Two Cybertrucks Drove from Florida to the Arctic Circle and It Looks Like a Nightmare

A radical of friends successful 2 antithetic Cybertrucks are presently driving the electrical vehicles done the Arctic Circle. The program is for the trucks to airy retired from Dawson City, Yukon done the Northwest Territories to spot the Arctic Ocean and backmost again. What’s wilder is that the radical started the travel successful Florida and has driven the Cybertrucks crossed some the U.S. and Canada.

The radical has, of course, been posting the full acquisition crossed aggregate societal media platforms and sharing updates arsenic the EV chargers dwindle and the upwind gets colder.

For those asking, here’s the situation…Point A is the commencement of the Trek pic.twitter.com/vdCwUBtkhr

— Bearded Tesla (@BeardedTesla) August 26, 2024

The radical acceptable up a website chronicling the journey, dubbed the Arctic CyberTrek and is selling T-shirts and stickers to commemorate and money the adventure. Their videos are a fascinating travel done North America’s fledgling EV charging infrastructure. They besides look similar a nightmare.

The squad consists of Justin Demaree, known arsenic the Bearded Tesla Guy, Tesla influencer mates Rafael Santoni and his spouse Nancy, and Tesla capitalist Gary Mark. “I person been readying this for 2 years. What we’re astir to bash is going to marque immoderate history. We’re going to assistance combat the [Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt] and we’re going to amusement what electrical vehicles tin bash today,” Demaree said successful a station connected X astatine the opening of the journey.

Demaree’s video output is peculiarly absorbing due to the fact that helium tends to movie a video each clip helium stops astatine a charger. His circumstantial chronicle is 1 that, to me, makes it evident however overmuch of a symptom successful the ass it is to traverse agelong distances successful an electrical vehicle. He’s stopping astir each 2 to 3 hours to drawback a complaint and the charging times and processes alteration wide from halt to stop.

Tesla’s proprietary superchargers are the perfect mode to complaint up for this journey, but they aren’t ever available. And beyond a definite constituent successful the north, they’re gone entirely.

Last Tesla Supercharger of the trip! It’s each roulette from here! pic.twitter.com/UGmhV8w1Tq

— Bearded Tesla (@BeardedTesla) August 27, 2024

“Welcome to Prince George, the past Tesla supercharger connected this trip. Everything from present is nationalist chargers similar the FLO Network so, fingers crossed, everything goes good aft this,” Demaree said successful an August 27 video.

It did not spell well.

The “no Tesla Superchargers” saga continues present successful the Arctic northbound 🤦‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/J7aAPNI0w3

— Bearded Tesla (@BeardedTesla) August 29, 2024

“I americium astatine the lone charger wrong 150 miles,” helium said successful a video the adjacent time aft he’d reached the Yukon. “And um, up here, they person 1 stall. Just one. And that 1 stall is being utilized and I person 3%. So. I conscionable gotta beryllium present and hold and anticipation that helium finishes soon. I don’t adjacent cognize wherever the feline is at.”

Nancy and Rafael aren’t faring overmuch better. In an August 27 video from British Columbia, helium walked viewers done the nightmare of charging the Cybertruck astatine a non-Tesla station. He shivered, complained astir the cold, and had occupation getting the motortruck to adjacent judge a charge.

“It’s yet charging after…five tries successful 3 antithetic stalls,” helium said astatine the extremity of the video. “Oof, it’s cold.”

Third halt successful BC. The chargers with CCS are a deterrent towards the modulation to electrical vehicles.

They’re bulky, dense and fractional of the times fail. Not a large acquisition adjacent erstwhile it works the archetypal time.

Come articulation maine for a abbreviated laugh. pic.twitter.com/6KwxufD3aB

— TesLatino (@TesLatino) August 27, 2024

Despite the problems, the groups look blessed successful their videos. They’re connected an escapade with friends. Rafael’s astir caller video station is simply a 9-hour livestream of the radical cruising down the Alaska Highway.

They halt astir each 2 hours to complaint up again. An hr and 30 minutes into the Alaska Highway video the radical pulled disconnected to complaint some trucks. There was lone 1 plug truthful they decided to daisy concatenation the trucks unneurotic and spot if they could complaint some astatine the aforesaid time.

It worked.

“What we’re doing close present is we’re charging my motortruck from the CCS charger here…and my truck’s 14-50 plug is being utilized to complaint Justin’s truck. We’re fundamentally daisy chaining charges,” Rafael said.

“You’ll beryllium done successful an hr and a half, I’ll beryllium done successful 14 hours,” Demaree said. He and Rafael laughed and Rafael promised to fto Demaree plug his Cybertruck successful archetypal astatine the adjacent stop.