Rivian has been at it how long? And they finally produced 50k trucks and SUVs per year? Are you saying Rivian production will keep pace with the CT's? I'm listening carefully for your response because I'm thinking about dumping all my Rivian stock. It's been a dog.
The battery pack is to small for towing. Every truck that tows daily will need the battery replaced about every three years. I base that based on cars that were designed with less then 150 mile range, battery can’t handle it.
I probably have three years till my order comes up. I will deal with it then.
I’m sure tesla has the space. It was to be designed around the battery pack. Can’t wait till sandy monroe cuts one up. He might crash the internet when he releases his videos, lol.
It was “designed around” 4680 energy density assumptions that have thus far proven to be wildly optimistic, even for Lord Elon.
Definitely would want to be an “early adopter” of this abomination. I suspect there will be many re re re re refreshed Cybertrucks. Using history as a guide, Tesla always screws early adopters.
This "they will sell all vehicles they make take is moronic" is moronic.
I doubt many of these would be used daily for towing as you are suggesting. What about the battery cant handle daily use? What are these cars with least than 150 miles of range? Nissan leaf? They all needed battery replacement after 3 years?
GS must have new info on 4680 supply because it was calculated that current production was supply for 600 CT per week. I believe those calls were with 100kwh battery so now you can figure 30% less. That’s 25,000 per year.
Looking for stock advice on a public forum?
Cybertruck batteries 4680 are not in any other product now that the 4680 MY isn’t being sold. Maybe they could shift them to energy storage applications but then they’d be shipping them to CA from TX. Tesla is all in on TX being 4680 and CT headquarters for years to come.
That product almost certainly does not exist right now beyond a single rendered picture. It’s vaporware.
That and the spare would significantly lower the bed space/volume as well...
Let's also not forget that they made the deliberate choice to shorten the truck to "fit it in a regular garage". So they lost at least 7 inches of potential battery space off the reveal version. This final version is just slightly longer than my 2002 Yukon XL and that just barely fit in the garage of my previous house, so they are probably right about that. It's a trade off - appeal to the people who feel putting it in a garage is more important, or people who need the longer range for towing? Personally I wanted both because I wanted to replace my Yukon (which I am only keeping around for towing and holding long stuff) and I now have a garage long enough to handle the longest pickups. I hate keeping cars outside, because no matter how well they're made, they age faster when constantly subjected to the weather/debris off trees/the odd rampant squirrel... (yes, I've paid for the repairs from two examples of that!)
