Thx for sharing. If someone wants to create a useful aftermarket product it should be a flush clear screen with a heating element for the headlights. Snow is quite a problem.
CT low beams look fantastic. The highs are garbage! Focusing all the light into a tiny slit is useless, unless you drive on flat straight roads all the time. They’d be far better if that light was spread out more. Who cares about maximum lux? Shine a laser at your lux meter and it will be crazy bright, and it won’t light up anything useful. I get it, you need to test something and put a number on it to fuel debate, but this is misleading as I’m sure you’re aware.
I agree. High beams are never designed like that. The up and down movement from the road will make them dance all over the place and not illuminate farther ahead consistently
We don't think this is misleading since we show the beam pattern, and not just the lux #s. We did this video to test something we were genuinely curious about - how well does such a small headlight perform? We surely didn't expect much, and the low beam was impressive for what it is. The high beam may be lack luster when it comes to overall width and coverage, but kudos to Tesla for fitting it all into something so tiny!
@@HeadlightRevolution reporting the numbers isn’t in itself misleading, but it is misleading to claim that Headlight A is X amount brighter than Headlight B based on a single point lux reading. Headlight performance is just as much about light DISTRIBUTION as it is about light intensity. A test that accurately relays how two lights compare is not likely practical, but that doesn’t mean we should rely on a simpler, less useful test.
What impressed me the most here was how evenly spread the light seemed to be of the cybertruck headlights. Was it an effect of the camera or is it that evenly spread that widely?
evenly spread doesnt mean better lol!!! the light has to concentrate on specific target! the rest is mostly pollution, with matrix LED the LED can literaly be switched on or off to controll more effciently
@@Waskapmutni that is not called testing! It's just obversing in a regular garage lol!!! If you want to see a proper real life test go watch Bjorn Nyland from Norway he's a big tesla can he has tons and tons of different videos.
@@tommyfournier3138 nope it snot! its also way less usable with that dumb shape, body on frames trucks offers single and double cab or even double cab with much longer beds too. nothing is configurable with the tesla.
Not that it's very relevant to this video, but I don't believe you're able to force the laser modules to come on in the stationary BMW. Adaptive laser should only activate during driving and under the correct ambient lighting conditions.
I might be wrong but since the highbeams on the tesla are overlapping with the lowbeam it gives a false reading. Most headlights will have a highbeam pattern that is above the lowbeam so its reading is only highbeam whereas the tesla was reading both highbeam and lowbeam. I beleive thats why it had such a high reading, it also might not be as good on the road since the highbeam is shooting too low and not as far up as you would want it. Would be interesting to see a beam shot comparison outdoors while driving.
Out of spec motors reported that when it's snowing the fog lights get completely completely covered with with snow and it gets stuck there in the gap between the bumper and the body, crazy :/
The bed isn’t as useable because it’s smaller than “normal” beds…hmmm. Interesting. Seems to me trucks can be configured with any bed size from 8’ to 4.5”. Standard bed size from the farm trucks of yesteryear was 8’, but it’s really common to see manufacturers offer a larger and more comfortable passenger compartment and a shorter bed, like 5‘- 5.5’. The bed in CT is reasonably wide, and at the bottom they eke out 6’. The truck is smaller than an F-150 and has a larger bed. Seems good enough.
Compared to the Super Duty or even Tacoma we had in the studio, this bed just seemed smaller and more compact - less utility like and more form over function. Don't get us wrong, it is a useable truck... maybe just not a big ol work truck like we're used to around here!
@@HeadlightRevolution i mean it has the biggest bed of all its EV counterparts, even the f150 lightning while being a lot shorter in length. i would say its form over function just because its shaped like that
The CT's bed is longer than on most trucks with a crew cab, but it isn't as wide above the wheel wells. Still wide enough for a sheet of plywood though. The shape is form following function. It allows structure providing more payload and also helps with aerodynamics.
big lol!!! the ford f150 offers a significantly much larger cabin for passengers and also ford offers both single and double cab which is totally impossible with the tesla.
