No, Tesla Cybertruck Is *Not* Faster Than Porsche (While Towing)

Summary by Krater

An engineer analyzes Tesla's Cybertruck versus Porsche 911 drag race video and concludes that the Cybertruck cannot tow a Porsche 911 across the quarter mile faster than a 911 can go by itself, because the video actually shows the race ending at the eighth mile.

From the video

Answers: Did the Tesla Cybertruck really tow a Porsche 911 across the quarter mile faster than the 911 could go by itself?

• Cybertruck vs Porsche 911 drag race analysis
• quarter mile vs eighth mile drag racing metrics
• video frame rate analysis for vehicle speed calculation

What it concludes

• The Cybertruck drag race video showed the vehicles finishing at the eighth mile mark rather than the quarter mile mark.
• Stock-to-stock, the Cybertruck top speed is 130 miles per hour while the Porsche 911 top speed is 181 miles per hour, making it impossible for the Cybertruck to be faster in higher top speeds.
• Using video frame analysis, the Cybertruck towing a Porsche 911 completed the eighth mile in 8.25 seconds at approximately 88 miles per hour.
• Under best-case assumptions, a Cybertruck towing a Porsche 911 would complete the quarter mile in approximately 12.3 seconds, which is slower than a base Porsche 911's 12.2-second quarter mile time.
• A realistic calculation placing the Cybertruck towing time at approximately 12.84 seconds confirms it cannot beat the slowest current-generation Porsche 911 in the quarter mile.