> As long as both vehicles have sufficiently powerful engines, the more massive one will win. I know they're trying to write an accessible article here and the

> As long as both vehicles have sufficiently powerful engines, the more massive one will win. I know they're trying to write an accessible article here and they probably realize this, but that is a simplified version of the physics. So just to be clear, since the vehicle has 4 wheels, and the force due to gravity (proportional to mass) is distributed among them, you need to individually analyze the situation for each of the wheels. You can't treat the vehicle as a single unit. Things are going to fall apart when the first one of the drive wheels loses traction. (From there, things get strictly worse because the other drive wheels take on more of the burden.) So that means you need to consider the normal force on each wheel. And you need to consider the power delivered to each drive wheel and the control systems that achieve this. It's entirely possible the Cybertruck has an advantage here because electric motors might very well allow more precise and faster control of power applied than you can achieve in an ICE vehicle. (I'm not a car expert but I believe ICE vehicles apply brakes if the force gets too much because that allows better, faster control than varying the throttle. So that's an improvement, but I doubt it gives control as good as an electric motor.) TLDR: Mass matters, but so does weight distribution and so does the quality of traction control. All of these could be factors which differ between F-150 and Cybertruck.