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SHOULD YOU TOW WITH A CYBERTRUCK?! - (catastrophic failure test)
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The Tesla Cybertruck is built with a cast aluminum frame. Get up to 40% off your RIDGE wallet here: www.ridge.com/JERRYRIG (discount code: JerryRig) Huge thanks to RIDGE for sponsoring my science projects. This helps the cyber truck be manufactured extremely quickly. However - cast aluminum is not good for towing as we see in this Cybertruck durability test video. The hitch breaks around 10,000 pounds. (4500kg) Which is far too close to the 11,000 pound towing capacity. Yikes.

While the Gigacasting method is terrible for the Cybertruck it is actually an amazing manufacturing process for Tesla's other vehicles which i highly recommend: ts.la/zack10701

If you want an electric truck that can still tow 11,000lbs and not snap in half - might i recommend a Rivian: rivian.com/configurations/list?reprCode=ZACK159442…
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@JerryRigEverything

1 week ago

Welcome to the Cybertruck vs Dodge RAM tongue weight durability test. To see the steel frame 2004 Dodge Ram get tested jump to 11:12 (spoiler: it survives)

We've seen at least 3 other Cybertrucks loose their back end. Its not the hitch that breaks. It's the aluminum truck itself that snaps. Don't let it happen to you!

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@james1234168

1 week ago

When whistlindiesel discovered this, he was totally ignored by Tesla. Wonder if it'll be the same story again here.

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@BulterMarkwad

1 week ago

Mechanical engineer here. You got the fatigue limit backwards. Steel has a fatigue limit, i.e. if you keep the stress below the fatigue limit the material strength will stay the same no matter how many times you apply and remove the load. Aluminum does not have a fatigue limit, i.e. the material will get weaker every time stress is applied and removed, regardless of how small the stress is.

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@MAXPAUERv

1 week ago

Cybertruck's cracked at a level 6 with deeper grooves at a level 7

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@batmanwest46

1 week ago

My old gunsmith used to say that the reason why aluminum is used is because they think they can get away with not using steel. Clearly frames fall into the category of not being able to get away with it.

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@bgavin71

1 week ago

As former test engineer who used to test trailer hitches and design tests for a big 3 automaker. Even though I greatly dislike Elon Musk. This result is quite good. You basically put almost pure tongue load on the hitch. The spec says 10% max tongue load of tow capacity. This held up to over 90% load. There is a SAE proof test that requires the hitch and frame to withstand a 1 time pull test several directions with no more then I think 5 degrees change after the tests, but it is a much smaller load then what you just did. I would be most concerned fatigue strength especially after some galvantic corrosion. Putting a steel hitch with an aluminium frame could cause this problem. The fatigue test uses much smaller loads but requires a large number of cycles. If someone were to misloaded their trailer, this bad they should be charge with manslaughter.

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@YaBoiBrad

1 week ago

Creaking more than a millennial going downstairs was not the attack I needed today Jerry.

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@hoofhearted4

1 week ago

1:18 When he said Dodge 2500, I thought he was talking about the truck that was backing up next to the Tesla, and I was like, thats some supped up 2500 lol.

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@CZpersi

1 day ago

The used aluminum for the chasis and stainless steel for the panels? Isn't this supposed to be the exact opposite?

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@handhelddev

1 week ago

Ah yes, Aluminium, known for its incredible strength.

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@Dmaaaain

1 week ago

The purple is panel bond.. most likely 3M... back when I went to school during my education in bodywork, we tested welding and panel bond.. the panel bond actually took more pulling then the welds!! The welding ripped before the panel bond gave up!! Don't mistake that purple glue for nothing!

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@F-UppetsOfficial

1 week ago

Seeing a wheel cover pop off when the Cybertruck when being put back on the trailer (14:45) was kind of funny, almost like it spitting out a broken tooth.

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@ThatsPety

1 week ago

I did not expect the ram to have the excavator lifted off the ground lmao

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@wtmayhew

1 week ago

The important takeaway here is that damage in aluminum is cumulative and the constant small strains caused by a swaying trailer, road irregularities, loading and unloading of the tongue weight have a deleterious effect.

I recommend reading the following paper which is available from NIST. You can search for it by its title:

Effects of Prior Static and Dynamic Stresses on the Fatigue Strength of Aluminum Alloys

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@Theo_1984

1 week ago

Time to test your Rivian! :)

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@thejubbinator1065

1 day ago

"If I see a cybertruck towing on the freeway, I would not want to be anywhere close to that thing." Don't worry, you'll never see a cybertruck towing anything.

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@mjc0961

1 week ago

I swear I can hear Project Farm saying "We're gonna test that!" and "Things went from happy to snappy!"

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@essentials1016

1 week ago

The Gigapress was not invented by Tesla. Idra is the company that develops and builds these monster machines!

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@TimR123

1 week ago

You need to look up “fatigue limit”. The actual meaning is counterintuitive. Aluminum has no fatigue limit. Steel does. But that means that steel has a limit where if you keep stresses below that, you can do it over and over again without concern for stress failures. Aluminum weakens even in the elastic zone of deformation and as you said gets weaker every time. This it has no “fatigue limit “ aka safe zone.

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@outermarker5801

11 hours ago

Pretty much what it was always meant to be, a fantasy concept vanity project.

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