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a few minutes and segment two we'll start talking about Cyberchruck. But again,
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been up to. Anyways, more geek Therapy Radio coming up. Don't go
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The podcast that I update the most is called Science Bites. Anyways,
I said, we talk about Cybertruck, and let's do that as of recording,
and I knew one reason I like I needed to record a show today
is speacause Cyberchuck has finally started taking deliveries. If you remember, cyber Truck
was announced in two thousand and nineteen and Elon Musk the king of over promising.
I want to say under delivering, but like when you over promise and
then don't deliver, that is kind of under delivering. So in twenty nineteen
he announced Cyberchuck. You know the famous shattering glass kind of deal that happened
on when he was promoting Cyberchruck on veiling Cyberchuck. Twenty nineteen is when that
happened, and he promised twenty twenty two deliveries. It is now December twenty
twenty three, so he missed the mark by almost two years, which whatever,
but I'm just don't promise twenty twenty two. Don't say you're gonna deliver
by a certain date and then miss that date. Just say we're aiming for
and maybe it'll take lot. Like I was talking to my neighbor about this,
and I'll get right back cyberdrug about he's a graphic designer. He has
to kind of train his clients to have realistic expectations about delivery. So when
the client asks, hey, al when can I have the When can I
have these deliverables. Al's not gonna say, Al, my neighbor, one
week, You'll definitely have it in one week. No. Al's been doing
this for decades. He knows how the process goes, and he knows that
there are one hundred variables and one hundred littles and one hundred thin wrenches that
can get thrown in the works, and different people involved in approvals and things
like that. So Al has learned to make make manage expectations on promises and
then over deliver. So you don't tell a client, yes, definitely one
week, and then one week rolls by and the client says, where's my
stuff? Yeah, something came up. Something always comes up. So manage
expectations with clients and be forthright with them and be honest with them about timeline
expectations. And then when you say, when your heart wants to say I'll
have it in one week and it takes four weeks or whatever it realistically turns
out, say it, I'll have it in a month, and then you
can be the hero if you get it in within two weeks. Let's say
you promise a month or you say it's going to be a month out.
You say to expect probably around a month out, and then you deliver it
in two weeks. You're the hero. You've over delivered. Elon Musk doesn't
do that. Elon Musk says we're gonna roll out cyber truck twenty twenty two,
and then end of twenty twenty three comes around, almost two years later.
Finally we're getting cyber trucks, not without a lot of criticism, and
I want to speak to that for a moment. I want to get into
some specs of the cyber truck, of course what actually is being delivered.
But to the criticism, it is totally okay too. And it's very fashionable
right now to criticize Elon Musk. If you're at some high falutin, you
know, hipster coffee shop, I'm not going to hear anybody singing Elon Musk
praises, and I'm not saying, nor should you. I'm not here singing
Elon Musk praises. As a matter of fact, I just said he has
a problem with over promising. But while it's chic in hip to hate on
Elon Musk, I've always been other. Under the opinion of any artist,
of any engineer, of any kind of creator, world change or whatever,
that the person and their personal kind of beliefs and their personal lives and everything
should be held separate from whatever product they are producing or art they are creating.
For instance, Willie Nelson, Texas legend. Everybody and their grandmother,
no matter how conservative or liberal you are, loves Willie Nelson. Willy Nelson.
Conservatives love Willie Nelson. Willie Nelson is a raging liberal. I'm not
saying that as a bad thing. I'm just saying his politics don't line up
with the his fan base. A lot of conservatives love Willie Nelson and they
give him a pass on his differing politics than conservatives because the music is awesome,
because he's a freaking Texas legend. Neil Young, not from Texas does
not get the same slack cut for him, partly because I just Neil Young's
music is not my cup of tea. But Willie Nelson is just as,
if not more, well not more. But he's very liberal, but he's
a He's a staple among Texas conservatives and Texas liberals. Everybody loves loves Willie
Nelson, despite if they differ with his politics or worldview. So if it's
possible to do that with a with an artist, a music artist, which
I think it kind of should be standard, I don't understand why people stop
listening to artists because they different they have different worldviews. Now I understand if
I hate to bring this up, like I understand maybe not publicly liking Bill
Cosby stuff or not listening to Bill Cosby because of well Bill Cosby. I
kind of get that. But I don't understand poop pooing somebody's entire product line
or entire work, somebody's work based on different politics. If it's just merely
different politics, it's no reason to throw shade on what they're creating. So
all that said, it's very hip, very chic, very trendy to look
around your echo chamber and poop on Elon Musk. I get it. I'm
not saying there's anything wrong with that. There probably isn't anything wrong with that.
