Cybertruck core dump:
Having had a cybertruck beast for a few months, I can say it’s rather mid. The zero to 60 is amazing, and that’s its main feature and I love it.
But everything else…meh.
The bed is small. Yes it can handle a moderately heavy load in the bed (2000-2500 lbs depending on model) and will fit 8x4 building materials…but only with the tailgate down.
It can tow a reasonable amount (11,000 lbs for all models). But only for 80 miles.
Rated range is 300 miles, but in practice, it’s more like 250 at most if you start at 100% charge. But as normal charge level is 80%, you’re looking at 200 miles…but you might want 20 miles to spare to look for a charger. 180 miles isn’t awful for an unplanned trip, but it’s a far cry from the 500 they initially teased.
The steering wheel has no controls on the stem, it’s all thumb buttons. Other than a few thumb buttons on the wheel, everything else is controlled by tiny software buttons on a computer screen. And the tiny buttons require you to be very accurate when touching them. I’ve had times where it took me 6 attempts to hit the desired button.
The cameras do a very poor job of showing you the surroundings you need to be aware of to back up. You can’t see up/down the road you back in to. One must turn head/body around and look out back passenger windows, and even this really only works if you’re not parked next to another car which will block view. So the camera will let you pull out and cut somebody off, but you’d see someone if you were to back into them…nowhere near as nice as my wife’s Honda minivan.
There is no self driving. Supposedly it’s coming this year or next year or three. Maybe. There are no proximity sensors. They just issued a software park assist feature, but it only sort of works. Does NOT help me pull in to garage _at all_
Is it worth the $135,124 it took to get it out the door? Well, no, because at the time this was 2 bitcoins. So I kept the two bitcoins and took a loan out for the truck. This will make the vehicle cost roughly $160,000 over the next 5 or 6 years (ballpark). In 5 or 6 years we shall see if those two bitcoin are worth more than the price of the truck.
In 2017, I sold bitcoin at $7,000 to buy a $44,000 minivan. Had I taken out a loan back then instead of selling bitcoin, I could have had 2 or 3 free cybertrucks.
This is retail leverage. Use carefully.
