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Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range (electrek.co)
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Tesla has confirmed it has given up on plans to make a Cybertruck range extender to achieve the range it originally promised on the electric pickup truck.

It started refunding deposits for the $16,000 extra battery pack.

When Tesla unveiled the production version of the Cybertruck in late 2023, two main disappointments were the price and the range.

The tri-motor version, the most popular in reservation tallies before production, was supposed to have over 500 miles of range and start at $70,000.

Tesla now sells the tri-motor Cybertruck for $100,000 and only has a range of 320 miles.

The dual-motor Cybertruck was supposed to cost $50,000 and have over 300 miles of range. In reality, it starts at $80,000 and has 325 miles of range.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They bet on the wrong horse, they are reluctantly making the switch in BEV.

And the previous commenter didn't even give the full picture, it's that even making hydrogen is just wholly uneconomical any way you look at it, you can look up grey, green hydrogen.

The use case for hydrogen would be if someone drives like a shittton a day, so maybe semis, and like the less than 1% of drivers who need to dive that much.