Tesla has confirmed it has given up on plans to make a Cybertruck range extender to achieve the range it originally promised on the electric pickup truck.
It started refunding deposits for the $16,000 extra battery pack.
When Tesla unveiled the production version of the Cybertruck in late 2023, two main disappointments were the price and the range.
The tri-motor version, the most popular in reservation tallies before production, was supposed to have over 500 miles of range and start at $70,000.
Tesla now sells the tri-motor Cybertruck for $100,000 and only has a range of 320 miles.
The dual-motor Cybertruck was supposed to cost $50,000 and have over 300 miles of range. In reality, it starts at $80,000 and has 325 miles of range.
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So, the cheaper model with two motors (why even) has a larger range than the full price model with three motors™®?
LMAO.
I mean that’s fairly standard with EVs in general.
3 motors use more power than 2, so less range is expected. A car with 2 engines would use more petrol than a car with only 1.
To have mechanically independent FWD and RWD, this is actually pretty standard for all AWD BEVs and not just Tesla.
That’s how the Mach E GT does it. Same motor, Ford just puts an extra one at the front.
I have 0 knowledge about those things but now I want to know if you can forward and backward at the same time?
Theoretically yes, but the software would obviously not allow that.
No ofc not. RWD and FWD and AWD are all different things and are all used in different vehicles because of the various benefits and trade-offs
Makes sense to me. The cheaper Camry with a 4 cylinder gets better mileage than the more expensive 6 cylinder.
It’s probably more about faster acceleration. With all that battery weight, the dual motor model has to be sluggish.