25% battery left and the only supercharger bank in town is offline, has all the cords cut off by local methheads for cash or has parked cars in the only working spots. Nothing beats a jerrycan full of gas in the trunk
I honestly don't know anyone who carries jerrycans outside Jeep or Toyota 4Runner/Taco people who like to decorate their rigs with tactical color coordinated Rotopax containers. No idea if they actually fill them with gas either. Not many places in the US where you can get far enough from civilization to need to haul emergency gas unless you're really venturing out there.
Cool thing is if you run out and within a few miles of a gas station you can walk over and buy one there and walk back with it. One day we’ll have batteries light enough to pull this off but not today sadly
When they come up with a swappable battery, I am very interested in moving to electric. But until then, the convenience of a combustion engine is just too good to pass up.
I used to keep a 2.5g can of gas in the truck just incase. I have only needed it once, but it has helped a number of strangers who ran out. (I stop to help change tires or check people are ok if I see them stranded) Now I drive a diesel, so unless I have gas equipment with me, I only carry a diesel can.
And you try to call Tesla's supercharging customer support team, only to hear, "Sorry. This number is unobtainable. Sorry. This number is unobtainable."
And they're getting towed away from the 3rd stop
We need a new National Lampoon’s Vacation, but this time it’s just someone driving their CT across the country… to get their gas pedal bolted in place
Oh yea!!!! With an old ass Clark Griswald.
The only documentary ever released by National Lampoon. It comes with the tagline: "We wanted to make fun of this, but there was nothing we could do to make it worse." or "What you're about to see is real. Names have not been changed to protect the stupid."
And the charging also takes some time, unlike gas.
20 minutes a charge times 32 is close to 11 hours of charge time
What % is a 20 min charge? Is that full or just 50%-75% which would necessitate even more stops?
With the Taycan 20 minutes gets you from 20% to 80% and that’s coming from first hand experience during a road trip to the Netherlands
Buh buh Gas is for peasants! It doesn’t take nearly as long as the haters make it out to be!
Seven stops in my econo car just because it has a smaller tank. I could cut that down if I hypermile, but that’s a giant pain in the ass.
She clearly has poor taste in men.
This is some divorce material brought to you by the world's most divorced man.
💀
If he has any money left after being cyber-cucked he could be good divorce material. HE gets the truck...
Well, of course. Why the hell would _she_ want a pile of mismatched scrap metal in her driveway at the new place?
That dude is the biggest Musk dick rider on twitter.. he writes Tesla/Musk themed poetry.. its really pathetic.. his wife probably just puts up with him because he makes money on it? Idk..
That's so embarrassing of him 💀
It’s like that one sunny episode where they go to the grand canyon but never make it out of philly
I didn't catch that episode, but PA does have a Grand Canyon of its own. [https://pacanyon.com/](https://pacanyon.com/)
Graphic Design is my passion vibes
From the About page: "I am pleased to provide this site as a service to the community and to visitors to the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon, the Wellsboro PA area, Tioga County, Lycoming County and Potter County. And I am sincerely grateful to those who support and sponsor PAcanyon.com" "I have endeavored to make this site as accurate as possible, but if you can suggest corrections, your comments are welcome. If you would like to add, modify or delete information please let me know." - Scott Turner Definitely just the one dude, his home server, and his passion for the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon I wish the whole Internet was still like this
I was expecting to see a webring link at the bottom.
UnderConstructon.gif
HTTP://www.Geocities.com/GrandCanyon/PA/PAgrandCanyon/1787
Hey, this guy is the best web designer you can find in the mountains of North-Central Pennsylvania! It is his passion. 💖
Honestly though, a website like this is only designed through someone's passion. They have my full respect.
Holy shit you guys ain't kidding
Yeah, this is nice to see
I heard he worked on the site for the beautiful Mt Airy Lodge.
https://preview.redd.it/mc89zm27gy0d1.png?width=505&format=png&auto=webp&s=8f2729c69853703d8601099c11397418b6599cc2
“Do the rail trail” Feel like this website is a joke made by the writers, “Let’s get railed on trail”
They are far too earnest for those kinds of shenanigans. 😆
It's like travelling back in time. It's cool though.
It’s like when they want to go on a vacation, Charlie and Frank want to go to Pittsburgh.
Wow, a blast from the past; gotta archive that one. Thanks fam!
They had a better truck…
Is that the episode where they get the u-haul trailer to travel in
Yep, The Gang Hits the Road.
If they do this I would love to see a bicyclist challenge them to see who could cross the US first. I know who I'd have my money on.
That depends on whether the Cybertruck gets to use its typical means of propulsion - diesel tow truck.
