Switched to Hankook Ion HT 275/65/20 on Cyberwheels to try & boost efficiency

[Granch]

New here to the group cyberbeast FS owner since oct 24, CB came with newly installed LTX Defender Platinum, I got DT tire certs right away, factory lightbar only mod.

First Trip Phoenix to Houston 1100miles was not great 10 stops 550wh/mi 21 22hrs brutal with wheel covers vs. Ice 21 F-150 FX4 EB Plat.

A few short trips 1hr+around TX still avg 550 no changed with wheel covers off increased psi to 55.

Trip to Denver + 1100 miles bumped psi to 60-65PSI with the defender LTX, 100% from W Houston I only got 200miles to Hillsbor, TX 3% soc left 55-75mph.

Kind of disappointed with that 200miles, based on learning we just tried to push the truck to low soc to get max range, we did better this trip but still brutal vs. ice.

I started reading the club & grok to figure out what might be normal for CB & met another CB owner here from Austin in Colorad his avg on oem AT was 456wh/mi, the best from FL 380’swh/mi corewheels.

This got me thinking could the defender LTX Platinum at 65Lbs each be affecting my efficiency, the oem scorpions are 45Lbs each, the oem GY AT 55LB. I’d be really happy with 450wh/mi or less.

I had bought the tire certs from Discount tire, called them up and asked for help! Discount was pretty awesome. The first store shut me down, second store was awesome Zach the manager hooked me up and helped. Credit for the Defender LTX P Tire, refund certs and installed the new Hankooks.

Defender LTX Platinum I believe is an awesome tire, just heavy but my understanding possibly same efficiency or better then oem GY AT, at 60+ PSI the ride is harsh over lower PSI and vs. scorpions and ion HT. I had tried to increase PSI to improve efficiency on the LTX did not notice anything significan.

I’m a few days into the Hankook Ion HT ownership, and mountain pass driving so too soon to tell if this tire improved my efficiency, handling so far is good. These Hankook Ion HT tires come with 100day refund so figure why not and test.

I have also started logging data with tezlab to try and better compare and understand efficiency.

99% of our driving will be on road vs. off road and dirt, so I went for efficiency over style and off road, I know this tire is not for everyone.

update 05/8/2026
Tires still happy with them and think I have boosted my efficiency by 20%.

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[Outdoors]

Kind of disappointed with that 200miles, based on learning we just tried to push the truck to low soc to get max range, we did better this trip but still brutal vs. ice.

This got me thinking could the defender LTX Platinum at 65Lbs each be affecting my efficiency

If the truck continues to have poor efficiency I guess Tesla service can try and figure out if there is another issue going.

Welcome.

I would guess the temperature and use of climate control would be a major factor in your recent experience for efficiency. Or lack there of. @44k in miles on mine. I would say speed, outside temp, climate control, then tires.

Sure some can go to extremes on tires. Crazy off-road, or very efficient. Yet those other factors I mentioned make more of an impact for me over those miles than tires. I have used 3 different sets so far.

 

[JimBuck333]

The FS CB with an efficient tire and wheel configuration should have an original range of 320 miles I believe, and with the 122.7 kWh battery you can calculate that you should be using 384 Wh/mi, but in real world driving (highway and local), my own experience shows that you need to discount the efficiency by 6.4%*, so you should be seeing only about 411 Wh/mi in routine conditions. So the issue seems to be real...

* Our FS CT was sitting right at 384.9 Wh/mi at 25,000 miles, rather than the 359.7 Wh/mi implied by the original 122.7kWh battery capacity and 340 mile range. So the real world in our case is 6.4% below what could be expected theoretically, which I assume would be true of a CB's specs too...

 

[SlegMD]

Let us know how they work out!

 

[petercyber]

Totally understandable but they are even a more extreme version of the OEM pizza cutters, have you seen how the truck look when you rise it up? It looks like an old squeezed grandma butt.

 

[cattledog]

Hey maybe some people are into grandma butts

 

[TyPope]

The FS CB with an efficient tire and wheel configuration should have an original range of 320 miles I believe, and with the 122.7 kWh battery you can calculate that you should be using 384 Wh/mi, but in real world driving (highway and local), my own experience shows that you need to discount the efficiency by 6.4%*, so you should be seeing only about 411 Wh/mi in routine conditions. So the issue seems to be real...

* Our FS CT was sitting right at 384.9 Wh/mi at 25,000 miles, rather than the 359.7 Wh/mi implied by the original 122.7kWh battery capacity and 340 mile range. So the real world in our case is 6.4% below what could be expected theoretically, which I assume would be true of a CB's specs too...

Mine is also sitting right at 385 Wh/mi at 32,000 miles. FS Beast on the original AT Tires still.

 

[Granch]

600 mile update sitting at 410wh/mi so definitely improvement, 400 miles of that was highway with 25% dirt road, mountain pass.
i’ll have more data after another week or so after 1100mile highway.
Super happy so far with the hankook ion ht over them heavy LTX.

 

[CBMW6674]

New here to the group cyberbeast FS owner since oct 24, CB came with newly installed LTX Defender Platinum, I got DT tire certs right away, factory lightbar only mod.

First Trip Phoenix to Houston 1100miles was not great 10 stops 550wh/mi 21 22hrs brutal with wheel covers vs. Ice 21 F-150 FX4 EB Plat.

A few short trips 1hr+around TX still avg 550 no changed with wheel covers off increased psi to 55.

Trip to Denver + 1100 miles bumped psi to 60-65PSI with the defender LTX, 100% from W Houston I only got 200miles to Hillsbor, TX 3% soc left 55-75mph.

