Cybertruck has no Parking Pawl in its Tranmission. Lightning does.

[RickKeen]

Learned on the CT forum that it doesn't have an actual mechanical parking mechanism in its transmission. Turns out this is important for parking on hills with big trailers.

Ford got another pickup truck thing right and Tesla skipped it.

In the Munro video where they tear down the Lightning motor/axle/differential, they make a big deal about how Ford told them a true parking pawl is needed when parking on hills with a heavy trailer.

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[Heliian]

Turns out this is important for parking on hills with big trailers.

Hmmm, this is kind of a fallacy.

You should never rely on the transmission to hold a vehicle on a hill. It's an added layer of safety but proper wheel angle, parking brake and chocks should be used, especially with a heavy trailer.

 

[MountainAlive]

This is interesting thanks for sharing. I know we’re all hard on Ford for the software aspects but the engineering behind the Lightning and the motors they built are truly impressive.

 

[Firn]

Yeah, this seems backwards. A solid setting of the parking brake is always the recomended approach to parking on a hill, especially with a trailer. The little lock when shifting into park was always just a quick and easy convenience thing, not a heavy load thing.

 

[Shawnson]

Put on your parking brake anyways.

 

[Maybe Going EV]

I've never cared too much what a vehicle looks like.
That being said, I wouldn't buy a cyber truck, because while looks aren't overly important, it is so horribly ugly, that I couldn't. Parking dog, or 20 of them, how does anyone get past that look.

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