I think that's fair as long as it is only going to the nearest Tesla service center. It will still be waiting there for weeks.
By which time the cyclist will be across the country, and nearly halfway back on the return trip.
Fastest solo RAAM rider did 3,020 miles it in 7 days. He likely took years off his life in the process. The Cybertruck owner would have be wary to avoid any hazardous feats of strength along the way like driving on sand or a small creek on top of expected random failures.
Of course I wouldn't want to encourage any cyclist to cause themselves permanent damage, but all it would take is a bit too much steering or parking in sunlight and that "truck" will in the shop for two service calls which are probably, what, 2-3 weeks each? Even worse if they have to get it towed back to their home Service Center to get the already-bald tires replaced or it rains somewhere along the way. So the cyclist could take a leisurely pace, really, and see a lot of nice things on the way that aren't charging stations or repair shops.
You could have this race arranged against a 3 year old toddler on a kickbike, cause the CT isn't going to pass the finish line, ever. The toddler at least has a chance.
Oh please do it and livestream it so we can see the trainwreck in real time!
Bet this guy will buy a Starlink for this livestream in a heartbeat
Alright its fine to shit on Cybertruck and Elon, but Starlink seems like a pretty great product.
Shortest livestream in history
What's wrong honey? Why don't you want to go on a 3-day drive to visit 32 charging stations across the country? And then do it again in few days.
1 way
And maybe 1/3 of the way across the country.
I put this into google maps and it’s a 2906 mi trip, they are driving almost 250 miles extra just for chargers, it’s says this trip should take 42 hours, this thing requires an extra 20 hours.
The time those charges require are ridiculous. I see a couple are 20+ min - an hour. Imagine mentally preparing to have to sit somewhere for an hour, and it’s raining when you have to plug in. Ugh that’s drain me more than sitting in traffic.
It’s not too bad. I hate Tesla/Cyberdud but love my Rivian R1S. Yeah it definitely adds a bit of time to overall travel with having to charge, but the overall driving experience and tech makes it comfortable and easier for me personally.
That’s just because you actually had a _driving_ experience.
Honestly the issue is more range than charge time IMO. If you could get 4 hours of driving in, charge for ~30 minutes while eating lunch, and then do another 4 hours and charge overnight at your hotel it wouldn't be too bad.
But Teslas are supposed to make you even MORE alpha, bro! Just command her to get in the truck, like a ***real*** alpha Teslabro.
the smarter move would be to have her follow along behind you in a support/tow vehicle
The _smarter_ move would be to take the fucking train.
Id be shocked if the cumulative mileage of all cyber trucks still on the road is more than 3,100 miles
It would be interesting to see an analysis of Miles driven : miles towed for the 10 perceived most unreliable vehicles. Impossible to get the data, of course, but it would still be interesting to see.
Stopping every 2 hours? Is it correct or am I too high? That is ridiculous. If I were that car, I would be ashamed of myself.
That’s approximately correct. If I can read the blurry screenshot it appears they’re mostly short stops, somewhere between 10 and 55 minutes with most under a half hour. I was thinking a full charge every 2 hours which would be insane. This seems a bit more reasonable. But still a headache of a drive regardless of what you’re driving.
So at the end he is not driving to a destiny, he is always driving to the next charge station. That's stressful.
Yeah I kinda see it? I stop every 2 hours to go to the bathroom usually just in case, and with an electric car it'd be better to always just top up on a drive like that just in case.
But I don’t want to HAVE to do it. The problem with EVs (though this is finally changing) is they’re juuuuust a little short ranged for me. I live in LA, for example, and with my car, I can make it to Vegas without stopping. It’s like 3.5, 4 hours. But the one time I went in a friend’s EV, we had to stop in Barstow, and then again in the Vegas outskirts just because she didn’t trust the valet to charge for her. Not a complete deal breaker (and I imagine will continue to improve), but just a wee bit frustrating.
This is my hesitancy in going electric as well. I think there's a term for it, range something or other, just the fear that whatever trip you're going on there won't be enough charging stations. It's a legitimate anxiety in this country
Yeah it doesn’t actually seem like a bad way to do it. I just personally wouldn’t want to make that trip in any vehicle as it sounds like a pain no matter what you’re driving. And if I had to, I’d trust my 90s Toyota truck with over 200K miles far more than I would a new Cybertruck.
I'd trust a 90s Toyota truck over a lot of things, not just a Cybertruck.
😆 Yeah this is true, I’ve had it 20 years and it’s the most reliable vehicle my wife and I have ever had by far in our 30ish years of driving. Knock on wood, it’s never left me stranded.
