I feel like this is a super important point. If that pack isn’t available to the public it’s not a 450 mile range.
These people with their 675 mile daily commutes. Just think, we’ll have thousand mile capable EVs right as they start a job 1500 miles from home.I would love to have 350 kW charging, but for the real world time savings, I wouldn't be willing to pay too much for it. Even off you did 10 days in a year of 500 miles (I gotta think thats more than half the country would do in a year) you're talking 5 hours of time saved. If the hardware costs $1k more and the manufacture charges you $2k+ for that feature... see where I'm going?
I get what your saying but when every competitor has it then it starts to become needed. I was just planning a trip today and it would’ve taken 6 hours in charging on route for my lightning vs only 1.5 hours on my buddies myp. Now I will concede the super charger network and efficiency makes up a good portion of the difference but didn’t change the fact that my truck turned an 11 hour drive into 17 and turning a 2 day trip into 3. If 350 chargers were available (not ford’s fault) and my truck accepted it I would drop to under 2 hours of charging for the 650 mile each way trip.
To a non ev owner this is definition of range anxiety. It's not so much the miles as it is time.
Each person needs to consider their own use case and situation. For me, the extra time I spend at a charging station while on my trips is less time than I would have spent fueling an ICE vehicle over the course of a year thanks to the fact that the the vast majority of time I’m not on a road trip, and charging happens while I sleep.
Exactly why I bought the Lightning.
Like or not, 800V/350kW would be standard.
Efficiency: Auto makers need to figure out how to stream line their vehicle bodies, and use light weight but strong materials, like Aptera has done, and ditch the old 'square box' pickup truck design which was required when you had to have a big cross section of radiator to cool down the infernal combustion engine.
They could produce at scale if they made a product people actually wanted to buy - how many wanted a hummer at all? And at that price?
Just because you have a bigger battery doesn't mean you'll need 15%-100% very often at home if at all. From my experience I drive the same amount most days so just because the battery is bigger I still would only be adding 30-50 kwh daily. Thats why my SR is fine for everyday driving. But I would enjoy having more range for the occasional road trip but then most if not all of that big charging would be on DC fast chargers. Just my thoughts
Its cooled with liquid helium, makes it lighter.
I think it is going to be hard to compare 1wt and 2wt to Pro and XLT. Completely different price points. XLT extended range starts at $78k and 4wt is $77-78k as well. I won’t speculate on price points of 2wt and 1wt, but given what we know I think the Silverado EV is going to crush the Lightning at the current price points (in terms of price per range and charge rates). Sure XLT may have a heated leather wrapped steering wheel and heated cloth seats, which are likely the only noticeable creature comforts XLT would have over the 4wt.
