When Tesla introduced the production version of the Cybertruck, it showed a video of the wedgy electric pickup beating a Porsche 911 in a drag race, whilst towing yet another Porsche 911. While that is impressive no matter the context, a claim created by CEO Elon Musk has led to controversy, and eventually the conclusion that the globe was misled.

In his presentation, Musk stated that the Cybertruck could beat a 911 in a quarter-mile drag race whilst towing a 911. However, as our personal Chris Chilton noted in a prior story, the video that Tesla showed to go along with that claim didn’t really show a quarter-mile race.

Instead, the race was half that lengthy, and ended at the eighth-mile mark. My esteemed colleague chalked up Musk’s false claim to a basic error (we have a tendency to speak about drag racing in quarters, even even though eighth-miles are a common race length), but wondered what would have occurred if the race had been permitted to continue.

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As if responding to him, Jason Fenske, host of the common YouTube channel Engineering Explained, has attempted to discover out. Using the unbroken footage of the race, as presented by Tesla, and counting the frames, he performs out that with the trailer attached, the Cybertruck managed to cover the eighth-mile in eight.25 seconds.

While that is an impressive outcome for the Tesla, it is substantially slower than the truck can go when it is unburdened by automobile and trailer. In independent testing, the Cybertruck was capable of finishing the eighth-mile in just six.94 seconds, or 1.31 seconds more rapidly, with no the trailer.

That implies that, in the unlikely situation that the gap amongst the burdened and unburdened truck did not develop any longer in the second eighth-mile, it would take the towing EV 1.three seconds longer to comprehensive the quarter-mile than a Cybertruck on its personal. If you add 1.three to the 11-second quarter-mile time that has been accomplished by the truck in other tests, that amounts to 12.three seconds.

While the precise kind of Porsche 911 utilized in the test is not clarified, Fenske assumes that Tesla utilized the 911 Carrera T. Not only does the automobile have a manual transmission, producing it 1 of the slowest versions of the model by way of the quarter-mile, it is also 1 of the lightest examples obtainable, producing it best for towing.

In each Car and Driver and Motor Trend testing, that automobile has been clocked finishing the quarter-mile in 12.two seconds — more rapidly than the towing Cybertruck, primarily based on its eighth-mile functionality.

Using some even much more complex (but nevertheless generous) math, Fenske reaches the conclusion that the Cybertruck could realistically comprehensive the quarter-mile time of 12.eight seconds whilst towing a 911. Although that is a really impressive feat, it suggests that Musk was incorrect in his assertion.