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Watch Tesla Cybertruck launch like a rocket from a standstill

We get a rare look at a Tesla Cybertruck launching from a standstill, and it looks more like a rocket than a pickup truck.

Electric vehicles, in general – and Tesla vehicles, in particular – tend to have a quick acceleration. That’s thanks to the electric motors, which can provide their maximum torque in a fraction of a second.

Also, it’s a factor that comes with automakers trying to achieve longer ranges with bigger batteries that have more energy capacity but also more power capacity to send to those electric motors. It can result in surprising amounts of speed from vehicles that you wouldn’t expect to be fast, such as a pickup truck.

The Tesla Cybertruck should be a good example of this phenomenon, and we get a small taste of it with this video posted by Stumby on Cybertruck Owners’ Club:

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So electric motors "can provide their maximum RPM in a fraction of a second"?!?! That can only mean awful traction and horrible and massive wheelspin... I think you mean they can provide their maximum torque from standstill, and therefore in a fraction of a second. RPM comes later as the car starts moving.

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We can see the Cybertruck launch from a standstill and shoot in front of all the vehicles at this intersection.

Based on the specs that Tesla originally released about the Cybertruck, the electric pickup truck can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph faster than 6.5 seconds for the base version and as quick as 2.9 seconds for the top tri-motor version.

We don’t know what version this electric pickup truck release candidate is, and even if we did, we expect that those specs, which were released in 2019, would be updated for the production version.

Tesla is expected to hold a delivery event for the Cybertruck in the near future, during which the production specs should be finally released.

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