Missed quite a few things like Ethernet, unique structural design, etc. Wrong about 48V, Germans and other MFGs have been talking about 48V for 30 yrs, far more important now than it was then they just didn't have the gumption to make the change, everyone will go 48 over time.
The only mechanic that doesn't feel threatened by tech. Well spoken, informative, and truthful. He's not afraid to dislike designs either. The public is threatened by EVs. Not this guy. Bravo.
Personally I don't mind EV and with the Apt I dont have a place to charge it. I don't like government telling me I need to buy one or giving tax rebates to off set the price.
@mike4food and the government giving tax subsidies to oil and gas companies.... you are okay with that? I mean come on man, time to grow up a bit and join the real world.
The only thing about EV's that threatens me is price, safety, resale value, convivence, reasonable repair costs, turn on my a/c, lights, heat without taking from range
@RickyVang-ql9zz Making wild designs is how we move technology forward. Like it or hate it, lessons learned from the Cybertruck will be applied in future designs. Cars will not always look like they do now.
@RightJoystick except the Cyberjunk isn't wild, it's just an eye-soaring gimmick. 🤢 We aren't supposed to strive for a dystopian future, but for a brighter one. The Cybertruck does reflect Musk's decent into darkness and decay.
I'm an electronics engineer and my opinion is that they would be using a DC/DC buck converter to drop 48V down to 15V. They can be very efficient and the electrical noise isn't too big of a problem for this type of system. It's fairly easy to design (as a design engineer). 48V is a great choice, since the current requirements for connectors and cabling is far lower, but the voltage is still low enough to not worry about dielectric breakdown or special insulation. Part stress analysis, reliability calculations, and WCCA (worst-case circuit analysis) was likely performed to guarantee operation over a mission life. Infant mortalities (early failures) can be weeded out by performing accelerated aging testing in a thermal chamber. I understand that many electronics choices on modern cars are just a pain in the rear end, but THIS is cool to see. I'm incredibly impressed with your breadth of knowledge.
Same with Sandy Munro when he first saw it in the MY. It is engineering brilliance. There are equally brilliant things in the electronics, but they are harder to appreciate.
As an Engineer I am not impressed. Perspective matters. It looks like a two manifold barstock valves frankensteined together with small electric actuators, the key is flow path assurance be ensuring the right valve positions are enabled when required by use of proper sensors and good programming. Ultimately not that complicated.
@milktobo7418 I’m just a layman so I’m just asking, not arguing. If it’s not very impressive why do other manufacturers have cars with no frunks, ridiculously large batteries, and huge range loss in cold weather? Why would the video host rave about how good it is?
3 sensors are not because of additional redundancy, but because of consensus/quorum. If you have just 2 sensors and one of them starts reading incorrect values there is no way to know which sensor is broken, they both just report different values. If you have 3 of them, then you use values reported by two sensors and ignore the value from the remaining sensor.
@Sw33tBabyRays I’m not arguing that it’s a measure of redundancy. I’m arguing that it’s absolutely necessary to have 3 sensors and 2 is not enough. The author said that 3 is overkill and 2 would be enough. I explained the reason why “tiebreaker” is needed.
So you do get a constant 'preflight check'. And the electric motors can be messaured for resistance and if there sholud be abnormal voltage drop (worn steering componants), so the steeer by wire might end up beeing as safe as the airplane.
Other reviewers: THIS IS THE BEST TRUCK EVER MADE!!! Other reviewers: THIS IS THE WORST TRUCK EVER MADE!!! The Car Care Nut: Take a seat, have a beer and lets have a talk. I will tell you what is GOOD AND BAD about this truck.
Congrats, you were successfully misled It's 'THE BEST TRUCK' one He's talking about every possible advantage in the broadest and most spectacular way.. and then briefly acknowledges only the unavoidable negatives Like.. safe for the pedestrians? According to Tesla itself this knife sharp edgy thing is safe, so formally he can say it and he did Eah, great objectivity here
Yeah, but they stranded two astronauts. Two astronauts are right now exposed to cosmic rays of every kind and other hazard because the vehicle failed and the backup vehicle failed. I am a veteran, though I never worked for NASA, it used to get my back up when some political bonehead would squawk the hundred dollar hammer anecdotes. I never saw that but all an our tools and parts were custom made to specific tolerances. We had to be able to grab whatever out of a box and possibly save lives and property with them. Even an entire ship or base might be saved because of one person repairing the fire suppression equipment while the power is out and they’re taking on water. Confidence in chaos comes from drilling and practicing with familiar equipment.
@sergiopacheco3512 It's the ugly truckling, manifested. However, a deeper look reveals, a plethora of nexgen tech. But if you are of the 7% of truck owners that long haul, no dice. Although one contractor reported saving $65 per day, when he replaced his Ram 2500 with this truck.
Excellent review - I learn so much about the vehicle - both "that is crazy well done" and "that is crazy poorly done". Much more interesting than I expected.
Best camera person on RUclips! The visual and detailed explanation is on point. No delay. Ahmed said something about a certain body of the car. The camera gets to that area quickly. It's very comfortable to watch as a car channel. Compare to all the other car channels. Thanks, camera person. 👌👌👌 Ahmed gave the most important questions that I don't know review. Thanks, Ahmed, for your knowledge!
51:49 I can’t stop laughing. Oh my God I just spit out my coffee. I can’t stop laughing. I’ve watched this on a loop now 50 times lol. “ if Homer Simpson were allowed to make a car, this is what it would look like.”
3 sensors for the steering rack is not overkill, if you had 2 and one started sending bad data, how would you know which one was right? There's an old saying "A sailor never goes to sea with two clocks; always take one or three."
broken sensor can either sends static or gibberish data, so the computer should know which one is bad. So if 2 sensors go bad at the same time, the computer should still know the right data from that one sensor.
Off topic but, your voice is very calming and intelligent. You come across as very trustworthy. I want to continue to listen so I can learn from you. Thank You.
It works until it doesn't anymore. Every part has a lifetime warranty, the part's life it is. Warranty expires 1 milliseconds before the covered part stops working.😊
I really appreciate your unique take on the CyberTruck. All the other reviews I've watched have only been showcasing how "crazy" it is in various ways. I'm still not a fan of the truck but you pointing out and talking about the different engineering feats made me have some respect for the vehicle. Also I had not thought about it as a tech demo before. That was eye-opening.
Yea it is. As you said this is essentially demo vehicle for technology for nextgen models. Mainly model 2 in mind. Quite smart the milk all SUV custumer s market fro its worth. Meanwhile engineers could took higher risks with low production car like CT is.
In other reviews we got lucky if the 48V system was mentioned in passing, and even then it was buried under "this is so cool brah" things/gimmicks...or at least of the 4 reviews I've seen with this one regarding this car. I kind of avoid content on it save for a few sources. As AMD puts it, I'm all onboard and I can see the value, heck if those early adopters want to pay the early adopter price for tech that will then trickle down, cool go for it. But it's some of the other things as he mentions and a bunch he, understandably, avoided that make me really dislike what the truck has become to mean. At the very least I hope, though I expect to be wrong, that this is the peak, or near it, of huge oversized cars for less than 6 people...I want to see smaller, more efficient packaging in cars, I don't want it to keep escalating into a urban war of who can get the biggest car to bully others around in.
@alesksander You need at least 80 grand to get one. You don't have to get the dual motor like this one. Actually I think I could get one at around 65K, Seems like a better deal than just a 4X4 F-150 because those old designs are boring to me.
