RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly Absurd

Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by jotux on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:24PM (#50396210)

>For daily driving duty, a car or small suv is much more efficient.

I have a lightning and it averages 0.5kwh/mile and my electricity price is $0.15/kwh, so it costs me $0.075/mile to drive. At current gas prices that's pretty much the same as a very efficient hybrid compact car (55mpg @ ~$4/gallon). If I had solar I could probably offset almost all of the lightning fuel cost based on where I live (sunny) but it's so cheap it's not worth it.

Do you mean "much more efficient" in places where electricity rates are significantly higher than the national average? Or only much more efficient when compared to when you're charging at charging stations?

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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by spaceywilly on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:51PM (#50400113)

I mean efficient in engineering terms, not economics. A cybertruck is not as efficient as a small SUV (model Y) which is not as efficient as a sedan (model 3).

Cybertruck — 2mi/kwh

Model Y — 3.8mi/kwh

Model 3 — 4mi/kwh

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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by NetMageSCW on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:09PM (#50400273)

But economic terms are what matters.

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Re:RIP Cybertruck. You Were Unloved, Unwanted, and Utterly A... by jotux on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:09AM (#50427471)

I just think it's kind of weird that the entire context of your argument is on vehicles that live almost exclusively within the 95%+ percentile of energy efficiency. The cybertruck/lightning is equivalent energy efficiency to something like 70mpg, so yes, it's half the efficiency of a vehicle in the 99% percentile of efficiency but it's ~2x more efficient than the average car on the road today and ~3x more efficient than the average truck.

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