Looks like stuff that is available on the average American pickup . I had a myriad of pickups over the years and two turbo diesel Ford Excursions (7.3 & 6.0 PSD) and I prefer the Cybertruck over the American pickup truck.
We've since learned that Sandy was wrong. Directly from Lars Moravy, Head of Vehicle Engineering at Tesla. Sandy often comments on things that are beyond anything he has seen in his career.
I have a 67-year-old acquantance/friend who has been a life-long auto mechanic and still takes on odd jobs for extra money and his own cars too. This summer he was in the local Ford dealership picking up parts (he's a huge Ford fan) and saw the Lightning sitting there. He climbed all over it, showing great enthusiasm and interest and asked if he could take it for a test drive. They said unfortunately no. That Ford has been having battery problems with it that are still unresolved.
I own/owned thirteen EVs since my first in 2010
Oh... you're talking about my handle. Smh. No, just two randomish words, like an AOL trial password.
That kind of says it all...I have a 67-year-old acquantance/friend who has been a life-long auto mechanic and still takes on odd jobs for extra money and his own cars too. This summer he was in the local Ford dealership picking up parts (he's a huge Ford fan) and saw the Lightning sitting there. He climbed all over it, showing great enthusiasm and interest and asked if he could take it for a test drive. They said unfortunately no. That Ford has been having battery problems with it that are still unresolved.
Still waiting on that CyberTruck test drive...
When buying my first new car, the dealer was started that I didn't want a test drive. Why, you say? Because all my previous vehicles were decades-old shitboxes, and a well-performing car would seem foreign. I had no basis to determine value, based on a single outing.
I looked at F150L at dealer lot: prices starting at $89k is major nogo for lame EV version of ICE.
Not going to beat the dead horse, but 10,000 CCS Fast chargers in the U.S. already plus 15,000 tesla superchargers will supposedly do CCS in 2024.
re: $65k Pro - Pro with the ER battery -> unicorn - you are corrct @Keeney: I read a story from one lucky guy on F150L forum finding one at dealer ordered but not purchased by fleet customer.
Also not going to beat the dead horse, but out of those "10,000 CCS Fast chargers", how many are going to be operational when/if you need them? What is their "up-time" percentage? I have personally witnessed 2 Tesla Superchargers (stalls, not the entire site) that were not functioning in 3+ years of ownership. One had obviously been impacted by a vehicle and was leaning over severely, the other was inoperable and there was a Tesla tech onsite repairing it...point being, you can have as many Fast chargers as you want, but if the charging experience is "less than optimal", well, I personally don't have the time or patience for that...