Agreed and I had similar thoughts since the preview vidoes... This could have been the new Model 3 or a million dollar super luery vechilce... But it isn't it's a weird dispointing comrppromise.
@metalmike570 Yeah quirky is right word. If it would be normal truck it would just fall between all other SUV trucks. SO i can admire Musk and his team said "f this shi* just build it."
Rivian is antithesis of CT. Everything is overengeenered and overcomplicated. T1/R1 - these were their first cars - they simply had no knowledge yet. It it the reason they can't manufacture Rivians profitably, like never. They also move to slowly. They should change nearly all the stuff now, but they had only one major redesign, and it is not radical enough. Rivian has no culture of frugality and efficiency. No culture of efficient manufacturing. Their designers try to make everything cool for the outside obsrver, they add useless features, gimmicks, trims - without thinking about making the car profitable and easy to manufacture. And I'm not optimistic for R2 o R3. Those cars are designed with the same attitude. People will love them, becoause everybody likes to get $50k of engeneering for free. But iti is not the way to make business for long. And so, Rivian has no unique tech to sell. Sure, VW bought into their software, but VW is desperate and extremely incompetent in this area. And Rivian has no electronics on the level of CT, so VW, having software from the last century, just entered into software of the early 2020s. Still a previous generation.
Another phenomenal video, this guy is one of the best automotive youtubers there is. Love how his fingerprints are still on the cybertruck at the end of the video
Intelligent, thoughtful, and useful reviews. Specifies when it’s an opinion and when it’s simply against industry norms. Incredible channel, keep up the great work!
@17:37 - Remember Ohm's law AMD. V = IR. You increase voltage at the same resistance, you current will increase as well. They are directly proportional, not indirectly. I think what you are referring to is if power (P = VA) consumption is kept the same, and you increase the voltage, then yes current will decrease. For example, lets say a car consumes 240W on a 12V battery, the load will be 20 amps. On a 48V battery, at 240W, that load is decreased to 5A
yes, your current decreases linearly with voltage, so x4 on the voltage means 1/4 on the current and 1/2 on the cross section diameters of the wires (surface is 1/4), right ?
Yes he said BS. Joule heating is P= IV = V^2/R and so greater with greater voltage. Probably either the wires are chosen resistive to reduce current within or not all of battery voltage powers the small element but say single battery cell, instead.
P = VI is the same for AC voltage as long as RMS is used. Regardless of what AMD said, that is what he meant. The guy knows his electronics pretty well.
I was walking in the parking lot of a grocery store when a very young pre-schooler standing with his father told me it looked like a transformer. His father asked how I liked it.
I haven't even come close to finishing this video, but I have to say, I absolutely love the way you approach car reviews. For tech geeks like me, it really is a breath of fresh air. So far, I've watched the GR Corolla one and some of this and there was no way I wasn't going to subscribe. It's incredible how you explain everything at the micro level. I'll most certainly learn a ton from your videos! Keep up the great work.
I’m really surprised you didn’t mention the one-piece mega casting that takes the place of all sorts of little steel stampings welded together to form a subframe.
@bob-qi4nrunfortunately nothing is designed to be dropped from 10 feet after drive hard over pipes. That moron over tortured CT compared to his rusty ford
The reason a lot of mechanics and engineers are amazed by what tesla is doing is because most of the car industry relies on 3rd party companies to design and build parts for them. There is very little incentive for those 3rd party companies to inovate too much. Tesla designs its own parts with an “outside the box” memtality, because most of them are not from traditional car industry.
and somehow the parts are still garbage. delusional junk. the emperor has no clothes, but the Elon sycophants hoot and holler in absurd produced delight. Elons only genius is getting customers to pay to be beta testers.
@Mobileccs😂😂they set the price, they don't allow aftermarket 😅. Of course there the cheapest and only ones. Also.the parts are MUCH more money than a normal combustion car
The Car Care Nut is able to articulate what the CyberTruck is, perfectly: "This is not a truck; this is a demonstration of technology." So my conclusion is that you should not acquire it in order to have something that is of practical value for transporting tools and materials. Rather, it is something you should acquire if - _you want to be a show-off._
That would be a good way to describe it a work of art made to look at because it's not a truck my proof as if you have eyes look at what people do with trucks if you use a truck you reach over the side a lot so you don't want the side to be higher you carry stuff in the back of the truck my truck always has an air compressor and a toolbox on the back sad little goofy compartment underneath is pointless just a place for dirt and water to collect and just the very basic simple problems that no other truck brand has but I did have a truck like that once very similar when I was eight years old and I was very proud of my little remote control truck I had a lot of fun pretending that I was working
Brilliant review AMD. Thank you. May I add one point? Tesla is also reinventing the 60 yrs old CAN system with a system called Etherloop (ethernet loop). There is ethernet communication inside the car. That is also something that is unheard of.
Wha ? BMW was the first manufacturer to use Ethernet for ECU/diagnostic programming/interface. Then automotive-grade Ethernet (100BASE-T1) became widely used around 2013/2014. Tesla isn't reinventing anything, calm down :) Just cause they give something a fancy name, doesn't mean it's special. For example, Hyperloop, remember how that ended up ? Yeah, Teslas driving slowly through a huge metal pipe - brilliant :D
I live in Los Angeles and I have seen a few cyberattacks around town. I must say they are very big vehicles. They remind me of mid 2000s stainless steel kitchen appliances
I just saw my first one yesterday,here in South Carolina. I see the cars everywhere I go. It has, shall I say, a distinctive look about it. A Tundra, it isn’t.
Saw my first one a few weeks ago in my rearview mirror when traffic was stopped in a construction zone. When I saw that front end in my rearview mirror I literally laughed out loud. Ugliest sight on the road I’ve ever seen. A construction worker standing around went all around it taking pictures and I heard him laughing too.
12V System would use a lot more copper than 48 volts.( Way higher Amp) Costing way more money to build( $$$ ). 48v to 120ac is way more efficient than 12v to 120ac
The 48 v system is used on my e bike and a whole bunch more. It is similar to the reason why your Windows laptop runs on 12 volts and is capable of far more than 5 volt systems like cell phones. Voltage is the term for Electrical force or pressure. If you touch 5 volts you may not notice. If you touch a 120 VAC line it may be lethal and knock your body flying. 48V motors develop more torque with less waste heat and friction. Edit: electronics like radios, media players, and navigation units can be adapted to 48 volt systems the way 5 volt USB adapters plug into cigarette lighter outlets.
@websitemartian yea in another vid on youtube where they are taking apart one of these they found a 12v system on the back of the 48v. Yet to document what it powers.
IN ALL CAPS!!! - I LOVE THIS GUY..... Please don't stop doing what you do. I've asked you in the past to reveiw the 2025 Lincoln Nautilus but only after I bought it and saw you for the first time., LOL. I love your engineering honesty, approach, character, and attention to detail. U R Awesome man.
Thanks for the remarkably fair and balanced review. This vehicle is extremely flawed and impractical, but I'm sure it will be satisfactory for robots that do not have to worry about ergonomics or esthetics.
Man I’ve learned so much from you. Gives me more confidence to do some easy fixes myself instead of relying on a shop for every little thing. I didn’t grow up in a mechanical background, and have taught myself every little thing. I appreciate getting a thorough review on the engineering stuff I could never figure out myself. You speak clearly, slowly, and give people time to follow along. Bravo.
53:00 GM was doing washer nozzels in the wiper blade in the 80s. They work great on my 89 Firebird, and they're hide away wipers. Never understood why GM moved away from that.
