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That isn't a 500 mile range for $40,000.
You can get a 500 mile range by towing a second, fully charged Cybertruck and switching them at mile 250.
That's incredible marketing.
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Weekly I put $90 in the tank. Charging 100kw I believe would cost me $15. That figure seems about right.
My brother spends $100 a month to charge his Tesla at home. I fill up my hybrid less than once a month at about $40.
The specs mention a “range extender” option but there don’t seem to be any details on what that actually is.
No thanks, I'm reserving an Alpha Wolf https://www.alphamotorinc.com/vehiclereservation
What surprised me is the "order with card" choice. I haven't bought a new car in a while, but is it normal to be defaulted to putting a $100,000 purchase on a credit card? Edit: Nevermind, it's a $250 deposit on a later $100,000 purchase.
For the people that can afford one? Sure. AMEX has no limit and plenty of other cards for high net worth individuals are similar. Plus weirdly, people like that usually really like to collect the credit card points.
So the $40K CyberTruck is actually $61,000 and works on the assumption of tax credits being available at the end of 2025, 2 years from now... oh, and we've gone back to the bullshit of "subtracting gas costs from the "probable price"." Another Elon lie. Four, nearly five years after initial claims - meant to be available in 2021, and 52% more expensive. "Range: 250 - 500 miles". Another lie. Try 250 - 340. 33% less.…
> So the $40K CyberTruck is actually more like $57,000 $61k. Click on the tab that says "purchase price".
Probable gas savings is odd, because they also base some of their comparisons on an arbitrary 20mpg for ICE. "We've assumed a fuel economy of 20.0 miles per gallon for a comparable gasoline powered truck"
Odd, because let's see: the Honda Ridgeline starts at 21mpg, and getting better from there, Tacoma, Tundra, Ranger, Gladiator, Ram 1500 (now we're at 25mpg), F-150, Silverado, Sierra 1500. So you're comparing against 7 or 8 of the best selling pickups, and yet using an MPG that is lower than ... all of them ... for comparative purposes. Not misleading at all.
Of course, most of the buyers of either the Cybertruck or the F150 Lightning probably aren't getting much dirt under their fingernails. Everyone I know doing construction/trade work tends to drive much smaller pickups.
We need a lot more Chevy Bolts and electric buses, and a smaller electric pickup truck with 2 doors, but instead this is what we will get due to the cultural moment we are at, and because of who has the money to spend on new vehicles today.
I can't wait to point and laugh at the first one of these I see. Just horrendously ugly.
> With the ability to pull near infinite mass and a towing capability of over 14,000 pounds, Cybertruck can perform in almost any extreme situation with ease. This is direct quote from the Tesla site from 3 weeks ago. It’s now 11,000lbs on the linked page. More Musk bullshittery.
OK but nobody takes "pulling infinite mass" as an engineering specification. That's clearly marketing talking, something all car co's do.