World changers and world leaders like this need to be held accountable. Billionaires
need to be held accountable for their personal actions. And if it's up you
have your freedom to disagree with their politics or whatever whatever they're up to,
buying Twitter, whatever, they're antics. But let's be let's be objective here
and not hold the cyber truck as a product. Don't criticize the cyber truck
because of who created it. Let it just stand on its own merits or
not stand on its own merits based on if it's a good product or not.
Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs was a monstrous a hole. But people line
up around the block, including people who would disagree with the Steve Jobs politics
and personality. They will spout out about it all, you know, day
long at Starbucks, but then they'll go wait in line for two days to
get the new iPhone fifteen. It's the hypocrisy is astounding. But anyways,
the cyber truck, is it just a good product? Besides Elon Musk?
Whatever you think about Elon Musk, who cares? Is the product of the
cyber truck good or not? And there, of course there's plenty of debate,
there's plenty of differing opinion on that. But what I want to go
over right now is just some of the specs and maybe some of my opinions
on it. The first thing I wanted to talk about here is something that
I didn't notice admittedly until just now, I'm looking at the cyber truck specs.
I'm on Tesla dot com forward slash cyber Truck, and it's the range
for the most range you're going to get. There's through three models of cybertruck.
Cyberbeast, which is kind of an awesome name, and then the mid
range is all wheel drive, and then the lowest on the range is the
rear wheel drive. So Cyberbeast has three motors, the all wheel drive has
two motors, and then the rear wheel drive has one motor, So cyberbeasts
range. The range of the Cyberbeast is three hundred and twenty miles or four
hundred and forty plus miles with the range extender. Okay. The all wheel
drive version, which is the mid tier, has a range of three hundred
and forty miles and then a range of four hundred and seventy plus miles with
the range extender. Okay. What I admittedly didn't know until just now,
and it's just it just it's just me being distracted by things. Was this
range extender? What is I hadn't heard of that until now. Usually typically
with evs and plug and hybrids and what have you, range extender means like
a little gas engine, like a little three cylinder gas engine too. You
know that kicks on after you've expelled the range of the battery. Your quote
unquote range extender turns on to keep you going. The three point six liter
V six in my Chrysler pacifica plug in hybrid minivan. Some people would call
it a range extender, but really it's like a fourteen gallon gas tank that
turns on after the thirty miles of electric range has depleted, which means I
can take Ryker to him from school, but not worry if we get a
drive to Virginia. A new segment coming up more cyber truck, don't go
anywhere. You're listening to geek Therapy Radio, Well, right back at it.
Welcome back to geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental curator, Johnny
Hemberger. We're talking cybertruck. So last segment I talked about something that I
admittedly wasn't familiar with until just today before recording the show. As I'm looking
at the cyber truck specs on Tesla dot com forward slasht cyber truck is this
range extender feature? So three trim levels of the cyber Truck. You've got
the top trim level which is going to be released in is going to be
delivered as of recording right now to people who have some people who have pre
ordered. At least Cyberbeast is top trim. That's what's available now. Then
the mid trim is all wheel drive that's coming out sometime later. And of
course the cheapest trim is the real WORL Drive coming out way later. I
suspect the real wheel Drive is going to be around sixty one thousand dollars.
The top trim that's available now is Cyberbeast, that's around one hundred thousand dollars.
