What Can A Cybertruck NOT Do?

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There are many posts about what the CT can do, like go camping, load up most anything, out accelerate a Porsche, etc. But is there anything a Cybertruck CANNOT do?

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Park in a Compact Stall :cool:
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Charge itself from solar cells in the toneau. I mention that again here because people just don't seem to want to accept that fact. I've just been reviewing last winter's solar production. Going through all the figures I calculate that last winter my system produced 104 - 150 (depending on whether I estimate CT consumption at 500 or 350 Wh/mi) miles of CT range per panel over a 111 day period in Nov, Dec, Jan and Feb. That's 1.34 miles per day per (3.3 X 5.2 feet) panel at 350 Wh/mi. Thus with 10 of these panels I'd get 13.4 less 10 (phantom drain) for a net of 3.4. These are real numbers brought about through the realities of panel orientation, weather, and sun declination in the winter months.
 

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What you mean is "pull a 10,000 lbs trailer as far as I'd like it too" which isn't very informative unless you tell us how far you'd like it too i.e. what you consider reasonable.
 


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While you can certainly come up with scenarios in which you could get less than 120 mi (drive fast uphill into a windstorm on a road covered with 2 inches of wet snow) I certainly think 120 miles ought to be doable under ordinary circumstances.

Although you will not know exactly what will happen until the trailer in question is hooked to a CT and driven under the conditions of interest you can get a rough idea of what will happen when you hook the trailer to a CT from the way it behaves with your ICE vehicle. If you go from 18 mpg to 9 mpg in your truck you will lose about the same amount with the CT (i.e. half your range). Attempts to come up with better estimates generally assue loss of 1/2 to 2/3 of the no trailer range. 120 mi is 24% of 500 mi.
 
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