Tesla Says The Cybertruck Hitch is Rated to Support the Same Vertical Loads as the Model Y – “No More than 160 lbs or 2 Bicycles”

Lol so I can't stand on this thing 😭 as I weigh more then 160lbs go Tesla 😂😂😂

I towed a 9600lbs trailer using my CT without any issues. I suspect that's a typo.

Whats the shear load of that secion of the frame/casting?

Most if not all the videos or comments I've seen talking about this issue hasn’t mentioned the shear load. This article has focused on the vertical or tongue load.

In the video of two trucks, the cybertruck made it across the concrete tubes and landed or rather dropped hard after clearing everything…which probably caused some damaged.

Make note the Ford bottomed out and never finished to have a similar impact, that is if it would've impacted at all.

Whats the shear load of that secion of the frame/casting?

Most if not all the videos or comments I've seen talking about this issue hasn’t mentioned the shear load. This article has focused on the vertical or tongue load.

In the video of two trucks, the cybertruck made it across the concrete tubes and landed or rather dropped hard after clearing everything…which probably caused some damaged.

Make note the Ford bottomed out and never finished to have a similar impact, that is if it would've impacted at all.

youtu.be/PK_EJ3DyiiA?t=352

That said, the CyberTruck was used to bail out the Ford after it bottomed out and in doing so, which is the point of this comment, it had to exert more force than the Ford could do on its on and when it came loose, the front wheels on the Ford jammed hard on the other concrete pipe and both vehicles came to a dead stop for a second hard and then bounced back and I think either at that point the shear load was exceeded

That said, the CyberTruck was used to bail out the Ford after it bottomed out and in doing so, which is the point of this comment, it had to exert more force than the Ford could do on its on and when it came loose, the front wheels on the Ford jammed hard on the other concrete pipe and both vehicles came to a dead stop for a second hard and then bounced back and I think either at that point the shear load was exceeded

The Cybertruck, and Tesla in general, is doing to electric vehicles what the Oldsmobile 350 Diesel did to diesel passenger cars in the 1980s. I am a big supporter of electric cars and trucks. But you should buy a good one. Rivian doesn't have any of these issues like the Cybertruck. As a bonus, the RIvian looks pretty good, as opposed to the Cybertruck, which looks like the illegitimate love child of Optimus Prime and an aluminum garden shed.

One thing I did not see considered is that rear end took a pretty hard hit when he drove it off the flatbed. Quite possible that the frame was damaged then and finished off when he tried to tow the Ford. In fairness though the Ford was also driven straight off onto its bumper and did not suffer a frame failure with towing.

I'll stick with my old truck and it's undisputed 500 lb tongue weight.

So adding enough weight like my fifth wheel and driving over a bump can essentially rip off my bumper causing me to loose thousands of dollars due to the cyber truck inadequacies and to only be able to hold up a weight of only two bicycles tells all of us that this is not a truck. It's a car Elon. If you see this you would have had a better chance calling this. The new El Camino they've been calling it the Cyber truck. You gave it a name that it can't live up to

160 pounds sticking a few feet out and up on a bike rack can easily put more torque on the hitch than 1100 pounds pushing straight down or 11,000 pounds pulling straight back. So both numbers could be correct. But still, even the flimsiest hitch around should be capable of supporting way more than the weight of the vehicle on it. Snagging trailer hitches on stuff is just a fact of life when driving on anything besides perfectly flat roads.

Dropping the rear end onto a concrete had more to do with the ripping off than the towing loaf. So there's that.

Moot point. CT isn't a truck so who cares.

You have a misspelled word in your first sentence. Please proofread your articles before posting.

I believe that this is a matter of leverage. When you have a tow hitch and trailer attached, the tongue weight is straight down, whereas a cargo hitch (bicycle, cargo carrier, etc) actually stresses the hitch like a lever, twisting down, not pushing down. Think of it like a crowbar pulling apart two boards nailed together. The physics are different with leverage.

I'm not sure why, but the Cybertruck seems to attract the stupidest articles about it. Nobody does this with my F-150, even though it's a far worse vehicle. I think there are people who want a Cybertruck so bad, but don't really need a $100,000 truck, and just need to tear it down to make themselves feel better they don't have one.

They got to be some heavy bicycles to weigh 80 lbs apiece.

There's a clear distinction between the yield strength of a cast part vs that of a ladder frame section made from high-strength steel. There's a significant knockdown factor comparing formed steel vs castings. And the Tesla castings aren't steel either. They are aluminum, which is even worse. You can slap on the fancy giga wording on their frames, but at the end of the day, it's still a die cast aluminum part, which is significantly weaker at the same thicknesses. I'm sure Tesla has increased the wall thicknesses to compensate a weaker casting to make it strong enough for towing capacities. But it's obvious that smacking a casting multiple times by dropping it off a flatbed and driving it off of some concrete tubes won't help it. It probably has sustained multiple shock loads and have started cracking before the knuckle heads decide to yank a F150 off, without giving a shit about the integrity of the cast frame. The kids here are trying as hard as possible to ruin these trucks to get the views. That's how they get paid by YouTube. If nothing breaks on either trucks, their videos would be boring. They HAVE to break something.