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Not sure if it's been mentioned here or not but maxing out a standard NEMA 5-15 120V outlet for 12+ hours a day will cause problems down the line. If you plan on doing this long-term I suggest buying a receptacle annually.

Batteries lock away some of the capacity while they're cold but that lost capacity returns after it warms up so just don't park it with a low state of charge.

I'm charging at home via 14-50, and I agree it's probably not good to charge at full 30A all the time so I limit it to 22A. The cables never get warm at the lower amperage I set it at.

The Lightning's battery nominal voltage is fairly low so that's correct - 150 kW stations won't max out when charging a Lightning unless the charging session's nearly finished.

I'd like to know how the percentage is measured. Is it by part, by cost of each part, mass, or cost of mass? Edit: Looks like cost of parts. So it can still look good if a few expensive bits are made in USA but the majority are cheap imported parts.

Extraction of rare earth metals from US soil isn't very popular at the moment. It could be done but there's a great ecological and social cost to it, and I bet it'll stay this way for quite a while.

A lot of the jobs which involve mining the materials necessary to make our vehicles likely aren't coming back since the working conditions wouldn't make us better off.

If the cap's $80k at least make it have diminishing returns above that amount, say up to $100k or something. Would suck to have to decide against a $500 option just because you'd lose $7,500.

I live in an area where my off-peak energy is very cheap so I've saved $6,500 in fuel costs in 3 years so far.

Topping up to 100% a few hours before leaving is fine. Just don't do it daily.

Since my pads don't get much use day-to-day, I do a couple emergency brakes once every 2 months or so. Folks in the north should do that more, and have their brakes serviced every year.

Yep.

The critical thing here is that you have access inside the cabin. Does the F-150 Lightning have a physical pull for the frunk?

It's very similar to jumping a Model 3 except the Tesla has 1 panel instead of 2 to pop. Pretty simple stuff in my opinion.

Destination charging at hotels makes it all worth it. Don't pass up on booking at hotels with free charging, it's a game changer.

Any EV with LVB issues should still be able to be 'jumped' though. I carry a jump kit in the frunk of my Model 3 so if it dies I can use a 9V battery to pop the lid and jump it. I've done it once before.

Saying that charging in an 800 mile trip would add several hours is a bit much in my opinion. It only takes about 20 minutes to add 200 miles back into my Model 3. Famed Bjorn Nyland does 1,000 km challenges in lots of EVs, and they're not far off an ICE car (Kia Ceed PHEV did it in 9 hours flat...

I trusted my car's prediction with a 5% margin for error.

2 stops. 30 minutes each. We stayed at hotels which supplied free electricity so we'd leave in the morning with a full battery. We lost no time vs ICE since our kids needed diaper changed, food, etc any way so waiting for the charge wasn't a factor.

I've done two cross-country trips that totaled over 5,000 miles each with my family of 4 in the winter in my Model 3 Performance. Each day, we drove 800 miles. Not a single issue with charging.