The convenience is you charge at home overnight while you sleep. Commercial fast charges should get you a few hundred miles of range in <45 minutes.

Running their air compressors off the excess battery from their trucks will be the new norm for builders. There is a reason home builders switch from generators to the wall outlet once power is hooked up to one of the houses they are building. It's cheaper to run off the grid then via a gas generator. Same case here.

Yea if the 120~150 kWh battery pack estimates are accurate, running a 15 amp air compressor all day (assuming it's actually only running the motor for about 3~4 hours), will only take like 5% of these batter packs. Meaning you could easily have 3-5 compressors or whatever running off one truck with little impact to your daily range.

Cool stuff for sure. I could see some of the larger contractors interested in these.

All your torque at zero RPM is an experience for sure that only electric offers. It's the reason why freight trains are diesel electric. The only major expense will be chewing through tires if you are heavy on the pedal at lights.

I think a lot of that has been proven with other electric cars. It's still a gamble but battery tech and recycling ability is only improving so costs are continuing to decline. There are shops replacing older gen LEAFS with newer batteries and better range for ~$1000. There are Tesla's with 200k+ miles with negligible degradation in range (Mine at 33k miles actually has ~4% more range then when I bought it due to firmware efficiencies they have pushed).

A panel that size would have negligible effect on range. Like maybe a 2-3 miles of range if parked in the sun all day at work.

If your panel is in the garage and there is room, probably only $4-500 (always get multiple quotes). If you need panel upgrades etc its more but there is a 30% tax credit to offset the installation of EV chargers up to $1000, inclusive of other costs (panel upgrades etc). The credit expires in December but I bet they will extend it. Curious if they will itemize the included charger so you can claim that as well on taxes.

It cost me about $1200 to trench a 60 amp line about 60 feet from the panel to our caport, which I thought was a decent deal.

Got it. Yea if that 240v line is unused (what amp?) - you should be good to go, I just assumed it was. Maybe just $100 or two to have them connect the charger if voltage that can kill makes you squirmy.

I’m assuming the 80amp charger they include can be set lower for folks who don’t have that hookup.

Tesla has service centers across the country or will actually come to your house or place of work to do certain maintenance. Kinda nice really.

Y's produced in Austin will use the new battery's that integrate with the structure so yea Cybertrucks are on the path to being produced.

This F150 though is a solid offering, and other then the lower range, will be good competition to drive progress.

I do wonder if the price increases and rising interest rates are going to kill demand for most of this. 80k starting price with the extended battery is steep. Specially considering that Pro/XLT models are impossible to get.

No, not really. You can order base models of any car and get one. You might wait but its an option. The PRO and XLT are impossible to order, even if you get an invite. Maybe that will change when they open their plant in TN.

Because you can't actually order them. The way their system works is you get put on a waitlist to order. When your time comes you can only order what's available and the XLTs and Pros are not options you can select or put money down to actually order. So you'd have to defer until the next wave of orders go out and hope it's an option or be tricked into placing an order for a Lariant and waiting for it to be manufactured.

I'm also not aware of any manufacturer making base models that they don't produce, if that was your point?