Your videos are such a joy to watch. So informative, straight to the point, great production value but no jump cuts over and over no reading from a script, just good information. The hour flew by. Thank you and keep up the good work.
I got to say that the steer by wire is implemented very well. The CT drives like a dream. Amazing once you get used to it,. Going back to my GMC is painful.
lots of true comments here. My CT accelerates like a rocket, is smooth as silk on the road and super quiet. Might not be very good at hauling pipes and ladders, but then, it's a "lifestyle" vehicle, not a workhorse. never going back to ICE.
Best channel for car reviews I ve found so far, others just talking about the exterior and driving experience. This guy is the real deal, let’s boost his channel!
The problem with drive by wire is when the vehicle loses power, and then you are 'driving' a brick and your wheels are locked. For reference, I was driving a Prius gen 2 in a parking lot, and it lost engine power. The front display went dead, and it rolled to a stop. I could still steer and brake, but that was it. It turns out it was just a 15 amp microfuse, but this little fuse powered the digital shifter and the start button, so it wouldn't start, and it wouldn't shift out of drive, and was quite difficult to tow, but at least it still steered and braked. I don't know, but I bet somewhere in this thing is a fuse box, and in that box there is a fuse that sends power to the wheel motors and or brake, and if that goes out, this thing is going to either brake on its own if it has some autosafety feature for this, or just roll until it hits something or loses its momentum. This would be a good use of Full Self Driving, if it was working yet...
I always assumed that in this case driver assist will drive you out of traffic, if it detects the failure. Lexus also have this in the RZ and that car also have lane keep and all that stuff as standard.
@sprinkle61 They work very well, one of my relatives was sleepy going home from another country at night and he was constantly fell asleep and he said he blinked two and his van was already slowing down with emergency blinkers on. (Fully loaded Fiat Ducato) So I assume would do the same as long as the rack works.
ICE vehicles have limited electric energy. EVs have the massive battery pack with lots of redundancy. If you lose the electric power in an EV, you don’t have any motor power either, so loss of steering would be a small part of the problem.
99% of that is RUclips nonsense. These guys are intentionally abusing the trucks in a way no reasonable consumer would. A pot hole will not put over 10000 lbs of force on the tongue (which is what RUclips video shows it failing at). More like 3000 lbs if you are loaded correctly and are towing at max tongue weight and hit a bump.
I was very impressed with your explanation of the vehicle coming from a person I believe is a true honest mechanic who knows what they are talking about. Well done!
For more power you need to push either more volts or more amps. In order to get more power on a 12v system, you need to push more amps. To push more ore amps need a big cable, like the thick cables connected to your battery. If you push more volts instead, you can use a much smaller cables. Small wires can carry high voltage. Large wires are needed to carry high amperage. 48v systems are more efficient on power deliver and even more efficient in an auto because of the weight and cost savings in wires alone.
@mcld4214 because it makes no sense unless all your accessories can run at 48V (DC-DC converters are inefficient and expensive) and you can get an inexpensive and compact 48V battery. As it stands the benefit of reduced wiring is small and the full ecosystem of 48V parts doesn't exist. It's a solution in search of a problem.
@mcld4214 car manufacturers have wanted to go higher voltage for decades, but No one wanted to abandon the entire industries 12v support and part supply. Tesla has the vertical integration and electronic competency to redesign and manufacture the electrical system from scratch. Being more modern and restricted by the old 12v, They also had more advantage/benefit by the upgrade.
This is false. You are applying the rules of AC wiring here. That's not how DC works. Higher DC voltage means you still need bigger cables because DC voltage drops fast, esp at higher voltages. Worse yet, 48 volts is high enough to electrocute you, so now, you have to run 2x the wires instead of just one! And seeing how a great majority of cyberturds are having electrical issues, tesla has no clue how to actually do this.
And still... I love the sound the door makes when opening. It's just straight out every futuristic movie from the 80's and 90's. And its pretty cool that they had something like "Screw it, we just build it". And the build quality is even worse than other Tesla models but that never stopped people from buying it. It's just like the delorean that was an awful car back in the day but today it's a cult classic. I would never buy a cybertruck (if I had the money) but I can appreciate the fact that it's totally different in every way compared to any other car today. I look at it as an old alfa or Lambo, you hate it or you love it and as long it doesn't rust away or burns to the ground it makes a specific kind of customer very happy.
This gentleman is not only sound technically but is tremendously articulate, possesses an extensive vocabulary, and is tremendously organized. We must support him.
There's some banter in critique circles that Tesla didn''t want to have side mirrors at all, stemming from an interview with Tesla Staff about how they " Couldn't Change" regulations regarding mirrors on street vehicles. They wanted to have digital displays tied to cameras inside the vehicle in place of mirrors.
I own a Cybertruck. I thought it was a crazy idea to remove the side mirrors but I realized I barely look at them anymore. The side cameras give a better view of my blindspot and allllll the way back into the lanes next to me.
They said regulations make them a requirement from the mfr, but no requirement for them to remain on the vehicle once purchased. Take that for what you will…
This beast... of a garbage container looks-wise (beast, incidentally, being one of the modifications) - deserved this all along. An engineer's appreciation. Althgough the car... the truck - whatever it is - seems to be even more divisive than its daddy (if it's even possible) - the engineering is next level. Or the one after the next. Car journalist Jason Camissa - on several of the channels he appears on - described all its systems, in addition to the cooling/heating assembly, so well laid out here by the Car Care Nut. There's the steer by wire, there's the 48V onboard... voltage - and there's the astonishing reduction in mass due to miles less wiring than most other modern cars - because of onboard LAN communication network. Also - the first crashed CT on youtube which was restored "online" (by the channel BoostedBoiz) - gives hope that problem-solving solutions have been done on a high level. Overall - although the looks and the interior are designed (or at least overlooked) by a somewhat eccentric Mars-man wannabe - the engineering is sane, very sane. Thanks for the review and keep up the work - from Latvia.
@DavidZ123 there are no issues with charging or range anxiety. Especially for people with their own place. It’s relatively simple and cheap to install a charger that would meet anyone’s needs.
@DavidZ123 The cybertruck is my first EV. I can wake up with over 300 miles of range and have Superchargers EVERYWHERE. How often do you go further than that in a day?
55:24, Idk why Tesla never mentions this, but there is a manual release in the back doors. You must remove the rubber cover on the bottom of the door pocket. Then remove a plastic square piece cover and last you should see a colored tag that you need to pull, to open it. Idk if it's on the Cybertruck, but it's on the Model Y and 3.
Control emissions systems aren't the solo blamer for the poor reliability of modern cars. BEV are the perfect example, how cutting production costs are a big culprit.
You are correct, but in an odd way. Cost cutting applies to people and suppliers as well. Gone are the days of the resident guru that knows how the systems work. They found better paying jobs. You now have 86 computers on a CAN bus that don’t fully communicate and a system that is difficult to repair in the field.
The thing that blows my mind about the temperature management is not the brilliant engineering (even though that is impressive) but the fact that they were able to do it so it could be produced for a price that allows Tesla to be one of the two profitable EV makers in the world (the other is BYD).
