Ever because it was revealed nearly 5 years in the past, the Tesla Cybertruck has been touted as being one of many most secure autos on the street, with the corporate’s CEO, Elon Musk, saying at one level that Tesla is “extremely assured” that the angular electrical truck shall be “a lot safer per mile than different vehicles, each for occupants and pedestrians.”
However whichever approach you take a look at issues–both as a Tesla fan or in any other case–the actual fact is that accidents occur. Within the case of Cybertruck featured within the BoostedBoiz video embedded on the high of this web page, it protected its driver from being injured in a facet influence. The EV additionally grew to become the right candidate for a do-it-yourself restore undertaking on YouTube, probably the primary recorded on digicam. So get in and benefit from the trip.
Tinkering is not useless. It is simply totally different
Should you’re into vehicles, you recognize that YouTube hosts a whole bunch, if not 1000’s of channels the place residence mechanics put wrecked vehicles again on the street or modify them to make them sooner, extra comfy or simply for the enjoyable of it. Within the age of EVs, the identical might be finished. Wealthy Rebuilds kicked off the revolution and now channels like BoostedBoiz are proving as soon as once more that EVs, too, might be repaired at residence.
You would possibly bear in mind from earlier posts right here on InsideEVs that the BoostedBoiz YouTube channel isn’t at its first EV rodeo–the blokes who run the channel introduced us the delightfully insane Plaidessey, a crusty outdated Honda Odyssey physique caught on high of a Tesla Mannequin S Plaid chassis.
In different phrases, they know a factor or two about messing round with EVs in the identical approach conventional tinkerers toil for hours of their garages attempting to make stuff work.
The primary order of enterprise was to see what was truly mistaken with the crashed Cybertruck. A fast inspection revealed that each doorways on the correct have been broken within the crash, in addition to some gentle harm on the B-pillar, sill and door hinge mounts.
However the greatest difficulty was that the automotive wouldn’t transfer below its personal energy. A fast look on the service display indicated that the pyro fuses had gone off in the course of the influence, stopping energy from the high-voltage battery from going wherever.
Curiously sufficient, the service handbook for the Cybertruck is already obtainable at no cost on-line–though some restore procedures are nonetheless marked as drafts–so the steps wanted to switch the elements weren’t only a shot at nighttime.
A number of the harm on the Tesla Cybertruck (Supply: BoostedBoiz / YouTube)
So, after disconnecting the 48-volt system and putting in the brand new pyro fuses subsequent to the battery pack, issues ought to have gone again to regular. However they didn’t. A somewhat regarding clicking noise may very well be heard from below the automotive, which led the DIY-ers to assume that there could be a problem with the mid-voltage system.
Lo and behold, they have been proper. After a fast use of a multimeter, the 48V battery was studying only a smidge over 2V. In different phrases, useless. After sourcing a brand new $400 unit from a neighborhood Tesla retailer, the automotive was lastly alive and will transfer below its personal energy and with none bizarre noises.
Nevertheless, the middle display was lit shiny pink and was throwing all kinds of warning messages, and the automotive wouldn’t drive sooner than 4 miles per hour, that means that there was nonetheless one thing mistaken. Nonetheless, the Cybertruck went from being useless weight to driving, so we’d name that progress. We’re curious to see what occurs subsequent, notably relating to sourcing spare components–Tesla’s truck continues to be comparatively new available on the market and spare components could be again ordered for months.