Single LED diodes have a forward voltage of around 3V and require special driver circuits to limit current. Even if the low beam (3 diodes) or high beam (4 diodes) were wired in series, they would need roughly 9V or 12V respectively. 48V is not an advantage for LED lighting, it’s actually an efficiency disadvantage because the voltage needs to be dropped so much farther compared to a 12V system.
DC-DC converting from 48V to 3V vs 12V to 3V is not materially different in terms of efficiency. The amount of copper needed for the run to the converters is either less with 48V or the same amount with more available power. I presume brighter LEDs run with more current so with everything else equal 48V would make brighter lights possible.
@@XKS99 look up the efficiency curves of buck converters and LED drivers as input voltage varies. The greater the difference between Vin and Vout the lower the efficiency. Sometimes it’s not much, and I didn’t claim it to be, but it’s real. 48V would only make for brighter lights if 12V was incapable of providing enough power, but it’s not. 12V power is not a limiting factor for LEDs. My point was only that 48V doesn’t make for brighter LED headlights.
@@superspeeder I did a bit of research and you’re right. It’s unbelievable how efficient LEDs are. Actually using the increased available power for LED headlights would make them blindingly bright.
I could be wrong, but I'm under the impression that the Cybertruck headlights are matrix (like a lot of other new Teslas). If so, that means the high beams will be able to remain on, but individual LEDs will turn off to not blind oncoming traffic if/when they activate it via software update. Any reason you didn't mention that feature?
We know for sure that the Model Y and Model 3 have the Matrix LED headlights, IF this Cybertruck does have an adaptive LED headlight it would have to be enabled in the truck settings - we were not able to confirm or find this so it is not included.
I'm afraid you are incorrect at minute marker 3 minutes and 57 seconds you say that you would rather drive around in low beams because it has a higher output. My model s drives around in high beam all the time it switches to low beam when it detects a car and then back to high beam when there are no cars in front of it. So I am always in high beam
Tesla FSD needs lighting for the cameras at night. There must be a connection and reason for this lighting design. The cyber truck is without FSD currently but!!!
With such narrow height lights, in winter time in Canada, those lights will get blocked in no time unfortunately. And the fact that they're recessed in makes it even worse. As usual with most Teslas they are warm weather cars and not really great winter vehicles.
Not standard, not sure if that can be unlocked somewhere in the settings if they are equipped with it. This headlight is so small, it wouldn't surprise us if it doesn't have a matrix system at all. That's most commonly found in cars popular in Europe - Mercedes, BMW, etc. 🤔
What about glare? The universal reflector LED stereotype. BMW's adaptive projectors mechanically move and control the beam aim minimizing glare in oncoming cars. Cybertruck headlight glare?
The brake lights seemingly changing to amber is a terrible idea. The reverse lights have a stupidly limited viewing angle. This whole monstrosity of a “truck” looks like someone said use the cheapest, simplest design but make sure you use materials that require unnecessarily expensive manufacturing process. Then incentivized with bonus points for shortcuts in quality and $1M prize to make it look like a cheap plywood movie prop from a low budget 1970’s sci-fi flick.
Your comments betray a reprehensibly diminished sense of acuity and general lack of awareness of design implemantation. Your capacity for grasping even the most rudimentary facts is utterly deplorable. You must have been an incredible disappointment to your progenitors😢
there is a reason why body on frame construction will never be equaled like ever! with body on frame you can literaly configure everything, and you can see it with Ford trucks beeing made into dump trucks, ambulance, crane or utility vehicle, bus, RV......
Being extra bright does not mean much when it is all concentrated in a small, low area. The other lights you showed will definitely cast farther being aimed higher.
I never loved the way those reverse lights are recessed into the bumper. That blocks like from shining out the sides while backing up. If Tesla would combine their tech with the attention to detail BMW utilizes they would be unstoppable...or should I say more unstoppable? 😅
To be fair some aftermarket lighting has disclaimers stating, "For off road use only"!
The laser high beams on the BMW don't come on unless you're doing >~70km/h. So the high beam you showed is without lasers.
Was that a BMW or Tesla in the video? 😂😂😂😂
Wicked fine report from a Boston boy. No body else uses that term but Pilgrims.
Thx for sharing. If someone wants to create a useful aftermarket product it should be a flush clear screen with a heating element for the headlights. Snow is quite a problem.