It's only profitable while the fad & novelty of EV tech is still in the mania phase, such that those with money to splurge buy it for exclusivity & bragging or virtue-signaling rights. As soon as the supply of idiots with money to burn starts to taper, they are going to have huge price drops like the rest of the Teslas & the demand will quickly diminish. There's a reason why Tesla has so many pokers in the fire, it's to substitute into their financials once the mania from the prior product dies & the economics of reality begin to assert themselves. The novel technology in this car (like 48V), steer by wire, etc, mean that their will be very few techs that can work on these b/c the knowledge is not applicable to other brands. That will make repairs always expensive & a small pool of places to get it repaired. What is the shelf-life of this vehicle, it's supply chain, & longevity? I predict a vast number of these vehicles get retired off the roads in 10 years after a major recession & depreciation make them undesirable & impractical to maintain & upkeep.
The U.S Government subsidies certainly help that !! I wasn't aware that the Tesla shareholdrrs had really yet seen a return on investment yet ? 🤔 When I checked a year or more ago the financial reviewers were saying that the Government subsidies were basically keeping the company viable !! I will have to check back again to check your claims of " Profitability " . 🤔
“If you don’t like one side go over to the other side” 😂
I feel like those were the exact words spoken in an old episode of Top Gear, describing the Nissan Cube.
as soon as he said it, I came to the comments! lol
Try BYD electric vehicles 😊
If you hate it now wait till you drive it!
This gentleman gives the best reviews. He considers the vehicles he reviews with an engineer's POV and a mechanic's POV.
He really likes Yodas, he loves Lexi.
The other car reviewers are a joke. Most other car reviewers will say on this color has changed or there's a different line on the dash, etc etc.
Missed quite a few things like Ethernet, unique structural design, etc. Wrong about 48V, Germans and other MFGs have been talking about 48V for 30 yrs, far more important now than it was then they just didn't have the gumption to make the change, everyone will go 48 over time.
This remind me of the movie "Mad Max". Look like someone welded in some metals together in the garage. LOL!!!
So refreshing to not start with a personal opinion of its looks.
This guy could be the number 1 salesman at any dealership
Make him a VP!
No he wouldn’t. He doesn’t b.s.
this would be waist of talent
What does his waist have to do with it
The only mechanic that doesn't feel threatened by tech. Well spoken, informative, and truthful. He's not afraid to dislike designs either. The public is threatened by EVs. Not this guy. Bravo.
Personally I don't mind EV and with the Apt I dont have a place to charge it. I don't like government telling me I need to buy one or giving tax rebates to off set the price.
@mike4food and the government giving tax subsidies to oil and gas companies.... you are okay with that? I mean come on man, time to grow up a bit and join the real world.
It loses value fast.
The only thing about EV's that threatens me is price, safety, resale value, convivence, reasonable repair costs, turn on my a/c, lights, heat without taking from range
@ so the exact same things that threaten you about a car in general.... got it....
"What can i put here, a couple feathers?" Lol
He looks so tiny next to it 😂
He does. I did not know they were that big. Still ugly as hell though.
He's not very tall
LOL He does.
It's not a big truck. It's actually smaller than a Silverado and an F-150.
Shorter than the Ford lightning, Cybertruck is wider & 100% cooler
I never thought I would get to see my favorite reviewer with the most controversial truck of the decade.
looks like pices junk to me i am not gonna spend so much money for that truck 😂
@RickyVang-ql9zz You should spend money on a spelling lessons
@RickyVang-ql9zz Correct, expensive and stupid junk.
@RickyVang-ql9zz Making wild designs is how we move technology forward. Like it or hate it, lessons learned from the Cybertruck will be applied in future designs. Cars will not always look like they do now.
@RightJoystick except the Cyberjunk isn't wild, it's just an eye-soaring gimmick. 🤢 We aren't supposed to strive for a dystopian future, but for a brighter one. The Cybertruck does reflect Musk's decent into darkness and decay.
I'm an electronics engineer and my opinion is that they would be using a DC/DC buck converter to drop 48V down to 15V. They can be very efficient and the electrical noise isn't too big of a problem for this type of system. It's fairly easy to design (as a design engineer). 48V is a great choice, since the current requirements for connectors and cabling is far lower, but the voltage is still low enough to not worry about dielectric breakdown or special insulation.
Part stress analysis, reliability calculations, and WCCA (worst-case circuit analysis) was likely performed to guarantee operation over a mission life. Infant mortalities (early failures) can be weeded out by performing accelerated aging testing in a thermal chamber.
I understand that many electronics choices on modern cars are just a pain in the rear end, but THIS is cool to see.
I'm incredibly impressed with your breadth of knowledge.
THE SUPER MANIFOLD - not sure I’ve ever seen you this excited before…
Same with Sandy Munro when he first saw it in the MY. It is engineering brilliance. There are equally brilliant things in the electronics, but they are harder to appreciate.
He did geek out a lil bit.
He did similar on the Y, but is even more impressed now... justifiably!
As an Engineer I am not impressed. Perspective matters. It looks like a two manifold barstock valves frankensteined together with small electric actuators, the key is flow path assurance be ensuring the right valve positions are enabled when required by use of proper sensors and good programming. Ultimately not that complicated.
@milktobo7418 I’m just a layman so I’m just asking, not arguing. If it’s not very impressive why do other manufacturers have cars with no frunks, ridiculously large batteries, and huge range loss in cold weather? Why would the video host rave about how good it is?
3 sensors are not because of additional redundancy, but because of consensus/quorum. If you have just 2 sensors and one of them starts reading incorrect values there is no way to know which sensor is broken, they both just report different values. If you have 3 of them, then you use values reported by two sensors and ignore the value from the remaining sensor.
So it's the inclusion of extra components which are not strictly necessary to functioning, in case of failure in other components?
@Sw33tBabyRays I’m not arguing that it’s a measure of redundancy. I’m arguing that it’s absolutely necessary to have 3 sensors and 2 is not enough. The author said that 3 is overkill and 2 would be enough. I explained the reason why “tiebreaker” is needed.
@suhuy2008 I know, It was just a little light ribbing.
Exactly what is designed into autopilots. Every knob, circuit, component that is safety critical is triply redundant. Even the flight computers.
So you do get a constant 'preflight check'. And the electric motors can be messaured for resistance and if there sholud be abnormal voltage drop (worn steering componants), so the steeer by wire might end up beeing as safe as the airplane.
Other reviewers: THIS IS THE BEST TRUCK EVER MADE!!!
Other reviewers: THIS IS THE WORST TRUCK EVER MADE!!!
The Car Care Nut: Take a seat, have a beer and lets have a talk. I will tell you what is GOOD AND BAD about this truck.
Congrats, you were successfully misled
It's 'THE BEST TRUCK' one
He's talking about every possible advantage in the broadest and most spectacular way.. and then briefly acknowledges only the unavoidable negatives
Like.. safe for the pedestrians? According to Tesla itself this knife sharp edgy thing is safe, so formally he can say it and he did
Eah, great objectivity here
Reminds me of Subaru technology, slo and steady… it’s a Subie thing.
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This looks like Elonia’s EGO on wheels and a pedestrian utility knife.
Love the, “That’s how Tesla does things,” as the Car Nut wiggles trunk door. 😂
I still wonder how this car got a safety rating with all those cutting hazards on the exterior.
Because it was validated in US😂
This is what happens when a DeLorean takes a Hummer on a date.😂
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It’s different, it’s futuristic, I love it.
@user-ln7of9gs4s Well, I guess someone has to. 😁
Yes, I always refer to as DeLorean's ugly step child.
This what happens when you inbred DeLoreans.
Brother, you have the most informative and intelligent car show on RUclips. I enjoy your videos tremendously. Thank you for what you do for us.
He really does his homework!
I wish Sarah n tuned went this deep
He’s the best on RUclips without a doubt!
