The entire point is to end petroleum emissions the third major pollution source on planet. Tesla is changing personal transportation for the better. Fords tend to break down only after a few years usage and really haven’t improved the vehicles aside from making there logo oversized on the front grills. Ford you should take The challenge and bring your bigger all wheel drive version, the result will be the same. Tesla will pull you uphill again and it is quite apparent you realize this.
Mark - 5 years ago
Tug of war battles are about traction they have little to do with torque. Put agas engine in 4wd low and it will pull a stump providing traction is there. Also this test does nothing to actually validate a truck in it's performance. Put a trailer behind them with equal weight and let's see who can to it farther.
Adam S - 5 years ago
Ford has nothing to gain from this competition they are already the number 1 selling truck it makes no sense to compete. Plus it still would not be a fair fight, electric has instant torque. I agree with others long hauling objects would be a better functional use case.
George - 5 years ago
Based on the Tesla truck specs they should have been picking on a Ford a little more it's size if you want to go pound for poumd. Let's see the same test with a Ford F350 4 wheel drive diesel and then compare the results.
Patrick MacAuley - 5 years ago
I would have loved to see an official Tesla-Ford challenge, and it would have received millions of views. It would have been great publicity for Tesla, but not for Ford. Ford HQ saw the trap and are staying away from it.
Jake - 5 years ago
Its funny how ford does a meaningless test like pull 1 million pounds on rail cars but a meaningless test like this against them and they cry about it.
Brian Lacy - 5 years ago
Ford missed an opportunity to leverage good sportsmanship and the spirit of competition to explain the positive points of their product. If they'd gone ahead with this, they'd have lost, obviously, but could have challenged Tesla to the kind of long haul/longevity test that the other commenters have mentioned -- the net result would be that Ford AND Tesla would be continuous talking points for the duration, and unlike Tesla, Ford actually has a PRODUCT available to sell. Savvy marketers can turn an opportunity like this into big sales. Instead, Ford has both apparently backed down from the challenge, and thrown their executive under the bus in the process -- talk about egg-on-face. Bad form, Ford. Bad form.
John Lane - 5 years ago
Fairness? There is one thing that the Ford cannot overcome and why it will fail. Instant torque means the Ford will lose traction immediately which will doom the test. One traction is lost, the Ford cannot recover.
Wayne - 5 years ago
I would like to see Tesla's truck pull my 5th wheel for 5000 miles. Truck pulling truck proves very little. My Ford F150 has proven itself over and over. Tesla hasn't pulled nothing over a few feet. Hey Tesla, let me know when your truck has 288,000 miles on it and pulls a 5th wheel 5000 miles each year. What joke of a test. I doubt if the Tesla can even pull my little 5th wheel 5000 miles. That's the real world test, longivity, not 10 yard pulls. Tesla's test is a joke to any real world truck owner like me.
Wayne - 5 years ago
I would like to see Tesla's truck pull my 5th wheel for 5000 miles. Truck pulling truck proves very little. My Ford F150 has proven itself over and over. Tesla hasn't pulled nothing over a few feet. Hey Tesla, let me know when your truck has 288,000 miles on it and pulls a 5th wheel 5000 miles each year. What joke of a test. I doubt if the Tesla can even pull my little 5th wheel 5000 miles. That's the real world test, longivity, not 10 yard pulls. Tesla's test is a joke to any real world truck owner like me.
Vincent Wilson - 5 years ago
All this shows is which one is heavier and which one gets the torque to the ground quicker. Everyone knows electric gets torque instantly. so until some truck company company makes an electronic truck the test is meaningless. What they should do is a 1000 mile round trip test. Go 500 miles up hills with a loaded trailer then turn around and go back to the starting point. Gives you a better idea of capability in a real use situation. Electric is the future let's see how it stacks up today so we can make it better for tomorrow.????????
Dani - 5 years ago
Why would they accept a challenge which they already know will loose?
P Gregoire - 5 years ago
Exactly, better to bail now then to being publicly ridiculed and loose a ton of customers.
