{"id":908991,"date":"2026-11-07T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T10:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/908991\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T10:30:14","slug":"the-cybertrucks-death-is-actually-great-news-for-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/908991\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cybertruck\u2019s Death Is Actually Great News for EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tesla will end production of the Cybertruck<\/a> at its Texas Gigafactory next year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a uniquely toxic electric vehicle, between its divisive design and Elon Musk\u2019s embrace<\/a> of you name it. That toxicity certainly contributed to subpar sales, along with a number of recalls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the end of the Cybertruck is also another sign that the era of big EVs\u2014particularly big trucks\u2014is waning. That\u2019s great news for pedestrian and biker safety<\/a>, but also for the battery supply chain at a time when more people need to get behind the electric wheel.<\/p>\n

The Cybertruck uses a massive 123-kilowatt-hour battery that clocks in at around 1,600 pounds, or around a quarter of the vehicle’s weight. That\u2019s on par with the battery that powered Ford\u2019s F-150 Lightning, another electric truck that was canceled late last year<\/a>. (The company also killed a three-row EV<\/a> in 2024.) Ford\u2019s behemoth batteries ranged from 98 kilowatt-hours up to 131 kilowatt-hours.<\/p>\n

Seeing both trucks canceled within a year of each other, while automakers have announced a bevy of smaller EVs and gas-powered autos with electric motors that can extend range<\/a>, indicates there may be a shift afoot. Ford is planning to launch the Fathom next year. The sub-$30,000 electric pickup is expected to be about the size of the automaker\u2019s compact gas-powered Maverick pickup. Though Ford hasn\u2019t announced the battery sizes available in various trims, it\u2019s a safe bet they won\u2019t be anywhere near the size of the F-150 Lightning’s or Cybertruck’s. The company is also planning to relaunch the Lightning as an extended-range model.<\/p>\n

Startup Slate is also launching a tiny electric pickup<\/a> that can be converted to an SUV, with a bare-bones base model starting below $25,000. It also features a svelte battery and has seen a massive surge in preorders\u2014though, to be fair, so did the Cybertruck, and we saw how that turned out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the Rivian R2<\/a>, which launched this year. While the SUV isn\u2019t as tiny or cheap as Ford and Slate\u2019s vehicles\u2014its battery has 88 kilowatt-hours of capacity and weighs in at around 1,200 pounds\u2014it\u2019s still smaller than the company\u2019s flagship R1S. Rivian has also teased the R3<\/a>, an even more-slimmed down SUV, in the coming years.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say big EVs are dead. The Kia EV9, for example, is among the top 10 EVs by sales in the US, as is the R1S. There\u2019s also a torrid resale market<\/a> for the F-150 Lightning. But the rest of the top 10 new EV sales are all crossovers, sedans, or mid-sized SUVs with moderately sized batteries, and a number of newly announced EVs are trending on the smaller side or function as extended-range vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tesla will end production of the Cybertruck at its Texas Gigafactory next year. It\u2019s a uniquely toxic electric…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[39800,28,52739,6144,5040,11,1019],"class_list":["post-908991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-automobiles","tag-business","tag-cybertruck","tag-electric-cars","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-elon-musk","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}