Tesla Cybertruck Rear Giga Casting Snaps In Half While Trying to Pull a Ford F-150, & Yes, It’s a Good Thing

Your take on the gigacasting shearing off at the hitch receiver attachment point is a joke right?

What? This makes no sense. Car frames are not designed to shear under any circumstances. Crumple yes, but when would you ever want part of your frame to fall off "because it was loaded wrong." Also how did they even load it wrong? They were doing a towing test. You can say "damage from the suspension test" all you want, but driving over logs wouldn't cause enough damage to break the frame off. There's a reason no other vehicle does this, and it's not because they're too dumb to figure it out.

"but rather, you can break off a section of the giga cast and replace only that part."
Seriously? Please explain the process you would follow to get a portion of an aluminum casting and attach it to the original remaining casting. Do you have any experience with aluminum castings?

I am not buying that explanation.

All I know is that you are the last person I want testifying for me in court. Lol
Your ability to describe events as they occurred are let's just say lacking!!
The events that led up to the casting snapping were wildly entertaining but had absolutely no practical value. But undoubtedly led to that structural failure.
My only issue was that he could have done a little bit more practical testing before he went completely off the rails with it. He could have gotten way more content out of this. But oh well.

This was a significant failure. This type of situation could have occurred in a legit street use, such as a 7500 lb trailer hitting the curb or large obstacle in the road. Should the entire hitch/bumper assembly <em>SEPARATE</em> from the vehicle and let the trailer go wild? The emergency trailer brakes would not activate because all of the chains and safety cables would still be attached. A regarding repair, please explain how "you can break off a section of the giga cast and replace only that part." This is a pipe dream not supported by any evidence or fact. How are you gonig to break it off cleanly, and then reattach? Cast aluminum is not an easily welded material.

This is funny spin to try to put on this situation. Any other truck would have gotten that F150 out. The CT failed in comparison because sometimes...you just need it to work, even beyond spec.
Having a hitch point fail, maybe, but this is akin to half the frame failing.

This damage isn't going to be cheap to repair either. The part might be cheap but the labor is going to be hella expensive.

The CT just failed at doing the most truck thing ever...

You are delusional. There is a reason why truck frames made of steel.

This is some heavy spin. SMH

You should get a job that doesn't involve reviewing vehicles....also avoid any vocation that includes welding aluminium. You don't have a clue about either. This entire article is delusional rot. You're either dishonest or misinformed.

Lol wut? This is the dumbest take. It broke.

You gotta be kidding me

However, the clean way the giga casting sheers off suggests that during an accident, you don’t have to replace the entire giga cast, but rather, you can break off a section of the giga cast and replace only that part. This makes the Cybertruck much more easily repairable.

What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

That is one ignorant article that looks like it had been written by AI. The bumper broke off earlier when the car fell several feet and hit a boulder with all its weight, not because it was pulling a Ford.

How is that a good thing? one of the worst thing th a t can happen to a car is the frame snapping. Welding it back together now gives you a weak point and a salvage title. So now your 100k beta test is worth half that if your lucky. I just want to know what's in the Kool aid everyone is drinking. If this had been a corvette, G-tr, or Porsche having all these issues people would be outraged and pushing for a full recall

Will the repaired/welded cast aluminium frame be as strong, and I use that word loosely, as before the crack? Didn't anyone tell Elon that you shouldn't weld cast anything since it's brittle from the off?

While it may sound good to say a bad thing Isn't bad, it is bad unfortunately. Gigacasting is cast aluminum and cast aluminum is brittle by nature. You can't " just replace " the damaged part of it because welding cast aluminum makes it even more fragile. This was not designed to be replaced, no way it could have been. So it stands that that towing reliability and safety is questionable, especially in the case of impacts, hard braking and hard acceleration. If I had a CT, I wouldn't attempt any of them with a heavy load after seeing that test.

You're not going to easily weld a cast piece of material to another cast piece of material. Aluminum is also notoriously difficult to weld the only hope would be to tig weld and given the confined location, I wish you luck in producing something that would ever be safe to tow with or provide adequate safety.

