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Tesla Cybertruck smokes Ford F-150 Raptor in drag race

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Tesla Cybertruck was put against a Ford F-150 Raptor, Ford’s performance pick up truck, in a drag race.

Here are the results:

When Tesla first unveiled the Cybertruck in 2019, the automaker made it clear that it wanted to compete with the Ford F-150, which dominates the important pickup truck market in the US.

Elon Musk said that the automaker was going after the market leader and it even released a video of the Cybertruck going against the F-150 in a tug-of-war that went viral.

Surprisingly, Tesla didn’t remake the test with the production version of the Cybertruck at the launch.

But a handful of media outlets were allowed to conduct some tests against other vehicles at Gigafactory Texas, and Carwow brought a Ford F-150 Raptor to go against the Cybertruck.

The Raptor is Ford’s performance version of the popular F-150 pickup, and therefore, it makes sense to put it against the Cyberbeast version of the Cybertruck, which is the tri-motor version of the truck.

However, they didn’t put the vehicles against each other in a tug-of-war but a drag race instead:

As you can see, the Cybertruck smoked the Raptor with or without a rolling start.

The Cybertruck managed to complete the quarter-mile in 11.2 seconds, which is remarkable for a pickup truck.

The electric pickup truck compares favorably on paper with the Raptor:

Tesla Cybertruck Electric tri-motor 845hp/930nm 3,084 kg AWD $99,990
Ford F-150 Raptor R 5.2L V8 S/C 700hp/868nm 2,703 kg AWD $109,250

Now, it looks like it also compares favorably on the drag strip.

This article was originally published by Electrek.co. Read the original article here.
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