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- Tesla canceled its Cybertruck scope extender, which was acceptable for mid-2025 release.
- The optional artillery battalion would widen the region the Cybertruck could thrust earlier needing to recharge.
- Tesla's determination follows erstwhile delays and a simplification successful archetypal scope estimates.
RIP, Cybertruck scope extender.
Cybertruck owners nary longer person the enactment to wage $16,000 much for an accessory to widen their vehicle's range.
A Tesla lawsuit work typical confirmed to Business Insider connected Thursday that Tesla was nary longer selling the Cybertruck scope extender, and customers who had antecedently deposited $2,000 to reserve the accessory were refunded. Elektrek antecedently reported the news.
The add-on artillery battalion was initially marketed arsenic arriving successful mid-2025. The artillery would person taken up a 3rd of the Cybertruck's bed.
With the artillery pack, Tesla said the dual-motor variant would execute astir 445 miles of range, with the scope of the tri-motor "Cyberbeast" top-of-the-line variant would beryllium extended implicit 415 miles. The cancellation comes aft Tesla delayed the Cybertruck scope extender successful October and reduced its archetypal scope estimation by 25 miles. Speculation astir further delays began past period erstwhile the automaker removed the artillery battalion from the Cybertruck online configurator.
The artillery battalion would person helped the EV pickup motortruck present specs person to what Tesla and Elon Musk initially advertised to customers. When the automaker announced the electrical pickup motortruck successful 2019, it said the highest-end exemplary would present implicit 500 miles of scope and outgo $77,000, with cheaper versions priced astatine $39,900 and $49,900.
That didn't happen. The Cybertruck went connected to motorboat with a little advertised scope betwixt 301 and 318 miles and astatine prices tens of thousands of dollars more, with the $120,000 Foundation Series shipping archetypal successful 2023 and the lowest-cost mentation starting astatine $60,990.
Musk besides antecedently said that the Cybertruck could temporarily relation arsenic a vessel with the quality to "cross rivers, lakes, & adjacent seas that aren't excessively choppy." While the conveyance tin thrust done astir 30 inches of h2o for a constricted time, the vessel functionality didn't materialize. Musk has since said Tesla would merchandise an update that allows it to "traverse astatine slightest 100m of h2o arsenic a boat," and said successful a station connected X successful April connected a video of a Tesla crossing done a water and said "With a small work, it should beryllium capable to transverse immoderate unfastened water."
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The scope extender's cancellation is the latest setback for the vehicle. As immoderate owners grapple with anti-Tesla vandalism and harassment connected the roadworthy amid protests captious of Musk, the conveyance has struggled with sales. A March 20 callback filing disclosed that Tesla delivered less than 50,000 Cybertrucks, and workers person besides told BI that the automaker scaled backmost production of the pickup truck.
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