Running Boards on installation difficulty:
"Easy DIY installation with no drilling or permanent modifications"
Sliders on installation difficult:
?????
This is great, and seeing that policy change in writing brought me ALMOST to the point of pre-ordering.
But since there's still no pics of both products with tech specs (like weights), I still cannot decide between running boards or sliders.
So I'm *STILL* on the fence about pre-ordering!
I mean... no... It's perfectly fair!
Their ambition is to get people to buy their EV truck vs. the established makers, so it's perfectly fair to compare everything about them to the established makers.
Because your preorder policy clearly states there *is* a penalty for cancelling an unshipped preorder, many of us will still be waiting until those pics are posted.
Will they be posted during the free ship preorder period?
Following this thread, waiting for an update on real pictures and real install instructions.
Once those are in place I'll almost certainly be ordering.
But I can't in good conscience before then.
Title pretty much says it all.
Details:
Had our truck coming up on 4 months. Loving it in every way.
On day 1 I set up the driver's seat *just right* for myself.
My wife hasn't driven it since.
She just went out for a drive yesterday. Of course she had to mess with the seat a lot.
I got back...
Out of curiosity, do you have a driveway? And presumably the charger would be mounted on the house up at the top of the driveway?
People parking on random driveways to plug in to random EVSEs is... simply not a thing that happens anywhere.
And if someone did park on your driveway to charge and...
There are lots of 48A capable chargers out there, at $500 and less... but many are big and/or ugly as sin.
I care about how my charger looks and how much space it takes up.
Plus we needed 2 with circuit sharing, and Wallbox is tops for that (hardwired over a dedicated line, no networks or wifi...
We have networked Wallbox Pulsar Pluses for the R1T and Model X.
We don't care about this data at all, but... the Wallbox app *does* track all of it.
As for the chargers themselves, they look nicer and take up less space than any other we've seen. We love them.
Very unlikely.
Earlier Model S and Model X could L2 charge up to 80A, and they had the "High Powered Wall Connector" that supported that.
The difference between charging at 48A or 80A at home overnight was not a deal breaker for anyone.
Even with the 100kwh battery, where a drained battery...
We keep ours on the bed full time.
Just completed a 400mi road trip at 80mph where our efficiency was almost exactly what all the YouTube 21" wheel range testers have seen, so we're dubious that the range hit is noticeable.
(Keeping them on the roof all the time would probably be noticeable!)
Practice from Tesla ownership, with a 5 year old 100D that still has just above 90% original battery capacity, that we're carrying forward to R1T:
Keep your charge between 20% and 80%, and L2 charge unless you absolutely have to L3 charge.
With 80% not an option, we leave ours set at 85% but...
NEC code limits continuous load to 80% of the circuit capacity.
40A on a 50A circuit.
48A on a 60A circuit.
Tesla's HPWC has the same restriction, as does every other 48A capable EVSE.
If you were running a 48A motor continuously for 5 years on a 50A circuit, you were violating electrical...