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Oh I get it. The current range is fine for 95% of the owners, you want MFG to cater to your use case, not the 95% use cases. The #1 selling EV truck was just canceled and the next day VW canceled the ID Buzz and you really believe a new truck will launch with 500 mile range? Have you priced...

Congrats! But they don't build EV's for you, they build them to match the majority of their customers and their needs. Most people don't drive 250 miles every day, a distance that a F150 Lightning or Rivian can do without recharging.

New battery tech will go into cost reduction and charging improvements, not doubling range. The majority of EV owners use 12% of their battery capacity a day, a MFG focusing on range is doing their investors a disservice.

The 2 key words 1. semi-solid-state 2.CarNewsChina

IP isn’t the thing holding the US back. Solid state battery stuff isn’t some secret China only info, most of it is already public or patented and everyone knows how it works. The hard part is actually building them at scale without crazy costs or junk reliability. China’s ahead because they can...

Or, manufacturer's keep the range as it is today and reduce battery size and costs with solid state. Most ICE cars don't have 500 plus range today.

Solid state batteries are expected to increase range 20% to 30%, not 125%!!

Someone gets it!

You’re mixing up efficiency with energy price. 0.6 mi/kWh is ~20 MPGe, which is more efficient than 10 MPG. If it costs more, that just means you charged expensive electricity, not that the truck is inefficient.

Wild theory, but I don’t think Ford needs a SurveyMonkey to know how people use a Lightning. The truck phones home constantly — they know when you’re towing, how heavy, how often, where you charge, and whether it’s L1, L2, or DCFC. That survey wasn’t to learn the data, it was to see how owners...

“Tow more efficiently” is corporate code for we can’t recharge 1,000 lbs of batteries in 5 minutes. Electric motors are ~90% efficient, gas is ~25%, and this entire pivot is for the ~7% of truck owners who actually tow often while the rest cosplay Home Depot once a year.