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On styling, one thing I had noticed a month or so ago was that one of the sketches for the skunk truck looked really similar to the Lightning Supertruck.

Look at this absolute Brutus over here 🤣. I was nice about it lol. 

it seems the new models has a new grille, lower front-end.   On the back I don't see any change:

@akirby, @DeluxeStang just called you old. Should he be banned?

A lot of the most popular SUVs (the Big 3’s full sized SUVs, Rav4, etc) can get 400+ miles on paper. I full expect this doesn’t happen in reality because most people don’t drive in a fuel efficient manner, but its definitely possible. I have no clue if this is something people actually think about or if its just something that they notice when range gets too low (i.e. below 300)   edit: I really want to echo the fact that cold weather also affects ICE

As for weather, my brother borrowed the maverick often for work, his drives are only about 2 miles, so the engine doesn't have much time to warm up. It almost never does. Hopefully that doesn't cause issues long term.    But as a result, in the winter, my maverick hybrid is doing like 18 mpg on some drives lol. Cold weather inefficiency isn't exclusive to EVs. 

LFP batteries are different than lithium in that you can run them down to close to 0 and charge to 100% with virtually no longevity penalty. Ford has said they'll encourage buyers to do so because the batteries can handle it.    My explorer can go about 380 miles on a tank, so a range of 300 miles really isn't bad. I have a hard time believing your average gas vehicle can go 500 miles on a tank considering that's pretty close to what my maverick will do, and it's insanely fuel efficient. I'd say most gas vehicles are in the 200 to 400 range give or take unless you have a vehicle that has like a monster 40 gallon tank. 

If I'm remembering correctly, Alan Clark said that the team knew 300 miles of range was about the minimum that consumers would accept. Which is a very weird comment to make if their truck didn't have 300 miles of range or close to it. 

300 miles isn’t very good when buyers coming from ICE vehicles can typically run 400 to 500 miles between fill ups. Manufacturers say that running batteries below 20% will shorten battery life. 80% of 300 is 240. Subtract what, another 20% when temperatures are below freezing?