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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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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 16 points 3 days ago (22 children)

Why the third motor? One for each of the front wheels and one for the rear?

[–] DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago (18 children)

Two in the back, one in the front. There's also a two and four motor version.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (15 children)

That makes even less sense. Distributing mechanical power on non steering wheels is easy, but for steering wheels requires a more complex and expensive coupling, as well as power losses. Just... why?

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 3 days ago

Why? More power…..

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