Cyberbeast hastors all wheel drive has two motors, as I believe here,
and the real world drive has one motor. Now, the most range is
going to be this mid trim, the all wheel drive trim that has a
range of three hundred and forty miles, and then it says four hundred and
seventy plus miles with the range extender. And briefly, what I was talking
about in the last sectwords, the last of the end of the last segment
was typically range extender means like a little gas engine if you look at other
plug in hybrids and hybrid cars, they refer to their three cylinder or whatever
gas engine as a range extender. It just kind of turns into a generator
to keep providing electricity, and it means that you don't have to let's say
you need to go to In my case, I use a thirty miles of
range or so. In my twenty eighteen Chrysler PACIFICA plug and hybrid that thirty
miles of electric only range covers the daily back and forth of Reiker to school
and my wife to work. It covers it completely. But since it has
a big giant fifteen gallon or fourteen and a half gallon gas engine. Also
in my twenty eighteen Chrysler PACIFICA, that means we can just drive to Virginia
without worrying about charging stations and whatever, which doesn't make sense to hit charging
stations. When you have a plug in hybrid with thirty miles of electric range,
it's just good for the groceries day to day, and then you can
just drive across the country without worrying it on good old fashioned dinosaurs usee so
range extender and typical hybrids and typical plug and hybrids refers to a little gas
engine in the cyber truck, though it is a module or pod, whatever
you want to call it, that slots into the trunk or the bed of
the cyber truck. It takes up obviously some cubic square footage of the bed
of the cyber truck, which I'll talk about all the specks here in a
moment, But it takes up some of the room and the bed of the
truck, but adds what is it looks like one hundred and thirty miles or
something like that more range, which okay, I don't know I know how
much the range extender costs. I can't see any of that right now.
Let me see if I can do a quick Google search, I'd imagine,
oh my gosh, well yeah, so i'd imagine it's going to be pretty
expensive. And as I'm googling here, I'm still not seeing a price on
here. But so there is no real easy way to officially see the price.
But with a little bit of digging in people speculating in the best estimate
is that the range extender, which just remember here, the range extender gives
you like thirty three to thirty eight percent more range, So one hundred and
thirty miles let's say, of extra range for the cyber truck. You want
to take a guess? Want to take a guess on how much the range
ex extender is expected to cost? Sixteen thousand dollars for an additional one hundred
and twenty hundred and thirty miles of range. Sixteen thousand US dollars for the
range extender you could I don't even want to tell you how much gas you
could buy, how much electricity you could puy like sixteen that is, I'm
stunned. I'm stunned, but not surprised at how much the range extender is
expected to cost whenever it becomes available. One hundred and thirty You want one
hundred and thirty extra miles in your cyber truck? Sixteen thousand dollars for the
privilege. I don't have enough hair to pull out, and I just shaved
my bald head anyway, so like here, let me just I'm rubbing white.
Can you hear that I'm rubbing my head's stubble, my dome stubble.
Sixteen thousand dollars for one hundred Thirtyooooo, I don't know what kind of I
don't want to call him a dummy, but there's gonna be people with more
money. I don't know how man's that's gotta be quite a need. That's
got to be quite a need to shell out sixteen thousand dollars for one hundred
and thirty miles. Right. So, some of the features that might make
this addition make a little more sense is that there's a whole a lot of
outboard energy flow, so you can charge the truck. Let's just start talking
about the stats right now. You can charge it says here you can charge
about one hundred and thirty six miles in fifteen minutes, because the maximum charging
rate for the cyber truck is two hundred and fifty kilowatts max. So that
means you pull up to a charger, sit there for fifteen minutes, fiddling
around on your phone whatever, you get one hundred thirty six miles for fifteen
minutes. I'm tempted to get into the logistics of EV charging in how I
guarantee you ninety nine point nine percent of people that listen to the talk radio
every day really have no actual practical idea of what living within THEEV is actually
like, Okay, I am going to get sidetracked for a second fifteen minutes
to get one hundred thirty six miles more range. That actually isn't bad.
Here's the thing. Here's the thing. I have had a I have multiple
vehicles. I've got a naturally aspirate at V eight, I've got my V
six DeLorean, of course, i have the plug in hybrid minivan, and
then I have my fully electric twenty seventeen Chevy Bolt. People talk about,
oh, you got to sit there and wait, it take so long to
charge. Oh my gosh, you to fill up with gas in five minutes
and you're out emptied to full and you're out the door. You don't ever
you hardly ever, unless you live in an apartment, which is granted if
you live in an apartment, having an EV is really hard to do for
most people living in an apartment. But if you have a home, you
don't spend a lot of time at public chargers. I have been at a
public charger in the past three years that I've owned my Chevy Bolt fully electric
car. I've been at a public charger twice, and even that was only
for ten minutes here and maybe five minutes there to get me an extra a
few miles just to get home and plug and the rest of the way at
home, because that's what you do. Ninety nine point nine percent of the
car if time, if you're a homeowner, is your car just sits there.
