My model 3 gets ~300
My model 3 gets 235-250 running 55mph and 300-325 Wh/mi running 70mph. In comparison the cyber truck is massive. I will be surprised if their rated range is at <400wh/mi. My bet is running 70 mph it will be over 500 possibly well over 500. Battery drivetrain experts yes, aerodynamics, not so much. The legacy automotive companies have been doing wind tunnel testing/tuning since before Elon was born.depends on your market. Y is aimed at literally every potential luxury crossover buyer. I have acquaintances with Y on order or already delivered who were previously shopping for just about any brand you think of and they were all cross shopping X5/Macan/Range Rover/You name it. The pricing on those drives the pricing on Y and their pricing is ridiculous so, Y’s is too. Tesla has also lowered prices in the past and I think those times will come again.
Cybertruck is ostensibly aimed at an entirely different market. Ford sells a really nice $55k Explorer ST right alongside an extremely nice $55k F150. Elon and every other economist who studies the industry has repeatedly said the $100k+ range is not a sustainable place to sell into - it’s a halo range, a place to harvest some profit from and use as a test bed for new tech applications that can be applied down the range at scale if they pan out. This is how Honda civics got lane keeping and auto wipers and cruise control and airbags and so on.
Cybertruck doesn’t seem intended as a halo vehicle - it seems to me to be intended to be a volume utility to sell alongside a volume passenger vehicle. So I think there’s still a real chance they’ll hit the same base price mark Ford has hit, with similar or better capabilities to the extended range battery in the Ford, but with a smaller battery, and I think the top spec will be significantly more expensive with a battery on par with the F150’s which is 131kwh usable, 140+ total. 150 isn’t an outlandish pack size at all for this class of vehicle that will be lucky, even with Tesla’s efficiency expertise and the aero advantages of the shape, to get to 400wh/mi at 70mph. And there’s room for quite a lot of price spread on such a large vehicle while still making money on all of them, even the cheapest of them. Base contractor spec F150’s are not loss-leaders. They sell too many of those for that to be sustainable for the half century they have been doing this.
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