🔋 Cybertruck owner's 280mi road trip -- range, consumption Wh/mi, charging speed (AWD Dual-Motor)

[susu2142]

Hello Susu2142, Hope your trip is going well. Could you please post some number on the range like wh/mile etc.
Thanks for sharing the helpful information.

Ok I'm back, please note I'm no battery range expert, and this is no controlled test. It's just what I see from my driving style:

Trip A:
From south bay to Lake Berryessa to Sacramento. Stopped by the supercharger at Davis for some battery juice. 70% highway, 30% county roads with some twisties. 440 Wh/mi.

Trip B:
Sacramento back to the bay area on I5/I580. All highway, tried to keep the speed around 75-80mph, but got caught in some light traffic. 419 Wh/mi.

Charging at Davis:
40mins to charge from 25-80%, 73kWh.

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[Gatec77]

Ok I'm back, please note I'm no battery range expert, and this is no controlled test. It's just what I see from my driving style:
Trip A: from south bay to Lake Berryessa to Sacramento. Stopped by the supercharger at Davis for some battery juice. 70% highway, 30% county roads with some twisties. 440 Wh/mi.

Trip B:
Sacramento back to the bay area on I5/I580. All highway, tried to keep the speed around 75-80mph, but got caught in some light traffic. 419 Wh/mi.

Charging at Davis: 40mins to charge from 25-80%, 73kWh.

Very nice. These are good numbers.
Thanks a ton for sharing.

 

[CyberMoose]

Ok I'm back, please note I'm no battery range expert, and this is no controlled test. It's just what I see from my driving style:
Trip A: from south bay to Lake Berryessa to Sacramento. Stopped by the supercharger at Davis for some battery juice. 70% highway, 30% county roads with some twisties. 440 Wh/mi.

Trip B:
Sacramento back to the bay area on I5/I580. All highway, tried to keep the speed around 75-80mph, but got caught in some light traffic. 419 Wh/mi.

Charging at Davis: 40mins to charge from 25-80%, 73kWh.

These numbers are really good and the range is basically on par with what I get from my model 3 at these speeds.

Considering this is at higher speeds, and EV's are more efficient at lower speeds and city driving, I think anyone who is driving reasonably will likely be satisfied with their range.

 

[HaulingAss]

You seem to not understand Supercharging. Is that because you've never owned a Tesla?

Nobody who knows how to "get 'er done" charges to 80% while they wait. Cybertruck will be like other Tesla in that it will charge the quickest from 10% to 60%. I'm often charging to 50%-60%, occasionally to 65%-70% (depending upon the specifics), almost never to 80%, at least not while I'm waiting. Supercharging to 80% would only be if I was eating a sit down lunch or dinner or for whatever reason I wasn't ready to hit the road yet.

Oh, I've also charged to 80% because I was leaving a normal Supercharging route and entering into a "charging desert" but those situations are shrinking as quickly as the Supercharger Network is growing. Elon understands that for EV adoption to reach 100% he must continue to expand charging options.

 

[Sjohnson20]

These numbers are really good and the range is basically on par with what I get from my model 3 at these speeds.

Considering this is at higher speeds, and EV's are more efficient at lower speeds and city driving, I think anyone who is driving reasonably will likely be satisfied with their range.

Yeah this was great. I’ll take it!

 

[L3it3R]

Very similar to my m3p

 

[SAVFPV]

I would like to comment and agree with some posters here. Starting a charge at 25% and going to 80% in 40 minutes is actually right on par and "good" in my eyes. Anyone with experience would know what you would actually want to take the battery much lower and while routing to the next supercharger to take advantage of the preconditioning. I'd imagine if he instead went down to around 8% and then took it up to 70-75% the difference would have been surprisingly faster. I've never gotten upset at a supercharger time to fill in the Model Y LR, *except* when I didn't follow the rules and so you wait longer for "not optimum charging conditions" (like no preconditioning or very little, starting at higher than 25% SOC, charger stalls maxed out with customers or the dreaded someone pull in directly next to you. IYKYK )

 

[fritter63]

Ok I'm back, please note I'm no battery range expert, and this is no controlled test. It's just what I see from my driving style:

Trip A:
From south bay to Lake Berryessa to Sacramento. Stopped by the supercharger at Davis for some battery juice. 70% highway, 30% county roads with some twisties. 440 Wh/mi.


Trip B:
Sacramento back to the bay area on I5/I580. All highway, tried to keep the speed around 75-80mph, but got caught in some light traffic. 419 Wh/mi.