It's plugged into the same one hundred and twenty volt twelve vamp outlet.
It's pulling twelve vamps from a standard one hundred and twentyvo plug. It's like
running a vacuum cleaner, a microwave. It just sits there. How long
does your car sit in the driveway when you get home, whenever you get
home, how long is your car sitting there? Twelve hours, ten hours,
twelve hours, sixteen hours, whatever it is, it's just charging.
The whole time you're inside watching the Texans, watching the Astros, drinking beers,
sleeping, making dinner, doing whatever you're gonna do. Your car is
just out there charging. So you're not spending, you're not hunting for a
public charger. That's what people don't understand. It's not their fault, just
the passerby tuning into talk mainstream talk radio mstr as I call it. They
don't they don't get that you're you're not hunting. You're not hunting for public
chargers unless you live in an apartment, and you don't. You can't be
charging for the twelve sixteen hours a day that your car is just sitting there
in the driveway. That's the reality every time. This is my personal anecdotal
experience having a daily driver EV for the past three years. Every time I
go out to my driveway, my car is full. It's just full.
Every morning when I walk out there to get in it, it's just full
because I leave it plugged into the same exact one hundred and twenty volt outlet
as a phone charger. If you have a garage in your home, you
have one hundred and twenty volt outlets around. You might even have a two
to fifty vault outlet somewhere even better, but you just leave it plugged into
the twe twenty volt outlet, charging at eight amps, twelve amps, whatever
you set the car to, and it's just sitting there for hours and hours
and hours while you're inside doing whatever you gotta do, it's charging the whole
time. It's like it's like a little gas ferry that comes around to your
driveway and just fills your car with gas. Yes, it's slow to charge,
but you're not doing what are you doing twelve sixteen hours inside your house.
You're enjoying your family, you're watching sports, you're sleeping, you're doing
yard or whatever you want to do. All that all it boils down to
this. Your vehicle is not being used for a very long time throughout a
twenty four hour period, and that time that it's not being used twelve hours,
sixteen hours, whatever it is, it's just charging. So every time
you go out to the car, even on one hundred and twenty volt outlet
that every garage has, your car is just full or it's ready to go.
It doesn't matter. You're not sitting there tapping your watch at a public
charger waiting for your car to charge. If you're a homeowner, if you're
an apartment dweller, you might not have access to just trickle charging your car
all the time. So yeah, you're gonna be hunting for public chargers.
But that's just that's not the way it works. For a homeowner with an
EV, it's just always full when you go out there. I'm not trying
to sell you on on an EV. I'm just trying to dispel you on
stuff you probably don't know if you listen to mainstream talk radio all the time,
because they're not going to tell you that there's vested interests in not making
EV's sound appealing to you. Truck believe me, I wonder how much trouble
I'm gonna get into for saying that. But I don't have any you know,
Chevy ain't sponsoring me, even though I have a Chevy Bolt and they
sell Chevy Bolts. Chevy GM hates selling EV's. They hate selling EV's.
They don't want me telling you go buy a Chevy Bolt because GM loses money
on every EV they sell. I have to double check that that used to
be the case. But anyways, somebody trying to sell tahoes and suburbans and
Silverado's isn't gonna want you know, the anecdotal truth about EV ownership. They
want to keep selling you these cars. They use gas, of course they
do. It's this their incentive. Cyber truck. We're going into the third
segment. It's the longest segment. Let's spend that segment without the without my
getting distracted. Let's talk about specs of the cyber truck. Geek Therapy Radio,
don't go anywhere. Welcome back to Geek Therapy Radio. You've got your
mental curator, Johnny Hamburger. As promised, I want to spend this third
and longest segment. If you're listening to this on the air or listening to
the podcast, Segment three is the longest segment for segments eight minutes. Second
segments ten minutes. Third segment is eleven minutes. Four segment is ten minutes.
