THE Tesla Cybertruck, The 100% electric pickup truck from the California manufacturer is finally available in the United States. An American YouTuber tested it on a long road trip, but his road turned out to be rough.

Between autonomy which was missing lack of charging stations and level anxiety on-board computer, the trip turned out to be more difficult than expected.

Cybertruck’s chaotic existence

Since its announcement in 2019, Cybertruck’s existence has been full of ups and downs, exploits and disappointments. Be it delivery more than four years after its presentationwith’price increase, with failed test of throwing a pétanque ball into one of the windows of the prototypeor more recently when he beat the 911 in a drag race…The pickup still causes a lot of discussion!

Recently, the European public was stunned Cybertruck design inconsistency on the Old Continent. Sides that protrude too much do not meet European pedestrian safety standards.

Additional disappointment for the Tesla pickup?

A few days ago, an American YouTuber Dennis Wang did a full-scale test of his Cybertruck, fresh from the factory. He decided to document his journey with 2,150 km aboard his new pickup truck.

First observation: Autonomy has created serious problems and seems to be falling short of expectations. Our man traveled 27 hours from Austin, Texas to Joshua Tree National Park, California, and during his trip, as explained BusinessInsider, he had to face a insufficient autonomy, has charging difficulties and a failure of the infotainment system.

As the YouTuber explains, his Cybertruck is a version Foundation Series, power model 845 horsepower, four-wheel drive and announced autonomy 515 kilometers.

One stop every 179 km

Wang himself says that he was forced to ” stop often on the way ” reboot, explaining that it felt like “ this autonomy was almost halved“, regarding 515 km mentioned on paper.

In fact, says the YouTuberwas arrested 12 times for 2,150 km travel, or stop every 179 km!

The YouTuber explains that he was driving fast and encountered low temperatures, but this does not justify the low autonomy. His model is also able to achieve The maximum speed is 209 km/h.

As if that wasn’t enough, Wang also reported on the difficulties Superchargers. According to him, the infrastructure was not necessarily suitable for his large pickup, even though it was the same brand as the charger! He explains that sometimes he had to go ” stretch the cable as far as possible before removing it »and that sometimes “That was enough to connect it to the car“.

Finally, the infotainment system was disabled for 12 hours, preventing the YouTuber from accessing some of the car’s basic functions.

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