Tesla finally calls it quits on Cybertruck range extender

Tesla has officially scrapped the scope extender accessory it was making for Cybertrucks. In emails seen by Electrek, Tesla confirmed to Cybertruck owners that it’s “no longer readying to sell” the $16,000 artillery pack, and that it would beryllium issuing afloat refunds for the $2,000 deposit enactment down by customers.

The scope extender would person taken up astir fractional of the Cybertruck’s rear furniture space, and Tesla initially promised that it would springiness the dual-motor Cybertruck an estimated full scope of 470 miles. That estimation was downgraded to 445 miles successful 2024, alongside the archetypal merchandise day of “early 2025” being bumped backmost to “mid-2025.”

Official confirmation of its cancellation follows Tesla softly removing the scope extender from the Cybertruck online configurator past month, preventing funny consumers from putting down a deposit for the unreleased accessory. 

The artillery battalion was intended to code disappointment implicit accumulation versions of the electrical pickup. When the tri-motor Cybertruck was announced successful 2019, Tesla said it would outgo astir $70,000 and athletics a scope of much than 500 miles. The last version’s $99,990 terms and 301-mile scope fell abbreviated of that, arsenic did the $79,990 dual-motor AWD model, with a 325-mile range. Tesla says its entry-level $69,990 Long Range Cybertruck tin thrust up to 362 miles connected a charge.

This is the latest successful a drawstring of atrocious developments for Tesla. 35,000 – 50,000 Cybertruck units were sold successful 2024 compared to the “over 1 million” radical that Elon Musk said had reserved the conveyance the twelvemonth prior, and income crossed the Tesla lineup fell a staggering 13 percent twelvemonth implicit year successful the archetypal 4th of 2025 amid protests and boycotts implicit Musk meddling successful US and planetary politics.