- Musk promised a tri-motor version with more than 500 miles
- The maximum range demonstrated around 350 miles, leaving quite weak
- The extended range of rank batteries was designed to combat this
The battery package extending the Tesla Cybertruck range seems to have disappeared from the company’s online store, which caused speculation that the promised accessory has long been canned.
When Tesla Cybertruck was first launched, Elon Musk promised a impressively powerful cyber-cyber-motor model that would not only offer a 0-60 mph sprint time of only 2.6 seconds, but also offered more than 500 miles between recharge stops. Not long after launch, the world learned that this was not the case: it was more like 300 miles.
But Tesla released a curita in the form of a removable and extended battery that would see the electrical range that would tickle 470 miles or more … as long as you were willing to give up one third of the bed of the polygonal collection.
Like the promised Roadster for a long time, the Musk company was willing to take a deposit of $ 2,000 (around £ 1,600 / au $ 3,300) for the battery of $ 16,000 (around £ 12,500 / au $ 27,000), but we have not yet seen that it materializes. However, Tesla has been able to adjust the originally promised range figures of 470 miles to 445 miles.
Now, Electrek reports that Tesla has eliminated the battery option of its completely online configurator, suggesting that the project could have been discarded, or at least that the company is not willing to accept more deposits.
Many critics online suggest that the rank that extends the battery was always vaporware, or that absorption has been so small that it does not really make a financial sense to put it in production.
Whatever the real reason, it is likely that it can attribute it as another of Musk’s promises that he and the company have not fulfilled.
Analysis: rarely works too promising and little delivered
Complete autonomous, a flying roadster with rocket propellants, Hyperloop … The list of Elon Musk’s promises continues to grow, and historically it has been a great tool to excite investors about future plans, the tactics is beginning to use thin with customers.
Everything is fine to indicate an intention to move forward with futuristic technologies, but the excessive and little delivered product in the product is a safe way to reduce customer confidence.
A recent article from Forbes has called the “greatest failure of the automobile industry in decades”, after stating that the $ 82,000 EVs have a “bad reputation” for retreats, while the 250,000 annual sales predictions of Musk looked more like 40,000 in 2024.
Earlier this year, additional reports arose that Cybertruck’s inventory was accumulating as the client’s original demand decreased.
Combine this with the growing resentment by Tesla in the US.
It was always supposed to be a halo model, designed for people to speak, but Tesla did not support it with a solid and reliable product.
Instead, he has suffered numerous retreats, obtained a reputation for being insecure and does not even do half of what was promised at the launch. We still have to see it as a boat, the rear bed tents were lame and a 70 mph real range test inside the electric vehicles revealed that Cybertruck handles 304 miles, while the cyber version can handle around 300 miles.