Didn't expect this 😂
“Unless you have issues you’ll never have to deal with it “ no truer words ever been spoken 😂
Particularly funny for a Tesla whose body panels cannot stay on.
those Space X engineers had some spare time on their hands.
nah. spaceX is actually doing good with their space rockets. Tesla is just squandering everything about themselves
Do you know that the Stainless Steel is the same material used for the Starship?it is 30 X superhardened.
To understand why Tesla is "10 miles ahead", look under the hood of the Ford Mach E.
Yeah, but they stranded two astronauts. Two astronauts are right now exposed to cosmic rays of every kind and other hazard because the vehicle failed and the backup vehicle failed. I am a veteran, though I never worked for NASA, it used to get my back up when some political bonehead would squawk the hundred dollar hammer anecdotes. I never saw that but all an our tools and parts were custom made to specific tolerances. We had to be able to grab whatever out of a box and possibly save lives and property with them. Even an entire ship or base might be saved because of one person repairing the fire suppression equipment while the power is out and they’re taking on water. Confidence in chaos comes from drilling and practicing with familiar equipment.
@GotKimchiI see more Tesla's on the road everyday. Narrative building is not working.
Just know AMD. This is the first time I am watching any review of the Cybertruck.
Me too, and I only did it for him because that thing it’s so ugly
@sergiopacheco3512 It's the ugly truckling, manifested. However, a deeper look reveals, a plethora of nexgen tech. But if you are of the 7% of truck owners that long haul, no dice. Although one contractor reported saving $65 per day, when he replaced his Ram 2500 with this truck.
Same 😂
So?
I watch as many as I can. Best truck out there!
Of all the Cybertruck reviews that I’ve seen, this was the best one. Keep up the good work AMD. The videography is also very good.
AMD is the best, but Whistlin' Diesel's torture test is not to be missed.
Are u kidding me. Shorty called most of the truck junk. His livelihood is tied to keep shilling disgusting oil burning cars. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Oh yeah. Go watch whistlin diesel’s review please.
@bobbyr8071 are you one of those people blocking highway protesting about big oils everyday?
no I’m the guy who drives by the gas station as u pay $70 to fill up. My car was charged at home for $6 😂😂😂
Best channel ever. I will say, the car does a “pre-flight” check every time you turn it on. Nothing to worry about.
51:53 "Are you serious my brotha"
Excellent review - I learn so much about the vehicle - both "that is crazy well done" and "that is crazy poorly done". Much more interesting than I expected.
Brakes are by wire me thinks
Also it's a great car that does a great portion of truck stuff
Think Camino, ford ranchero but better
Come here to gain knowledge not to criticize
@simonlang678 Really good point! You just explained how I feel.
Finally a concept vehicle you can actually buy but a little too pricey 😂
Best camera person on RUclips! The visual and detailed explanation is on point. No delay. Ahmed said something about a certain body of the car. The camera gets to that area quickly. It's very comfortable to watch as a car channel. Compare to all the other car channels. Thanks, camera person. 👌👌👌 Ahmed gave the most important questions that I don't know review. Thanks, Ahmed, for your knowledge!
José knows his story. Excellent camerawork, always showing exactly what's being talked about by Ahmed 😁👍🏻👍🏻
51:49 I can’t stop laughing. Oh my God I just spit out my coffee. I can’t stop laughing. I’ve watched this on a loop now 50 times lol. “ if Homer Simpson were allowed to make a car, this is what it would look like.”
Love your comments about Homer Simpson making this butt ugly pile of poo poo. IMO, it looks like a dumpster on wheels.
3 sensors for the steering rack is not overkill, if you had 2 and one started sending bad data, how would you know which one was right? There's an old saying "A sailor never goes to sea with two clocks; always take one or three."
4 sensors. 4 is where it's at.
broken sensor can either sends static or gibberish data, so the computer should know which one is bad. So if 2 sensors go bad at the same time, the computer should still know the right data from that one sensor.
It's called redundancy, and is required by law.
The Super Manifold and Octovalve are going to evolve into the Flux Capacitor.
But will they have a 1.21 Gigawatt battery? 😂
"When this baby hits 88 miles per hour you're gonna see some serious shit".
@delacruztaylor Yes, the mpg tanking like Enron in the final days.
Mr. Fusion
Lol.
Off topic but, your voice is very calming and intelligent. You come across as very trustworthy. I want to continue to listen so I can learn from you. Thank You.
Marry him
Get a room🙄
Michio Kaku
I love his voice, too. I can listen to him for hours.
Exactly his videos are basically repair shop ASMR haha
Thanks for telling us intriguing details as we investigate Cybertruck.
16:13 "unless you have issues, you'll never have to deal with it." Lol that's the case with absolutely everything everywhere always.
It works until it doesn't anymore. Every part has a lifetime warranty, the part's life it is. Warranty expires 1 milliseconds before the covered part stops working.😊
I really appreciate your unique take on the CyberTruck. All the other reviews I've watched have only been showcasing how "crazy" it is in various ways. I'm still not a fan of the truck but you pointing out and talking about the different engineering feats made me have some respect for the vehicle.
Also I had not thought about it as a tech demo before. That was eye-opening.
Yea it is. As you said this is essentially demo vehicle for technology for nextgen models. Mainly model 2 in mind. Quite smart the milk all SUV custumer s market fro its worth. Meanwhile engineers could took higher risks with low production car like CT is.
In other reviews we got lucky if the 48V system was mentioned in passing, and even then it was buried under "this is so cool brah" things/gimmicks...or at least of the 4 reviews I've seen with this one regarding this car. I kind of avoid content on it save for a few sources.
As AMD puts it, I'm all onboard and I can see the value, heck if those early adopters want to pay the early adopter price for tech that will then trickle down, cool go for it. But it's some of the other things as he mentions and a bunch he, understandably, avoided that make me really dislike what the truck has become to mean. At the very least I hope, though I expect to be wrong, that this is the peak, or near it, of huge oversized cars for less than 6 people...I want to see smaller, more efficient packaging in cars, I don't want it to keep escalating into a urban war of who can get the biggest car to bully others around in.
@alesksander You need at least 80 grand to get one. You don't have to get the dual motor like this one. Actually I think I could get one at around 65K, Seems like a better deal than just a 4X4 F-150 because those old designs are boring to me.
Agreed and I had similar thoughts since the preview vidoes... This could have been the new Model 3 or a million dollar super luery vechilce... But it isn't it's a weird dispointing comrppromise.
@metalmike570 Yeah quirky is right word. If it would be normal truck it would just fall between all other SUV trucks. SO i can admire Musk and his team said "f this shi* just build it."
You gotta review a Rivian now.
Lets import a BYD to have it reviewed by the CCN
@soliniv1411he should review the Yangwang 😭
Rivian is antithesis of CT. Everything is overengeenered and overcomplicated. T1/R1 - these were their first cars - they simply had no knowledge yet. It it the reason they can't manufacture Rivians profitably, like never. They also move to slowly. They should change nearly all the stuff now, but they had only one major redesign, and it is not radical enough.
Rivian has no culture of frugality and efficiency. No culture of efficient manufacturing. Their designers try to make everything cool for the outside obsrver, they add useless features, gimmicks, trims - without thinking about making the car profitable and easy to manufacture. And I'm not optimistic for R2 o R3. Those cars are designed with the same attitude. People will love them, becoause everybody likes to get $50k of engeneering for free. But iti is not the way to make business for long. And so, Rivian has no unique tech to sell. Sure, VW bought into their software, but VW is desperate and extremely incompetent in this area. And Rivian has no electronics on the level of CT, so VW, having software from the last century, just entered into software of the early 2020s. Still a previous generation.
