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I think the $40k price tag is deceptive if you look a bit closer. The extended range 300 mile battery is only available on the Platinum edition which starts at
by bhouser 5y ago
I think the $40k price tag is deceptive if you look a bit closer. The extended range 300 mile battery is only available on the Platinum edition which starts at $60k IIRC, otherwise you're stuck with 230 miles which IMO going to make the truck feel hamstringed.
The $50k Cybertruck gets you 300 miles.
- bhauer 5y agoYeah, the $40K version of the F150 Lightning is the "commercial use" one, which will presumably be utilitarian. I think they plan to reveal more about the commercial version on Monday. If the $40K commercial use version is the right truck for a given consumer, great. But most consumers will want to step up from that for a personal vehicle. I think for most people, we will find $53K is the real starting price. It feels as if the $40K commercial-use version was added in order to capture some headlines that group "$40K" alongside features of the more expensive trims such as "4.4 second 0 to 60," and I believe they have been successful in that.
- m463 5y agothe $40k cybertruck gets you 250 miles. (...in late 2022)
- fastball 5y agoThe Lightning isn't supposed to be going until 2022 either, and Ford is having supply chain issues with chips, which this truck probably needs more than any car they've ever made, so we'll see which ships first.
- jsight 5y agoYeah, and the Mach-E was delayed by several months as well. It wouldn't be shocking if this ends up being more like late 2022, at least for any significant volume. Not that its an issue. People focus a little too much on initial ship date, IMO.
- frosted-flakes 5y agoWhy would it need more chips? It's not inherently different from existing trucks in that regard.
- fastball 5y agoBattery management in a modern EV requires more compute than an ICE vehicle, for starters.
- rodgerd 5y ago> The $50k Cybertruck gets you 300 miles. The Cybertruck gets you nothing. It doesn't exist.
- nickik 5y agoAnd neither does the F150 Lightning. What a dumb ass argument.
- CRConrad 5y agoPresident Biden drove the F150 Lightning on TV. Has anyone (outside Tesla) driven the Cybertruck on TV yet?
- nickik 5y agoThat statement makes the argument even dumber.
- CRConrad 5y agoHow?
- nickik 5y agoSeriously? The president drove it for a commercial and that is the prove to convinced you that it is real product? And Tesla didn't do a commercial with a president and therefore its a fake product? They are both large car companies who have invested billions into the development and production of these products and they will both come out next year. Anything else is just nutjob conspiracy theory nonsense.
- vardump 5y agoFor example Jay Leno. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ZuKkbHdqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ZuKkbHdqM