I'm good with that if it had brakes > marginal for the weight and the beast better than 301 mi range...could have given a bit more of each given towing / payload capacity....I'll survive and agree with your points but maybe just a bit more
My eldest son is in the same boat, thinking the Cybertruck would be the next great EV, pretty disappointed that on most metrics it is getting smoked by the Chevy of all vehicles. Slow charging and small battery pack is the real killer, other than that it is a fun car to drive and great if you like to make new friends at supercharger. A "conversation piece that is super quick" is how he describes it.
Had so much potential. Literally if they put a larger pack in it with better charging and did not cheap out on the mirror etc could have been a slam dunk.
Their "strategic error" is the most amazing product Tesla has produced to date, in every regard, in my opinion. I cannot wait to get mine. But to each their own, it's why its wonderful to have options. Not to mention...we don't all want to be driving the same truck, it will be nice to have some diversity on the road.
As Elon said, the battle for range is silly, so it's why he lowered it from 500+ to 340 for the CT. He's right...the extra weight, the extra charge time, the extra cost, the sacrifice in cornering and acceleration performance due to the extra weight, simply doesn't make any sense when you think about it. 340 miles per charge is the sweet spot, you really don't want more than that.
You must not tow, it's a truck. 340 isn't bad if truly could get at 70 mph. However 250 (100%) and 110 don't cut it for truck duty. On road we are only charging to 80% due to curve.
agree, worst case, towing with an EV cuts the range potentially down 60%, leaving 40%
Unless you want to use a truck to tow or haul something, or use it in a truck related industry. But yes 340, really 250 miles in reality. Is fine for going to the grocery store and the fact it charges slowly is fine if you are charging at home and driving 30 miles a day.
The one thing that really impresses me with the Silverado is the charging curve. Since the truck takes 350kW up to 50%, you basically never need to stop at a charger for more than 15 minutes. Driving at 50% down to 10% will give a driver 176 miles of range. The battery charges at 3%+ per minute below 50%, so it would take a 13 minute stop every 2.5 hours of driving. Assuming you leave the house at full charge on a 600 mile road trip, that means total charge time of 13 minutes required. The same trip in a CT would require nearly an hour of charging. Every extra 200 miles you add to the trip adds double the charging time for the same range in a CT versus Silverado, based on the charging curve. To say this means nothing is an odd take.
How would they mesh with the existing pack at a v3 (or future v4) --- charging rate-wise and how would the coolant aspect work. Seems like a hodgepodge.
This is a second-gen EV, not a first-gen EV. While the styling implies that they just removed the engine, the frame design - unibody on Silverado - confirms it's not a first-gen EV.
Of course, since the Silverado uses significantly more watts per mile, those charging times are going to suck horribly when compared on miles-per-hour-charging basis.400+ mile range is a significant part of the actual driving day. ie. start at 100% charging overnight (ie. set departure time feature ... like was in my first 2011 Chevy Volt from day 1 so certainly in this RST).
Also depends the use case and perhaps you can just charge over lunch at 250+ kW (350 kW max)? We have seen a few charging examples now (Kyle and now Dan's)
Or 10 minutes at a couple bathroom and snack breaks.
Similar to Chevrolet Silverado EV 4WT charging curve (source link)& performance?
Here two real world examples of a roadtrips I took where my Stay-to-Stay (day-to-day) distance is show. Many people roadtrip < 400 miles per day. Or take lunch, or 10 minute breaks
That is cherry-picking silly (to soften it). The CT just start shipping ~6 months ago after being years late. And based on the threads on this forum has a variety of problems. Limited appeal to most traditional truck buyers. It was a swing and a miss in that regard.