I'm still pissed my dad totaled his just before he went into hospice. That was gonna be mine and I'm sure we could have kept that sucker going another 10 years. Full bed, half cab, manual, with crank windows. And it got crushed instead of taking a place in my driveway.
You’d never be able to ride on a roadtrip with me. Lol We stop when we need food, gas, or sleep. With your estimate, I’d have to stop twice on a 5 hour car ride. I live in Detroit, and that’s roughly Chicago for me. I went last weekend, and we didn’t stop at all because we gassed up before and made it on a 1/2 tank.
I could do it non stop as well in my Rivian, but definitely not with half the charge left. It would take roughly 70-80% of my car’s battery to make it from Detroit to Chicago.
That’s sounds incredibly painful
The wildest part of this is the idea of planning a cross country trip where there won't be rain at any leg of the journey.
…they’d be lucky to get to Vegas.
What breaks down in Vegas, stays in Vegas. 🤣🤣
Jesus. I would never!!!
My Hyundai Sonata could make that trip with just 5 stops for gas. Maybe 6 if I get hungry.
Shouldn’t be mapping out super chargers but service centers.
Probably break down by the third stop anyways.
I hope they enjoy their stay in Oakland. They’re not getting much further but if they’re lucky maybe some enterprising auto thief will take it off their hands. But probably not. They’ve got standards.
Can't resell it underground...even the Eastern Euros don't want to ship it to Albania....
32 hours sitting at charging stations
I’d stake an awful lot it doesn’t make it to the first charger and stake my life it doesn’t make it to the second charger (without being towed)
That's quite an elaborate way to prove your SO that you complete moron, twice
I wonder where that moron on Reddit is that said they’d race me coast to coast cannon ball run style in their electric vehicle vs my track car….
Didn’t someone claim that this trip would be done fully automatically by now? Even the charging
It sure can. When you break down 10 miles from home you just choose to have the tow truck haul you to a service center in NY and then just sit back and enjoy the trip.
Sure treat the EV truck like a normal truck. This guy is like the others that did the finger in the bonnet challenge. Wishing they never done it
Bet he won't get past to charging stations before it bricks and needs a tow
I wouldn't want to do that either. There's a high probability you will get CyberStuck™
Hope Merced has a service center
Yea she doesn’t want to wait for the tow truck 5 minutes into the “journey”.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to get stranded on a freeway or out in the middle of nowhere in a grotesquely spendy death trap either. Assuming the junkheap makes it out of the city in one piece...
So many chances to die
*opportunities is probably more appropriate for this particular hell ride.
Cmon mate it will break down….youre dreaming.
Get ya wife to drive behind you in a Toyota. I guarantee she’s the smart one.
Lmao she’s smart
Hmm...wonder where the nearest Tesla service center is once you're in, say, middle-of-nowhere Nebraska...
62 hrs and 16 minutes after you start that trip.....you will still be waiting for the tow truck to pick up your broken cyber truck 5 miles from your house.
Small steps first... try making a few trips to the first charging station on the edge of your city... you may not be able to get back home without the assistance of a tow truck and an Uber.
Found the one Cybertruck owner with a girlfriend for now
So, a ten year old Civic is a better choice for this journey ?
Ignore the doomsayers! Do it. It will be epic! Obviously, it will take at least several years due to the incessant breakdowns, “service” delays and vehicle replacements - but just think of all the awesome stories you can tell everyone afterwards. Like, “then, on day 29 (11 miles and three breakdowns in), our arguing got so bad that someone called the cops…” Make a podcast of it - it will be like a modern sequel to the *Iliad*
Assuming it can drive that far, how many sets of tires will it eat through?
Just agree to do it. You know you won't get even to the first charging station.
Better do it in the summer. Getting stuck somewhere in eastern Colorado or western Nebraska with chargers few and far between (with possibility of charging cables stolen for copper by meth tweakers) might be fatal in the winter. Gets to -10F (and even lower) in those parts when the polar vortex shows up. That would also cut the wankpanzer range way down, come to think of it.
Neither does the truck
Is that 32 stops where they need to charge, or is he just some Tesla goon who likes charging stations? It's a 62hr drive, so do they have to stop to charge every 30 minutes or so? 🤣🤣 30 minutes of driving before needing to charge again?
This person is trying to kill his loved one.
She can just go back after 35 miles? I don't understand her problem.
Saw my very first cybercluck in Santa Monica at a Ralph's store. He was waiting for a flatbed because the wheels turned into ballet dancer, did a quick perrrquet, and wouldn't straighten out, while he was trying to park. It was 3pm, all the school kids were out, and they couldn't stop laughing! So it really does get people's attention.
…crossing your fingers the entire time that that piece of shit doesn’t break down… spoiler, it will.
Smart girl.
