The Tesla Cybertruck has arrived in Malaysia only a few months after the model’s first pick-up truck made its world debut final December. This revelation comes after a member of the paultan.org Automotive/Automobile Dialogue Group on Fb (and presumably an insider) posted this photograph of a coated Cybertruck (that particular profile is unmistakable) with ‘Tesla Kuala Lumpur’ seen on a wall.
If you happen to verify the official Tesla Malaysia web site proper now, you’ll see the Cybertruck listed alongside the Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y, the latter two already launched right here. There’s been no phrase if the Cybertruck can be offered right here, so we will solely assume the all-electric pick-up truck is right here to be showcased – Thailand will welcome the mannequin this week.
The Cybertruck is the primary Tesla to make use of an 800V structure for its high-voltage battery system in addition to a 48-volt low-voltage electrical system. Different firsts embody rear-wheel steering and a steer-by-wire system with a pair of electrical motors on the entrance steering rack and one on the rear.
Deliveries of the Cybertruck have already began in america, the place it’s supplied in three variants starting from USD60,990 to USD99,990 (about RM290k to RM474k). The specs of every variant are as follows:
Rear-Wheel Drive (single electrical motor on the rear)
- 0-96 km/h (0-60 mph) time: 6.5 seconds
- High pace: 180 km/h (112 mph)
- Vary: 402 km (250 miles; estimated)
- Payload capability: 1,134 kg (2,500 lbs)
- Towing capability: 3,402 kg (7,500 lbs)
All-Wheel Drive (two electrical motors; one entrance and one rear)
- Electrical motors output: 608 PS (600 hp or 441 kW) and 10,080 Nm (7,435 lb-ft; wheel torque)
- 0-96 km/h (0-60 mph) time: 4.1 seconds
- High pace: 180 km/h (112 mph)
- Vary: 547 km (340 miles; estimated); 756 km (470 miles) with vary extender
- DC charging: 250 kW; 219 km (136 miles) recoverable inside quarter-hour
- Payload capability: 1,134 kg (2,500 lbs)
- Towing capability: 4,990 kg (11,000 lbs)
Cyberbeast (three electrical motors; one entrance and two rear)
- Electrical motors output: 857 PS (845 hp or 630 kW) and 13,959 Nm (10,296 lb-ft; wheel torque)
- 0-96 km/h (0-60 mph) time: 2.6 seconds
- High pace: 209 km/h (130 mph)
- Vary: 515 km (320 miles; estimated); 708 km (440 miles) with vary extender
- DC charging: 250 kW; 206 km (128 miles) recoverable inside quarter-hour
- Payload capability: 1,134 kg (2,500 lbs)
- Towing capability: 4,990 kg (11,000 lbs)
By way of design, the Cybertruck is all angular and appears almost similar to the prototype offered method again in November 2019. The outer panels, or “exoskeleton” in response to Tesla, is made up of an ultra-hard stainless-steel that the corporate says reduces dents, injury, long-term corrosion and is even bulletproof (as much as a level). As for the inside, it’s typical Tesla minimalism with the principle spotlight being a big 18.5-inch touchscreen to entry all automobile capabilities and driving info.
Measuring 5,682 mm lengthy, 2,413 mm extensive with the aspect mirrors prolonged (2,200 mm retracted), 1,790 mm tall and with a wheelbase spanning 3,810 mm, the Cybertruck is a big automobile. For context, the Hilux Rogue we’ve got right here is 5,325 mm lengthy, 1,900 mm extensive, 1,815 mm tall and has a wheelbase of three,085 mm.
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