Kind of disappointed with that 200miles, based on learning we just tried to push the truck to low soc to get max range, we did better this trip but still brutal vs. ice.

I started reading the club & grok to figure out what might be normal for CB & met another CB owner here from Austin in Colorad his avg on oem AT was 456wh/mi, the best from FL 380’swh/mi corewheels.

This got me thinking could the defender LTX Platinum at 65Lbs each be affecting my efficiency, the oem scorpions are 45Lbs each, the oem GY AT 55LB. I’d be really happy with 450wh/mi or less.

I had bought the tire certs from Discount tire, called them up and asked for help! Discount was pretty awesome. The first store shut me down, second store was awesome Zach the manager hooked me up and helped. Credit for the Defender LTX P Tire, refund certs and installed the new Hankooks.

Defender LTX Platinum I believe is an awesome tire, just heavy but my understanding possibly same efficiency or better then oem GY AT, at 60+ PSI the ride is harsh over lower PSI and vs. scorpions and ion HT. I had tried to increase PSI to improve efficiency on the LTX did not notice anything significan.

I’m a few days into the Hankook Ion HT ownership, and mountain pass driving so too soon to tell if this tire improved my efficiency, handling so far is good. These Hankook Ion HT tires come with 100day refund so figure why not and test.

I have also started logging data with tezlab to try and better compare and understand efficiency.

99% of our driving will be on road vs. off road and dirt, so I went for efficiency over style and off road, I know this tire is not for everyone.

If the truck continues to have poor efficiency I guess Tesla service can try and figure out if there is another issue going.

Are you still happy with these tires? I use my truck for work and put about 27k miles a year on it and looking for something I don’t have to replace each year. What did you pay for them?

 

[Granch]

Are you still happy with these tires? I use my truck for work and put about 27k miles a year on it and looking for something I don’t have to replace each year. What did you pay for them?

I think they were $250 or something each pre war.
Very happy have not took them off.

 

[RayzorBEV]

New here to the group cyberbeast FS owner since oct 24, CB came with newly installed LTX Defender Platinum, I got DT tire certs right away, factory lightbar only mod.

First Trip Phoenix to Houston 1100miles was not great 10 stops 550wh/mi 21 22hrs brutal with wheel covers vs. Ice 21 F-150 FX4 EB Plat.

A few short trips 1hr+around TX still avg 550 no changed with wheel covers off increased psi to 55.

Trip to Denver + 1100 miles bumped psi to 60-65PSI with the defender LTX, 100% from W Houston I only got 200miles to Hillsbor, TX 3% soc left 55-75mph.

Kind of disappointed with that 200miles, based on learning we just tried to push the truck to low soc to get max range, we did better this trip but still brutal vs. ice.

I started reading the club & grok to figure out what might be normal for CB & met another CB owner here from Austin in Colorad his avg on oem AT was 456wh/mi, the best from FL 380’swh/mi corewheels.

This got me thinking could the defender LTX Platinum at 65Lbs each be affecting my efficiency, the oem scorpions are 45Lbs each, the oem GY AT 55LB. I’d be really happy with 450wh/mi or less.

I had bought the tire certs from Discount tire, called them up and asked for help! Discount was pretty awesome. The first store shut me down, second store was awesome Zach the manager hooked me up and helped. Credit for the Defender LTX P Tire, refund certs and installed the new Hankooks.

Defender LTX Platinum I believe is an awesome tire, just heavy but my understanding possibly same efficiency or better then oem GY AT, at 60+ PSI the ride is harsh over lower PSI and vs. scorpions and ion HT. I had tried to increase PSI to improve efficiency on the LTX did not notice anything significan.

I’m a few days into the Hankook Ion HT ownership, and mountain pass driving so too soon to tell if this tire improved my efficiency, handling so far is good. These Hankook Ion HT tires come with 100day refund so figure why not and test.

I have also started logging data with tezlab to try and better compare and understand efficiency.

99% of our driving will be on road vs. off road and dirt, so I went for efficiency over style and off road, I know this tire is not for everyone.

If the truck continues to have poor efficiency I guess Tesla service can try and figure out if there is another issue going.

My new 2026 Tesla Model Y Performance now comes standard with the Hankook Ion EVO AS high performance tires and I'm averaging 280Wh/mi with lots of high speed driving over 80mph. Not bad at all. These also come with some sort of noise reducers and ride fairly well for 21in especially compared to the summer only tires that used to come with the MY Ps.

 

[alpha42]

I put some Ion Evos on my Model 3 when they first hit the US market, was a bit worried having never touched Hankooks before, but ended up loving them.

I'm interested to see they did a truck Ion... I may need to check these out when my OEM ATs give up the ghost. I honestly don't do enough off pavement play to warrant the ATs, but I hated the look of the OEM AS combo and coming from a 4runner "limited" (mall crawler), i really wanted something better for those times I did venture off the beaten path.

An HT like this may be a decent compromise, so, I'm going to keep an eye on this.

 

[CBMW6674]

I think they were $250 or something each pre war.
Very happy have not took them off.

I think they were $250 or something each pre war.
Very happy have not took them off.

Went to discount tire today and they wouldn’t order them for me. Said the tire had to be an HT. Where did you buy yours at?

 

[Granch]

Went to discount tire today and they wouldn’t order them for me. Said the tire had to be an HT. Where did you buy yours at?

Discount tire it shows compatible in the system
Reference my order attached

 

[Granch]

Curious why you did not go with the tried and tru Pirelli stock tires with proven sub 400wh/mi efficiency?

Hankook offers 100day trial period. These will out perform the pirelli and more tread depth, better warranty at half the price. Easy button.

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