TexasTesla

"Nine cars Americans should be able to buy" is doing a lot of work for a list that's mostly cars I wouldn't buy even if they showed up tomorrow. The Cyberster is genuinely cool, I'll give it that — scissor doors on a sub-$80k roadster is a real gap in this market. The rest reads more like "look what Europe gets" than "look what we're missing." Grass is greener.

Year two on an R1T. Hardware build quality has genuinely improved from the early batches — anyone who touched a 2022 delivery can feel the difference. The weak point is software. Two of the last four OTAs introduced something that needed a follow-up patch. The truck is excellent. The software release process is still a startup's, not a truck company's.

Half this forum has spent two years hyping a cell they can't buy because a crash test video looked cool. The AliExpress callout in this piece needed to happen months ago — I've seen at least four posts here linking "BYD Blade" listings that are just repackaged standard prismatics with a sticker. Appreciate an article that just says the sourcing doesn't exist instead of hedging about it.

New chemistry, same promise: revolutionary for everyone except the people actually trying to buy it.

$2,000 all-in for 20kWh keeps not staying $2,000 every time somebody actually prices out bus bars, a real enclosure, and the two spare cells everyone in this thread correctly says to budget for. Still a good guide. Just budget closer to $2,400-2,500 in practice and you won't be disappointed when the real number lands there.

Texas has NEVI funds allocated but deployment has been painfully slow. Drove Austin to Denver in April and the Wichita Falls to Amarillo stretch was genuinely sparse — I ended up doing a 90-minute hotel Level 2 charge. The NEVI map shows stations planned on that corridor but nothing is open yet. Happy to share the full trip report if anyone's planning the same route.

Just contracted a 10kW rooftop install last month and my installer quoted $850/kWh for a Powerwall 3. At $42/cell for 280Ah LFP, a 20kWh DIY pack looks very compelling. Main question is inverter integration — going with SolarEdge and I'm not sure how a DIY battery plays with it versus a purpose-built AC-coupled unit like the SolarEdge Home Battery.

Texas has no state storage incentive, so the federal 30% standalone credit is the whole story for me. Does the credit apply to individual cells purchased from importers, or only to complete packaged battery systems? I want to confirm the BOM I hand my CPA actually qualifies before I commit to the build.

My Y is at 31k in Austin. Summer efficiency runs lower than your numbers — HVAC load in Texas heat is real, I'm seeing 255–270 Wh/mile in July versus 210 in March. The data logging habit is exactly right, and your service observation is also exactly right. Two weeks for an appointment to look at a door handle is not a support ratio that matches the vehicle price.

Watching this community collectively discover that DC motors got expensive is almost funny. Everyone treated the Warp 9 like it'd be $1,800 forever. Nothing stays cheap forever, especially a niche part with one real supplier. The LFP price stabilizing is the actual good news in this thread and it's buried under three paragraphs about motor costs.