@SawyerMerrit discussed new CyberTruck model lineup: base, mid, tri, quad, plaid

[Tinker71]

I like everything about this rumor so it must be true!

The idea of two dual motor configs is something I’ve heard elsewhere and makes a ton of sense. A base 250 mile dual motor truck and a 400 mile dual motor really attacks the broad side of what many of us are looking for.

If ramping 4680 cell production is at all difficult, delaying the most battery hogging model makes even more sense.


Anyhow… just a rumor but lots of sense. The only way it sort of falls down is the fact that it contradicts Musks off the cuff comments from a few months ago.

I would also love this, especially the 400 mile Dual. This doesn't solve the scalping/resale loss that Tesla will have to watch. This would be especially painful with people with multiple reservations.

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[Bill906]

I don't know, since no one has written an article on it and I haven't watched all of Munro's videos yet.

Did they eliminate the rear differential in the Plaid powertrain?

-Crissa

I guess I assumed that, but I don't remember that being specifically shown in Sandy's teardown.


UPDATE: I rewatched the Munro video. See my new post #52. (Spoiler: They did eliminate the rear differential)

 

[anionic1]

I think with Giga Texas and Berlin finally starting production Elon will be willing to start new things soon. Hopefully that includes the CT. Getting those factories up and running has surely been an exhaustive task for him and his teams.

 

[Crissa]

Tesla isn’t raising prices to curb demand. They are raising them to maintain their profit margin and make up for all the cost they dumped into those new factories.

Is that why their profit per car keeps going up?

-Crissa

 

[cyberbear]

I hope all the cyber trucks come with all wheel steer. They’re gonna need it.

 

[CyberCFP]

But when will it be made?

 

[anionic1]

Is that why their profit per car keeps going up?

-Crissa

Their profit per car increase hasn't been close to their cost increases. They are charging more because they have the demand and they have spent a lot of money and they want to grow more. It has nothing to do with curbing demand.

 

[rr6013]

HOW MUCH BETTER CAN THIS GET. imagine the plaid version doing 1.9 seconds sheeesh.i feel like id save whatever extra and just get the tri.

Yes, it could get better with a SWAG Gen2/3 innovation.

IF such an @Ogre fifth power source/converter provided an orthogonal solution that enables Tesla to maximize direct drive motor constant velocity(RPM) efficiency, such as a flywheel/converter innovation - Tesla would then be able to add surge power on demand. SO Tesla would have a single high power solution instead of multiple high performance motors for the entire line of single, dual, tri and quad motor.

THUS Tesla could minimize all motor expense but one as its power motor and optimize for efficiency all the other variants to generate maximum range in any combination. Those would operate at highway constant velocity efficiency 85% time.

Tesla’s big investment would be in a single power/converter unit. That would enable Tesla to optimize(i.e.vectoring)at the wheel rather than ganging drive motors into heavy differential units, as is its current drivetrain convention.

Life in a Cybertruck would not feel different but each variant would truly vary the maximization calculus. It also opens the vehicle’s development roadmap, if you have a single source power to engineer and only optimizing the platform thereafter to achieve application specificity.

 

[Ogre]

I would also love this, especially the 400 mile Dual. This doesn't solve the scalping/resale loss that Tesla will have to watch. This would be especially painful with people with multiple reservations.

I would love if Tesla pushed people with additional reservations back in the queue. Get your first one now, the other 5 when we’ve worked through the queue in 2025. I have 2 reservations so would hit me on the second one, but I‘d give that up so more people could enjoy their trucks.

 

[Ogre]

I don't know, since no one has written an article on it and I haven't watched all of Munro's videos yet.

Did they eliminate the rear differential in the Plaid powertrain?

-Crissa

No idea, I just know they were talking about thrust vectoring on the Plaid. I’d assumed independently controlled motors on the rear.

 

[Bill906]

I would love if Tesla pushed people with additional reservations back in the queue. Get your first one now, the other 5 when we’ve worked through the queue in 2025. I have 2 reservations so would hit me on the second one, but I‘d give that up so more people could enjoy their trucks.

I'd be fine with having my second reservation pushed back, as long as I keep it's $8k FSD lock.

 

[Ogre]

a 90k truck isn't weird- that's normal and that would terrify Legacy.

Average truck price is $40-50k. At $90k, Tesla is hitting their top end trucks, the gravy. At $55k, they are targeting the meat and potatoes of the market.

 

[Ogre]

currently have the amount saved up for the tri motor to buy cash... depending on the specs of the quad and plaid and how much longer i have to wait for them will be the ultimate factor. assuming the tri motor does actually get 500 miles and a zero to 60 in 2.9 seconds i feel like that would be more than enough especially at unveil pricing of 69,990. HOW MUCH BETTER CAN THIS GET. imagine the plaid version doing 1.9 seconds sheeesh.i feel like id save whatever extra and just get the tri.

My plan for Cybertruck is 100% based on the market. If TSLA is over $1100 by then probably go whatever the nicest, first one out is. If not, I can afford the Dual motor on my income.

 

[TAP1A]

i would take a tri motor over the plaid or quad if it meant more

My plan for Cybertruck is 100% based on the market. If TSLA is over $1100 by then probably go whatever the nicest, first one out is. If not, I can afford the Dual motor on my income.

lets all hope TSLA by the time the CT comes out is over that 1100 mark. i just went in hard two weeks ago on the dip when it was in the 700s. TSLA will buy me the CT. Fingers crossed.

 

[Ogre]

i would take a tri motor over the plaid or quad if it meant more

lets all hope TSLA by the time the CT comes out is over that 1100 mark. i just went in hard two weeks ago on the dip when it was in the 700s. TSLA will buy me the CT. Fingers crossed.

You had better timing than I did. But we’re well on the way back to 1100 now.

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