ajdelange
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You are as free to speculate as anyone but keep in mind that while the mass related loads (inertial and gravitational) are the dominant loads in an ICE vehicle in the urban/suburban setting that is not so much the case on the freeway and even less so in urban/suburban or freeway setting with a BEV because the drag load assumes more relevance when regenerative braking is used to recoup much of the inertial and gravitational loads. The CT's are bigger vehicles than even the X and are going to have larger drag loads (even if Cd is about the same because of larger frontal area). Thus I am quite confident that consumption will be at least 350 Wh/mi and perhaps more for these vehicles. Note that 350*500 = 175 kWh as the necessary battery size for the TriMotor which feels about right,As its highly likely the Dual Motor Cybertruck will weigh very close to the Model S, 5095 lbs. (for reasons explained elsewhere). Maybe less !
The range would be very similar to the Model S’, 390 miles.
Now should Tesla come up with some miraculous improvement in battery specs do we think they will tell us "Hey guys, we were being conservative. Your truck's range isn't 500 mi. It is really 700."? They might do that but I rather think they would quietly take 2/7 ths of the cells out of the battery pack in order to deliver a 500 mi vehicle as promised at a lower price or at higher profit or as some combination of those two. I am not saying this speculation is any more valid than anyone else's but I'd be very surprised if the initial releases of the trucks would do more than they are currently advertised to do.
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