Tesla’s New 48-Volt Architecture Leads to Yet Another Bricked Cybertruck, Latest Victim – “Cybertruck Mom”

Tesla's pioneering 48-volt low-voltage system has once again caused a Cybertruck failure. This time, the latest victim is Tesla superfan “Cybertruck Mom,” also known as Techie Dani on X and TikTok.

Until this incident, Dani had been a happy Cybertruck customer. A few months ago, Tesla even highlighted a video of her showing how the Cybertruck is the perfect Mom car.

What happened to Dani’s Cybertruck? She did not share a lot of detail about the incident, but in an X post, Dani wrote, “Cybertruck was working perfectly yesterday, and this morning, it wouldn’t respond. I had to jump-start it. It looks like the 48V battery bit the dust. Six thousand miles dual-motor.”

Below, Dani included a picture of her trying to jump-start her Cybertruck with the frunk open and an external battery hooked up. The TikToker also included a picture of the center screen of her Cybertruck in Service Mode.

The Service Mode reading shows an error with the low-voltage battery. The error code reads “LV energy remaining: 0%.”

Despite jump-starting the vehicle, it doesn’t appear Dani was able to restore her 48-volt battery to a working condition.

An hour after her original post, Dani shared a video update showing her Cybertruck being loaded onto a flatbed. The “Cybertruck Mom” wrote, “Couldn’t activate Transport Mode, so they just yanked it up onto the flatbed.”

Couldn’t activate transport mode so they just yanked it up onto the flatbed. 😬 pic.twitter.com/gTrMeuxsO0
— Techie Dani (@techiedani) August 24, 2024

Without Transport Mode enabled, the Cybertruck’s Parking brakes do not disengage, meaning the truck had to be pulled up to the flatbed without the rear wheels rotating.

This sounds terrible when it happens to a relatively new car; however, as bricked Cybertrucks go, Dani might be one of the lucky ones.

In one bricked Cybertruck case, Tesla engineers were forced to drill open the frunk to access the leads to jump-start the 48-volt battery.

Making this story even more frustrating, this issue happened to the individual’s second Cybertruck. Tesla was forced to give him a replacement Cybertruck after his first truck left him stranded on the road on four different occasions.

In another case, a Cybertruck became bricked while charging. Since the tonneau cover was closed, the owner was left with no option to unplug his truck to be able to transport it to Tesla Service.

So far, we have seen several Cybertrucks towed to Tesla’s service center while the charger was still plugged into the port.

The person with the second bricked Cybertruck says that given the truck’s propensity to stop and become non-functional without warning, he is afraid to leave his little children in his Cybertruck.

Returning to Dani’s case, she was at least able to get her Cybertruck working partially by connecting the vehicle to an external battery.

This allowed her to open the doors and turn on the center screen. By doing this, Dani was able to diagnose the issue with her Cybertruck as a fault in the 48-volt battery.

With the doors open, Dani was also able to remove personal items before having her truck towed to Tesla.

On the 48-volt battery, a failure in this system is how the majority of faulty Cybertrucks have ended up bricked so far. This is Tesla’s first foray into the more efficient 48-volt architecture, and it appears that the EV maker still has some bugs to iron out.

Overall, the number of bricked Cybertrucks keeps piling up, and we’ve yet to hear a statement from Tesla addressing this problem. However, until we receive a communication from the EV maker, let me know what you think about the issue. 

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Image: Screenshot from Techie Dani on X

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Tinsae Aregay has been following Tesla and the evolution of the EV space daily for several years. He covers everything about Tesla, from the cars to Elon Musk, the energy business, and autonomy. Follow Tinsae on Twitter at @TinsaeAregay for daily Tesla news.