{"id":11999,"date":"2024-09-28T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11999"},"modified":"2024-08-19T10:48:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T17:48:08","slug":"taking-a-cybertruck-to-a-truck-pull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11999","title":{"rendered":"Taking a cybertruck to a truck pull"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two buddies go to a truck pull to see if electric beats diesel. The diesel pulled 251 feet and the dual-motor cybertruck didn&#8217;t do too bad at 207 feet. The cybertruck definitely didn&#8217;t with as a crowd favorite though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s not too bad considering the cybertruck is one of the first commercial electric vehicles and things are likely to get better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People should pay attention though; because electric motors can potentially put out more torque than an internal combusion engine could ever hope to generate. That&#8217;s probably why the diesel engines in a locomotive don&#8217;t turn the wheels &#8211; they turn a generator that feeds the electric motors that turn the wheels. It makes me wonder if you could Frankenstein locomotive electric motors to a vehicle and see what is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FrIUPD_wM6c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two buddies go to a truck pull to see if electric beats diesel. The diesel pulled 251 feet and the dual-motor cybertruck didn&#8217;t do too bad at 207 feet. The cybertruck definitely didn&#8217;t with as a crowd favorite though. That&#8217;s not too bad considering the cybertruck is one of the first commercial electric vehicles and things are likely to get better. People should pay attention though; because electric motors can potentially put out more torque than an internal combusion engine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11999\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-37x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12000,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999\/revisions\/12000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}