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Initially advertised with up to 500 miles of range, the production Cybertruck arrived with significantly less. Tesla's solution was the range extender, which sits in the truck bed and costs $16,000.

But it still only brings the Cybertruck’s maximum range up to 470 miles in the base pickup, below that original 500-mile estimate. Tesla hasn’t yet listed the range extender’s capacity.

To rectify that, Tesla announced a range extender way back in 2023, and priced it at $16,000 last fall, which left customers scratching their heads. Unlike most EV range extenders, Tesla’s wasn ...

Range extenders aren't exactly new tech. The first mainstream car to get one was the Chevrolet Volt, followed by the BMW i3. In Europe, Mazda even gave its all-electric MX-30 crossover a rotary ...

Tesla updated the Cybertruck website again with an image of the range extender (below), which appears to take up more than a third of the bed space; an assertion backed up by Elon Musk on X. The ...

The Range Extender, which in reality was a massive battery pack that took up a third of the Cybertruck’s bed and had to be installed and uninstalled by Tesla technicians, was meant to bring the ...

Interestingly, the range extender’s impact on the tri-motor Cybertruck’s range hasn’t changed on the standard wheels and tires, but it is down to “415+ miles” with the all-terrain wheels.

Tesla has yet to launch the range extender or confirm the price, but the code for the configurator on Tesla’s website briefly showed a $16,000 price.

The Tesla Cybertruck represents a place where promises go to die. Promises about durability, safety, price, power and even range fell apart as soon as the thing went on sale at the end of 2023.

View post: What It Actually Costs to Replace a Mild Hybrid Battery in 2025 Range extenders might still serve a purpose for a little while. More range-extended EVs would probably have better served ...