Charging at Davis:
40mins to charge from 25-80%, 73kWh.

Great info, @susu2142, how much do you think that was affected by the loose panel?

Would love to see you do a trip up to Tahoe to throw in some good climbs.

 

[cybercoffee]

Ok I'm back, please note I'm no battery range expert, and this is no controlled test. It's just what I see from my driving style:

Trip A:
From south bay to Lake Berryessa to Sacramento. Stopped by the supercharger at Davis for some battery juice. 70% highway, 30% county roads with some twisties. 440 Wh/mi.

Trip B:
Sacramento back to the bay area on I5/I580. All highway, tried to keep the speed around 75-80mph, but got caught in some light traffic. 419 Wh/mi.

Charging at Davis:
40mins to charge from 25-80%, 73kWh.

Thanks for the very informative numbers. Totally reasonable for the vehicle it is. I'm excited!

 

[Chris9702L]

You seem to not understand Supercharging. Is that because you've never owned a Tesla?

Nobody who knows how to "get 'er done" charges to 80% while they wait. Cybertruck will be like other Tesla in that it will charge the quickest from 10% to 60%. I'm often charging to 50%-60%, occasionally to 65%-70% (depending upon the specifics), almost never to 80%, at least not while I'm waiting. Supercharging to 80% would only be if I was eating a sit down lunch or dinner or for whatever reason I wasn't ready to hit the road yet.

Oh, I've also charged to 80% because I was leaving a normal Supercharging route and entering into a "charging desert" but those situations are shrinking as quickly as the Supercharger Network is growing. Elon understands that for EV adoption to reach 100% he must continue to expand charging options.

Be happy for yourself. There is charging deserts all over my area. Hopefully that will change. 20% to 80% should not be higher than 20 minutes.

 

[Cobra2326]

I would like to comment and agree with some posters here. Starting a charge at 25% and going to 80% in 40 minutes is actually right on par and "good" in my eyes. Anyone with experience would know what you would actually want to take the battery much lower and while routing to the next supercharger to take advantage of the preconditioning. I'd imagine if he instead went down to around 8% and then took it up to 70-75% the difference would have been surprisingly faster. I've never gotten upset at a supercharger time to fill in the Model Y LR, *except* when I didn't follow the rules and so you wait longer for "not optimum charging conditions" (like no preconditioning or very little, starting at higher than 25% SOC, charger stalls maxed out with customers or the dreaded someone pull in directly next to you. IYKYK )

FYI, V3 superchargers don't have the limitation of people pulling in right next to you. I only say this because I nearly corrected someone when I first got my M3 thinking this, then realized after learning more than it only affects V2 and down.

 

[Cobra2326]

Be happy for yourself. There is charging deserts all over my area. Hopefully that will change. 20% to 80% should not be higher than 20 minutes.

There are very few EVs that charge from 20-80% in less than 20 minutes. My brand new model 3 LR requires 27 minutes under optimal conditions. I believe a few of the Kia/Hyundai cars will do it in 20 minutes or less.

Edit: interestingly, the fastest charging EV (Ioniq 6) in the C&D article added 150 miles in 14 minutes. I generally add about 160 miles in 15 minutes on my model 3, if that helps put things into perspective.

References:
https://www.motortrend.com/features/fastest-charging-evs/
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g46011090/fastest-slowest-ev-charging-times-tested/

Keep in mind that Tesla will likely adjust the charging curve as they learn more. Right now it's not great. It stays at almost 250kW from 0-30% but then drops off way too much (https://outofspecstudios.com/charging). Also, once V4 superchargers begin deployment, it will likely see much better charging rates due to support for 800V.

 

[scottf200]

Trip A:
From south bay to Lake Berryessa to Sacramento. Stopped by the supercharger at Davis for some battery juice. 70% highway, 30% county roads with some twisties. 440 Wh/mi.

@susu2142 - nice job and thanks for taking the time to share.

@Anyone - I did a rough simulation of that using the updated ABRP (other thread) just throwing in the names from the map and the stop at Davis for a few minutes. I came pretty close with ABRP to his Wh/mi.
Distance: Him-174; Me-161
Wh/mi: Him-440; Me-445

Options I used - in case someone wants to duplicate and play with their own options.

FYI, I used 65 mph related to "70% highway, 30% county roads"

 

[GnarlyDudeLive]

Once v4 fully operational chargers start appearing, it will be interesting to see the improved charge rates.

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