Great video, just one thing to note 9:58 the bed on the CT is actually slightly larger than an F150 or GM it is 6 feet as opposed to roughly 5.5
Been waiting for this!
CT low beams look fantastic. The highs are garbage! Focusing all the light into a tiny slit is useless, unless you drive on flat straight roads all the time. They’d be far better if that light was spread out more.
Who cares about maximum lux? Shine a laser at your lux meter and it will be crazy bright, and it won’t light up anything useful.
I get it, you need to test something and put a number on it to fuel debate, but this is misleading as I’m sure you’re aware.
Ha ha. Precisely the opposite to the review.😂
I agree. High beams are never designed like that. The up and down movement from the road will make them dance all over the place and not illuminate farther ahead consistently
@@thejoseandresshow exactly. Now imagine how useful they would be off-road! 😂
We don't think this is misleading since we show the beam pattern, and not just the lux #s. We did this video to test something we were genuinely curious about - how well does such a small headlight perform? We surely didn't expect much, and the low beam was impressive for what it is. The high beam may be lack luster when it comes to overall width and coverage, but kudos to Tesla for fitting it all into something so tiny!
@@HeadlightRevolution reporting the numbers isn’t in itself misleading, but it is misleading to claim that Headlight A is X amount brighter than Headlight B based on a single point lux reading.
Headlight performance is just as much about light DISTRIBUTION as it is about light intensity. A test that accurately relays how two lights compare is not likely practical, but that doesn’t mean we should rely on a simpler, less useful test.
What impressed me the most here was how evenly spread the light seemed to be of the cybertruck headlights. Was it an effect of the camera or is it that evenly spread that widely?
They were very evenly spread, we were impressed!
evenly spread doesnt mean better lol!!! the light has to concentrate on specific target! the rest is mostly pollution, with matrix LED the LED can literaly be switched on or off to controll more effciently
@@alanmay7929 yeah I think I'm gonna go with the word of those that do this for a living and have tested how good they are🙂
@@Waskapmutni that is not called testing! It's just obversing in a regular garage lol!!! If you want to see a proper real life test go watch Bjorn Nyland from Norway he's a big tesla can he has tons and tons of different videos.
@@Waskapmutni believe what you want but that's not a test!
@8:50 I believe the noise on Tesla’s were forced by laws/rules my first Tesla had none and my newer Tesla has it.
@10:00 The Cybertruck bed is bigger then the average trucks with a bed of 72.8” deep and 51” wide that’s over 6ft deep without the tailgate open.
To confirm, yes all PHEV and EVs have to have some noise emitter under 19.5 mph required by the NHTSA
@@tommyfournier3138 nope it snot! its also way less usable with that dumb shape, body on frames trucks offers single and double cab or even double cab with much longer beds too. nothing is configurable with the tesla.
By far the best full headlight review on the CT. Give us more! CT lighting upgrades?
Maybe in the future!! 👀
Those headlights are pointless when snow is covering the ledge covering up the lights.
Definitely see how that could be a problem!
Look up the Rivian headlights in snow….same problem
Hmm.. got me wondering about cybertruck headlight retrofits now.. lol
I helped build the headlights, and I'm proud to be a part of auto history
Congratulations for your work! Keep it up.
Thank you! Will do!
Not that it's very relevant to this video, but I don't believe you're able to force the laser modules to come on in the stationary BMW. Adaptive laser should only activate during driving and under the correct ambient lighting conditions.
I might be wrong but since the highbeams on the tesla are overlapping with the lowbeam it gives a false reading. Most headlights will have a highbeam pattern that is above the lowbeam so its reading is only highbeam whereas the tesla was reading both highbeam and lowbeam. I beleive thats why it had such a high reading, it also might not be as good on the road since the highbeam is shooting too low and not as far up as you would want it. Would be interesting to see a beam shot comparison outdoors while driving.
Excellent comparison and review, thank you for taking the time to post.
Thanks for watching!