Again, so third segment, longest segment. Let's talk about cyber truck
specs. And I'm gonna try to stick to this adhere to this as tightly
as possible. Let's get into it. Okay. As I've mentioned, there
are three trim levels of the cyber truck. The only trim level that is
available right now costs over one hundred thousand dollars and it is the top trim.
It is called Cyberbeast, which side note, is an awesome name for
a trim level of a truck, Cyberbeast. The media, the mid trim
level is called all wheel drive, and the rear wheel drive is a single
motor version which doesn't come out till twenty twenty five. But all that's available
right now is Cyberbeasts. So let's Cyberbeast has three motors. All wheel drive
is two motors, and rear weel drive is one motor. The mid trim
level all wheel drive has the longest range at three hundred and forty miles or
four hundred and seventy plus miles with that extra extra bed battery pack range extender.
Let's go over Cyberbeast specs. That is what is available today for I
don't know when it's going to be delivered to you if you actually went on
a Tesla dot Com and ordered it, I don't know what the delivery time
is, but some of them are being delivered as of now. It's December
first, we're finally seeing some cyber truck deliveries here. Momentarily there are shipping
apparently Cyberbeast specs of the cyber truck, the top range model of the top
trim level performance specs. This is Tesla dot Com for his last cyber truck
range estimate three hundred and twenty miles with the range extender four hundred and forty
plus miles. Acceleration zero to sixty. Remember this is a pickup truck.
Zero to sixty two point six seconds under three seconds in a pickup truck under
three seconds zero to sixty that is madness. Of course, it is all
wheel drive and the top speed is one hundred and thirty miles per hour.
I don't want to get sidetracked. I think there should be multiple gears for
electric cars. It does not just want motor spinning up to its maximum rpm
to do one hundred thirty miles an hour. I think like seven at sixty
miles an hour to kick into a long range higher gear. Basically, just
like you're shifting a manual gearbox in a normal car with a manual transmission,
or even an automatic transmission, it goes into the highest gear to get that
gear ratio. So the engine, the gas engine is sitting there at fifteen
hundred rpm while you're cruising at seventy miles an hour to get the most range
out of it. I think the same thing should start happening with ebs,
if they haven't already, Because the top speed of the cyber truck I guarantee
you is electronically digitally limited to one hundred and thirty miles per hour left to
fully unleashed, or if you added another longer gear in there, cyber truck
would do. The Cyberbeast trim level of the cyber truck would do two hundred
miles an hour easy. I'm even with aerodynamics. The horse power, the
horse power of this thing, what was it like eight hundred and forty five
horse power? It's over eight hundred and forty five horse power. The actual
website does not give you the horse power numbers for the cyber truck, but
I'm going to give you them anyways. All right, So I found specs
and I had to pause the recording to verify this and make sense of what
I was looking at here because the numbers seem, wow, just crazy,
But these are reputable outlets that are reporting these numbers. So you know,
a car and Driver motor trend, and I'm here on the Verge, which
has a really nice detailed list of the specs qween different cyber truck models.
Especially on the Verge here it says Cyberchruck Cyberbeast twenty nineteen verse twenty twenty three.
So let's go down to the torque with which I was talking about.
First horsepower actually in twenty nineteen is promised up to eight hundred horsepower. What
it actually turns out to be for the Cyberbeast trim level of cyberchruck is eight
hundred and forty five horsepower top speed one thirty torque in twenty nineteen. This
is where the number is. This is where I had to pause the recording
here to go cross reference and double check. And I'm going to put an
asterisk by this. Also, even though I'm seeing this some multiple reputable websites
and outlets that these numbers, go check it yourself. Also, go please
verify this for yourself also. But according to these outlets, torqu in twenty
nineteen was supposed to be up to one hundred, sorry, one hundred one
thousand foot pounds of torque and twenty nineteen, the Cyberbeast trim of the cyber
truck was going to have up to one thousand foot pounds of torque in twenty
twenty three, they're saying the torque Are you ready for this? And this
is why depodits recording and verify this and why I'm telling you to go check
yourself, even though I'm checking three different websites and outless that are saying this.
