We all know that future Tesla fashions will get bi-directional charging, as confirmed by Tesla’s Senior Vice President of Powertrain and Power Engineering Drew Baglino through the investor day presentation in March 2023. For now, the query is, which mannequin will get it first? And what kind of bi-directional charging shall be provided?

The next info would possibly sound weird, however the Tesla coloring e book provided on the model’s service middle comes with a caption that reads, “Cybertruck has sufficient battery energy to cost a Tesla.” For a coloring fanatic, that info is perhaps of little worth, however for Tesla followers, it opens up hypothesis.

It’s exhausting to consider that Tesla would permit false info to be printed within the e book. So the manufacturing model of the Cybertruck is more likely to get bi-directional charging. Because the caption suggests, Tesla would possibly provide vehicle-to-vehicle charging, and doubtless not the whole suite of vehicle-to-load (V2L), vehicle-to-home (V2H), and vehicle-to-grid (V2G), capabilities.

When Tesla’s Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen pulled up in a Cybertruck on the Petersen Automotive Museum in LA for a Vehicles and Espresso occasion on the finish of June 2023, fans received an in depth have a look at the electrical truck’s mattress, which had a small opening, presumably designed for a socket, as per a Twitter video.

The manufacturing model would possibly get a 120V or 240V socket to cost exterior home equipment or one other EV.

Tesla Cybertruck’s mattress has a small opening, presumably for a charging socket. (through Ryan Zohoury on Twitter)

Rival electrical vehicles just like the Ford F-150 Lightning already provide the function. The Ford comes with Professional Energy Onboard – the corporate’s communicate for bi-directional charging – with customary 120V shops and an non-compulsory 240V socket with as much as 9.6 kilowatts of charging charge.

A consumer even shared its vary with a stranded Mini Cooper SE final 12 months, absolutely charging it, and nonetheless having over 200 miles of remaining vary.

We’re interested in Cybertruck’s battery dimension. As per the model’s Grasp Plan Half 3, it might get a battery capability of 100-kilowatt hours, however that appears much less for a heavy truck. Rivals just like the Rivian R1T and F-150 Lightning have battery packs which are 130 kWh or extra.

In 2021, a Twitter consumer requested CEO Elon Musk if the Cybertruck’s battery might energy his dwelling, to which Musk responded “Sure.”