Out of spec motors reported that when it's snowing the fog lights get completely completely covered with with snow and it gets stuck there in the gap between the bumper and the body, crazy :/
The cybertruck doesn’t have fog lights expert
yah lotta modern leds on new cars dont heat up enough to melt. i have to wipe my headlights on my s at times
Neat review. I am very impressed by the headlights. You guys should tear them apart and analyze ^_^
please do 2024 Ranger Raptor, it has a very impressive lights
Will the Tesla Cybertruck headlights work in heavy snowfall? I think the snow will stack onto the top of the bumper and block the beams.
That's what a lot of others have been saying, we might have to wait for Winter to get our answers!
The bed isn’t as useable because it’s smaller than “normal” beds…hmmm. Interesting. Seems to me trucks can be configured with any bed size from 8’ to 4.5”. Standard bed size from the farm trucks of yesteryear was 8’, but it’s really common to see manufacturers offer a larger and more comfortable passenger compartment and a shorter bed, like 5‘- 5.5’. The bed in CT is reasonably wide, and at the bottom they eke out 6’. The truck is smaller than an F-150 and has a larger bed. Seems good enough.
Compared to the Super Duty or even Tacoma we had in the studio, this bed just seemed smaller and more compact - less utility like and more form over function. Don't get us wrong, it is a useable truck... maybe just not a big ol work truck like we're used to around here!
@@HeadlightRevolution i mean it has the biggest bed of all its EV counterparts, even the f150 lightning while being a lot shorter in length. i would say its form over function just because its shaped like that
The CT's bed is longer than on most trucks with a crew cab, but it isn't as wide above the wheel wells. Still wide enough for a sheet of plywood though.
The shape is form following function. It allows structure providing more payload and also helps with aerodynamics.
big lol!!! the ford f150 offers a significantly much larger cabin for passengers and also ford offers both single and double cab which is totally impossible with the tesla.
Great detailed review of the Cybertruck lightning. I wonder if the exterior lights are 48V which would explain why they are so bright.
Single LED diodes have a forward voltage of around 3V and require special driver circuits to limit current. Even if the low beam (3 diodes) or high beam (4 diodes) were wired in series, they would need roughly 9V or 12V respectively.
48V is not an advantage for LED lighting, it’s actually an efficiency disadvantage because the voltage needs to be dropped so much farther compared to a 12V system.
DC-DC converting from 48V to 3V vs 12V to 3V is not materially different in terms of efficiency. The amount of copper needed for the run to the converters is either less with 48V or the same amount with more available power. I presume brighter LEDs run with more current so with everything else equal 48V would make brighter lights possible.
@@XKS99 look up the efficiency curves of buck converters and LED drivers as input voltage varies. The greater the difference between Vin and Vout the lower the efficiency. Sometimes it’s not much, and I didn’t claim it to be, but it’s real.
48V would only make for brighter lights if 12V was incapable of providing enough power, but it’s not. 12V power is not a limiting factor for LEDs. My point was only that 48V doesn’t make for brighter LED headlights.
@@superspeeder I did a bit of research and you’re right. It’s unbelievable how efficient LEDs are. Actually using the increased available power for LED headlights would make them blindingly bright.
@@XKS99 yessir, I imagine regulations are the limiting factor, not power output! 🍻
Thanks for the fair comparison
I can imagine snow stuck in the headlight area. Have to clean it out before you drive
I like this type of review, I hope in the future, you guys could review more vehicle’s factory headlights against other cars
I agree. I would love to see HR cover all the EVs.
I added adaptive wide angle fog lights on my model 3 and its amazing
Why do the bmw laser lights look yellow or very dim?
Warmer lighting color, it's not as blue as the Tesla headlights.
Hey, any chance y'all could do a test and review on the new Harbor Freight Roadshock Edge lights?
We can definitely add it to the list, so that's a maybe for now!
I could be wrong, but I'm under the impression that the Cybertruck headlights are matrix (like a lot of other new Teslas). If so, that means the high beams will be able to remain on, but individual LEDs will turn off to not blind oncoming traffic if/when they activate it via software update. Any reason you didn't mention that feature?
We know for sure that the Model Y and Model 3 have the Matrix LED headlights, IF this Cybertruck does have an adaptive LED headlight it would have to be enabled in the truck settings - we were not able to confirm or find this so it is not included.
The center mounted brake light may have to be separate by law.
