Tesla has quietly removed the Cybertruckβs range extender from the options in its online configurator.
Does Tesla still plan to bring the product to market?
When Tesla unveiled the production version of the Cybertruck in late 2023, there were two main disappointments: the price and the range.
The tri-motor version, which was the most popular in reservation tallies, was supposed to have over 500 miles of range and start at $70,000.
Tesla now sells the tri-motor Cybertruck for $100,000 and only has a range of 320 miles.
As for the dual-motor Cybertruck, it was supposed to cost $50,000 and have over 300 miles of range. The reality is that it starts at $80,000, and it has 325 miles of range.
However, Tesla had devised a solution to bring the range closer to what it originally announced: a separate battery pack that sits in the truckβs bed. Tesla called it a βrange extender.β It costs $16,000 and takes up a third of the Cybertruckβs bed.
Even though the Cybertruck has been in production for a year and a half at this point, the range extender has yet to launch.
Initially, Tesla said that it would come βearly 2025β, but we reported that it was pushed to βmid-2025β late last year.
At the time, Tesla also reduced the range that the removable battery pack adds to the Cybertruck to β445+ milesβ rather than β470+ milesβ for the dual motor β a ~25-mile reduction in range.
Now, Tesla has removed the option from its online Cybertruck configurator. It used to take reservations for the range extender with a β$2,000 non-refundable depositβ, as seen on the image above, but now itβs not in the configurator at all at the time of writing.
Itβs unclear if Tesla is not planning to launch the product anymore or if it is just pausing reservations.
In its specs page, Tesla still lists the achievable range of both versions of the Cybertruck with and without the range extender battery:
Electrekβs Take
Iβm curious. Is it dead, or does Tesla just want to stop taking reservations for it?
At first, I was curious about the product even though I didnβt think it would make up for Teslaβs significant miss on Cybertruck specs.
However, after it was confirmed that it takes up 30% of your bed and that it needs to be installed and removed by Tesla at a service center, I think itβs pretty much dead on arrival at $16,000.
Itβs going to be a product limited to only a few people at best. And now thatβs if it makes it to market.
With the option being removed from the configurator, thereβs no production timeline available. Again, the last one was βmid-2025β, which is soon.
