I had no choice! I had to cancel my Cybertruck order today.

[Crissa]

You can ruin your battery if you frequently go below 20% before charging.

This is a myth.

1. 0% isn't flat 0. Tesla leaves room at the bottom so it doesn't go into turtle mode before 0%.
2. Just charge it immediately. It's the amount of time spent at 100% and 0% that matters, not that you went there at all.
3. There is nothing magical about 20% other than you charge fastest under it.

I’m sure you are aware that the battery pack on the current truck is only half full of cells.

This is also a myth, as is your next statement about resale value.

I expected the price to increase but from $40k to $120 k is a bit much.

This also is false. The single-motor is not the Cyberbeast.

-Crissa

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[GuyV]

I appreciate your feed back. Did you know my work trailer weighs just shy of 12,000lbs when fully loaded? It might be fun for you swing by the office and hook it up to your model S Sedan. I’d like to test how well the big 4-door performs when pulling the same trailer my Chevy Silverado 2500 Duramax “compromise” has no trouble hauling 300+ miles to a remote off grid job site. Granted we don’t tow 300 miles every day… but I think you get the point.

Then only the Hummer 2x can meet your needs ...if you can call that a work truck. I guess you should have bought one already. ? ??

 

[GuyV]

I’m sure you are aware that the battery pack on the current truck is only half full of cells. All Tesla needs to do is fill up all that empty space with batteries and they would have a viable truck, no need to wait for future technology. Unfortunately, if they do that now, it will destroy, the resale value of the trucks they’re selling today. Regardless of when Tesla decided to outfit the CT with all the battery cells it was designed for, I’m sure they’re going to piss off a lot of people who purchased the foundation series only to have its value wiped out overnight.

Thunderdome! Thanks brother, I am still laughing.

If you think the Cybertruck pack is only half full then you need much better sources of information, but that was obvious already. I suggest Munro Live.

 

[Crissa]

Your response is interesting.

You do understand that you're basically having a tantrum that a truck which never was advertised did not come out with a version in six months after initial release, did not come out with all the variants, right?

-Crissa

 

[GuyV]

Pick ups compromised for less efficiency by adding fuel capacity to get ‘the job done’, obviously. It’s an option that should be addressed to be considered a truck.

Tesla is using a generalized paradigm approach for their vehicles (regarding capacity) that I feel does not properly address the utilitarian need of the pickup.

I still have my reservations #s, we will see what tesla does.

There are a lot of different trucks out there for peoples' different needs. This is Tesla's second truck, first pickup and was designed with specs that hit a chosen large target market. The ones complaining the specs don't meet their needs are in much smaller segments outside of that. Tesla has a lot of room between the Cybertruck and the Semi to develop something different for other needs if they ever decide it's worth the trouble, but at the moment they have other priorities.

 

[Crissa]

If you think the Cybertruck pack is only half full then you need much better sources of information, but that was obvious already. I suggest Munro Live.

Yeah, Munro's pictures were misinterpreted. The pack may be able to be slightly larger, but not with the initial cell design.

The guy chose a place to live where he can't park his truck. That's not Tesla's fault, that's just dumb. And it's even dumber that he didn't pick a place where he could park it and charge it.

Which seems like a dumb complaint. If he can't park it at his house, rent a parking spot elsewhere. Yeah, one with power will cost a little more but they do exist. And if they don't, you can make them for less than a tenth of the cost of the truck.

My house is on a ledge with one other house. We have small, two-car cut-outs into the hill. That neighbor owned a painting company and he couldn't fit a full sized truck in his driveway and still fit a second car so he rented a lot from someone else to park it!

The neighbor across the street parks his truck in one of the two street slots even though his house has four garage slots because it would block his driveway.

It's just the fate of full-sized trucks to not fit. And that's fine!

-Crissa

 

[GuyV]

I had the invitation to order. I was just holding on to see when that might happen. I expected the price to increase but from $40k to $120 k is a bit much. I could hold on for longer range but I’m in my 70s so kind of tired of waiting.

The price increase have been a bit much, for Tesla and every other truck manufacturer as well. You are not going to find anything comparable for much less. Tesla has made it clear they are aiming for less expensive as soon as they begin satisfying demand at the high end. That's just straight-forward capacity vs demand economics.

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