You never have to wait long to hear another story about our odd engineering choices Tesla e-truck. A new teardown video shows how even the angular truck’s massive battery pack appears to be half-finished.
In a video posted to X previewing an upcoming split, Sandy Munro and his engineering company finally got their hands on the Tesla Cybertruck. The full analysis hasn’t been posted yet, but the clip shows Munro’s team opening the Cybertruck’s battery pack and it being eerily empty. EQUAL Bytes pointed out, this raises a number of questions.
Of all the EV trucks on sale today, the Cybertruck’s 123 kWh battery pack has the smallest energy capacity. This explains why this truck failed to pass testing compared to Tesla’s own estimates. The Cybertruck only achieves a range of 254 miles in an independent test. It has also been reported that the range can be reduced to just 200 miles There is no bed cover. The owner has reported The range is even less than that.
However, the space in the battery pack is annoying. Tesla is said to have an expansion to the pack coming that will increase the range to 440 miles but that is said to be a bed-mounted range extender That takes up a huge amount about bed space. Is Tesla trying to reduce the weight of the already heavy truck? Or is this just another example of Tesla’s obvious cost-cutting measures? If only there was a PR person we could ask.
This isn’t exactly the design element the company was worried about Murno exposing. Musk and one of the Cybertruck’s chief engineers tweeted in response to reports of the package appearing to be half empty:
Given Tesla’s penchant for not really going into any kind of technical details about its cars, we’ll likely have to wait until Munro’s full breakdown video is released to get answers. word.
