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

submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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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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[–] farcaster 94 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (47 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.

[–] iforgotmyinstance 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] farcaster 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The word aggressive is from the article, so I don't know. Anyways driving 70mph consistently is going to deliver you less than the advertised range with EVs, which I believe is a blend of driving types not just constant highway speed. Consider while ICE cars have awful efficiency in city driving (stop/start) so highway driving is preferred, with EVs it's actually the other way around thanks to fewer mechanical losses and battery regen braking.

[–] AA5B 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Aggressive doesn’t mean fast. It means more abrupt changes, more acceleration/deceleration

For example, with the frigid weather I notice I use a lot of brake when regen isn’t effective

[–] Balex 6 points 10 months ago

I read aggressive as in accelerating aggressively. Possibly to get around people?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's below the recommended average on German roads (stands at 130kph / ~81mph).

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