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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  • Valmond@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    $16.000 just to get what you paid for?

    Some people sure have a lot of money to spend.

    • lmuel@sopuli.xyz
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      12 hours ago

      Not quite.

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