Don’t go looking for the Tesla Cybertruck’s official range on its window sticker. It doesn’t have one.
Due to the truck’s gross vehicle weight rating and six-foot bed it is classified as a heavy duty model, which is exempt from EPA efficiency ratings.
However, Tesla offers customers an estimate of 340 miles for the dual-motor version of the pickup, based on its internal testing.
Now a very reputable independent testing authority has found out how that figure stacks up in the real world.
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Edmunds put a privately-owned Cybertruck through its electric vehicle range evaluation, which is split between 60% city driving and 40% highway driving at a targeted 40 mph average in mild Southern California weather.
All of the nearly 12 hours of driving was conducted within 5 mph of the posted limit. The result was 334 miles of range per charge, which is within six miles of Tesla’s estimate.
One caveat is that the truck was not equipped with the flush wheel covers the Cybertruck was originally launched with, which help to reduce its aerodynamic drag. The shape of the cover was found to be damaging the tire sidewalls, so it is being redesigned.
There’s a very good chance that change would’ve gotten it over the 340 mile hump, but confirmation of that will have to wait for a future test.
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However, using the 334-mile result and the Cybertruck’s battery capacity of 122.4 kilowatt-hours, the Cybertruck appears to have a 92 MPGe (miles per gallon equivalent) efficiency rating, which is phenomenal for a full-size pickup.
This gels with Elon Musk’s comments that it is twice as efficient as the GMC Hummer EV Pickup, which is rated 53 MPGe in its most efficient dual-motor model, but gets 47 MPGe with the tri-motor powertrain that is also considered a heavy duty model, according to GM.
Tesla’s own tri-motor Cyberbeast has not yet been range-tested by Edmunds, but the company advertises it with 320 miles of range
UPDATE: Following the publication of its test, Edmunds was informed that the Cybertruck it tested, which was equipped with all-terrain tires instead of all-season tires, is advertised with 318 miles of range per charge, which means it far exceeded its estimate and is likely even more efficient with the all-terrain tires.