He asked Car Care Nut to review the Rivian, not AndrewSienx.
@biggestsign that may be true.
Another phenomenal video, this guy is one of the best automotive youtubers there is. Love how his fingerprints are still on the cybertruck at the end of the video
Hahaha I noticed that too!
When I read 'review' I did not expect to learn from scratch what all the components are!
Great video
Refrigerator on 4 wheels!😂😂😂😂😂
Your the bob ross of car reviews
Intelligent, thoughtful, and useful reviews. Specifies when it’s an opinion and when it’s simply against industry norms. Incredible channel, keep up the great work!
didn't expect this 🤣
@17:37 - Remember Ohm's law AMD. V = IR. You increase voltage at the same resistance, you current will increase as well. They are directly proportional, not indirectly. I think what you are referring to is if power (P = VA) consumption is kept the same, and you increase the voltage, then yes current will decrease. For example, lets say a car consumes 240W on a 12V battery, the load will be 20 amps. On a 48V battery, at 240W, that load is decreased to 5A
Absolutely right. It was a slip on the part of the Car Care Nut!
yes, your current decreases linearly with voltage, so x4 on the voltage means 1/4 on the current and 1/2 on the cross section diameters of the wires (surface is 1/4), right ?
Yes he said BS. Joule heating is P= IV = V^2/R and so greater with greater voltage. Probably either the wires are chosen resistive to reduce current within or not all of battery voltage powers the small element but say single battery cell, instead.
But isn't it an AC motor, so the equations go out the window, since phase angle, frequency, etc enter into the picture.
P = VI is the same for AC voltage as long as RMS is used. Regardless of what AMD said, that is what he meant. The guy knows his electronics pretty well.
51:53 Listen to the sounds it makes.... pammm pamm pamm!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW? 😂😂😂
The most in-depth and honest review I've seen on this monstrosity.. lol
Excellent word choice, “Monstrosity” 🤣🤣🤣🤣💯💯💯💯
Sandy Monroe did it minimum 20x better.
@pkzenk2158 so why do you losers watch this?
My 6 year old and I saw one in his school parking lot today for the first time. His reaction summed up my feelings. “That car looks so weird.”
There's the problem. Listening to blather from a 6 year old.
I was walking in the parking lot of a grocery store when a very young pre-schooler standing with his father told me it looked like a transformer. His father asked how I liked it.
It’s different! But amazing!
Casket
Your son is no brilliant, just accustomed to the usual. Maybe one day he will wake up and understand the reality of transportation.
Your review...made me actually want one.
I haven't even come close to finishing this video, but I have to say, I absolutely love the way you approach car reviews. For tech geeks like me, it really is a breath of fresh air. So far, I've watched the GR Corolla one and some of this and there was no way I wasn't going to subscribe. It's incredible how you explain everything at the micro level. I'll most certainly learn a ton from your videos! Keep up the great work.
Your honesty & knowledge is greatly appreciated.
I’m really surprised you didn’t mention the one-piece mega casting that takes the place of all sorts of little steel stampings welded together to form a subframe.
You mean the casting that breaks off when pulling someone out of a ditch?
@bob-qi4nrunfortunately nothing is designed to be dropped from 10 feet after drive hard over pipes. That moron over tortured CT compared to his rusty ford
@C-U-Next-Toosday ford frame js aluminum. Also that moron treated his ford with kid gloves
@bob-qi4nr he dropped the rear of the truck on concrete from 10 feet. What did u expect?
@bobbyr8071 did you see the second video on that? look it up.
The reason a lot of mechanics and engineers are amazed by what tesla is doing is because most of the car industry relies on 3rd party companies to design and build parts for them. There is very little incentive for those 3rd party companies to inovate too much. Tesla designs its own parts with an “outside the box” memtality, because most of them are not from traditional car industry.
And when you purchase parts from tesla theres no mark up
and somehow the parts are still garbage. delusional junk. the emperor has no clothes, but the Elon sycophants hoot and holler in absurd produced delight. Elons only genius is getting customers to pay to be beta testers.
Thats why there moldings are wavy and the panels all rattle over bumps, and closing the door sounds like a cheap screen door closing 😂
@Mobileccs😂😂they set the price, they don't allow aftermarket 😅. Of course there the cheapest and only ones. Also.the parts are MUCH more money than a normal combustion car
Like the time in 2020 it was discovered Tesla was using molding from Home Depot to mount a condenser. Brilliant! 😅
You Sir, are the very best at car reviews on RUclips.
The Car Care Nut is able to articulate what the CyberTruck is, perfectly: "This is not a truck; this is a demonstration of technology." So my conclusion is that you should not acquire it in order to have something that is of practical value for transporting tools and materials. Rather, it is something you should acquire if - _you want to be a show-off._
Good engineering is nice. Great engineering, is a work of art.
That would be a good way to describe it a work of art made to look at because it's not a truck my proof as if you have eyes look at what people do with trucks if you use a truck you reach over the side a lot so you don't want the side to be higher you carry stuff in the back of the truck my truck always has an air compressor and a toolbox on the back sad little goofy compartment underneath is pointless just a place for dirt and water to collect and just the very basic simple problems that no other truck brand has but I did have a truck like that once very similar when I was eight years old and I was very proud of my little remote control truck I had a lot of fun pretending that I was working
Brilliant review AMD. Thank you. May I add one point? Tesla is also reinventing the 60 yrs old CAN system with a system called Etherloop (ethernet loop). There is ethernet communication inside the car. That is also something that is unheard of.
Tesla did not invent Ethernet on a car misinformation man!
There should be Elon stock you can buy!!!
I have some Tesla and now I have no more to invest!!
Elon Mudk did not invent anything, he stole the idea from others.
Wha ? BMW was the first manufacturer to use Ethernet for ECU/diagnostic programming/interface. Then automotive-grade Ethernet (100BASE-T1) became widely used around 2013/2014. Tesla isn't reinventing anything, calm down :) Just cause they give something a fancy name, doesn't mean it's special. For example, Hyperloop, remember how that ended up ? Yeah, Teslas driving slowly through a huge metal pipe - brilliant :D
I live in Los Angeles and I have seen a few cyberattacks around town. I must say they are very big vehicles. They remind me of mid 2000s stainless steel kitchen appliances
🤣cyberattack would be a better name
- yeah, like huge Sub Zero fridges-lol
The standard Ford f-150 is 9" longer, 8" taller. The cybertruck is 3" wider though
They are not Really that big..ram 2500 diesel is BIG!!
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I think it looks like your tool box on wheels rolling down road and I don't like it
I just saw my first one yesterday,here in South Carolina. I see the cars everywhere I go. It has, shall I say, a distinctive look about it. A Tundra, it isn’t.
I too saw my first one here in Texas about a week ago. Just as ugly as I had pictured.
Saw my first one a few weeks ago in my rearview mirror when traffic was stopped in a construction zone. When I saw that front end in my rearview mirror I literally laughed out loud. Ugliest sight on the road I’ve ever seen. A construction worker standing around went all around it taking pictures and I heard him laughing too.
Tesla was successful but their days are numbered. Nothing coming out of Tesla land and they have too many cars just sitting on lots.
@marcelpatel9017😂😂😂
Well, it’s a dead giveaway for a sucker. Fleece that sheep. 🧐
As long as the inner part behind the screen is called the dash, no matter what. Or whatever material it uses or where the firewall iis.
