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For fast-charging, the Cybertruck battery is an incremental improvement, not the leap everyone wanted. For longevity and cost? The rest of the market can't come
by rpmisms 3y ago
For fast-charging, the Cybertruck battery is an incremental improvement, not the leap everyone wanted. For longevity and cost? The rest of the market can't come close. Tesla's secret sauce is being willing to do things nobody else will do, change the paradigm, all that stuff MBAs want to do but don't know how to do.
However, more people are making EVs, so Tesla is using its biggest advantage (supercharger network) to essentially force every other EV buyer to witness what competence looks like. Great move.
- threeseed 3y agoCybertruck uses the new 4680 batteries which were supposed to offer significantly better performance [1] at lower cost. Instead they are worse than what we have today and there is no evidence that the costs are lower. And the supercharger network is no longer an advantage as almost all EVs will now be using them. [1] https://www.drive.com.au/news/tesla-model-y-cost-to-reduce-4680-battery/ https://www.drive.com.au/news/tesla-model-y-cost-to-reduce-4...
- rpmisms 3y agoCybertruck uses the 2.4 4680 without dry coating. We've already seen the CT has amazing thermals, great charging curve, and we haven't even seen the 800v charging yet. We also have a floor on the cost with the range extender, which is the cheapest 50kwh battery I've seen first-party. Tesla is becoming a commodity and you don't see an advantage?
- oblio 3y ago> For longevity and cost? The rest of the market can't come close. The Cybertruck was supposed to be a vehicle costing 40k with a range of 500 miles. It's a vehicle costing 100k with a range of 300 miles. Reality distortion field in effect.
- rpmisms 3y agoLongevity refers to battery degradation over time, and cost refers to the cells themselves.