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Tesla Cybertruck's Removable Range Extending Battery Pack Takes Up 1/3 Of The Bed

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Logan Carter
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An image of the Tesla Cybertruck's six-foot long bed with the range extender inside pushed up against the front of the truck bed taking up approx. 1/3 of the bed.
An image of the Tesla Cybertruck's six-foot long bed with the range extender inside pushed up against the front of the truck bed taking up approx. 1/3 of the bed.

Elon Musk presided over the first deliveries of Tesla’s controversial Cybertruck today, and some people are disappointed with the truck’s range. The Cybertruck’s range was initially marketed to max out at 500 miles, but reality must have hit Tesla like a speeding Cybertruck, because the truck’s longest available range is now an estimated 340 miles.

The solution? An optional range-extender battery pack that installs in the Cybertruck’s bed and instantly eats up one-third of the 6-foot-long cargo box, reducing usable bed length to 4 feet. It is claimed to increase the maximum range of the Cybertruck to around 470 miles, much closer to the originally advertised range. That extended range isn’t that much longer than a properly-optioned Rivian R1T which is capable of a maximum claimed range of 410-miles. The highest-end Cyberbeast trim boasts a 320-mile range that is boosted to 440 miles with the range-extending pack, while it doesn’t seem like the battery pack will be offered on the base Cybertruck, which has a 250-mile range.

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Pricing, weight, and precise dimensions for the range extending pack are notably absent from the Tesla website, as is any information about how the pack is removable. Batteries are heavy – the Hummer EV’s 210-kWh battery pack weighs more than 2,800 pounds – so the Cybertruck’s additional pack could weigh in at north of 500 pounds. Tesla says the Cybertruck’s max payload is a 2,500 pounds, so this pack will likely impact that capability pretty heavily (pun intended.) Maybe Tesla will come out with a Cybercrane to help you mount it in your Cybertruck’s bed.

An image of a Cybertruck parked by a lake filled with camping, climbing, and kayaking gear with a kayak on top.
An image of a Cybertruck parked by a lake filled with camping, climbing, and kayaking gear with a kayak on top.

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