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Elon Musk says a lot of things. For instance, FSD doesn't really work yet.

A dongle off the charging port would work for my mission. I could have used that for packup power with my Model Y when a derecho took out our power for 3.5 days. A dongle would be acceptable for my mission with the Cybertruck. I could handle 110V in the frunk and the cabin, and a dongle for...

Depends on why you're buying the truck. If you're looking for general transportation with a badass look, then your reasoning applies. If you have a for a specific mission for the vehicle in mind, then the features matter. The TFLTruck tow-off with the Silverado EV and the F150 shows that the...

I intend to use my EV pickup as an RV support vehicle for my travel trailer. Many RVs require 240V power in the form of a NEMA 14-50 outlet, though smaller outlets (including the 120V TT-30 outlet) can often work in its place (with some off-grid-style load-management). Another application for...

I just use my Tesla Mobile Charger on a welder outlet in my garage, and I don't see why that would change with th Cybertruck. The size outlet you need has more to do with how long your commute is than anything else. I can see upgrading to a NEMA 14-50 for the Cybertruck. I'll do that at some...

I'm gonna need to know the tongue weight limitation on that one. A lot of newer FSPUs are really limited by the tongue weight rather than the trailer mass, at least when you get into the numbers. If a mechanical engineer explained the second paragraph to the current CEO of Twitter, you'd get...

The commute-distance has more to do with the house than the car. I live in a neighborhood where there are a couple of predominant employers. The chances are than anyone who lives in this neighborhood will have a commute that falls within that range. That commute defines how big the wires to...

You'll be fine with what you have, most likely -- unless you drive several hundred miles per day every day. You can either plug a Tesla Mobile Charger into the NEMA 14-50 outlet you already have (same as a 50-amp RV outlet), or you can replace the outlet with a hard-wired Tesla wall charger...

I have a CCS1 adapter for my MYLR7. The CCS charging network is open to me, commercially speaking. I prefer the Tesla network, but that's mostly because of the way Tesla integrates navigation, charging, and energy-managment onboard the car.

NACS not a good fit for Europe because 3-phase power is more common at the household level there. If you've got all of those wires running to the house, you might as well use 'em to charge the car.

You can actually order solid state batteries now. They're LiPo batteries with a solid electrolyte intended for drone applications. They're more energy dense than LiPos and safer too. They have a lower C-rating than regular LiPos, though, which means they're slower to charge/discharge. A...

The way this will play out is that demand will be very high initially, but it will fall off sharply once everyone who wants a Cybertruck has one. That's the way it always goes for polarizing and niche designs: strong demand for a while, and then an asymptomatic descent toward zero demand...

Get good solid high-amperage wiring installed, then swap in whatever charger you need later. If you think V2H will be in your future, make sure you route the wiring to make that easy. Exactly how to do this will depend on how things are laid out in your house -- but, in mine, the optimal...

I'd love to read the datasheet and buy a few cells in engineering quantities for bench testing. Most videos about innovative batteries don't lead me to cells I can order, even when I don't care about production quantities. Please show me I'm wrong!

It's not a real battery until I can read the datasheet and order samples. Solid state lithium-ion batteries barely exist, in practical electrical engineering terms. Datasheets and samples are hard (but not impossible) to find. They're being sold as drone batteries now, but I couldn't find...

MISO is really rocking the zero-emissions energy tonight: That's over 50% zero emissions!

Lots of people talk about this, but most of them try to imply that gasoline is somehow better. They rarely make a properly-weighted comparison, and I have yet to hear a better idea from someone making this point. None of the people who want to talk about lithium extraction seems to be aware of...

Yes, and? Remember that most full size pickup trucks aren't offroad-oriented. They're a jack of all trades master of none kind of vehicle for the most part. The offroad-oriented pickup trucks tend to be smaller - like the Tacoma, Frontier, or R1T. I'd gladly trade off ground clearance for...

Power over Ethernet (POE) is a thing, and very useful in the right context.

TBF, though, someone uniformed made the same suggestion for a data center where I once worked. When we were debriefing afterword, my boss just made the gesture of holding a pan full of popping-popcorn into one of the hot-isles -- to explain how ridiculous this idea was. For those unaware, the...