Cyber truck is junk only people that buy them are posers #junk truck #truck for the woke

Uh. So as an MSE guy I have some questions about.. details that are pretty scientific - I don't necessarily.. doubt that it was designed to shear off.. . However, were talking about cast aluminum, so it should easily do that regardless of what stress risers you cut into it. It'll crack it's porous. As far as... The austenitic alloy used for the truck which, yes I do have the composition tests for, and other knowledge, yeah it's not the best use of materials. Or, additionally, the people processing them can make mistakes it happens VERY often in the industry. The research labs are separate from the production facilities with their own test firing furnaces of smaller capacity, there's people involved, enough said.

Hey chat GPT write me an article how things a good thing… complete Garbo of an article

hold on, you say “ Because it is a single gigantic piece of aluminum, […] people were rightfully worried…” and then later say “… but rather, you can break off a section of the giga cast and replace only that part.”

What do you mean by “replace only that part” if the frame is one big piece? Surely if a piece of wood snapped in a construction project you’d replace the whole plank? Your logic doesn’t line up here.

"Tinsae Aregay has been following Tesla and The evolution of the EV space on a daily basis for several years. He covers everything about Tesla from the cars, to Elon Musk, the energy business and autonomy. "

So you're an Elon Musk fan, ok. But don't be a fool.

The frame of a car should never break, under any circumstance. You're delusional, like all the other Elon fans

Structures mounting tow hitches etc should not shatter and snap off (not to be confused with failing gracefully under load). Losing trailers is extremely dangerous and delicate cast mounts do not improve with age (or near coastal areas). If we examine vehicles designed to tow their bumpers and frames are far different for good reasons including graceful degradation when damaged the better for the driver to get combination of truck and trailer off the road under control. A lost trailer is not under control.

How does someone writing about trucks know so little about the most basic of truck tasks and design? In future find someone with appropriate mechanical experience. I found this page because it was forwarded for ridicule (I guess that's good for views).

This Tesla structure design design is a glass cannon. Buzzword compliant? Of course. "Giga" must be good.

Classic Cyber Truck. Bullet proof stainless steel on the outside, weak aluminum frame on the inside. All show, no substance.

A quick physics lesson... The F150 was being pulled by the CT on the hitch. The F150 didn't break, but the CT did. The forces were the same for each truck (thanks to Newton).

What??? Dude,I'm starting to believe that you are paid from Tesla to promote this piece of garbage called Cybertruck. I don't see any reason to be called cyber rather than Dumbtruck.
Wake up and please don't be biased, see the facts acar/truck frame should not snap like this, period.
P.S They took our jobs

The guy who wrote this should be fired and blocked from ever writing about cars again.

Who would think that tearing off part of your frame was a "good" thing?

Not fixable without replacing the frame, and not something I've ever seen happen under even worse abuse from any pickup manufactured from steel.

Tinsae, how are you an automotive "journalist", when you apparently know 0.0 about cars? Dude, you have no clue what you are talking about. Anyone that says that its a good thing when THE FRAME OF THEIR VEHICLE SHEARS OFF FROM OFF-ROAD ABUSE IS AN IDIOT!! Especially from a "truck" thats SUPPOSED TO GO OFF-ROAD AND SURVIVE AN APOCALYPSE, LOL!!! What a joke! Let me tell you why its bad, because once part of the FRAME OF THE VEHICLE SHEARS OFF THE VEHICLE IS TOTALED!! Insurance companies are already leary about covering these things, and you think an insurance company is gonna cover a cyberjunk that has had its FRAME REPAIRED? LOL. Tesla cars get totaled by insurance companies for fender benders, because they cant trust the integrity of the battery pack after impact. Also, one of these cyberjunks has had its frame shear off JUST LIKE the youtube tester dude from hitting a severe pothole while towing a trailer!!! That is NEVER A GOOD THING!! Come on man, instead of making excuses for that dipsh*t conartist of a liar elon muskrat, you should just report the truth, then maybe you will be considered decent, because right now your writing and opinions are straight garbage. If people want a good electric car, they will have to wait until a REAL AUTO COMPANY LIKE HONDA starts making their own electric vehicles. tesla can f*ck all the way off!!!