Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range

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• killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Thanks for all the $16k loans at 0% shmucks. We’ve kept the interest we made while rates have been up and now you can have it back while they’re dropping. Of course, your money is now worth less than it was when you gave it to us during high inflation. Suck it losers. Love, T E S L A”

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  • piskertariot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The deposit for a cyberstuck was $150. The package was valued at $16k.

    Being happy about lies being exposed is good, but spreading a false narrative about it is bad.

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    • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah I misread this

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

      You are correct.

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    • JordanZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      From the article in this post…

      Last month, Electrek reported that Tesla has quietly removed the range extender from the Cybertruck online configurator, where buyers could reserve it with a “$2,000 non-refundable deposit.”

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  • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Enjoy your overpriced truck that under delivers. At least you look COOL™.

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  • drislands@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I doubt the deposits were for the full cost, right?

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    • WR5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If they were for any price, this is still true.

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    • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      $150.

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• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  However, Tesla had devised a solution to bring the range closer to what it originally announced: a separate battery pack that sits in the truck’s bed. Tesla called it a “range extender.” It costs $16,000 and takes up a third of the Cybertruck’s bed.

  You cannot make this shit up 😂

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  • KingGordon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Imagine how easy it would be to be if elongated muskrat kept his mouth shut.

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    • cardfire@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Is St Elmo’s Fire made of Li-Ion or Life-Po?

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The dual motor was originally announced to be US$39,900. It is lies all the way down at Tesla.

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  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I was seriously considering it back then. My wife hated the look and wouldn’t let me even consider it, but as someone who likes Back to the Future and Tron, I didn’t hate the aesthetic, though it took some getting used to. And I want a comfortably large EV (my compact is too small for my old bones) with 500 miles to avoid range anxiety. A 100 mile round trip in the middle of a midwestern winter without a charger at the other end is going to require 500 miles of range due to heating the battery and cabin, and driving at 80mph.

    I wouldn’t say bullet dodged because I was never really close to getting one, but charging three times the price for only 60% range compared to that announcement is fucking insane.

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How good was that job for you to be commuting for 4+ hours a day?

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The dual motor was originally announced at 50k

    There are three versions of the truck available:

    Single motor rear-wheel drive with 250 miles of range, 7,500-pound towing capacity, and 0–60 mph capabilities in under 6.5 seconds, for $39,900
    
    Dual motor all-wheel drive with 300 miles of range, 10,000-pound towing capacity, and 0–60 mph in under 4.5 seconds for $49,900
    

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tesla is not the only one guilty of this, unfortunately. It seems to be standard practice in the industry now.

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  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    $39,900? Not $40,000? Does Elon still think that old “99” trick still works?

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• gradual@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

  Like, we just 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.

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  • mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨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.

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  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨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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  • LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨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.

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  • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨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

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨22⁩ ⁨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”.

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Azal@pawb.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So he learned from the video gaming industry?

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    • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pray I don’t alter it further.

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• IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How about giving up on the Cybertruck

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  • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How about giving up

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Image

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• Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ima be honest, I like the design of this thing. I’m big into brutalism and the Delorean is one of my favorite car designs of all time. I was really hoping this would be good, but it has turned out to be one of the worst products in recent history in any category. It’s up there with the humane pin.

  It makes me a little bit sad because I will never be able to live out my cyberpunk fantasy of driving an electric truck made out of bare metal manufactured by a technofascist corporation.

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  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t know man, the hyundai ioniq 5 has way more delorean vibes than the cyber truck. The cyber truck just actually looks like how i was drawing cars as a child.

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  • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    up there with the humane pin.

    Funny, or sad, how quickly we collective manage to forget bad grifts.

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  • Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve got an aluminum foil wrapped turd that I know you’re interested in buying. Ready to ship!

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I hope the N Vision 74 will one day make it onto the streets

    youtu.be/pu1yzLEsc1Q

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    • a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      hydrogen-powered high performance.

      It will literally never make it onto the streets in the US.

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  • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I absolutely hated the design and feel bad for anyone who gets into an accident with this monstrosity.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What are you basing that extreme statement on? It seems to far from a bad product, let alone “one of the worst products in recent history”.

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    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A 100k “rugged offroad” vehicle where the bumper falls off when you tow something, that isn’t waterproof, sometimes the rims just break, it can slice you apart and the car is held together by elmers glue and hopes and dreams. What other product in that price range is that shit?

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    • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Basing it on the huge amount of recalls it has had? The fact that it is more dangerous than the Ford Pinto by a wide margin? The fact that the panels are glued on? That if you try to haul something with it you risk tearing it apart? Maybe the fact that it is more expensive than all its competitors while also having worse performance even though it was announced years before any of them?

      The bar for cars is so high right now too, like you sit down in a 25k Kia and you’ll hardly miss anything coming from a luxury brand other than the badge and maybe a little bit of engine power.

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• trk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tesla and unfulfilled promises… Only slightly less an iconic duo than Tesla bad news and stock price going up.

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨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.

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• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• mle86@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How hard can it be to produce a simple battery pack, for a company that is in the business of designing and producing battery packs no less…

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  • JordanZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Think the end of the article pretty much nails it.

    Tesla needed to install and remove it at a service center. Owners couldn’t remove them themselves. I think it was pretty much dead on arrival at $16,000.

    But I think it could also be as simple as it’s not worth producing due to demand – both due to insufficient people reserving it and not enough Cybertruck buyers to create a market for the range extender.

    Therefore, the range extender is dead for the same reason that the Cybertruck RWD now has the same battery pack as the AWD instead of a smaller pack for less money: the Cybertruck is a commercial flop, and it’s not a high-volume program enough to justify making several battery pack sizes, including a removable one.

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    • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I see, he took the “Games as a Service” approach but with electric trucks.

      Nice.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Preorder interest probably made it not worth it financially.

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  $16.000 just to get what you paid for?

  Some people sure have a lot of money to spend.

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  • lmuel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not quite.

    $16k to get closer to what they promised lol Probably won’t do that much considering the added weight

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  • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Some people sure have a lot of money to spend.

    It’s why everything is so expensive. So these fucks can give musk money.

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• acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    One runs front wheels, one runs rear wheels and third one powers the mental gymnastics it takes to be a tesla owner in 2025.

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    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      LOL Monkey banging cymbals

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  • DoubleSpace@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Two in the back, one in the front.

      The Shocker

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    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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?

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  • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the 3rd one is a reality disortion field motor for MUSKRATS musk supporters.

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• SpicyLizards@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Tesla confirms it has given up” is the headline I want

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  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The only true PR statement they could release.

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• GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

  So, the cheaper model with two motors (why even) has a larger range than the full price model with three motors™®?

  LMAO.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why implement a new feature for a product nobody is buying?

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• Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Grifters grifting

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• ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Surprised they haven’t given up on Musk

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is anybody still holding Tesla shares?

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So, anyway, anyone seen any good movies or anything?

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• drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It definitely seems an equivalent of putting fingers into your ears and ignoring the issue.

  Vaporware and Tesla - name a more iconic duo.

  It’s kinda troubling that we’re returning to reality where vaporware is such a legitimate strategy with no down sides.

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