Recently, a number of popular EV guys from YouTube took a trip across the United States in four electric trucks to see whose truck would get across the South and Southwest first.
The Cybertruck, of course, would rely on Tesla’s Superchargers. The F-150 Lightning was able to play on either team, either natively at Electrify America or at Superchargers via an adapter. But, at the time of the race, the Rivian and the Chevy Silverado EV were stuck with CCS networks only.
Not long into the video, they introduce the trucks. The Silverado is a Hertz rental, and it has about 180 kWh of useable battery pack. It has dual motors , a range of almost 400 miles, 350 kW, and on a fairly flat charging curve. The battery was so big that the hotel’s Level 2 wasn’t able to top it up overnight! So, they needed to take it to a nearby L3 station to get it up to 100% like all of the others.
The last one is the Tesla Cybertruck. It has 123-124 useable kWh of storage. Like the F150, it can use just about any charger you get it up to, with the exception of the Rivian Adventure Network, but the vehicle doesn’t yet support the CCS charging adapter. So it’s stuck with only Supercharger for this race, but it has access to V2 supercharger locations in places where the Ford will need to use Electrify America or another network. It’s the second fastest peak speed truck.
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