Paul Benton - 5 years ago
They are calling it off because there is no way they would win with F150. With a F250 Maybe, F350 looking closer...
So best to bail now before they get too committed to this pissing war.
The entire point is to end petroleum emissions the third major pollution source on planet. Tesla is changing personal transportation for the better. Fords tend to break down only after a few years usage and really haven’t improved the vehicles aside from making there logo oversized on the front grills. Ford you should take The challenge and bring your bigger all wheel drive version, the result will be the same. Tesla will pull you uphill again and it is quite apparent you realize this.
Tug of war battles are about traction they have little to do with torque. Put agas engine in 4wd low and it will pull a stump providing traction is there. Also this test does nothing to actually validate a truck in it's performance. Put a trailer behind them with equal weight and let's see who can to it farther.
Ford has nothing to gain from this competition they are already the number 1 selling truck it makes no sense to compete. Plus it still would not be a fair fight, electric has instant torque. I agree with others long hauling objects would be a better functional use case.
Based on the Tesla truck specs they should have been picking on a Ford a little more it's size if you want to go pound for poumd. Let's see the same test with a Ford F350 4 wheel drive diesel and then compare the results.
I would have loved to see an official Tesla-Ford challenge, and it would have received millions of views. It would have been great publicity for Tesla, but not for Ford. Ford HQ saw the trap and are staying away from it.
Its funny how ford does a meaningless test like pull 1 million pounds on rail cars but a meaningless test like this against them and they cry about it.
Ford missed an opportunity to leverage good sportsmanship and the spirit of competition to explain the positive points of their product. If they'd gone ahead with this, they'd have lost, obviously, but could have challenged Tesla to the kind of long haul/longevity test that the other commenters have mentioned -- the net result would be that Ford AND Tesla would be continuous talking points for the duration, and unlike Tesla, Ford actually has a PRODUCT available to sell. Savvy marketers can turn an opportunity like this into big sales. Instead, Ford has both apparently backed down from the challenge, and thrown their executive under the bus in the process -- talk about egg-on-face. Bad form, Ford. Bad form.
Fairness? There is one thing that the Ford cannot overcome and why it will fail. Instant torque means the Ford will lose traction immediately which will doom the test. One traction is lost, the Ford cannot recover.
I would like to see Tesla's truck pull my 5th wheel for 5000 miles. Truck pulling truck proves very little. My Ford F150 has proven itself over and over. Tesla hasn't pulled nothing over a few feet. Hey Tesla, let me know when your truck has 288,000 miles on it and pulls a 5th wheel 5000 miles each year. What joke of a test. I doubt if the Tesla can even pull my little 5th wheel 5000 miles. That's the real world test, longivity, not 10 yard pulls. Tesla's test is a joke to any real world truck owner like me.
I would like to see Tesla's truck pull my 5th wheel for 5000 miles. Truck pulling truck proves very little. My Ford F150 has proven itself over and over. Tesla hasn't pulled nothing over a few feet. Hey Tesla, let me know when your truck has 288,000 miles on it and pulls a 5th wheel 5000 miles each year. What joke of a test. I doubt if the Tesla can even pull my little 5th wheel 5000 miles. That's the real world test, longivity, not 10 yard pulls. Tesla's test is a joke to any real world truck owner like me.
All this shows is which one is heavier and which one gets the torque to the ground quicker. Everyone knows electric gets torque instantly. so until some truck company company makes an electronic truck the test is meaningless. What they should do is a 1000 mile round trip test. Go 500 miles up hills with a loaded trailer then turn around and go back to the starting point. Gives you a better idea of capability in a real use situation. Electric is the future let's see how it stacks up today so we can make it better for tomorrow.????????
Why would they accept a challenge which they already know will loose?
Exactly, better to bail now then to being publicly ridiculed and loose a ton of customers.
They are calling it off because there is no way they would win with F150. With a F250 Maybe, F350 looking closer...
So best to bail now before they get too committed to this pissing war.