I'm afraid you are incorrect at minute marker 3 minutes and 57 seconds you say that you would rather drive around in low beams because it has a higher output. My model s drives around in high beam all the time it switches to low beam when it detects a car and then back to high beam when there are no cars in front of it. So I am always in high beam
Thats for the Model Y and Model 3, we imagine the Cybertruck may get the same adaptive LED system in the future but it's not available right now.
Snow or debrion the bumper will block the light
Some people don't care about EV, or FSD, they just prefer to drive .......
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Tesla FSD needs lighting for the cameras at night. There must be a connection and reason for this lighting design. The cyber truck is without FSD currently but!!!
With such narrow height lights, in winter time in Canada, those lights will get blocked in no time unfortunately. And the fact that they're recessed in makes it even worse. As usual with most Teslas they are warm weather cars and not really great winter vehicles.
Just don't get any snow on them. Make sure you drive when it's not snowing. 😅
Tell that to Rivian
@@InSaN3ViSioN Headlights on my Rivian are doing perfectly fine in the snow. Also performance on the snow in my R1T is the insane with a quad motor.
Are they legally high enough? They seem so low and susceptible to being dirty more than a higher headlamp.
These would have to be approved by the DOT, whether they were aimed correctly from factory is a different question
Are they matrix led headlights?
Not standard, not sure if that can be unlocked somewhere in the settings if they are equipped with it. This headlight is so small, it wouldn't surprise us if it doesn't have a matrix system at all. That's most commonly found in cars popular in Europe - Mercedes, BMW, etc. 🤔
@@HeadlightRevolution gotcha, thanks for the response and the excellent video
@@HeadlightRevolution matrix LED are actually super compact and can fit in really tight packaging.
So the cybertruck doesn't have the new matrix lights? 😭
😔😔
What about glare? The universal reflector LED stereotype. BMW's adaptive projectors mechanically move and control the beam aim minimizing glare in oncoming cars. Cybertruck headlight glare?
Very minimal glare especially with them being placed so low on the bumper, we thought the cut-off was very impressive for a headlight this size.
@@HeadlightRevolution I can understand that. The low mounting minimizes glare.
Tesla can get away with these small headlights because the entire car is one big stainless heatsink.
What about license plates lights it’s the law
That's a question for Tesla 👀
😍😍
Great, when people don’t turn their high beams off you can be completely blinded.
I think that would be a common issue for anyone who drives with their high beams on, not just the Cybertruck
@@HeadlightRevolution the cyber truck being the brightest makes it worse.
I like the noise my Tesla makes when backing up.
Can’t wait for the matrix headlights to be unlocked for the Cybertruck in a future software
Is that confirmed anywhere that they have the ability?
thank god back lights are not blinding like in some other vehicles
The brake lights seemingly changing to amber is a terrible idea. The reverse lights have a stupidly limited viewing angle. This whole monstrosity of a “truck” looks like someone said use the cheapest, simplest design but make sure you use materials that require unnecessarily expensive manufacturing process. Then incentivized with bonus points for shortcuts in quality and $1M prize to make it look like a cheap plywood movie prop from a low budget 1970’s sci-fi flick.
Your comments betray a reprehensibly diminished sense of acuity and general lack of awareness of design implemantation. Your capacity for grasping even the most rudimentary facts is utterly deplorable. You must have been an incredible disappointment to your progenitors😢
Drive this in light snow and they are useless. Just like every other tesla, the CT is form over function.
there is a reason why body on frame construction will never be equaled like ever! with body on frame you can literaly configure everything, and you can see it with Ford trucks beeing made into dump trucks, ambulance, crane or utility vehicle, bus, RV......
Being extra bright does not mean much when it is all concentrated in a small, low area. The other lights you showed will definitely cast farther being aimed higher.
I never loved the way those reverse lights are recessed into the bumper. That blocks like from shining out the sides while backing up. If Tesla would combine their tech with the attention to detail BMW utilizes they would be unstoppable...or should I say more unstoppable? 😅
lol!!!! the BMW lights just like in Europe offers even more functionalities at higher or lower speeds, not just when standing still.
Seems to me you didn’t want to like the lights and expected poor performance but you got schooled by superior technology
There's a difference between not liking something, and being curious about something 😉
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