OK, so not CT related at all (Sorry OG) but since I am pure EV at this point it's nice to know that in 2024 you can still siphon gas from your car to fill your bike if needed:



Side note, whoever at Harley-Davidson designed that bike is insane (LiveWire S2 DelMar) in sport mode at 45 MPH to 50 MPH I cracked the throttle open to test passing ability and instead of just going faster it pulled the front wheel straight off the ground.

-Dave

Story time. In the late 90s I had an Apple computer. My friends had the usual Dell or whatever. I would tell them how Apple had advantages controlling both hardware and software that would pay dividends down the line and suggested we took our profits from building PCs and selling them in the paper to invest in Apple. They didn’t like that idea and we went our separate ways. A few years later Apple was the most valuable company in the world. Then they released the iPhone. I bought it day 1 and told people it would revolutionize cell phones. I was told they were dumb, had bad battery life, the screen would crack, the phone was too thin and would bend, I would hate not having real buttons, etc. Now everyone has an iPhone…

I got into real estate and tried to get my friends to buy homes because it was a far better deal than renting at the time (2003). A couple years later, housing boom…

Fast forward a couple more years and I discovered Bitcoin. I told my friends and family they should be mining it, accepting it, stacking it… It was too new at the time and had issues no doubt. 10 years later it was the most successful investment in human history.

More recently I’ve gotten into being self sufficient and having a home that can power itself with alternative energy. This has ultimately led me to Tesla to completely remove myself from needing oil. I’ll let you guess what will happen over the next 10 years with energy…

So when people hate on me for jumping into electric vehicles with the manufacturing revolution that is the Cybertruck, I feel like that Simpsons episode where the character says, “don’t make me tap the sign.” I’ve been here before at the cutting edge of something that will change everything many times. I suspect this is just another iPhone. Tell me how much I’ll miss those physical buttons if you want or that a better phone is coming, but I don’t regret buying the first one.

Maybe a loss of meaning in lingo there. I don’t feel like people hate me. Hating on someone is being critical of something that you probably shouldn’t be. I don’t think anyone should “hate” someone they don’t know and nobody on this forum knows me. 

I get your point though and I’m not denying it (see my last post on the previous page of this thread). Buying a Foundation Series Cybertruck is a terrible financial move and this will likely be the worst purchase of my life from a financial perspective. I’ve also spent nearly 100 BTC on honey roasted almonds (& distributed several hundreds of BTC through my Nasty project, donated BTC to FreeRoss, etc), so spending BTC to help support things I think deserve it is nothing new to me.

Battery Tech is moving quickly and in a bunch of different ways to see which one really wins.

There are EVs out there now that get over 400 miles of range. But they are bouncing over the $70000 price.
BUT, to a large extent it's *not* because of the battery tech, but all the other crap in the car.
Do you really need the cup holders in the back seat to have heating & cooling. Yeah it's neat, but there is a cost. Both $ cost and added weight which reduces range.

Even my car, there is so much 'tech for the sake of tech' in it that they really could have made a much cheaper car with the same 300 mile range. Probably more range after you take out the extra few hundred lbs (100+kg for you metric people) of crap.

-Dave

Someone on the Cybertruck forums with a later reservation number who configured their truck 10 days after mine and with the same configuration has received their VIN number. I think that means it is just location holding me back at this point. With any luck I’ll have a VIN email waiting for me in the next couple weeks. 

I know I posted this news nearly 2 months ago, but today it’s making a splash that the newly designed hubcaps are being included with new Cybertruck shipments.  Here’s a better image showing the comparison between the old and newly redesigned models. This was one of the recalls mainstream news was ranting about.

Looks like the first dry cathode 4680 Cybertruck has been produced. I’m interested to see how these things test in the real world with the new engines and batteries. Will we see increased performance or will this just be for cost savings? Hopefully I get one with all the new goodies to see for myself.

https://x.com/sawyermerritt/status/1816903964022980842