Tesla is now upgrading the Cybertruck’s electrical motor with a extra “environment friendly and dependable” motor.
Tesla has began to contact some early Cybertruck house owners to inform them that they’ll change their electrical drivetrain.
The automaker says that it’s about conducting a examine of early Cybertrucks.
At choose house owners’ subsequent service go to, Tesla will change one among their drive items without cost. Tesla says that the brand new drive unit has “improved effectivity and reliability.”
The automaker didn’t specify it’s particularly the entrance or motor that will likely be changed. All Cybertrucks at the moment have not less than two motors.
Tesla specifies that the present drive unit will not be harmful to drive – making it sound like this new upgraded model is solely a extra refined model of the electrical motor.
Deliveries of Cybertruck began late final yr. Automakers usually launch new variations of a automobile program in a brand new mannequin yr, however Tesla prefers to implement change every time they’re prepared for manufacturing.
Electrek’s Take
It may very well be so simple as Tesla discovering some optimization via opinions of early Cybertrucks, and now the automaker is binging again a few of its early motors to see if it may discover additional optimizations.
Nonetheless, it is also Tesla discovering an issue with the prevailing drivetrain, and it is a mushy begin of the retrofiting program.
I’m not leaning extra a method than one other. We must always be taught extra within the subsequent few weeks as house owners get the brand new drive items at their subsequent service go to.
With that stated, whereas Tesla does loads of inside testing, the automaker is thought to usually launch automobiles incomplete and improve them after launch.
For instance, the Cybertruck doesn’t even have all of the ADAS options that it offered with.