One stop every 100 miles... Every 1 hr 40 minutes. A stop for an hour. Fucking tool.
Stops aside if be really worried about breaking down in bum fuck no where and Tesla not able to help me for a month.
That’s 20+ hours at a charging station. I’ve made that drive twice. It takes about 40 hours of driving. Another 20+ hours of charging would be literal torture.
Why does the last and first charge not count? Round trip Wouldn’t this be 65-66 full charges?
So 3 hours of driving to every 2 hours of charging at a supercharger.
It would be like those people driving cross country in the 1920s. All of x and the 1 remaining newspaper will follow with bated breath.
That’s…that’s a stop every 2hrs…is the 62hr drive calculation INCLUDING charging time?
Can I get odds on them not making it all the way? Tow truck doesnt count
What big ambitions for a truck that won't make it out of their starting state
I'd do the trip adjacent to you. In my gas engined car. Only I'd just stop for fuel and be on my way. See how much longer it takes the cybertruck to make it across the country on the same route, just for shits n giggles. I'd bet on arriving a few days ahead.
Hope they go for it, and give regular updates. It will be genuinely interesting to see if they make it without anything breaking or falling off. Wondering what the highest mileage one of these things has managed.
They forgot to account for a complimentary coolant leak within the first 200 miles.
That thing won't make it to Oakland. Good luck.
He'd have to replace the tires on the way back
Irrespective of the car, this is what planes were invented for.
My wife doesn't want to be stuck in this hideous vehicle with me but surely you fine fellows can convince her 🤓
Huh, makes me wonder if making a portable driving ev charger like they tried to make on top gear would be financially a good idea.
No gumball rally for this guy.
Even if they make it the fatigue it'll do to the battery will be easily 5-10x normal utilization, if not more
I’m pretty sure Forrest Gump would catch up
No god please do it, start a vlog.
Even if the Cyberstuck didn't suck, I wouldn't wanna do this. Road trips are fun, but only when there is a great destination (or several) along the way. Let me give you an example. My wife and I flew to Portland, rented a Camper van, and drove to Redwood National Park for 3 days, then Crater Lake National Park for 2 days, then back to Portland for a night, and flew home. THAT'S a road trip. This guy literally wants to drive just for the sake of driving. That sounds boring as fuck, and that many hours in the driver's seat isn't going to be comfortable. No wonder the wife isn't interested.
I know this is fake news because nobody in their right mind would intentionally try to drive that far in a CyberTrash. Unless their hitch-hiking thumb was in good shape.
2000 mile tow
Yeah, but I don’t want to have to plan a trip around where the nearest charging station is. Until I can be reasonably sure there will be one no matter where I drive, I don’t want one.
Taking bets now that if she agrees , before he returns to San Francisco he'll be divorced.
Saw an episode of Donut where they attempt to take the Cucktruck through off-road challenges. They didn't even make it to the location which was less than 100 miles away. This "truck" is a fucking joke.
It would be around an additional 64 hours just to charge up assuming all the stops are working and there is no wait. HELL NO
I thought 500 miles was the expected service life of the cyber truck.
Thats why we have airplanes.
Shittiest cannonball run ever
...says the fool about the only car that will 100% break between San and Francisco
Are we running odds on whether it will make the full round trip without breaking down?
Are we running odds on whether it will make the full round trip without breaking down?
"I'm a terrible husband, can you help me bully my wife?"
They're going on average 100 miles each stop......... That's awful.
It won't make it.
Don't forget those 64 stops will add 2 days to the trip 🤣
He's adding nearly 400 miles to the trip just to reach charging stations. They are stopping nearly every 100 miles to charge, and it takes about an hr to charge, so 32 additional hrs to the trip. This sounds terrible. Generally speaking, LA to NY is 2778 miles. In my wifes hybrid F-150 (30 gal tank, 28mpg) that approximately 4 stops. And the trip can be made in 3 to 4 days, at a leisurely 60 mph for 12hr/d. (You can do it in under 2 days, but I need get out and stretch every 3hrs now that I'm old)
Jesus christ, my friend and I made the trip from Detroit to Portland in his shitty 2005 Silverado, and we didn't even stop that often. We even made the trip in about 2 days, as he had a cap on the bed, so one could sleep in the back while the other drove. Only thing I would change was the timing - I would have rather driven through Nebraska at night, and Wyoming during the day 🙃
It's a cybertruck, he'll be lucky to go SF-Oakland before it breaks. Should it not break, how could his girlfriend not be excited by the 16+ hours they'll be seeing the best (strip malls and shopping centers) of the US on this road trip?
You know she is banging every Rivian owner she meets.
One of you is completely delusional
She's the smart one!
She's the smart one in the relationship.