{"id":82289,"date":"2025-05-07T20:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T00:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82289"},"modified":"2025-05-07T20:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T00:52:34","slug":"tesla-never-make-cybertruck-range-extender-achieve-promised-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82289","title":{"rendered":"Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.<\/p>\n

It started refunding deposits for the $16,000 extra battery pack.<\/p>\n

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When Tesla unveiled the production version of the Cybertruck in late 2023, two main disappointments were the price and the range.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Tesla now sells the tri-motor Cybertruck for $100,000 and only has a range of 320 miles.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

However, Tesla had devised a solution to bring the range closer to what it originally announced: a separate battery pack that sits in the truck\u2019s bed. Tesla called it a \u201crange extender.\u201d It costs $16,000 and takes up a third of the Cybertruck\u2019s bed.<\/p>\n

Even though the Cybertruck has been in production for a year and a half, the range extender has yet to launch.<\/p>\n

Initially, Tesla said that it would come \u201cearly 2025\u201d, but we reported in October 2024 that\u00a0it was pushed to \u201cmid-2025\u201d late last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time, Tesla also reduced the range that the removable battery pack adds to the Cybertruck to \u201c445+ miles\u201d rather than \u201c470+ miles\u201d for the dual motor \u2013 a ~25-mile reduction in range.<\/p>\n

Last month, Electrek<\/em> reported that Tesla has quietly removed the range extender<\/a> from the Cybertruck online configurator, where buyers could reserve it with a \u201c$2,000 non-refundable deposit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At the time, we speculated that Tesla was most likely giving up on the product.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, the automaker has now confirmed that it doesn\u2019t plan to produce the range extender.<\/p>\n

A Tesla Cybertruck owner contacted Electrek<\/em> to share communication that Tesla started sending to Cybertruck owners who reserved the range extender, letting them know that the product is dead.<\/p>\n

Tesla wrote in the email:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are no longer planning to sell the Range Extender for Cybertruck.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The automaker says that it will start processing refunds for the deposits.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Tesla\u2019s communication about the Cybertruck range extender in full:<\/p>\n

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Update to Your Cybertruck Range Extender Order<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi [redacted],<\/p>\n

Thank you for being a Cybertruck owner.<\/p>\n

We are no longer planning to sell the Range Extender for Cybertruck. As a result, we will be refunding your deposit in full. The amount will be returned to the original payment method used for the transaction.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your understanding.<\/p>\n

The Tesla Team<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Electrek\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n

There could be many reasons why Tesla has given up on the product.<\/p>\n

The range extender was confirmed to take 30% of the Cybertruck\u2019s bed, and Tesla needed to install and remove it at a service center. Owners couldn\u2019t remove them themselves. I think it was pretty much dead on arrival at $16,000.<\/p>\n

But I think it could also be as simple as it\u2019s not worth producing due to demand \u2013\u00a0both due to insufficient people reserving it and not enough Cybertruck buyers to create a market for the range extender.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the range extender is dead for the same reason that the Cybertruck RWD now has the same battery pack as the AWD instead of a smaller pack for less money: the Cybertruck is a commercial flop, and it\u2019s not a high-volume program enough to justify making several battery pack sizes, including a removable one.<\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}