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How the world’s best-selling truck stacks up against its newest challenger
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Tesla says its newest creation will start at around $50,000 and have a crew cab and a 6.5-foot bed. But given the Cybertruck's suspension travel and the off-road abilities the Tesla team baked in, we think a Ford F-150 Raptor is probably the best F-150 representative to compare the Cybertruck concept to, given both appear to have a desert-running duty cycle. Continue reading in the gallery above.
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We picked a Raptor in the four-door SuperCrew configuration, because the two trucks are remarkably similar in terms of size. The wheelbase of the Cybertruck is just 5 inches longer (149.9 to the Ford's 146) and the overall lengths of the two trucks are separated by exactly 1 inch—231.9 inches for the Ford and 230.0 for the Tesla. The base Raptor comes in at $57,785, making it an almost perfect matchup for the approximately $50-60,000 Cybertruck. Let's get started.
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As for towing, the Raptor can pull up to 8,000 pounds out back and haul up to 1,200 pounds in the bed. Tesla's claims around 10,000 pounds of tow capacity and 3,350 pounds of payload capacity for the Cybertruck dual-motor. Tesla claims the Cybertruck tri-motor can carry up to 3,350 pounds in the bed and tow up to 14,000 pounds.
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As for off-roading, the Raptor comes standard with 34-inch BF Goodrich All-Terrain KO2 tires, valved, monotube FOX off-road racing shocks, a host of off-road driving modes, four-wheel drive, and a locking rear differential. The Tesla has dual-motor all-wheel drive and sits on an air suspension with 35-inch off-road tires.
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Ford will no doubt face the same problem of convincing even its own brand loyalists to ditch gas power for electrons instead. But the ink recently dried on a collaboration between the Blue Oval and Electrify America to try and bring EV charging to the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E and electric F-150 owners.