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 throughout the investor day presentation in March 2023. For now, the query is, which mannequin will get it first? And what sort of bi-directional charging might be provided?

The next data may sound weird, however the Tesla coloring guide provided on the model’s service heart comes with a caption that reads, “Cybertruck has sufficient battery energy to cost a Tesla.” For a coloring fanatic, that data is likely to be of little worth, however for Tesla followers, it opens up hypothesis.

It’s onerous to consider that Tesla would permit false data to be printed within the guide. So the manufacturing model of the Cybertruck is more likely to get bi-directional charging. Because the caption suggests, Tesla may supply vehicle-to-vehicle charging, and possibly not all the 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 Automobiles and Espresso occasion on the finish of June 2023, lovers obtained an in depth take 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 may 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 supply the function. The Ford comes with Professional Energy Onboard – the corporate’s converse for bi-directional charging – with commonplace 120V shops and an non-obligatory 240V socket with as much as 9.6 kilowatts of charging price.

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

We’re interested by 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 can be 130 kWh or extra.

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