The full 48v system is crazy if you think about it, very surprised to see no 12v at all
12V System would use a lot more copper than 48 volts.( Way higher Amp) Costing way more money to build( $$$ ). 48v to 120ac is way more efficient than 12v to 120ac
i thought it had a 12v system aswell
@websitemartian they do have 12-volt system but it's rated at 15 volts
The 48 v system is used on my e bike and a whole bunch more. It is similar to the reason why your Windows laptop runs on 12 volts and is capable of far more than 5 volt systems like cell phones. Voltage is the term for Electrical force or pressure. If you touch 5 volts you may not notice. If you touch a 120 VAC line it may be lethal and knock your body flying. 48V motors develop more torque with less waste heat and friction.
Edit: electronics like radios, media players, and navigation units can be adapted to 48 volt systems the way 5 volt USB adapters plug into cigarette lighter outlets.
@websitemartian yea in another vid on youtube where they are taking apart one of these they found a 12v system on the back of the 48v. Yet to document what it powers.
fantastic review!! how did I just find your channel now? awesome job!
my neighbor drives this to Home Depot all the time, hauling wood. So yes, you can use it as a truck.
I use it in my construction business.
IN ALL CAPS!!! - I LOVE THIS GUY..... Please don't stop doing what you do. I've asked you in the past to reveiw the 2025 Lincoln Nautilus but only after I bought it and saw you for the first time., LOL. I love your engineering honesty, approach, character, and attention to detail. U R Awesome man.
Best car reviewer on the Internet, thank you Ahmed.
Thanks for the remarkably fair and balanced review. This vehicle is extremely flawed and impractical, but I'm sure it will be satisfactory for robots that do not have to worry about ergonomics or esthetics.
Best review I've seen. Honesty is rare these days.
Test drove one the other day. Pretty awesome to drive
Man I’ve learned so much from you. Gives me more confidence to do some easy fixes myself instead of relying on a shop for every little thing. I didn’t grow up in a mechanical background, and have taught myself every little thing. I appreciate getting a thorough review on the engineering stuff I could never figure out myself. You speak clearly, slowly, and give people time to follow along. Bravo.
53:00 GM was doing washer nozzels in the wiper blade in the 80s. They work great on my 89 Firebird, and they're hide away wipers. Never understood why GM moved away from that.
Cost, I would wager.
The GM wet arm sprayer design was great in cold climates.
Hidden wipers were a big pain in the butt in the winter time when snow and ice got lodged around them.
Ford was doing that in the 70's.
It has to be cost that’s all GM cares about $$$
"You cannot use this as a truck" Interesting comment. and to add $100k is for the foundation series.
Zero bias, just facts, well done.
Not just fact---'some designs on this Tesla he praises......showing his opinion......
Your videos are such a joy to watch. So informative, straight to the point, great production value but no jump cuts over and over no reading from a script, just good information. The hour flew by. Thank you and keep up the good work.
I got to say that the steer by wire is implemented very well. The CT drives like a dream. Amazing once you get used to it,. Going back to my GMC is painful.
@rogerheuckeroth7456 Same here, driving my F150 after getting out of my Cybertruck is like using a push mower after riding a Zero turn mower
I also own a 2022 f250 tremor… going back to that after driving the cybertruck feels like getting in a horse and carriage…
lots of true comments here. My CT accelerates like a rocket, is smooth as silk on the road and super quiet. Might not be very good at hauling pipes and ladders, but then, it's a "lifestyle" vehicle, not a workhorse. never going back to ICE.
@ArtOfWar08 these kinds of dramatic overblown statements is why nobody takes EV owners seriously
I’d love to see you review a BYD Seal so we can get an idea about Chinese build quality.
The review everyone has been waiting for
No it’s not. I’ve watched reviews of people who actually own these things and they’re not good. Most owners of these pos get rid of them.
lol ok bot
Awe. Elon lives rent free in the weak minds😂
Great review. It's nice having an actual mechanic talk about a car who understands the technology.
This looks like Satan's getaway car. 😂
Best channel for car reviews I ve found so far, others just talking about the exterior and driving experience. This guy is the real deal, let’s boost his channel!
what a big insult when he said "i've only seen chrysler do that"
He is right
Thanks man, that's one of the most diligent and informative car reviews i ever came across. Hats off to you!
Yes this guy is so good, I am listening again and again because he's so precise.
They should have used the fingerprint-free stainless steel like I have on my appliances 🙂
This is not the same stainless, it’s a very strong stainless steel. Thats why you can beat it and kick it, and it won’t dent.
@user-ln7of9gs4sget a job lil bro. Not one person in the world cares about you glazing an ugly truck. So sad.
I for one, am glad that decision wasn't left in your hands. Unless of course, your fridge exceeds a 62 on the Rockwell scale.
@user-ln7of9gs4syou just stay away from my car, buddy 😝
The truth is all you need is windex and a rag to clean the fingerprints. There are a few owners on here that said it.
The problem with drive by wire is when the vehicle loses power, and then you are 'driving' a brick and your wheels are locked. For reference, I was driving a Prius gen 2 in a parking lot, and it lost engine power. The front display went dead, and it rolled to a stop. I could still steer and brake, but that was it. It turns out it was just a 15 amp microfuse, but this little fuse powered the digital shifter and the start button, so it wouldn't start, and it wouldn't shift out of drive, and was quite difficult to tow, but at least it still steered and braked. I don't know, but I bet somewhere in this thing is a fuse box, and in that box there is a fuse that sends power to the wheel motors and or brake, and if that goes out, this thing is going to either brake on its own if it has some autosafety feature for this, or just roll until it hits something or loses its momentum. This would be a good use of Full Self Driving, if it was working yet...
I always assumed that in this case driver assist will drive you out of traffic, if it detects the failure. Lexus also have this in the RZ and that car also have lane keep and all that stuff as standard.
@ezustnyil8414 That would be smart, but since I have no experience with it, I don't know what would happen.
@sprinkle61 They work very well, one of my relatives was sleepy going home from another country at night and he was constantly fell asleep and he said he blinked two and his van was already slowing down with emergency blinkers on. (Fully loaded Fiat Ducato) So I assume would do the same as long as the rack works.
@ezustnyil8414 Good to know, as a power loss of some kind is sure to happen sometime, and a full power loss is not off the table.
ICE vehicles have limited electric energy. EVs have the massive battery pack with lots of redundancy. If you lose the electric power in an EV, you don’t have any motor power either, so loss of steering would be a small part of the problem.
The best design tour and review of the cybertruck I have ever seen. Thank you.
What about reports of the aluminum frame being brittle and snapping when towing over potholes?
99% of that is RUclips nonsense. These guys are intentionally abusing the trucks in a way no reasonable consumer would. A pot hole will not put over 10000 lbs of force on the tongue (which is what RUclips video shows it failing at). More like 3000 lbs if you are loaded correctly and are towing at max tongue weight and hit a bump.
I use mine as a truck all the time. I hauled hay with it yesterday.
I was very impressed with your explanation of the vehicle coming from a person I believe is a true honest mechanic who knows what they are talking about. Well done!
It's a joy to listen to your reviews. It's clear you have a passion and deep knowledge.
For more power you need to push either more volts or more amps. In order to get more power on a 12v system, you need to push more amps. To push more ore amps need a big cable, like the thick cables connected to your battery. If you push more volts instead, you can use a much smaller cables. Small wires can carry high voltage. Large wires are needed to carry high amperage. 48v systems are more efficient on power deliver and even more efficient in an auto because of the weight and cost savings in wires alone.
