Egh, looks like the facebook crowd has come to Lemmy.
Wrong tires… It’s that simple…
I hate Elon as much as the rest of us, but this reads like it’s written by the Anti-EV crowd. All it needs is an ad for a Dodge RAM at the bottom… And, I don’t particularly find the cybertruck (or any large truck), appealing at all tbh
I can put the wrong tires on my jeep too, and skid off the road when its wet… Not everywhere needs snow tyres (here in Australia, they would be useless), and I’d be guessing they’re less efficient too?
Also, I’m not really sure how it works with deep snow (since I’m here in Australia), but wouldn’t snowchains help as an alternative? Or can you not use them on EV’s?.. Or do they not work with deep snow?
Chains are only useful if there’s snow compacted onto the road (like in a lot of mountainous areas). Winter tires are useful because they stay softer in cold weather, while summer tires get hard as a rock below a certain temp, turning your car (or cybertruck in this case) into a sled. There are also studded snow tires, but they’re useless or even dangerous on roads with no snow.
Yeah ok… So, there isn’t really much that could be done in this case except use Winter tyres anyway? If so, that makes this article seem even more silly I’m guessing?
Without knowing specifics about the cybertruck, it’s hard to say. Another factor could be that the tires are too wide, which would prevent them from cutting through the snow to make contact with the road. There could be other factors, like traction control freaking out and locking up the wheels, AWD issues, driver error. I just don’t know enough about the CT to make an educated guess. Tires are probably the most common reason for something like this though.
Good tires prevent you from sinking down into the snow in the first place. You can have 5 feet of ground clearance but that doesn’t help you in 6 feet of snow.
I imagine deep snow is very similar to sand where you want the largest contact patch possible in order to float on the surface. Here we have some dunes that you can offroad in and tour companies take busses full of people out there but they use gigantic tires that look like donut shaped balloons and perform decently even though they’re low powered and incredibly heavy.
Egh, looks like the facebook crowd has come to Lemmy.
Wrong tires… It’s that simple…
I hate Elon as much as the rest of us, but this reads like it’s written by the Anti-EV crowd. All it needs is an ad for a Dodge RAM at the bottom… And, I don’t particularly find the cybertruck (or any large truck), appealing at all tbh
I can put the wrong tires on my jeep too, and skid off the road when its wet… Not everywhere needs snow tyres (here in Australia, they would be useless), and I’d be guessing they’re less efficient too?
Also, I’m not really sure how it works with deep snow (since I’m here in Australia), but wouldn’t snowchains help as an alternative? Or can you not use them on EV’s?.. Or do they not work with deep snow?
Chains are only useful if there’s snow compacted onto the road (like in a lot of mountainous areas). Winter tires are useful because they stay softer in cold weather, while summer tires get hard as a rock below a certain temp, turning your car (or cybertruck in this case) into a sled. There are also studded snow tires, but they’re useless or even dangerous on roads with no snow.
Yeah ok… So, there isn’t really much that could be done in this case except use Winter tyres anyway? If so, that makes this article seem even more silly I’m guessing?
Without knowing specifics about the cybertruck, it’s hard to say. Another factor could be that the tires are too wide, which would prevent them from cutting through the snow to make contact with the road. There could be other factors, like traction control freaking out and locking up the wheels, AWD issues, driver error. I just don’t know enough about the CT to make an educated guess. Tires are probably the most common reason for something like this though.
Tires may be part of the equation, but ground clearance is typically more important to avoiding getting stuck in the snow.
Definitely important, but in my experience with good tires and patience you can basically plow the snow out of the way
Getting enough snow jammed under a vehicle will high-center the vehicle. If the tires can’t touch the ground,it doesn’t matter how good they are.
Good tires prevent you from sinking down into the snow in the first place. You can have 5 feet of ground clearance but that doesn’t help you in 6 feet of snow.
It’s also really heavy. I have a crosstrek and even with all seasons on I’m getting up that driveway in the video with no problems at all.
I imagine deep snow is very similar to sand where you want the largest contact patch possible in order to float on the surface. Here we have some dunes that you can offroad in and tour companies take busses full of people out there but they use gigantic tires that look like donut shaped balloons and perform decently even though they’re low powered and incredibly heavy.