It will be interesting to see how corrosion develops. Stainless attached to normal steel has a chance for galvanic corrosion (especially with salt water added). The coatings and adhesives may be enough to prevent that (assuming they were properly and completely applied).
Oh, it's going to be a fun winter watching the Cybertrucks deal with actual winter conditions.
I remember seeing a post somewhere in one of the early exploratory videos of somewhere in the rear suspension or stamped frame area (IIRC) where there is literally huge swaths of area with honeycomb type areas that are going to collect snow and water which will then freeze. And there's a lot of questions on if that water freezes solid if it'll end up actually breaking hard bits. Important hard bits.
It's increasingly evident this thing was designed by someone who has never experienced winter before. Lets not even get stated on how all that stainless handles road salt.
On another note, in the next 12 months or so we'll be in the market for an Ioniq5, it's been decided. My 2011 Volt is still going strong, and I'll inherit the 2017 when we get the Ioniq5 and I don't know what I'll do with the '11.
My wife likes it, I love it, and
I'll be looking for the extended range battery with the 800v architecture so (eventually) we can get the 18 minute charge time, plus...bonus, 2300 pound tow rating! Even estimating a 50% loss of range towing our camper (realistically less as when we're on secondary highways I tend to stick at around 90, so realistically ~35% loss), that still gives us a 250ish KM range which gets us to pretty much any campground we normally visit in this province at least, and honestly, with Supercharger access now plus all the regular L3 chargers out there, gets us to a LOT of areas quite comfortably.
And when we get a campsite with power, plug in with level 1. Yeah, 60-ish hours for a full charge (assuming we arrive completely dead which is unlikely), but who cares, we often arrive on a Friday evening and don't depart until the Sunday afternoon, so we can still get about 35-40 hours plugged in, so probably about 60-80% charge depending on what we arrive with. All we'd need is a quick hit at a fast charger somewhere on the way home and we're golden.
For longer trips we'd still tow with the Volt as it's hard to beat the convenience of gas, but it certainly opens up a lot of options being able to tow with the Ioniq as well.
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