So Why aren’t modern cars 48 volt systems? And can i convert my 12v car to 48?
@mcld4214 because it makes no sense unless all your accessories can run at 48V (DC-DC converters are inefficient and expensive) and you can get an inexpensive and compact 48V battery. As it stands the benefit of reduced wiring is small and the full ecosystem of 48V parts doesn't exist. It's a solution in search of a problem.
@mcld4214 car manufacturers have wanted to go higher voltage for decades, but No one wanted to abandon the entire industries 12v support and part supply. Tesla has the vertical integration and electronic competency to redesign and manufacture the electrical system from scratch. Being more modern and restricted by the old 12v, They also had more advantage/benefit by the upgrade.
This is false. You are applying the rules of AC wiring here. That's not how DC works. Higher DC voltage means you still need bigger cables because DC voltage drops fast, esp at higher voltages.
Worse yet, 48 volts is high enough to electrocute you, so now, you have to run 2x the wires instead of just one!
And seeing how a great majority of cyberturds are having electrical issues, tesla has no clue how to actually do this.
@sprockkets facepalm.jpg
And still... I love the sound the door makes when opening. It's just straight out every futuristic movie from the 80's and 90's. And its pretty cool that they had something like "Screw it, we just build it". And the build quality is even worse than other Tesla models but that never stopped people from buying it. It's just like the delorean that was an awful car back in the day but today it's a cult classic. I would never buy a cybertruck (if I had the money) but I can appreciate the fact that it's totally different in every way compared to any other car today. I look at it as an old alfa or Lambo, you hate it or you love it and as long it doesn't rust away or burns to the ground it makes a specific kind of customer very happy.
The sound of the motor caught me off guard when I got mine. It sounds like a spaceship
This gentleman is not only sound technically but is tremendously articulate, possesses an extensive vocabulary, and is tremendously organized. We must support him.
A candid and informative review. Very well done!!
This is something from a 90's movie about the dystopian future. Kind of like the new McDonald's restaurants
It's not a dystopia if you have a choice not to buy it.
It's actually something from 2023, designed in the last few years.
These cars will be a history in few years.
Sad but probably true 😢
There's some banter in critique circles that Tesla didn''t want to have side mirrors at all, stemming from an interview with Tesla Staff about how they " Couldn't Change" regulations regarding mirrors on street vehicles. They wanted to have digital displays tied to cameras inside the vehicle in place of mirrors.
I own a Cybertruck. I thought it was a crazy idea to remove the side mirrors but I realized I barely look at them anymore. The side cameras give a better view of my blindspot and allllll the way back into the lanes next to me.
Strange. The Honda E doesn't have side mirrors.
They said regulations make them a requirement from the mfr, but no requirement for them to remain on the vehicle once purchased. Take that for what you will…
Great channel, offering a wealth of knowledge about car engineering through his vast expertise. I want to watch a driving vehicle review, if possible.
A giant DeLorean with a battery,.......will prob wind up the same fate too,.............your one of the best channels on youtube my good man
This beast... of a garbage container looks-wise (beast, incidentally, being one of the modifications) - deserved this all along. An engineer's appreciation. Althgough the car... the truck - whatever it is - seems to be even more divisive than its daddy (if it's even possible) - the engineering is next level. Or the one after the next. Car journalist Jason Camissa - on several of the channels he appears on - described all its systems, in addition to the cooling/heating assembly, so well laid out here by the Car Care Nut. There's the steer by wire, there's the 48V onboard... voltage - and there's the astonishing reduction in mass due to miles less wiring than most other modern cars - because of onboard LAN communication network. Also - the first crashed CT on youtube which was restored "online" (by the channel BoostedBoiz) - gives hope that problem-solving solutions have been done on a high level. Overall - although the looks and the interior are designed (or at least overlooked) by a somewhat eccentric Mars-man wannabe - the engineering is sane, very sane. Thanks for the review and keep up the work - from Latvia.
I use mine as a work truck daily since may. And it's fine.
What handbag did it come with?
@elzach0why are you as a man worried about what another man is driving.
Just "fine"?
Bruhh, you just got it a few months ago. Tell us how it goes in 2-3 years!
@elzach0 It comes with little girls like you who cry about it
The Simpson reference had me cracking up. Thank you.
I've seen several people use a Cybertruck as a work-truck in construction and in farming. It is a truck through and through.
Don’t understand why tho considering the hassles of charging and range anxiety
@DavidZ123 there are no issues with charging or range anxiety. Especially for people with their own place. It’s relatively simple and cheap to install a charger that would meet anyone’s needs.
@DavidZ123 The cybertruck is my first EV. I can wake up with over 300 miles of range and have Superchargers EVERYWHERE. How often do you go further than that in a day?
55:24, Idk why Tesla never mentions this, but there is a manual release in the back doors. You must remove the rubber cover on the bottom of the door pocket. Then remove a plastic square piece cover and last you should see a colored tag that you need to pull, to open it. Idk if it's on the Cybertruck, but it's on the Model Y and 3.
3 has no manual release for rear door. Y and CT hides beneath some mat good luck fumbling with it in an emergency.
They are hidden to skirt around child lock requirements. Don't need a toddler opening your door to 80 miles an hour and jumping out.
@河粉-k1hhave a look at the model 3 owners manual online there's a manual release in a similar location.
@河粉-k1h I believe the refresh model 3 has it. Let me know.
@WentzCraft They should mention this in the owners manual tho. Unless they already do. Idk. I would need to check.
Control emissions systems aren't the solo blamer for the poor reliability of modern cars. BEV are the perfect example, how cutting production costs are a big culprit.
You are correct, but in an odd way. Cost cutting applies to people and suppliers as well. Gone are the days of the resident guru that knows how the systems work. They found better paying jobs. You now have 86 computers on a CAN bus that don’t fully communicate and a system that is difficult to repair in the field.
@seekn.knowlege3315CyberTruck uses Ethernet and far fewer computers.
He’s my therapist and doesn’t even know it, I just listen to his videos and instant peace
The thing that blows my mind about the temperature management is not the brilliant engineering (even though that is impressive) but the fact that they were able to do it so it could be produced for a price that allows Tesla to be one of the two profitable EV makers in the world (the other is BYD).
It's only profitable while the fad & novelty of EV tech is still in the mania phase, such that those with money to splurge buy it for exclusivity & bragging or virtue-signaling rights. As soon as the supply of idiots with money to burn starts to taper, they are going to have huge price drops like the rest of the Teslas & the demand will quickly diminish. There's a reason why Tesla has so many pokers in the fire, it's to substitute into their financials once the mania from the prior product dies & the economics of reality begin to assert themselves. The novel technology in this car (like 48V), steer by wire, etc, mean that their will be very few techs that can work on these b/c the knowledge is not applicable to other brands. That will make repairs always expensive & a small pool of places to get it repaired. What is the shelf-life of this vehicle, it's supply chain, & longevity? I predict a vast number of these vehicles get retired off the roads in 10 years after a major recession & depreciation make them undesirable & impractical to maintain & upkeep.
The U.S Government subsidies certainly help that !! I wasn't aware that the Tesla shareholdrrs had really yet seen a return on investment yet ? 🤔
When I checked a year or more ago the financial reviewers were saying that the Government subsidies were basically keeping the company viable !!
I will have to check back again to check your claims of " Profitability " .
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@sfcarp9418You gotta ask - How many Tesla fanbois understand the phrase "Federal Subsidies"?