Tesla Cybertruck
#1081
Lexus Champion
#1082
Say what? Have you never used Stainless Steel anything in your entire life? It scratches like crazy. Watch the Munro Live tour of the Cybertruck plant to see the insane level of care they put into ensuring the body panels don't get scratched before or during assembly. LegitStreetCars also has a video where they use a plastic brush on a power drill to re-grain the body of a DeLorean.
It is not your fridge.
But it will keep plenty of greasy fingertips.
#1083
Lexus Champion
It was on my Facebook but I just lost it...
CT went 254 miles in 46 degree weather on a flat steady cruise on the highway. Apparently it's rated for 320?
And don't shoot the messenger.
CT went 254 miles in 46 degree weather on a flat steady cruise on the highway. Apparently it's rated for 320?
And don't shoot the messenger.
#1084
#1085
Pole Position
The mileage rating you see for an EV is based on mixed or mostly city driving where the regenerative braking helps recharge the battery. I get about 70% of the stated range on my Model Y with highway driving because I'm going 80-85mph and there is no opportunity for regen braking. I think in my case that's somewhere around 210 miles, although I don't really know because I've only taken it on 2 trips of 3+ hours. I just use it for our daily around town driving.
#1086
Pole Position
320 is blended and assumes 55% highway and 45% city, so 254 is entirely reasonable. The other thing is that the specific speed of the cybertuck is an important detail as efficiency will decrease dramatically as speed increases (because aerodynamic drag has a bigger impact on bigger vehicles like cybertruck and drag is proportional to the square of speed, so the there’s a relatively bigger impact as speed increases )
#1087
Lexus Champion
The mileage rating you see for an EV is based on mixed or mostly city driving where the regenerative braking helps recharge the battery. I get about 70% of the stated range on my Model Y with highway driving because I'm going 80-85mph and there is no opportunity for regen braking. I think in my case that's somewhere around 210 miles, although I don't really know because I've only taken it on 2 trips of 3+ hours. I just use it for our daily around town driving.
#1088
Lexus Fanatic
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the 'ratings' for ev's need revising to show both the city/mixed expectation AND the highway expectation.
they're very misleading and people buy ev's based off the rating info they see.
they're very misleading and people buy ev's based off the rating info they see.
#1089
Lexus Champion
I totally agree. But than that may just scare people off, so it's a catch 22
Last edited by AMIRZA786; 01-08-24 at 09:34 AM.
#1090
Pole Position
They're really no more and no less misleading than the EPA ratings for ICE cars which work the exact same way and have their own issues in that how close you get to the EPA number is 100% contingent upon how close your driving mix is to the baselines.
#1091
320 is blended and assumes 55% highway and 45% city, so 254 is entirely reasonable. The other thing is that the specific speed of the cybertuck is an important detail as efficiency will decrease dramatically as speed increases (because aerodynamic drag has a bigger impact on bigger vehicles like cybertruck and drag is proportional to the square of speed, so the there’s a relatively bigger impact as speed increases )
If 255 was the same for everyone, it would be good numbers. I think depending on roads, average speed, tweather, load, etc, some people will be getting closer to 200 and they might be quite happy with it.
#1092
Lexus Fanatic
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#1094
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Most people aren’t measuring or seeing the differences with their ICE cars because they don’t focus on range so much plus the data might not be as accessible but the physics doesn’t change. Aerodynamic drag still rises with the square of speed and the drag delta between 70 to 85 is greater than the speed delta between 70 and 85. The calculation is of course impacted by drag coefficient and frontal area and on some vehicles that’s going to be more noticeable than others. Atmospheric conditions too, driving into a headwind or driving with a tailwind will deliver different efficiency at constant speed. Obviously there’s the impact of the transmission in the case of the ICE vehicle. You can cruise at speed at relatively low RPM. But you’re still using more fuel as speed increases.
Last edited by swajames; 01-09-24 at 08:17 AM.