Common misunderstanding, Cybertruck shares the 1,000V (800V) architecture with Semi, not the 1kW charge rate.
I remember this article:
Nope. This gets confused with the presentation of their new immersed cables that their original goal was 1MW for that cable. Which that was surpassed with upto 1.2MW for the Semi. The CT was quoted at >250kW for nearly the whole time from announcement until the last 8 or so months. When the CT got opened up to CCS, that Tesla didn't advertise but has opened up this ~325kW for a while. For ~4-5 months they've been testings select V4s to ~325 and just announced a little over 2 months ago that 500kW would be support on full V4s and select V4s with V3 cabinets would moved up to the 325kW (which this is expanding that to all).
The first problem was reading anything of Fred's.
That is the idea. More and more. I have 6 chargers at 80 miles out from me. Then another 4 at 180 miles. Almost a perfect world. My most used supercharger is over 1000 miles from homes. Looking back at 800k of driving. Having a supercharger in backyard would be something I would never go to.
Compatible is not the same as capable.
Yes, where they confused the Semi charge voltage with the charge power.
Nothing is for sure, but odds are very, very high that it is the max. IIRC the CT battery is 816v nominal and 150ah. When we are near the bottom of the pack we are looking at a ~720v battery that is going to require about 700 amps to produce 500kW. Which is a 4.66 C rate. That is a very high C rate and not something we see in really any other production vehicle. Most vehicles out there tend to have their C rate capped at 3 (new Lucid Gravity at ~400kW is a ~3.5Crate). Getting much beyond 500kW is very unlikely given the technology we have today in mass production. The fact we are getting over 4 is frankly a bit insane... and also why it will not hold that rate for very long.
Not when towing. Cannot make it to any of them. Also, it's 3 hours one way, further the other way. V3 is fine, just would be nice to have more v4, especially when V2 is the only option. E.g. I75 TN to FL would be a lot nicer without 5+ hours of charging.
The problem is that's a Fred Lambert article. You will often walk away more misinformed than before you clicked on it. He loves to set up people to be disappointed once Tesla releases the product he has over-hyped. Then he claims Tesla didn't deliver.
A lot of things in this world would be "nice". And if you want to pay for those things, you can have them all. But Tesla doesn't exist to make people with niche edge cases happy at the expense of others, they have to deploy their capital where and when it does the most good.
