Actually, it's only moderately faster because of the starting range. Once on the road, the Model 3 will beat the Cybertruck because less electrons used per mile.
The much bigger thing is waiting for Tesla to come out with the 350kW CCS adapter. That will allow the truck to go to 800V at those CCS stations that support it.
The whole range extension discussion is making me realize how nice a long range CT version will be... But when?? I hope charging is profitable enough for Tesla to blanket convenience stores with superchargers eventually...
i honestly dont think they need to blanket convenience stores. I think maybe acouple, but a lot of people charge at home. Tesla should work on streamlining destination chargers for apartment complexes and condos
We don't know exact details, but yes it takes about a third of the bed, up to the tracks in the renders. It has a bed-like surface on top, so we'll assume you can load things above to some extent. So it doesn't render the bed "useless", just reduced. Most people rarely use the full capacity of a truck bed. Even most guys I know that use their trucks for work often have a tool box or farm equipment pretty much permanently in that front part of the bed, which presumably could sit on top of the Range Extender in this case. Still leaves a 4-foot bed for loading things.
No one knows the details at this point. I think that there have ben prototypes. Probably not going into the current under-bed storage, because that messes up the weight distribution.
The range extender will only be advantageous for trips between 250-350 miles or towing.
What type of range does your Model X get when it is driving at 40 mph? Taking a trip into the backcountry has the advantage (from an EV perspective) that you probably aren't going to be doing 75 mph off-road. The range goes up dramatically. 400+ miles is probable. The original Model 3 has a demonstrated range of over 600 miles!
It’s not a road trip car for you, it is for me.Unfortunately, the Cyber Truck is a Truck and not a “Road trip car”. People like myself buy Trucks for for the full utility of the Truck Bed like carrying motorcycles on long trips into the backcountry, camping and overlanding. C’mon Elon?! You mean you couldn’t make the Range Extender drop into the under-bed storage out of site? I would even take a Range Extender of half the capacity,if it could drop into the underbed storage and still have the full utility of the Truck bed. Or even better, double the size of the range extender and make it thinner and the full length of the bed like my Decked storage in my Chevy Colorado!
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