- Jim Farley commented on the viral video of a Ford truck towing a Cybertruck.
- The Ford CEO mentioned the video wasn’t an commercial for his firm.
- The video confirmed a Cybertruck that appeared to have gotten caught off-roading.
Ford CEO Jim Farley weighed in on a viral video of a Tesla Cybertruck getting towed by a Ford truck on Tuesday.
“Just to be clear … this is a Super Duty and NOT advertising,” Farley wrote on X, the social media web site previously often known as Twitter. “Glad a @Ford proprietor was there to assist.”
The video that’s making the rounds on social media exhibits a Cybertruck that seems to have gotten caught off-roading whereas hauling a pine tree. The video was first posted by @mchambers_22 on Instagram and it exhibits Tesla’s truck spinning its wheels in a snow-covered discipline whereas a Ford truck slowly pulls it again onto a mud street.
The instagram consumer, Matt Chambers, informed Enterprise Insider the Cybertruck driver mentioned they have been a Tesla engineer. The video exhibits the Cybertruck nonetheless has the RC (launch candidate) inscription on its driver facet door, that means the automobile is probably going a prototype present process testing.
BI was not in a position to independently verify the motive force’s identification, and Tesla did not reply to a request for remark.
Chambers mentioned there have been a number of points that would have contributed to the Cybertruck getting caught. He mentioned on Instagram that the Tesla did not have locking differentials — a mechanism that may assist enhance traction on tough terrain — “due to software issues.” He additionally mentioned the tires had not been “aired down” to enhance traction.
Whereas many used the video as a chance to poke enjoyable on the Cybertruck, Ford’s CEO wrote on X: “If you spend enough time on trails, it happens to everyone at some point.”
It isn’t the primary time the Cybertruck has been in comparison with a Ford truck. Final month, Farley posted a video of an F-150 Lightning navigating the identical hill on an off-roading path {that a} Cybertruck had appeared to battle to summit solely weeks earlier than.
“F-150 Lightning does it all,” Farley captioned the video.
Earlier this 12 months, Farley mentioned Ford does not see the Cybertruck as competitors, dubbing Elon Musk’s futuristic pickup a truck for “Silicon Valley people.”
“I don’t make trucks like that,” Farley informed CNBC in July. “I make trucks for real people who do real work, and that’s a different kind of truck.”
The F-150 Lightning was first launched in 2022 and is Ford’s first totally electrical pickup truck. In the meantime, Tesla delivered its first dozen Cybertrucks final month. The electrical-car maker continues to be within the early phases of ramping up manufacturing, with new orders for higher-end fashions anticipated to be fulfilled subsequent 12 months on the soonest, and essentially the most reasonably priced mannequin unavailable till 2025.