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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.

Archive link: https://archive.is/CGbaE

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Longer range so it can get stuck further from home? 🤭😀👍

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

It could be $15 and have the range of an ICBM, it can still sit on the lot and scare the kids walking by.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it's actually ready?

Like, we don't have the means right now to achieve what he advertises, so he lies about it and then 'alters the deal' after taking people's money.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 18 hours ago

Oh he’s been called out for that for over a decade now, it just got buried under the mass of starry eyed reporting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

selling half-assed tech, basically A scam, which is whole business model.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

So he learned from the video gaming industry?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Yep.

"Games as a service" are released as a "minimum viable product" to see if it can hook enough suckers to make it profitable enough for the company to finish making.

If there aren't enough saps that take the bait, development ceases and whoever put their faith in the product look like tools.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Only a fool buys something on the promise of future upgrades and potential. Buy stuff on what it is now.

This is a bad look for Tesla for sure, but no one should be going “I wouldn’t have bought it if I knew this would get cancelled”.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Pray I don't alter it further.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago

that's been tech as an industry for the last decade. product releases, then all promised features come as a half baked update a year later... if at all. phones, games, cars, etc all use this strategy now unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it's actually ready?

Today's vocab word is Vaporware

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

That's exactly what he's been doing with all his businesses. And it works. Tesla is still hugely overvalued as a company.

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