Four years ago Elon announced his Tesla Cybertruck.
Two years ago I got tired of waiting and built
my own electric military Humvee.
Today we finally have both vehicles side by side to compare what
Elon was able to accomplish with, you know, what I was able to accomplish.
And as always,
a scientific scoring system will help determine the winner.
Mine of course is not quite finished
yet, but let's be honest, neither is Elon's.
Let's start off our extremely scientific scoring
system with the tires.
Each of these vehicles has four tires, so I think that's four points
for each of us.
Starting off strong, neither of us gets a plus one for a spare tire, so we're
sitting at a tie.
I also think we give one point for each windshield wiper, which means one point
for Elon and two points for me.
My Humvee is also more expensive than a Cybertruck, which makes it
more premium-er, so I give myself a point for that one.
The Cybertruck does have internal air
conditioning, but I have organic air conditioning.
And since organic is trending now, another point
for me.
And while the air conditioning is organic, I do not have a cab heater since heaters are
really difficult to install and suck a lot of power.
I also do not have a heater for my battery
pack, which the Cybertruck does have.
So two points for Elon.
Elon's Cybertruck gets about
318 miles of range on off-road tires.
I haven't officially tested mine, but I think it's around
a hundred, so we'll just give Elon the point for now.
This is going to be a close competition.
Another point the Cybertruck wins is with the external power in the back, a 240 volt plug along
with two 110 volt outlets.
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The Cybertruck can tow 11,000 pounds and I too
in my EV Humvee can tow 11,000 pounds just not very safely.
What was that, Zach?
I'm just
just not very safely.
I probably for like five minutes, short periods of time before something
breaks.
Honestly, I'm probably closer to 5,000 pounds towing capacity.
I'll give Elon this point.
The Cybertruck has one large display in the middle and the EV Humvee also has a display
pretty close to the middle, so we both get one point.
Elon has 10,000 pound-feet of torque on
the CyberBeast, but I have 12,000 pound-feet of torque once I gear down into four low on my Atlas
transfer case.
One point for me.
Elon has ABS brakes, which is a nice safety feature to have.
I also have brakes stolen from a Tesla Model S, but just the compression part and not the wheel
slipping intelligence part.
So one point for Elon.
Elon can charge at 350 kilowatts through a version
4 supercharger, while I can charge at 8 kilowatts from the plug in my garage.
Another point for Elon.
Elon's battery pack is about 800 volts while mine is 450-ish.
Elon has a front trunk, which I don't
have, but since there's no safety sensors and it can munch your fingers, I'm actually going to
subtract a point for that.
Both have enclosed truck beds, which means we both get a point.
One thing that I was not expecting Elon to do was come up with a 48 volt low voltage system.
I didn't
know we were competing on that, but now I know for next time.
No one can really tell what a 48
volt system does from the outside, but from the inside it's actually pretty cool.
Underneath the
passenger seat is where I keep my 12 volt low voltage system.
I came up with this system to
distribute power to the headlights, the steering wheel, the display.
And in order to get power from
the high voltage pack into the 12 volt battery, I have this giant 2 gauge cable.
I use that 2
gauge cable to pull energy from my DC to DC converter.
The DC to DC converter is this guy
right here.
It's 1500 watts, which means if we're bringing it down to a 12 volt system,
it needs to be holding 125 amps, which is why the cable itself is so thick.
Now if I had built a 48
volt system instead of a 12 volt system, which would have been impossible since there's no off
shelf 48 volt components, but let's just say I did, I could have used a much thinner 10 gauge
wire.
1500 watts divided by 48 volts equals a peak power draw of 30 amps.
And the less
amperage we have, the thinner wire we can get away with.
Thinner wire is cheaper, lighter,
easier to work with, and easier to install.
So Elon gets a point for this one.
We both have 4 wheel drive.
Yeah, the Cybertruck can individually and intelligently control the
wheel drive, so we each get a point.
The body panels of the Cybertruck are stainless steel,
and they are technically bulletproof.
My aluminum panels are not, so plus one for Elon.
And maybe I'm alone in this, but anytime I get out of a truck, I always grab the top lip right here,
but stainless steel is just not that cozy.
If I reach up to get out of my Humvee,
turns out there's a bare metal lip there as well.
Nobody gets a point.
One thing I will take a point for, however, is down here.
Elon has stuck a plastic kick
plate right here with imitation welded beads.
It would have not been hard to have a robot lay
down sometimes and make that out of stainless steel instead.
Just saying.
I take the point
because my kick plate is pure metal.
No plastic here.
The Cybertruck has rear wheel steering for
a tighter turn radius, which is a huge deal.
The Humvee is the size of a boat and has the
radius of a football field.
The vehicles are almost the same size, but the Cybertruck is
quite a bit more nimble.
The Cybertruck has three rear seats.
I have no rear seats since I filled
them all up with Tesla battery modules.
So three more points for Elon there.
When it comes to
ground clearance, you might think I would win with 16 inches of differential free ground clearance,
but the Tesla Cybertruck actually can extract to 17.5.So Elon gets one more.What Elon has
factored in though is that my EV Humvee has 10 shackle mounts where it can be carried from a
helicopter or tossed out of an airplane, and those are pretty cool.
And I think that right
there is where we stop the count.
The Tesla Cybertruck is an incredible piece of engineering,
but true beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
Good game, Elon.
Thanks a ton for watching,
and I'll see you around.