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Tesla Cybertruck Owners Who Drove 10,000 Miles Say Range Is 164 To 206 Miles (insideevs.com)

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Tesla Cybertruck Owners Who Drove 10,000 Miles Say Range Is 164 To 206 Miles::Also, the charging speeds are below par, but on the flip side, the sound system is awesome and the car is “a dream to drive.”

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (12 children)

Sigh. Not this again. Look, I personally really don't like the Cybertruck. I think it's ugly and pointless. But as someone who likes EVs in general I have to call out the usual "the range is so bad lol" BS.

The two drivers who are using the EV said that the maximum range with a full battery was 206 miles and 164 miles with an 80% state of charge.

The range you get when not fully charging the battery is meaningless. It's like partially fueling an ICE and complaining it doesn't deliver the maximum range. Good for a clickbait headline though.

That test was done at a relatively constant speed of 70 miles per hour while the outside temperature was about 45 degrees. The truck was driven fairly aggressively most of the time

Driving aggressively, at high speed, in relatively cold weather is the perfect trifecta to make any EV underdeliver in range. Those are real downsides of EVs (and weather and speed are factors with ICE cars, just more so for EVs) but it's nothing new or specific to this vehicle. And it is not the scenario the EPA uses to come up with range numbers. Perhaps they should, but they don't.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (2 children)

80% is a full standard charge. You only actually full charge immediately before a road trip, because it wears the battery faster to charge to 100%, and wears even more of you hold the charge before using it.

Do for someone charging their car over night for normal operations, 80% is a functionally full charge.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

While that is true, it's not fair to say "see they lied! In completely different circumstances you only get a fraction of the range!" Even for ICE vehicles they use ideal conditions to measure their MPG/range even though most people aren't driving in ideal conditions.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

It's a truck that's meant to tow and haul loads. Using it for that purpose is a much larger drain on the battery than aggressive driving, and significantly reduces its useful range. If it's getting these numbers just being driven, you can expect a sub-100 mile range per charge when towing. Imagine having to stop to recharge for 30+ minutes for every hour and half of towing you do. Woof.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (4 children)

t’s a truck that’s meant to tow and haul loads.

A pickup truck towing and hauling loads? What a bizarre idea. I'm pretty sure it's only meant to go to the office, and maybe to the maul on weekends, once in a while.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

If they marketed it as such, but they heavily marketed it as capable as, if not better, at doing truck things than other trucks. And to be fair, most of us knew it was bullshit, but it's impressive how absolutely wrong they were. I mean, Elon said it'd tow a Porsche 911 faster in the quarter than the 911 could run the 1/4 mile itself, and they released a video to prove it...except keen eyed folks quickly noticed that the "finish line" they show is actually the 1/8th mile marker on that drag strip, and the 911 is clearly about to pass the CT at that point. Engineering Explained on YT made a great video detailing how it couldn't beat even the slowest modern 911.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (6 children)

According to my Tesla driving neighbor most people do not charge their Tesla to 100% in order to extend the battery lifespan. I don’t understand it but apparently Tesla recommends it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

Yeah Lithium batteries stay healthy for much longer if you keep them roughly between 20%-80% charge. Many laptops and phones now use similar management strategies to avoid wearing out the battery.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

That's common for lots of batteries. My laptop has a setting to not charge between 50-70% because it lives on a dock and doesn't need max life in travel. Batteries are stored between 40 and 80% usually. So it makes sense that a car with the same battery chemistry recommends the same thing. It's only different in regards to a car being important in an emergency, but realistically, an emergency is unlikely to be both sudden and require long distance driving. So 100 miles of range is probably as good as 400 in common usage.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Your phone does the same thing just without communicating it. Samsung phones let you change the percentage of the battery is "100%" charged.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

70 is aggressive? In California ppl will be passing you on both sides at that speed.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 9 months ago (25 children)

Why does it look like a car from a PS1 game?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

StarFox on the SNES has more polygons than that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

Probably the same reason everything he has named sounds like a 12yo came up with it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Because we live in the version of reality where the worst idea is the best idea and we don’t actually care about anyone’s wellbeing and safety. The car is shaped the way it is to inflict the most fatalities on pedestrians.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And the us traffic safety board is refusing to test it's crash rating because they don't have to. It's so fishy that this is a new stupid design and they don't want to test it. Either Elon paid them off or they refuse to give or sell one to test. I have a feeling it would get a 2 out of 5 stars.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago (38 children)

263 - 331 kilometers for the rest of the world

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Fun fact: the conversion factor from mi to km is ≈ ln(5).

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My Chevy Bolt gets more range at a fraction of the cost and I love it. I charge it at work for free and it has been an extremely reliable car for a couple years now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I mean yes but not really comparable to what's supposed to be a pick up truck. It's no different than saying your Prius is more efficient than an F150 lol

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Calling the cybertruck a Pickup is hularious, you cant fit jack shit in there. So it is more comparable to the bolt than a f150 IMO

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

There are a lot of pictures on Facebook of people carrying decent sized loads - I saw a stack of drywall, a significant pile of lumber, and some motorbikes. I think it's smallness is exaggerated

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

You can't even fit a bicycle in a cyber truck. You're not gonna be hauling anything.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

F150s and the like often have a bigger tank to counteract the lower efficiency. The headline at least is about range, which is made of a combination of battery capacity and efficiency.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Yeah, but an F150 is useful. The Tesla Truck isn't.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (20 children)

i had a geo metro that had greater range.

so confusing why this exists.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Could you convey that you were both rich AND stupid just by driving your metro?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Just the one.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's the advertised range?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago

On Tesla website they said about 340 miles*. Tesla cybertruck

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

And then the article says homeboy basically floored it everywhere... okay

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How long is this in world units?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

Here, try this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Fuck yes, finally I can apply my knowledge of first 10” numbers of the fibonacci series

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I want an EV offroader so bad, but I currently live in Australia. Some of my trips I'm packing 130L of fuel and this is after getting to the last planned station before hitting the wild. That can get consumed over as little as 200km depending on conditions the car has to tackle.

<200 miles of aggressive highway driving is a death sentence for a 4×4 in Australia. Outside of recreational trips near cities or big towns, mileage like this would put you at high risk.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I also live in Australia and I think you're forgetting what 99% of vehicles are used for. I can't even remember the last time I was more than 50km from a fuel station.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (5 children)

65 l/100km... Holy shit, a Bugatti Veyron running at top speed over 400km/h is consuming 122 l/100km.

That's insane

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