{"id":141537,"date":"2019-11-26T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T20:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=141537"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T20:03:51","slug":"ford-cries-foul-on-tesla-cybertruck-tug-of-war-with-f-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2019\/11\/ford-cries-foul-on-tesla-cybertruck-tug-of-war-with-f-150\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Cries Foul on Tesla Cybertruck Tug-of-War With F-150"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ford said this challenge was meant tongue-in-cheek.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If Elon Musk was looking to pick a fight during the introduction of the new Cybertruck by taking some verbal swipes at Ford and showing a Cybertruck beating a Ford F-150 in a tug-of-war, pulling it up hill even, it\u2019s on!<\/p>\n

Well \u2026 kinda, maybe.<\/p>\n

During the presentation of Cybertruck, Tesla showed a video of the electric truck easily pulling an F-150 up a hill as the Ford\u2019s wheels spun in opposition. Now, people with some sharp eyes and a bit of knowledge were quick to point out this was not an equitable contest.<\/p>\n

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(Tesla’s Cybertruck Will \u00a0Face Off With an Array of All-Electric Pickups)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

In fact, one Ford employee, Sundeep Madra, head of Ford X, offered to perform its own tug-of-war with the new EV truck, all the company had to do was send Ford a Cybertruck. \u201chey @elonmusk send us a cybertruck and we will do the apples to apples test for you,\u201d he texted.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Never one to back down from a challenge \u2013 this is the man who challenged the Securities and Exchange Commission \u2013 Musk\u2019s response was short and sweet, \u201cBring it on!\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker was quick to put a stop to potential competition, a senior Ford spokesperson told\u00a0Motor1.com\u00a0that Madra\u2019s tweet was \u201ctongue-in-cheek\u201d and meant to point out the absurdity of the comparison video.<\/p>\n

(Musk reveals Tesla\u2019s electric pickup \u2014 Cybertruck)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

In addition to showing it at the debut, Musk shared it on Twitter during the weekend. A quick look at the video suggests that the Cybertruck is powered by either it the dual motor, all-wheel-drive powertrain or the even the tri-motor set up blasts 0 to 60 in just 2.9 seconds.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On the other hand, the F-150 is an STX, likely \u201cboasting\u201d a 2.7-liter EcoBoost V6, which puts out just 325 hp. It certainly doesn\u2019t sprint to 60 mph in under 3 seconds \u2026 or even 6 second for that matter. On top of that, given that only the rear wheels are spinning, it\u2019s not four-wheel drive, like the Cybertruck and on top of all that, Musk\u2019s newest creation is significantly heavier than the F-150 adding to its list of advantages.<\/p>\n

So if we\u2019re looking for an apples-to-apples comparison, what\u2019s needed? We did get on suggestion from Navigant Research Senior Analyst Samuel Abuelsamid, who tweeted, \u201c@sundeep if you do apples to apples, does that mean the test will be with the electric F-150 that pulled the 1M pound train?\u201d<\/p>\n

(Ford Electric Prototype Truck Hauls 1M Pounds)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

While that would likely be the best competition of all, right now, we\u2019re all just going to have to wait patiently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If Elon Musk was looking to pick a fight during the introduction of the new Cybertruck by taking some verbal swipes at Ford and showing a Cybertruck beating a Ford F-150 in a tug-of-war, pulling it up hill even, it\u2019s on! Well \u2026 kinda, maybe. See what’s coming at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":141538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,12,9],"tags":[],"make":[56,110],"post-state":[],"category_old":[118,150,151,123,319,155,299,248,132,125,124,139,291,207,278,288],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141537"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=141537"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=141537"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=141537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}