The torque in twenty twenty three for the Cyberbeast is actually ten thousand,
two hundred and ninety six foot pounds of torque. Ten thousand, two hundred
and ninety six foot pounds of torque, unbelievable. The max towing capacity of
the twenty twenty three cyber truck is eleven thousand pounds. The payload, which
is what you can put in the bed of the truck, is twenty five
hundred pounds. And let's start talking about numbers with clearance and battery capacity and
weight and all that good stuff. So the Cyberbeast twenty twenty three Cyberbeast pickup
truck. Let me check my recording to see I have enough time here.
Yes, I'm in segment three. Click back over to my chrome tab over
here. Battery capacity is one hundred and twenty three kilowatt hours, which is
a big battery, which makes sense because it's it's a pickup truck. The
range is promised in twenty nineteen said range was going to be five hundred miles.
The actual range is three hundred and twenty miles or four hundred and forty
with that range extender on that one hundred and twenty three kilowat battery plus the
range extender. All right, So the weight. The weight of the cyber
truck is six thousand, eight hundred and forty three pounds, so almost seven
thousand pounds sixty eight hundred pounds for the weight of the cyber truck. The
height is seventy point five inches, that is four and a half inches less
height than the first prototype in twenty nineteen. The length is two hundred and
twenty three point seven inches versus the two hundred thirty one point seven inches in
twenty nineteen, so the cyber truck has gotten a little bit smaller. The
width it's actually gotten wider since the prototype. The prototype in twenty nineteen was
about eighty inches. The actual twenty twenty three cyber truck is eighty six point
six inches wide with the mirrors on which the mirrors are removable because they have
cameras in there, you can remove the mirrors. But with the mirrors on,
it's ninety five inches wide, So mirrors off eighty six point six inches,
mirrors on sidemeres on ninety five inches. The bed is six and a
half feet. It doesn't say here on this website with the bed length is,
but Marquez Browne has measured it. It's an easily over six foot bed.
The cargo capacity is one hundred and twenty point nine cubic feet. That's
up from one hundred cubic feet of the twenty nineteen prototype trunk. The front
trunk or fronk, yes it has, it's not very big. The front
trunk it can fit two carry ons. As MKBHD has demonstrated the on board
power, which means this is the power that it could put out through its
charging port to either charge another car or power your house if you have the
right kind of breaker attached to your house, eleven point six kilowatts, So
we can output eleven point six kilowatts out of its charging plug. Or it
has two one hundred and twenty voult plugs and a two hundred and fifty volt
plug in the bed of the truck. That two hundred and fifty volt can
do a nine point six thereabouts killawats output, so it's like a beefy dryer
plug in the back. There horse power eight hundred and forty five horse power,
top speed on hundred thirty miles per hour, torque ten two hundred and
ninety six according to Dollar Reports Now is heer to sixty two point six seconds.
Towing capacity eleven thousand pounds max payloa two thousand, five hundred pounds you
can put in the bed there. Ground clearance is seventeen point four to four
inches in extract mode. Whatever that means. I assume that means it's its
highest ground clearance mode because it's adjustable height displays I don't really care about displays
eighteen point five inch center console display and then nine point four inch display in
the rear. Whatever. Wheels are twenty inches. Drag coefficient is zero point
three to four, which is about what a Dolorean is. By the way,
it's very close. Base price is one hundred thousand dollars ninety nine nine
hundred and ninety dollars. I'm seeing here the segments coming to an end.
Let's continue this in the fourth segment. You're listening to Geek Therapy Radio.
We're talking cyber truck. Let's keep going. Don't go anywhere. I totally
messed up here. This is the fourth segment. I'm getting my segments wrong,
and I was so excited. That's it for Geek Therapy Radio. Today.
I will talk about other trim levels of the cyber Truck, but they're
not available yet. As a matter of fact, the lowest trim level any
Moton come out until twenty twenty five. So all the specs and details and
everything I've been talking about is what's currently available, which is the Cyberbeast trim
of the truck one hundred thousand dollars and all the stats I just mentioned.
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