Hopefully pull through superchargers will become more common, but that is a valid concern if you plan on doing a lot of towing with a Tesla.  

Yeah, that’s the biggest problem with the idea of me getting an EV too, my parents live 160 miles away, with no EV charging stations on the direct route, so it’d be a stretch to go there and back on a single charge of anything right now.

Then why compare the Tesla truck to an F150 in the video that can tow 12,000lbs? Compare it to a Ranger or Tacoma. But they can’t do that either because the Tesla truck costs way more than those.

Towing a 5th wheel with a Cybertruck is a non-starter because Elon likes triangles. You’d mangle the bedsides the first time you tried to make a turn.

If there’s a supercharger on the way, 300 miles wouldn’t be a bad trip with a 30 minute stop in the middle. I doubt it’d make that trip fully loaded in the winter, but who knows what the final product will actually be able to do?

Fair enough, it’s not an actual product yet, and I wouldn’t fully trust Musk’s claims.

I was thinking that Tesla could offer rental battery packs to fit in the bed, there already is a charging spot for the ATV back there.

The point of the article is that while a Tesla truck can tow 14,000 lbs, you’re only going to be able to take it a fraction of the distance it would normally be able to go, making it largely useless.

Because the “Mach 1" name has a legendary history and has been used recently as a retro call back to that history. The people who know the history of the name probably won’t like the electric version, and the people who don’t wouldn’t care what it’s named.

This is what the Mach-E should’ve been: an electrified Mustang

I’ve dreamed of putting a shaker scoop on the ‘86 GT I owned in high school, and that was before the ‘03 Mach 1 was announced.

IIRC, the claim-to-fame for the SN95 Mach I was that it could beat 200 MPH.

Why 200mph? That isn’t the name, it was never a claimed goal, and the mach 1 was never the top performance model. Besides, it’s a pointless brag for a street car, and a feat that the shelby GT500 can barely claim.

Honestly, the shaker scoop alone was worth it on the previous Mach 1.

Sounds like some serious back pedaling to me.

Your graphic headline is wrong. Rare usually is cool.... to someone.

EVs in total are still only about 2% of sales though. If there was some push to increase the total amount of EVs on the road by giving a new subsidy, it would be hard to exclude Tesla without looking like they’re trying to punish Tesla.

True, but who knows what the political landscape will be in 2-3 years?  Maybe there’ll be another EV credit given.  

Fair point. It’s nothing until it’s actually for sale.

I’m pretty sure the thick panels were chosen quickly after the decision to make the skin a stressed part of the unibody, and might as well brag about how tough and bulletproof the extra thick body is because of it.