Tesla nonetheless hasn’t revealed its Cybertruck or disclosed an actual timeline for when it can reveal specs and costs. The electrical automaker introduced that it constructed one July 15 on Twitter, in fact, the place Tesla CEO Elon Musk doubles because the social media platform’s govt chairman.
On Wednesday, throughout its quarterly replace for buyers, the corporate and its management crew revealed a couple of extra know-how tidbits about this eagerly anticipated electrical truck.
Certainly one of them is that the Cybertruck will get a more moderen, extra energy-dense model of Tesla’s 4680 cells that already go into the Mannequin Y.
“Right here in Texas we’re getting ready to launch our Cybertruck cell, which has 10% greater power density than present manufacturing,” stated Drew Baglino, senior VP for powertrain and power engineering. “That was completed by means of course of and mechanical design optimization.”
Evaluating 4680 vs. 2170 – Panasonic
Preliminary 4680 cells are comparable in power density to the 2170 cells Tesla makes use of in any other case, so the optimization is noteworthy. Tesla has additionally been reportedly readying a high-nickel model of those cells.
Tesla continues to work by means of the imaginative and prescient that was revealed at its 2020 Battery Day—one that may doubtlessly permit it to chop its battery cell price in half over the long term, partly by championing the brand new cell format. Baglino stated that Tesla’s cell manufacturing elevated 80% in Q2 versus Q1 at its battery manufacturing unit in Austin, Texas, and the crew handed 10 million manufacturing cells made there.
Cross-section of future Tesla cell
Future Tesla cell will make power, energy positive factors
In any other case, Tesla stated that it’s now testing the Cybertruck world wide for last certification and validation—and proving new concepts.
“This is likely to be essentially the most distinctive automobile product in a long time; with that comes trialing and testing new applied sciences,” in response to Tesla’s quarterly report. “Each technologically and architecturally, this automobile will break plenty of boundaries—very a lot in step with how we take into consideration automobile engineering and manufacturing.”
“I do wish to emphasize that the Cybertruck has plenty of new know-how in it—like lots,” Musk reiterated, with out revealing any examples however as an alternative seeming to mood expectations for a steep manufacturing ramp.
Musk defined there might be one thing within the order of 10,000 distinctive components and processes within the Cybertruck, and the ramp will depend upon the “least well-executed components of the ten,000.”
Tesla Cybertruck last testing
Cybertruck quantity manufacturing in 2024, deliveries in 2023
Though the speed of the ramp is but to be decided, Musk emphasised supply is imminent.
“We’ll be making them in excessive quantity subsequent 12 months, and we might be delivering the automobile this 12 months,” he stated.
Tesla claimed that so far as it is aware of, the Cybertruck would be the first truck that’s lower than 19 toes lengthy with 4 doorways and a mattress greater than six toes lengthy.
2019 Tesla Cybertruck Prototype (Petersen Automotive Museum)
Most American garages in newer-build homes are typically no less than 20 toes lengthy primarily based on inside partitions, which would go away simply 6 inches forward of and behind the truck with the storage door closed. Many garages are 22 toes deep although, which permits a few foot and a half forward of and behind it.
Pricing stays unknown, although Musk commented on pricing of the electrical truck competitors. In a tweet relating to the practically $10,000 value drop for the F-150 Lightning pricing, Musk stated: “The Ford Lightning is an efficient automobile, simply considerably costly, particularly given the excessive rates of interest nowadays for any sort of mortgage.”
Tesla Cybertruck
Will the Cybertruck begin at $39,900?
Tesla revealed the Cybertruck in November 2019, with three fashions: a Single Motor model with 250+ miles of vary and beginning at $39,900, a Twin Motor AWD model with 300+ miles of vary costing $49,900, and a Tri Motor AWD model with 500+ miles of vary costing $69,900. Tesla eliminated these costs and specs in October 2021, fueling hypothesis that it could elevate them considerably and reconfigure the truck.
May the enhance in power density imply extra vary? Though the corporate hasn’t but disclosed what it means, it may assist enhance the worth of the automobile whether or not it does or would not elevate the worth.
Not less than one of many analysts on Tesla’s Wednesday name requested whether or not Tesla might want to decrease its costs throughout the board as soon as once more later this 12 months relying on financial circumstances, however the Tesla CEO appeared to say that definitely received’t be an issue for the Cybertruck.
“Demand is thus far off the hook you possibly can’t even see the hook, in order that’s actually not a difficulty,” Musk boasted.