Recently, the Tesla electric pickup Truck Cyberruck finally revealed its true face, Tesla released its mass production version of the model on April 8, ready to be officially put into production in 2023.
Following cars, sports cars and SUVs, Tesla officially extended its "claws" to pickup trucks.
And that's not all.
Recently, a good person released a rendering of the Cyber Trail of Tesla's electric off-road vehicle on the US network.
Although it has not been officially confirmed by Tesla, its design style is in line with Tesla Cyberruck.
Considering tesla's maverick behavior, it is not unusual to really make such an electric off-road vehicle.
What's more, "pure electric off-road vehicles" are not a new thing, and the industry has been exploring them for several years.
Anyway, sooner or later the automotive industry will have to be electrified, or the first to start is strong.
So the question is, is this thing reliable or not?
There are not few manufacturers considering electric off-road vehicles
Off-road vehicles are a kind of subdivision models with high attention, and since the automotive industry is going to be fully electrified, the electrification of off-road vehicles is also a matter of morning and evening.
So far, Jeep has exposed the electric Wrangler Magneto 2.0 concept car, and the electric version of the Ford Bronco is also on the road. Earlier, the Hummer EV has been released and is expected to be delivered in 2023; the Mercedes-Benz EQG has also unveiled a concept car, and the electric version of the big G is about to debut.
Even the domestic Dongfeng Motor has set up an M division focusing on high-end electric off-road vehicles.
According to market news, the first model of the M division was designated M81.
It is worth mentioning that Dongfeng attaches great importance to electric off-road vehicles, and its other division, H Division, later became the "Lantu" brand.
So, is a true electric off-road vehicle really so attractive?
What are its advantages and disadvantages?
Fuel vehicles can do it, and electric off-road vehicles can also do it
Many fuel version of the off-road vehicle fans scorn the electric off-road, think that this kind of car is too delicate, and even the engine roar does not have, good to call off-road?
In fact, this is not the case, electric off-road is indeed quieter, but this does not mean that it can not be off-road.
Off-road, not by roaring, but by torque.
Or to be more precise, it relies more on low-speed torque, as this is closely related to its ability to get out of trouble.
But this is also a good play for electric vehicles, which can reach maximum torque when it first starts, and its ability to get out of trouble is no less than that of the fuel version of the off-road vehicle.
In addition, the fuel version of the off-road vehicle's high chassis, high passability, strong power performance, powerful four-wheel drive system, etc., electric off-road vehicles are not lacking, and it is even possible to do better.
Taking the power performance as an example, compared with the fuel vehicle, the advantages of electric vehicles in power are obvious, and its maximum power is often larger than the maximum torque of the same level of oil vehicles.
That is to say, the fuel version of the off-road vehicle can do, the electric version of the off-road vehicle can do, and do better.
More importantly, electric vehicles have a huge advantage in terms of car costs. The fuel version of the off-road vehicle is all oil tigers, but the electric version of the off-road vehicle compresses the cost of the car to the extreme.
Does that mean that the electric version of the off-road vehicle has no disadvantages?
The answer is clearly no.
The disadvantages are also obvious
Electric off-road has the common problem of all electric vehicles at this stage: insufficient mileage.
For ordinary passenger cars, this problem is troublesome, but not fatal, and as charging stations and charging piles become more and more popular, this trouble will become smaller and smaller.
But what does an off-road vehicle do? Wading through the mountains.
Some people who like to play with off-road vehicles, some are intoxicated with desert smoke, some love deep mountains and old forests, some like to spin around on the ice, and some like to sprinkle joy in the water. These places have a common feature: poor infrastructure.
Can you imagine suddenly running out of electricity in the desert?
Drive a fuel version of the off-road vehicle, as long as you plan the route in advance, find a good gas station, no man's land also dare to break in...
There are so many people in China who have crossed the no-man's land of Coco Xili, and there have been many accidents, but it seems that no one has an accident because the car is out of gas.
But what about electric cars?
Where the infrastructure is slightly worse, it doesn't dare to run.
If an electric car is anchored on a city road without electricity, you will be uninterested in the next thing at most, but if you run aground in the desert, you may die.
At this stage, many electric vehicle manufacturers have problems such as virtual endurance and shrinkage in winter, which determines that an electric off-road owner cannot plan the route according to the apparent fuel consumption like the fuel vehicle owner.
In this way, its scope of activities is greatly limited.
An off-road vehicle that can only mix with family cars in the city, or is it called an "off-road vehicle"?
Conclusion: Jeep, Land Rover, Hummer, Ford, Mercedes-Benz and other brands are playing the idea of electric version of the off-road vehicle, which shows that it does not have technical obstacles, and even, it can make up for some of the shortcomings of the traditional fuel version of the off-road vehicle. However, the problem of difficult charging and slow charging cannot be solved in the short term, which is a very serious problem. Before the Chinese build the charging station on Lop Nur, the electric version of the off-road vehicle will not have much success.