Phoenix Technology News Beijing time on May 10, according to Business Insider, Tesla's electric pickup truck Cybertruck has been released for five years, but some of the major promises Elon Musk has made on this car have not yet been realized.

Cybertruck was released in 2019 and has changed a lot now. The car was finally launched in November 2023, but the launch process was quite twists and turns, undergoing multiple recalls, and encountered early challenges in expanding production scale.

Here are five major promises that Musk has not fulfilled:

1. Low price

When Musk released the Cybertruck in 2019, he said the starting price was $39,900, while the more advanced versions were $49,900 and $77,000 respectively.

But this is not the case. In 2023, Tesla launched the Foundation series model with a price of $120,000 and said the cheapest model is actually priced at $60,990 and will be available in 2025. Recently, Tesla released a long-range version of the Cybertruck, which costs $69,990. The most expensive version of Cyberbeast is priced at around $100,000.

2. Long-term life

Musk said in 2019 that the most advanced three-motor version of the Cybertruck will have a range of 500 miles (about 805 kilometers). This would have made it one of the longest-lived electric cars on the market, but Tesla has not fulfilled that promise.

Cybertruck

Cybertruck

Currently, according to Tesla's promotion, the long-range version of the Cybertruck, which costs $69,990, is expected to last 350 miles, while the Cyberbeast version, which costs about $100,000, has only 301 miles of range. Tesla had previously planned to launch a "battery battery pack" priced at $16,000, which would install the battery pack in the car bucket to increase the vehicle's range to more than 470 miles. But in early May, Tesla canceled the product and refunded it for pre-order users.

3.Cyberquad

At the end of the 2019 Cybertruck launch conference, Musk also unexpectedly released a Tesla four-wheeled motocross called "Cyberquad". Musk said at the time on X that the Cyberquad would be a two-seater all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and would be launched simultaneously with the Cybertruck.

Tesla did launch a $1,900 children's Cyberquad, which has been reduced to $1,650 and has been recalled once due to safety concerns, but the full-size Cyberquad has not yet been released.

4. Ship function

One of Musk's most eye-catching promises to the Cybertruck is that this pickup can float in a short time and can be used as a marine. Musk once said on X that the Cybertruck will have enough waterproofing to "traverse rivers, lakes, and even less turbulent seas."

However, while the Cybertruck does come with a "wading mode" that allows the driver to pass through water up to 30 inches (about 76 cm) for a limited time, it is still far from being truly nautical.

5. Crab mode

Musk wrote on X in 2021 that the first production Cybertruck will be equipped with four motors, one on each wheel, which allows it to rotate 360 ​​degrees like a tank and drive obliquely like a crab.

But this feature has never been out of Tesla's design drawings. Wes Morrill, chief engineer at Cybertruck, said in April that Tesla had tried this feature but failed to find practical application scenarios. (Author/Xiao Yu)

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