Cybertruck may have 1 million-mile battery

For the sake of conversation, battery life is a function of charge cycles. At an average of say 300 miles per charge that’s 3333 cycles. So they have something up their sleeve as current batteries aren’t up to that level.

Those semi's travel over 100,000 miles a year, their lifetime is still measured in 10 years or so. A million miles on a POV will take 50 years at a 20,000 mile a year rate. And by that time, your back to a Mr Fusion being the better choice.

And if a frog had wings he MAY not bump his butt.

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
And there are semis made of ordinary rolled steel with more than a million miles still running.

How can Cybertruck be any worse when it's stainless steel?

Sure and most modern vehicles go to the junkyard with perfectly functional engines...200k miles is nothing special when they go.

Longhaul commercial semis often do 500+miles per day 5-6 days per week. Works out to around 125-150k miles per year. At that rate, you can hit a million miles in well under 10yrs.

Passenger cars typically run about a tenth of that (12-15k/yr). At 15k/yr, that's 67yrs to reach a million miles. At 15-20yrs, suspension, electrical glitches and a bunch of other things are failing. Interiors are worn out. It's simply not cost effective to completely rebuild when you can buy a newer vehicle for less.

They are solving a non-existent problem. Modern drivetrains already are plenty durable enough to outlast the vehicle.

We have been driving an electric car for going on 9 years. They are all proving to be far more reliable and need far less maintenance than a fuel-powered vehicle. Since our house got solar panels, we charge for free.

One of the first Model S has gone 559,000. A million can't be too long in the future.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-record-mileage-900000-kilometers

Reisender wrote:

Home Skillet wrote:
Yawn.
The rest of the vehicle won't make it for 1 million miles.

I think suspension components, rubber seals, AC units, steering components etc will all have standard shelf life’s. But the body is stainless steel. I can see them having long lifes. Processing hardware will date itself eventually. Software is easy. My wife’s Tesla seems to get a new version at least once a month.

Times are a changing.

And there are semis made of ordinary rolled steel with more than a million miles still running.

How can Cybertruck be any worse when it's stainless steel?

Home Skillet wrote:
Yawn.
The rest of the vehicle won't make it for 1 million miles.

I think suspension components, rubber seals, AC units, steering components etc will all have standard shelf life’s. But the body is stainless steel. I can see them having long lifes. Processing hardware will date itself eventually. Software is easy. My wife’s Tesla seems to get a new version at least once a month.

Times are a changing.

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:

Home Skillet wrote:
Yawn.
The rest of the vehicle won't make it for 1 million miles.

From whose crystal ball have you heard that from?

Personal observation.

Home Skillet wrote:
Yawn.
The rest of the vehicle won't make it for 1 million miles.

From whose crystal ball have you heard that from?

Fifty thousand miles a year for twenty years...wow!