---
title: "Watch a Tesla Model X Pull a Semi Truck Through Snow"
description: "The Model X may be one of the safest SUVs around, but a recent video posted to Facebook shows they're pretty strong too."
date: "2018-01-06"
modified: "2018-01-06"
authors:
  - name: "Kyree Leary"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kyree"
url: "https://futurism.com/tesla-model-x-semi-truck-snow"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Tesla"
tags:
  - "electric vehicles"
  - "Model X"
  - "snow"
  - "tesla"
---

# Watch a Tesla Model X Pull a Semi Truck Through Snow

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## Dashing Through the Snow

It can sometimes be difficult to detail the capabilities of a vehicle beyond its range, top speed, and — when it comes to electric vehicles — their battery capacity and charge time. Of course, there are some things we just inherently know to be true, like how SUVs are better suited for carrying more people/objects, and all-wheel drive is one's best friend when driving in less-than-ideal terrain such a snow.

Snow was the challenge to overcome in a video posted to Facebook last week, in which a Tesla Model X manages to free up a stuck semi truck in Raleigh, North Carolina. Given [the amount of snow](<https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/millions-face-snow-travel-chaos-bomb-cyclone-bears-down-northeast-n834521>) the east coast was recently hit with, this probably won't be the last time a vehicle is hindered by snow.

The video, posted by Facebook user Kyle Conner, shows his friend Ben Spreen pulling the aforementioned semi truck up a hill to an area where it can get better traction. While the Model X itself is still sliding from side to side, it's clear that the SUV is able to perform far better than the massive semi behind it.

## Take It to the Limit

In a comment on Facebook, Spreen said the Model X was more than ready for the task: "No power limited at all. That really wasn’t hard on the car. I’ve driven it much harder without heat-soaking.”

A description written beneath the video pokes fun at the Model X's towing limit of 5,000 lbs, and as *[Electrek ](<https://electrek.co/2018/01/04/tesla-model-x-all-electric-tow-semi-truck-snow/>)*[noted](<https://electrek.co/2018/01/04/tesla-model-x-all-electric-tow-semi-truck-snow/>) the semi's weight should be well above the SUV's towing capacity. While the video doesn't show the end of the endeavor, Conner claims the Model X did make it up the hill.

We suppose [Tesla could point to videos like these](<https://www.inverse.com/article/39943-elon-musk-shares-incredible-video-of-tesla-model-x-pulling-a-truck-in-snow>) to show just how capable their SUVs are, and how well they handle in the snow. As of June 2017, the Model X was [the safest SUV on the market](<https://futurism.com/its-official-teslas-model-x-is-the-safest-suv-on-the-market-with-5-stars-in-every-category>), but "strong enough to pull a semi through the snow" is a much better selling point. Even for those who aren't facing inclement winter weather challenges, the SUV still has appeal: Tesla [dropped the price of the Model X](<https://futurism.com/tesla-just-cut-the-cost-of-the-model-x-by-thousands-of-dollars>) last year.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://x.com/KyreeLeary>)